However, Zhang Jingbang evidently doesn't have the same ability, tactics, or goals as Wen Jun, nor does he harbor any ambition to dominate the emperor.
He is by nature a sycophantic and weak person, or else he would not have become a dog for Emperor Yingzong of Qi and the Jin people.
But even a rabbit, when cornered, will bite. Seeing the new regime's blade about to fall, he needed to leverage the power of the entire bureaucratic class and scholar-officials to carve out a path to survival for himself.
If one were to reason it out normally, Prince Yun would offer him this path to survival.
Because in the Qi Dynasty there has always been the ancestral method of sharing governance with the scholar-officials and suppressing martial power through civil means;
Because Prince Yun himself had once passed the top imperial examination, naturally close to these literati;
