Living off handouts and waiting to die, yet still having children every day.
Generation after generation, endless...
No matter how wealthy a dynasty was, it would eventually be dragged down.
The reason they were not being purged now was simply that they did not want to act yet.
Why?
Because... these were all huge gift packages.
When Sui Sui ran short of money, the princes and nobles, civil officials and military commanders—there would be hardly any among them who were clean. Drag them out and execute them.
Everything would feel better in an instant.
The imperial treasury would be filled.
They could also win the people's hearts.
Even with Nahida and the others out among the people, helping Sui Sui gather all kinds of faith as though they were a religious sect,
wouldn't gaining a little more popular support and a little more prestige be a good thing?
What could possibly be wrong with that?
In short,
from here on...
everyone was waiting for Sui Sui to finish her studies and emerge from seclusion.
The people were eagerly awaiting it, waiting for the savior to descend.
The emperor was looking forward to it as well, anticipating the day he would meet the Empress chosen by Heaven.
Only those with guilty consciences were anxious and restless, but they had no way to do anything. Whether assassination, or anything else—even rebellion—before absolute power, they were nothing more than clay chickens and porcelain dogs.
Egeria and the others had forged their might blow by blow.
One slap was enough to make an entire group fall silent.
Since they could not resist,
they could only find a way to divide the group.
An entire great clan could not all be preserved. Some people had to be separated and sent out to take the fall.