Suppressing the Literary Palace! The Scholars Panicked, and Chen Zhengru Set His Heart on Killing Confucians!

Great Wei's Capital.

Inside the Hall of Literary Splendor.

Xu Qingxiao slowly withdrew his gaze from the Literary Palace.

"Guards!"

The next moment, his voice turned icy.

Inside the Hall of Literary Splendor, the officials watched Xu Qingxiao, unsure what he intended to do next.

"Eight Gates Capital Troops, hear my command."

"Suppress the Great Wei Literary Palace. Take Scholar Peng, Zhang Ning, and all the others into custody in the Heavenly Prison. Anyone who dares obstruct you-kill them!"

"Surround and seize every Confucian student outside the palace and imprison them in the Heavenly Prison. Anyone who dares obstruct you or raise a clamor-kill them!"

Xu Qingxiao issued these two commands, and not a single person in the Great Hall objected.

There were only cold, merciless voices answering him.

"We obey!"

As soon as those words fell, several military officials strode out of the Hall of Literary Splendor, their expressions icy, to handle the matter.

"These people certainly need to be put in their place. At a critical moment like this, they're the ones making the most noise. If anyone says they aren't gloating over our troubles, I won't believe it."

Inside the Hall of Literary Splendor, Chen Zhengru spoke. Though he was a Grand Confucian himself, he had not the slightest objection to Xu Qingxiao's decision.

He even supported Xu Qingxiao's actions wholeheartedly.

It was wrong for Xu Qingxiao to kill surrendered soldiers.

But did their own people really need to make such a fierce uproar over it? If a Great Wei vassal king had rebelled and Xu Qingxiao had killed surrendered soldiers from their own nation, Chen Zhengru could have understood such an outcry.

That would have been their own people slaughtering one another!

But the ones he had killed were foreigners. Even conceding ten thousand steps, the