Tool Person (first update) The Emperor's power over life and death had been firmly restricted by the Constitutional Monarchy constitution enacted five hundred years ago.
Without the power to kill people at will, Tantai Hongyuan felt that he might as well not be Emperor at all. It sat poorly with him!
And this time, he was clearly in the right, yet so many people had joined forces to oppose him. That showed just how much they cared about restricting that power!
Emperor Tantai Hongyuan thought it over carefully. It was not as if he absolutely had to kill Xia Chujian immediately, but instinctively, he felt an uncontrollable killing intent toward her! Besides, he wanted to use this matter to pry open the door to that constitution and slowly reclaim the Imperial Power it had restricted.
Step by step, day after day, one day he would abolish that Constitutional Monarchy law!
But for now, the time was not right.
Among the Empire's high-level government institutions, only the Special Security Bureau led by Huo Yushen stood on his side and carried out his orders unconditionally.
No, it could not exactly be called unconditional.
Huo Yushen was too rigid in his work, too "by the rules"...
That constitution not only restricted him, but also restricted the Special Security Bureau, the blade in his hand!
As for everyone else, including Grand Commander of Cabinet Quan Juntai, the Upper and Lower Speakers of the Senate, the Military's Five Chief of Staff, and even High Priest Su Yanxing, they all had their own calculations in mind...
Did they think he did not know?! Though he was Emperor, even with the Special Security Bureau added in, he was no match for the Cabinet, Senate, Military, and Sanctuary combined.
Emperor Tantai Hongyuan ran through all these thoughts in