Two Years! Two Years!!

Qian Renxue rose to her feet and walked to the wall on the other side of the Imperial Study.

Heaven Dou was secured. For the time being, Spirit Hall was under Bibi Dong's management, and with her grandfather Qian Daoliu there, there was nothing to worry about. What came next was the Star Luo Empire.

"When I implemented the Slave Abolition Decree, they thought it was just the three fires of a new official taking office, that it would pass once it burned out." Qian Renxue sneered. "They don't understand that my goal was never merely to set fires, but to cast the net. The Slave Abolition Decree was the bait, and their opposition gave me the perfect excuse to investigate and punish them."

The roots of these nobles were tangled and intertwined. What she wanted was to sever those roots and gather power back into her own hands.

Some of the Empire's policies had failed to be implemented over the years precisely because power had been distributed too widely. Once it was handed out, it could not be taken back.

Bibi Dong kept promising all sorts of privileges to those kingdoms and duchies. If they truly established a nation someday, it would only be a crippled one.

Sometimes, Qian Renxue even wondered whether Bibi Dong had something wrong with her head.

The wisest Pope in Spirit Hall's history?

Complete nonsense.

"Your move was indeed brilliant, Miss." Pufferfish nodded, a meaningful smile appearing on his face. "They jumped out on their own to become the first birds to stick their heads out, giving us grounds to act."

Qian Renxue did not respond. Her plan naturally went far beyond this.

Those men conscripted into military service would also make excellent expendable resources when the time came to attack Star Luo.

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