Prince Cheng's expression didn't look good either.
This was not Yunzhou, not that Yunzhou where everything moved at his command.
He had dealt with a batch of corrupt local officials, but there were still some local officials with no obvious handle on them; some even did real work and were competent. Still, one mustn't underestimate these local officials.
Which local official hadn't come up through the imperial examinations? Who wasn't selected and appointed by the Ministry of Personnel in the Capital?
His elder and younger imperial brothers had long since used various means to draw people to their own sides! Even in a single Baoshan County, from the Prefectural Governor down through three Magistrates and nine County Magistrates, Prince Cheng had removed four corrupt law‑bending ones; among the remaining, most belonged to one faction or another, and among those truly unaffiliated, who just did practical work, there were actually only two.
