The Rebuilt New Order
All eight members of the Chiss territory's cabinet were executed. Including the Sabosen family members killed in the previous internal struggle, the leaders of all nine ruling families had been wiped out in one fell swoop.
With Tang Xiao's personal arrival, the uprising the Chiss Cabinet had sought to launch lasted only a single day before it was completely brought to an end.
All that could be said was that they had been unlucky—or rather, that they had chosen the worst possible moment. Upon receiving news that a Grysk had been captured alive, Tang Xiao had immediately brought his family here. On one hand, he had brought more experts to study the Grysk; on the other, he wanted his children to better understand what it meant to be an emperor, and what power truly was.
As it happened, they ran straight into the Chiss Cabinet's little scheme. And with Tang Xiao's current temperament, he had no intention of reasoning with the Chiss territory. He simply crushed them with an iron hand!
Previously, the families of the Chiss territory had been the greatest aid to the Duchy of Dawn's infiltration there. Because of the existence of these families, as long as the Chiss territory did not face a powerful external enemy, it was nothing more than a loose pile of sand. So long as the Duchy of Dawn proved it was not an enemy, the Chiss territory would collapse from within without a fight.
But now, after three years, the Duchy of Dawn's influence in the Chiss territory had become increasingly deep-rooted. These families had instead become obstacles to its further expansion here. As stated before, the ruling families of the Chiss territory placed family interests above national interests. Most of the time, they would rather fight