"Crash——"
Then, a petition several meters long, with white silk as the background, filled with inked names and interspersed with red handprints, was presented before everyone's eyes.
After a brief silence, the entire Golden Throne Hall erupted in astonishment.
Li Yanfu, who hadn't intervened, raised his eyelids and looked complexly at the Empress seated on the dragon throne, sighed lightly, closed his eyes again, and thought: A clever maneuver.
This spectacle, on the surface, appears to provide a pretext for rehearing the case, but its true purpose is to stop certain individuals from questioning the court's act of granting extrajudicial leniency to a criminal general.
After all, law cannot exist apart from human sentiment.
Only a military joint petition can ensure that the Empress's reputation remains unharmed, or even enhanced, while delivering a lethal political blow against Duke Cao.
