Jianye shook as though a mountain had collapsed!
The most outrageous promotion since the founding of Daliang had appeared at court.
Three promotions in three days: an idle meritorious noble had ascended straight into the ninefold celestial palace, transforming into a prominent official who controlled the central administration. The last promotion this outrageous had been when Emperor Xiao Yan, having just accepted the Chu Clan's abdication, directly appointed the late Duke of Gusu Commandery, Luo Youzhi, as chancellor.
But Luo Youzhi had been appointed chancellor in an age when the Aristocratic Gentry Clans held complete control. Given the standing of the Gusu Luo Clan, making him chancellor had been somewhat excessive, but still barely acceptable. The great Aristocratic Gentry Clans acknowledged the Luo Clan's pedigree.
But this was no longer twenty years ago!
After Luo Youzhi's own meteoric rise, the aristocratic clans had tried to secure similarly high positions in Liang State. Luo Youzhi and Xiao Yan had promoted some of them at first, but immediately afterward, Luo Youzhi had pulled up the ladder behind him.
He and Luo Xianzhi truly deserved to be called father and son. In this respect, they were practically identical.
During his administration, Luo Youzhi had spent more than a decade suppressing the aristocratic clans and promoting talented people from humble families and common clans to counter them. Once the aristocratic clans' influence weakened, depriving them of many economic and political privileges naturally followed, producing the political climate of the present.
And then.
Luo Xianzhi had appeared. The emperor had not directly granted him the Heavenly Office, but had instead given him the relatively normal position of attendant of the Secretariat.
But the aristocratic clans had only one thing to say: damn his mother.
Did this sovereign and minister take them for monkeys fooled by