Expanding Territory

September 12.

Zhou Ming had the servants roll up the bedding and temporarily moved out of the Imperial Palace.

Then he let Duchess Aier Sha move in.

A brutal catfight, a bloody storm within the Imperial Palace, had thus begun!

As for just how brutal the fighting was, there was no need to go into detail. In any case, it would not be an exaggeration to imagine it as ten or even a hundred times more vicious than the drama in some melodramatic palace-intrigue shows.

The ministers and nobles at court were all dumbfounded when they saw the raging flames of war ignite within the harem.

None of them could laugh anymore, much less gloat.

Then, before Zhou Ming, they desperately offered remonstrance and lodged complaints!

"Your Majesty, my two granddaughters had been serving perfectly well in the Imperial Palace. Why must they be sent home?"

"Your Majesty, what crime has my niece committed? Why was she driven from the Imperial Palace? Your Majesty, my niece has gone without food or water for two days. She said that if Your Majesty does not let her return, she will starve herself to death!"

"Your Majesty, after returning home, my niece hanged herself three times, slit her wrists twice, and rammed her head into the wall five times... The servants cannot stop her no matter what they do. Your Majesty, please show mercy and save my niece!"

"Duchess Aier Sha! Since that damned woman came to the imperial capital, she has not done a single good thing. She has done nothing but bring disaster upon the nation and its people. Your Majesty, I request that this woman be executed!"

"We cannot continue tolerating that vicious woman Aier Sha and her reckless behavior! If Your Majesty will not kill her, then even if