Ye Lihan took one last, deep look at the heroic figure ahead, grabbed Xiao Yuzi by the back of his collar, and leaped onto the palace wall. In the blink of an eye, he vanished into the Imperial Palace.
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"Imperial Uncle, so you never intended to let me take control of the government from the very beginning?"
Once they had finished speaking, Huang Ying finally spoke.
Su Qiao raised an eyebrow. "Did I not return the court affairs to you? You were the one who could not handle them. How is that my fault?"
"Take a good look. Since you took over the government, have you done a single good thing?"
"You were merely egged on a few times by Minister Li, that corrupt lawbreaker, and decided to raise taxes during the northern dry season, completely disregarding the common people's lives. You did not even fear that unrest would break out in the north, leaving the people in misery."
"You neither investigated whether the relief funds had truly reached the disaster victims nor looked into the people's circumstances. You only cared about enjoying yourself, and even squandered a fortune building the Summer Resort Villa, exhausting the people and draining the treasury."
"Most despicable of all, for the sake of your own selfish desires, you actually borrowed the King's name to try to take Ye Lihan's life, intending to frame me and provoke war between the two countries."
"Do you think there is too much silver in the national treasury, or that the soldiers at the border are living too comfortably? Or perhaps you think the people at the border have enjoyed enough peace and want them to relive the suffering brought by war?"
"If I let you father and daughter remain in the palace, I fear all of Huangming