Li stepped forward, composed herself, and before she could speak, she began to cry hesitantly.
"Your Majesty! I'm too late. I didn't even get to see you one last time, sob sob sob..."
As he spoke, he began to climb the steps and head towards the inner palace.
The Imperial Guards rushed forward, blocking her path, their sharp swords almost piercing the Empress's waist and abdomen.
Li's eyes sharpened as she glared angrily at Xu Zang: "Your Highness, how majestic you are! I am, after all, your mother. How dare you stop me?"
Xu Zang looked at her coldly: "You dare call me mother?"
He turned his head and hissed, "Guards! The Empress Dowager has behaved improperly before the palace. Send her back to her chambers and confine her for three months. Without my permission, she is not to step out!"
Li was surprised that he would be so bold.
They had intended to label Xu Zang as having ulterior motives and being disobedient and unfilial, but now he had suppressed the accusation.
When the Prime Minister saw that the Imperial Guards had surrounded his younger sister, he was so shocked that he forgot his manners, stood up from the ground, and pointed at Xu Zang's nose to curse him.
"Arrogant brat! You haven't even ascended the throne yet, yet you imprison the Empress, show no respect for your elders, and lack moral integrity. How can the world not laugh at the royal family for raising such a disobedient and unfilial child!"
Xu Zang was not intimidated. Under the watchful eyes of everyone, he drew a long sword from the Imperial Guard and slashed at Li Shouhai's neck.
"The royal family has indeed failed to properly instruct me, but now that I am about to ascend to the throne, is the Prime Minister filled with jealousy, wishing he could kill me with a single sword stroke?"
Li Shouhai never expected that Xu Zang would be so arrogant, ignoring all the civil and military officials present and turning his weapon against him, the head of all officials.
Just as he was about to speak, Xu Zang's hand trembled, and a bloody gash immediately appeared on the Prime Minister's neck.
The Empress cried out in surprise, "Brother!"
Xu Zang forced Li Shouhai to kneel down, holding a sword in his hand. He walked behind the old man and kicked him hard, knocking the prime minister to the ground.
The officials gasped in shock, their expressions horrified. Those officials who had been eager to stop the foolish crown prince from ascending the throne all shrank back, prostrating themselves on the ground, not daring to utter a sound.
Xu Zang stomped on the old man, causing him to howl in agony one after another. His face was filled with nonchalant grimness as he tormented the wicked old man to the core with the tip of his sword.
“You’re right. I lack discipline, which is why I can trample you underfoot. I am the ruler, and you are the subject. When you were young, you knelt before my father; in middle age, you knelt before me; and in your old age, you will have to kneel before my grandson. If you don’t serve him well, you’ll not only lose your head…”
As he spoke, he suddenly raised his longsword high and thrust it at Li Shouhai's head.
Li screamed, and Li Shouhai was so frightened that he wet his pants. The tip of the sword pierced the floor tile two centimeters from his ear, the sword clanging. Even the Prime Minister was terrified.
Xu Zang chuckled, continuing from the previous sentence, and dropped the bloody and terrifying threat, "Not only will your head be taken, but your entire family will be exterminated, your family members will be enslaved and prostituted for generations, and you will never be able to rise again!"
The once all-powerful prime minister, in front of all the officials, not only wet his pants but also clung to the leg of the foolish crown prince, almost wailing as he expressed his loyalty and absolute support for the prince's ascension to the throne.
The most threatening prime minister was easily swept away by Xu Zang. When the third prince Xu Lian heard that his mother and uncle had been defeated one after another, he huddled in his palace, furious but dared not go out, for fear of losing both his wife and his army.
He couldn't understand how this idiot had joined forces with that moron Xu Heng.
Now that Xu Zang has intimidated all the officials and has 30,000 elite soldiers and the palace's elite imperial guards, his ascension to the throne is a foregone conclusion.
At this moment, his best course of action is to conserve his energy, find Xu Zang's weakness, and deliver a fatal blow.
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