Firstly, the court aimed to profit from their wealth.
Secondly, these influential families possessed the most lands, which naturally stirred people's hearts and minds.
Moreover, the Eight Princes were unwilling to see the court's new policies implemented smoothly and were bound to intervene.
Thus, it was very likely that Prince Jing had set a trap using Mr. Song as a pawn to detonate the "Taicang Silver Mine" issue, igniting a conflict between Your Majesty and the Li Party, and between the court and the southern scholarly families.
"This is a blatant scheme because even if Your Majesty becomes suspicious, it would be hard not to take action. Moreover, the implementation of the new policies was bound to clash with the interests of the scholarly families, an inevitability that could neither be avoided nor evaded.
