The Eight-Jade Sage Ruler, a million streams of literary qi, demons slain-Xu Qingxiao becomes a Heaven-and-Earth Grand Confucian!

A furious shout rang out.

A Grand Confucian spoke, outright denouncing the Female Emperor as a foolish ruler!

They had already gone mad.

This time, these scholars had gone utterly mad.

Xu Qingxiao knew why they were so arrogant. These scholars were rotten to their very roots.

Completely and utterly rotten to their roots.

Even when they had no grounds to stand on, they would shout a few accusations and brazenly fabricate lies. Now that Zhang Ning was dead, and Xu Qingxiao had killed surrendered soldiers and massacred a city, they had more than enough ammunition.

How could these scholars not clamor? How could they not revel in it?

They were ecstatic. Like Sages standing atop the moral high ground, they condemned Xu Qingxiao with tongue and pen. Whoever dared help him became a target of their abuse.

Even when Her Majesty spoke, they dared call her a foolish ruler.

The Grand Confucian who insulted the Female Emperor was an old man. Trembling all over, he pointed at her and railed against her as a foolish ruler.

At that shout, everyone froze.

The common people were first stunned, then overcome with fury. The Female Emperor had just promised three years of tax exemptions, yet these damned Confucian Students dared insult their sovereign like this.

They wanted to speak out, but these people were all scholars and now seemed to have righteousness on their side. The common people argued in Xu Qingxiao's defense, but no one listened to their voices.

The combined strength of three hundred thousand scholars was terrifying.

More frightening still, these three hundred thousand scholars stood upon the moral high ground and no longer feared death.

Now, even if Xu Qingxiao threatened to kill them, they would not be afraid. It would only intensify the conflict.

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