"The slightest disturbance under heaven, and you heap blame on me!"
"Very well! Who made me the ruler of all under heaven?"
"But while you can lay the matters of the Wu Clan, Demon Island, the Southern Ranges, the Northern Wasteland, Dongyi, and the Western Sea at my door, what about within the realm? What do you have to say about that? Do I alone make every decision governing this realm? Do I personally appoint every county magistrate? Aren't the chancellors of the Southern Office the ones handling everyday administration?!"
"When I took over this realm, you all said the late emperor had already put most of it in order, that I could unify the lands within the four seas simply by sitting in Ziwei Palace... Then I took charge of dealing with the most difficult problem, the Wu Clan, accepted the Northern Wasteland's surrender, and pacified the Southern Ranges. Did anything go wrong? Did I do a fine job or not? Then came defeat in Dongyi... Was what happened in Dongyi due to my incompetence? Was campaigning against Dongyi to unify the realm right or not? But suddenly Yang Shen rebelled. Was that my responsibility?"
"Yang Shen and his father belonged to Great Wei's second family! The late emperor and I practically tore out our hearts for those two. Apart from Ziwei Palace, we gave them everything, yet they climbed onto our faces when offered a foothold, and their entire clan plotted rebellion for decades! They wrecked my grand design to unify the four seas! They wrecked Great Wei's grand design to unify the realm!"
"And was Yang Shen the only one? What about Gao Ni and Heluo Ni? Those two bastards openly treated me like a child. Had I not removed them, sooner or later they would have