All ten men lay sprawled on the ground.
A bunch of grown men had come to make trouble at the female physicians' Medical Academy. As a foolish ruler, he found them irritating, so giving them a beating was perfectly normal.
"Y-Your Majesty..."
Qian Bao muttered. He had never imagined King Zhou would fall back into his old ways at a time like this.
His Majesty was just like that-he could not tolerate a single grain of sand in his eyes. The former leader of Tu Fang and Marquis Li had both been guilty of heinous crimes.
These men's offenses did not warrant death, however, so His Majesty had not killed them outright.
The move surprised Qian Bao, yet it made sense. After all, His Majesty was such a benevolent ruler. Though his actions were improper, he had acted for the female physicians and the Medical Academy.
At that thought, Qian Bao grew worried again. Men bold enough to cause trouble at the Medical Academy were surely idle loafers in their everyday lives. What they enjoyed most was spreading rumors through the streets. If they fanned the flames and spread word that His Majesty had savagely beaten them...
The consequences were unimaginable. Ordinary people loved rumors like these, especially when important figures were involved. Those spread fastest of all.
They would never put themselves in King Zhou's or the female physicians' shoes and decide there was nothing wrong with beating these men.
Everyone sympathized with the weak. Instead, they would put themselves in the shoes of the men who had been beaten and think King Zhou was an outright fool of a ruler. Had he not seen that their mother had died under treatment?
Would he not be met with a chorus of condemnation then?
"Zheng Ran, how dare you..."
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