The Insurrection and the Dragon in the Room

The majority of the court favored the policy of leniency, though a sizable minority stood in opposition. The mutinous soldiers mistook this for a punitive expedition sent against them and so battened down the hatches. They streamed back into datong city, took it over and then shut the gates tight. In 15 forty five members of the imperial ju and fomented a sizable rebellion from there.