Courtroom Strife (Part Two)

Jiang Tian's words rang with such righteousness and loyalty that they seemed to shake the hall.

Jiang Mingyang watched the Censor-in-Chief step forward without hesitation and gave a slight shake of his head.

In Jiang Mingyang's eyes, these men truly were loyal. Unfortunately, they had chosen the wrong path.

But Jiang Mingyang felt no hesitation about moving against them. On the road to supreme power, anyone who stood in his way had to die!

The assembled officials watched the Censor-in-Chief deal Jiang Tian a harsh blow and heard Jiang Tian's answer, which seemed to brim with wholehearted loyalty.

A handful of the highest-ranking officials chose to wait and see. The vast majority quietly trembled.

In truth, officials of every rank were afraid.

For now, Jiang Tian had been pushed into answering back.

But what if Jiang Tian were pushed so far that he could no longer answer?

This was the Heaven Dou Empire's First Military Commander! Who knew how many loyal followers he had in the army? Could his military power be taken from him so easily?

With a minister this powerful, the best approach was to cut away at him slowly, until he was worn down.

To strike directly as they were doing now was to unroll the map and reveal the dagger far too soon.

If the military's foremost commander, still at the height of his power, were driven into a corner, what else could he do?

With hundreds of thousands of troops in hand, a loyal man who had no wish to rebel was naturally a minister.

But if he were forced to rebel? With hundreds of thousands of troops at his command, could he become a ruler?

It was not as though such things had never happened in the Heaven Dou Empire's history. Order had simply