"Stop! What exactly are you trying to do?" a young noble pinned to the ground wailed incessantly.
Standing before him were Tian Chen and Xu Jiujiu.
"What are we doing? Cleaning up the empire's rot!" Wearing golden glass slippers, Xu Jiujiu planted a foot on his head.
"Your Highness, I don't know what you're talking about!" Although the young noble had eaten a mouthful of dirt, he still stubbornly refused to admit anything.
"Don't you know perfectly well what you've been doing all this time?" A blood-red killing intent rarely seen on the princess's face surfaced.
She clapped her hands, and several chests were brought over, containing records of his family's crimes in trafficking people.
When the young noble saw them, his lips trembled uncontrollably, and he had no idea what to say!
With that, she ordered the guards beside her to kill him.
Tian Chen stood to one side as though he had seen nothing. He naturally had no qualms about dealing with fellows who would be utterly useless to the future unification of the continent, who did nothing day after day but squeeze profits out of commoners while lazing around and indulging themselves!
However, the atmosphere in the Star Luo Empire was not as rotten as in the Dou Ling Empire. Nobles like these were relatively rare in the Star Luo Empire, so dealing with them was not particularly troublesome!
After all, even in the original story, aside from some scheming, Xu Jiawei could be seen genuinely cherishing and treating his people well. He kept labor levies and taxes light and curbed the nobles' power, so he could indeed be called a worthy, benevolent ruler.
It was precisely under his governance that the Star Luo Empire had firmly maintained its position as the continent's second-strongest nation.
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