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Within the Great Jin imperial palace, everything seemed peaceful and harmonious, as though the upheaval in the Central Plains had never reached Great Jin at all.
Empress Dowager Li continued to quietly indulge herself, while the other Eastern Jin royals and nobles remained busy fighting for power and profit.
Though all of Eastern Jin was still functioning effectively, it gave off a somewhat decadent air.
In truth, this was only natural. No matter how capable Empress Dowager Li was, she was still a woman—and one whose strength was not particularly great.
Moreover, there seemed to be an unspoken relationship between Empress Dowager Li and Zhao Wumie. After obtaining everything she was entitled to, she no longer wished to contend for more.
She was a woman, after all. What was the point of endlessly fighting and scrambling?
The Eastern Jin nobles and royals were much the same. Having lost the Central Plains for so long, they had spent all their time circling around their own little patch of land—experts at infighting, incompetents when facing outsiders.
By now, Eastern Jin's military had formed its own faction and was plainly too lazy to entangle itself with these people.
As for the powerful figures within the royal family, nearly all of them had followed Zhao Wumie into secluded cultivation, and likewise could not be bothered with such trivial matters.
Of course, in Su Xin's eyes, it was only natural for Eastern Jin to have become this way. After all, Eastern Jin had been the defeated side back then; Great Zhou had already broken its spine.
Had Great Zhou not fallen into internal turmoil at the time, it was uncertain whether Eastern Jin would even still exist today.
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