After I Froze to Death Outside the Hall of Heavenly Favor, the Entire Court Went on a Rampage

I was the Minister of War of Great Zhou, but after I risked my life to urge the empress to stay away from corrupt officials, she ordered my uniform stripped off and threw me into the freezing wilderness. She lounged in a warm pavilion, drinking and enjoying herself with her newly appointed favorite courtier, and sneered that once my stubborn bones froze to death, the court would finally be peaceful. I knelt outside the Fengtian Hall for three whole days and nights. At the moment my breath stopped, I was still clutching an urgent dispatch from the frontier. The empress thought I was merely putting on a show to win sympathy. She even ordered my corpse thrown straight into a mass grave to feed the dogs. She had no idea that I was the only sworn brother of the Great General Who Guards the Nation, and the one who kept the seven vassal kings of Jiangnan in check, preventing them from making a move