Li Shimin's expression darkened.
How did this lot look like they had come to plead guilty? They had bloody well come to force the emperor's hand.
How could he not be furious?
At that thought, Li Shimin immediately said coldly, "Why haven't you acted yet? What are you waiting for?"
At Li Shimin's command, the Embroidered Uniform Guard stopped wasting words and hauled all those civil and military officials away into custody.
To them, although the Great Aristocratic Families were difficult to deal with, the man they feared most was still Li Shimin.
After all, Li Shimin held their lives in his hands.
Powerful as the Great Aristocratic Families were, they might be able to plunge the Tang Dynasty into disaster, but could they actually kill the guards?
They were only ordinary people. All they cared about were their own lives, their families' lives, and whether they could live comfortably. What did anything else have to do with them?
Precisely for that reason, the Embroidered Uniform Guard truly did not care about such matters.
The emperor might fear unrest and thus dread the Great Aristocratic Families.
But as the emperor's claws and fangs, the Embroidered Uniform Guard had no fear of this damned nonsense.
And so, they acted.
Meanwhile, when the heads of the Great Aristocratic Families saw that Li Shimin had ignored them completely and continued doing as he pleased, they froze, then erupted into boundless fury.
As heads of the Great Aristocratic Families, they commanded respect wherever they went. Who would not attend to them with the utmost care?
Yet Li Shimin dared to disregard them like this. It was outrageous!
"Li Shimin, do you truly intend to break with us?"
"You ignorant brat, think this through! Our Great Aristocratic Families must never be insulted!"
"I advise you