If he chose Tang Thirty-Six, the Tang clan was almost certain to face an upheaval, and might even splinter. Moreover, there was a greater chance that the Tang Second Master would win out in the end.
Thus, this multiple-choice question became extremely simple.
The Tang Old Master decided to support Shang Xingzhou, so he naturally gave up on Chen Changsheng.
The Tang Old Master had decided to pass the Tang clan on to the second branch, so he naturally had to begin suppressing the chief branch.
If Tang Thirty-Six were just a mediocre person, perhaps the matter would have been simpler.
But he was not, and he also had a friend: the current Pope.
So the Tang Old Master could only imprison him in the ancestral hall.
He might be imprisoned for the rest of his life, until, several decades or several centuries later, he transformed into a white-haired madman.
