This was not happening only at Gao Rou's residence.
Sima Fu's residence had likewise been surrounded, with even more people encircling it, as though they meant to vent all their years of dissatisfaction with Sima Shi on his head.
The Lü Family Brothers had put out seventeen essays in just two days.
These seventeen essays were concise, wielding the pen as a blade; every one criticized the ministers of the day and exposed affairs within the Imperial Court.
These essays had stripped the ministers down to their underwear.
Sima Fu had suffered the worst of them all.
Three of the seventeen essays were devoted to reviling him.
The essays called Sima Fu a hypocrite, saying that he had colluded with Sima Shi, putting on an act and serving as the Sima Family's fallback. He professed to be a loyal minister, yet took part in deposing and enthroning emperors, acted unjustly at every turn, and hastily changed his stance after the Sima Family's downfall...
What Sima Fu had said in the Imperial Secretariat had also been exposed. It was said that he wanted to emulate Sima Shi by imprisoning the emperor and forcing him to go to the Black Tortoise Lodge, and even intended to poison the emperor and enthrone Cao Ju, Prince of Pengcheng, to complete the great undertaking Sima Shi had left unfinished.
Sima Fu was furious about this. He had no idea how the contents of the Imperial Secretariat's meeting had leaked.
The first person he thought of was Wang Xiang.
After all, he was the only one who could see the emperor.
Besides, no one had gone to abuse Wang Xiang even now... not one of the seventeen essays discussed him.
These young men did not know what was good for them. They had clearly been running