ar of Emperor Taizong's reign. He had served in the ministry for over thirteen years before that, rising through the ranks step by step from a junior clerk to an ambassador, then to a supervisor, and...s trembled, but in the end, he still bowed his head and said with difficulty, "This subordinate... obeys."As he uttered those four words, Wu Ban Shan closed his eyes in agony.He knew that a monstrous...