"I don't care what abilities you have, and I don't care what resources you control. In the days to come, whoever dares to obey my brother's orders in public while defying them in private..."
"Boom!"
A terrifying pressure erupted from Qian Chaoguang's body, slamming all the civil and military officials to the ground at once, leaving them unable to move.
Only the newly appointed prime minister, Luo Lan, remained standing.
Before their horrified eyes, what little remained of the Imperial Palace's ruins was instantly razed flat, crushed directly into powder.
"This is what will happen," Qian Chaoguang said indifferently.
Then, the pressure withdrew like a receding tide. The ministers who had been pinned to the ground looked as though they had just been fished out of water, gasping raggedly for breath.
The fear in their eyes as they looked at Qian Chaoguang was plain to see.
If they wanted the Dou Ling Empire to hold out a little longer, strong medicine was necessary.
What time was it, and they were still playing that game of checks and balances?
By the time you finished balancing and adjusting everything, the Sun Moon Empire would already be at your doorstep!
In the original work, Huo Gua and the Tang Sect had gone with gentle methods, but what damn use had that been?
Xu Sanshi had been here putting his heart and soul into saving the place, while this lot in court had dragged him down one after another, fighting for power and profit, obeying in public while defying in private, their heads full of nothing but how to claw even more benefits out of this empire that was about to fall.
After that, it had taken only a month to break Xu Sanshi's mentality and leave him utterly disappointed in the Dou Ling