Even if Emperor Xiping truly had cultivated a face impenetrable as steel, uncaring of how the world viewed him... did he not care about the fate of the Wei dynasty, the legacy of the Zhao Family?
Their struggle for power within the court and the chaos wrought by pirate raiders off the coast might be fabrications.
But if the Ming Sect really repelled those pirates in Jiangzhe... then the loyalty and spirit of the people would be real, and so would the foundation for a rebellion!
The combination of the Ming Sect's ancestral craft of insurrection and the wealth of Jiangnan with its abundance of fish and rice was a formidable adversary that even Wei at its zenith would not wish to face.
This wave was still Yang Ge's forte, forcing the imperial court to respond, starting from the bottom up!
And Yang Yinghao's agreement to Yang Ge's request was naturally a matter of mutual benefit.
Yang Ge's aim was to protect the common people of Jiangzhe.