ft and pleading with a hint of desperation."Please forgive me, Your Majesty.""This palace saw some novel things in a book and wanted to tell you about them."Then, Li Chen leaned into Zhao Rui's ear an... high-pressure policies caused a series of backlashes from local gentry and officials.At first, those gentry and officials were enduring, trying to bribe Zhao the Official and collude with him. But af...