At morning court the next day, the Doctor of the Observatory—an official who usually had little presence—suddenly stepped forward. He claimed that Prince Zhao had an overly potent birth chart and possessed such a heavy, malevolent aura that he could easily offend the ancestral tablets enshrined in the Imperial Ancestral Temple.
If he were to preside over the renovation of the Imperial Ancestral Temple, a bloody disaster would be inevitable.
This statement greatly displeased the Emperor.
However, many other court officials then stepped forward to express that Prince Zhao was unsuitable to oversee the renovation of the Imperial Ancestral Temple.
Some of them had been bribed by Liu Ze, while others held old grudges against Prince Zhao. In any case, none of them wanted to see Prince Zhao have an easy time.
Under pressure from the assembled officials, the Emperor could only make a concession.
