Chapter 1196: Promotion

The evidence was irrefutable, and the incident also caused subsequent ramifications in the court.

The Qi family's loss of power made those in Minister Qi's faction lay low, while Duke Zheng seized this unexpected opportunity to propose filling the position of Vice Minister of Revenue during court session.

After all the ministers had made their recommendations.

At that moment.

Minister Zhong, the Imperial Tutor to the Crown Prince, stood up, "This old subject has a recommendation."

"Oh? Whom does the Imperial Tutor recommend?" Emperor Xuanming asked with a resonant voice.

Though just a tutor to the princes, Zhong Ling held no actual power, he did have many students, and his right to speak in the court wasn't low, he just seldom attended court.

Today, when Duke Zheng saw him at court, he guessed that the other party's attendance might have something to do with the position of Vice Minister of Revenue, and indeed it was so.