"I heard that County Magistrate Guo Ze wasn't swept along against his will at all. He was the one leading them!"
"Really?"
"It's true. I've heard plenty of people say so. Ping County's in turmoil too. They say a lot of people were killed, and even after he was arrested, he was still cursing the Grand General!"
Inside the Gao Family Restaurant, several diners were discussing the state of the realm in hushed voices.
They were all merchants from elsewhere, each with a different accent, and they too felt helpless as they spoke of the unrest across the land.
Business was getting harder and harder.
"Have you heard? They say His Majesty wants to employ eunuchs again. Yesterday, the students of the Imperial Academy submitted a joint memorial. What a commotion-the officials didn't even dare stop them!"
"So that's why these Scholars have been so irritable."
"Why would His Majesty want eunuchs as officials? I thought he was some wise and enlightened ruler. Who would have thought..."
"Exactly. Back then, eunuchs threw the Imperial Court into chaos. Didn't the Great Han perish at their hands?"
"Who knows what the Son of Heaven is thinking..."
The diners began talking about the eunuch affair that had set all Luoyang abuzz.
The uproar it had caused seemed to have eclipsed even the rebellion outside the city. From top to bottom, the scholar-officials condemned it with tongue and pen, as though Cao Mao were going to reinstate the Central Regular Attendants the very next day.
"Utter nonsense!!!"
A diner abruptly rose to his feet and glared at them all.
He was burly and fierce-looking.
The diners immediately fell silent, watching him in bewilderment and uncertainty.
This man was none other than Liu Lu.
Only after noticing that he had drawn everyone's attention did Liu