What the peddler had shattered was not, in fact, a golden statue of the emperor, but a stone tablet.
But this was no ordinary tablet.
Zhao Jing had discussed the matter with the clan elders. They had concluded that while placing the memorial tablets of each family's deceased elders beneath the Holy Decree wasn't necessarily improper, it would inevitably lead to chaos in the long run.
Rather than have all the village families share the ancestral hall, it would be better to convert it into a living shrine for His Majesty.
Each family would still have its own ancestral hall, but by enshrining the Holy Decree in His Majesty's living shrine, every family could come to pay their respects at any time.
This solution better suited the needs of every family and ensured the purity of their ancestral worship. The clan elders had no reason to disagree.
