"Master... Everyone's gone."
Gu Tao suddenly laughed: "Let the bullets fly for a while."
Bi Qing: "???"
Two hours later, almost all the well-dressed students were released, while not a single commoner student was let out. This changed the nature of the incident. A large number of impoverished commoners, whether officials or not, mobilized in outrage. What was initially a trivial youth brawl quickly escalated to be addressed in the Emperor of Great Jin's Sansi Yamen.
The reason those well-dressed students could be released was simply due to their family connections. Their families didn't think much of getting their brawling sons out of jail. However, this action directly ignited the emotions of another faction—those officials who had risen through their own efforts and not by ancestral privilege. Known for their integrity, they could not tolerate such things.
