"I cannot go back, nor can I go back."
"I am acting with a public mind, and only I can prop up the backbone of this Great Zheng."
The emperor was, after all, the emperor. A moment of universal betrayal left him dazed, but he immediately recovered his majesty and pride.
"Hateful, to bully me just because I am old?"
Thinking of the recent report, he vaguely perceived that a massive net had suddenly descended. This sensation filled the emperor with deep revulsion.
A flash of ruthlessness crossed the depths of his eyes, and he issued an immediate command, "Pass my decree: Xu Tinglan of the Palace Garden Office is to be granted death immediately!"
"Shang De, Thousand-Household Commander of the Qimen Guards, has failed imperial grace and is to be suspended for investigation."
"He Wuling, Vice Commander of the Jianzhang Guards, is stripped of his rank and likewise suspended for investigation!"
Once these edicts were issued, their purpose was to instantly sever the nodes of the network, and furthermore, he did not rashly execute top commanders on impulse.
As for a female official, in the eyes of the emperor, she was not even human.
It ought to have been handled cleanly, but seeing the eunuch swiftly pick up his brush to write the imperial edict and present it upward, the aged emperor looked at it and frowned, seeming somewhat displeased in his heart as he did not immediately apply the seal.
Zhao Bingzhong raised his head to look, then hurriedly lowered it.
The aged emperor paced around a few times, took out a small seal, and stamped it down. The edict bore the clear, four seal-script characters Master of Chang Chun. Having stamped it, the emperor did not immediately hand it over.
Ever since Emperor Shizu of Great Wei