The news that Lord Lu intended to place his wife on the throne spread instantly throughout the entire Jiangnan.
But what was even more astonishing was Lu Yao's public stance—all opium and human trafficking were illegal, and all treaties signed with the foreign powers were invalidated!
It goes without saying that this would impact countless people's interests, and Lord Lu's domineering and wilful behaviour was revealed to the extreme; he was an incredibly authoritarian ruler!
The outside world was immediately in an uproar, many people dared not say anything openly, but had the guts to engage in underhanded dealings, and these were substantial.
First of all, on the newspapers, the old incident of Wu Zetian, the "Hen that Crows at Dawn" during the Tang Dynasty, was brought up again, with the clear intention of using the past to satirize the present.
Even more so, "Qianzhou News" blatantly published an article titled "Riding the Emperor to Command the Princes"!
