Tang Xiaobai asked and then nodded to herself, saying seriously, "It's okay, I understand. They're playing even when selecting the Prime Minister, and now the Crown Prince is proposing a selection for the consort. They might as well consult the oracle while they're at it. It's better to wait and deal with the Qingzhou School first."
The current emperor's greatest reliance is the already established Qingzhou School thought system and its scholars who occupy nearly half of the court positions.
The Crown Prince aims to gain control and must first make the Qingzhou School withdraw from the political stage.
Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish; unless books are burned and scholars buried, eliminating a school must be done slowly, step by step.
This requires a lot of patience.
Tang Xiaobai was a bit relieved: "The Crown Prince was never very patient, but this time he seems to be enduring it. It shows progress—"
