Dan Feng likely didn't argue on behalf of himself. So any bargaining done on his behalf by others probably used the fact of his multiple generations of loyal guardianship of the Arbor to mitigate his sentence.
Coming back to this point, why are you assuming the reason Dan Feng's execution got reduced was due to his service? That's merely the "public" excuse, not the actual political bargaining that happened behind the scenes.
The Ten Lords need to give a publicly acceptable reason for letting Imbibitor Lunae live, and "we made some under the table deals" obviously isn't going to fly. They even brought in 冱渊君 to give the final sentence more political weight among the Vidyadhara populace.
Given Taoran's comment that he knows the inner workings of the criminal punishment system, he's obviously saying Imbibitor Lunae survived through a series of tit-for-tat favor trading, probably more along the lines of "if you kill him now, the Preceptors will riot and that will break the alliance apart". And maybe some bribery on top of everything else.
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Date: 2024-09-12 05:23 (UTC)Coming back to this point, why are you assuming the reason Dan Feng's execution got reduced was due to his service? That's merely the "public" excuse, not the actual political bargaining that happened behind the scenes.
The Ten Lords need to give a publicly acceptable reason for letting Imbibitor Lunae live, and "we made some under the table deals" obviously isn't going to fly. They even brought in 冱渊君 to give the final sentence more political weight among the Vidyadhara populace.
Given Taoran's comment that he knows the inner workings of the criminal punishment system, he's obviously saying Imbibitor Lunae survived through a series of tit-for-tat favor trading, probably more along the lines of "if you kill him now, the Preceptors will riot and that will break the alliance apart". And maybe some bribery on top of everything else.