The West Garden-every court official knew it could practically be called a menagerie.
The so-called Seven Colonels of the West Garden were merely seven groundskeepers who spent their days eating and drinking among pigs, cattle, and sheep. The officials had no interest in learning anything more about them.
The ministers had never brought the matter up, because they considered it a good thing.
If those supposedly talented men, who behaved like monkeys and pigs and knew nothing of etiquette, really entered court, wouldn't they send the chickens flying and the dogs leaping?
Leaving them to mingle with pigs and cattle in the West Garden, banished to idle posts, was a solution of sorts. After all, they truly had earned merit by killing enemies.
But sending renowned worthies like Bo Yi and Shu Qi to such a place...
The ministers looked toward Fei Zhong. Shang Rong's remonstrance had spared the brothers from death. If King Zhou's favored minister also offered a few words now, perhaps they could be spared exile to the West Garden. Making the sons of the Feudal Lords live day and night among livestock was truly improper.
Seeing all the ministers looking at him, Fei Zhong immediately assumed an expression of profound trepidation and said softly, "Your Majesty, disturbing your sacred person is an offense punishable by death. If one person does so, then two, then thousands upon thousands, how could Your Majesty still be called Your Majesty?"
"Yet this subject feels, feels..." He glanced at the ministers, then gritted his teeth. "Your Majesty is wise! Subjects who show Your Majesty such disrespect ought to be punished!"
The ministers were stunned. Fei Zhong, he...
But then, he had never been a loyal minister to begin with.
Hearing this, Zi Shou narrowed his eyes. *Treacherous ministers really are the