An old saying goes as follow: 'The mind of man is dangerously prone to err, its affinity for the right way his small.'
Indeed, the Emperor regarded Chancellor Pyun as ideal of all that was bad in the corrupted ministers.
When the Chancellor left the Emperor's room, he did not know another important fact so far—a record of corruption also exposed him and his accomplices.
General Hishoku preferred to stay away from the squabblings of the court. However, in a court riven by political tension the Emperor did not trust anyone excepting the General, and so he was assigned the task to investigate suspicious activities of bribery and extortion within the Imperial Administration.
