Three days after the festival.
Another bombshell dropped on the Capital City.
The Emperor issued a decree, bestowing the Shu Royal Mansion—a former imperial gift to King Shu—upon Pei Shaoqing to serve as his Pingyang Manor.
The vassal kings of the Great Zhou were forbidden from entering the capital without a summons after being assigned to their fiefdoms.
To do so was considered treason.
Therefore, they typically did not maintain residences in the Capital City.
The exception was if the residence was an imperial gift, which signified a close relationship with the Emperor and meant they would often be summoned to the capital.
After Emperor Jingtai's "Pacification of Troubles" campaign, he had granted mansions in the Capital City to his brothers, both to appease them and to project an image of fraternal harmony.
In the early years of his reign, he summoned them to the capital for joyous gatherings every year.
