The Last Phase of the Hanlin Purge in 1528

The case was concocted by the hanlin cliqe to try to get rid of their political enemies, and it had just backfired spectacularly. Ten officials getting beaten to death and forty others banished to the frontier forever. The organization was almost completely gutted, re staffed in the aftermath,. And the entire system of appointment re worked to make sure that another such faction couldn't arise again.