Not only did Yuan Shu make a move.
The influential families who benefited from this incident also contributed a great amount of resources and manpower to it.
They first rebuked Gu Chen in the Emperor's name through Liu Dai and proclaimed to the world that Gu Chen was rebelling.
Some even secretly spread the cause of Empress Dowager He's death.
They wanted to use power to force Gu Chen to submit.
But in the current chaos, who would care about these things?
Let alone Empress Dowager He, even Emperor Liu Hong meant little to the common people.
To put it bluntly, compared to the current Great Han court, the common people were more willing to trust the Gu Clan.
Moreover, the most crucial point was that Gu Chen's prestige was now extremely high.
The news of the battles in Liangzhou and Bingzhou had gradually spread.
By now, countless people were comparing Gu Chen to the embodiment of Gu Xiao.
