Tao Yi knew that this world was complex; princes never receive the same punishment as commoners for their crimes, so regarding the previous incident of armed assault on the jail cells, he only submitted a memorial to impeach, never holding out hope that the Ministry of Justice or the Ministry of Justice and Punishments would actually arrest those people.
But just as the Emperor had said, this world was not truly owned by his old Li Family, even though he was the Emperor, he could not decree anything as he wished.
Therefore, even after the Empress Dowager threw a thunderous fit and then fell ill, he still dealt with several of his cousins one after another: punishing those who should be punished, and imprisoning those who should be imprisoned.
