Journey of the Fate Destroying Emperor novel Chapter 123

As a matter of fact, the officials were right in thinking that Wang Wei was cunning when necessary.

Over the years, he did not stop thinking about how to get rid of these noble families that were a nuisance to his rule.

As such, he wanted to kill their backer first, their hidden cards: the Supernatural Realm Cultivators.

As such, he invented an array that would prevent them from flying, then secretly trained people that were capable of instantly setting up this formation and scattered these people to different cities of the Dynasty’s territory.

One of the reasons he acted so swift and brutal today was because he wanted to lure these Supernatural Realm cultivators to show themselves, then rapidly arrest them with the formation he created.

Unfortunately, these people seemed to be on guard and just destroyed a few houses before immediately flying away.

After sighing for a while that his plan failed, Wang Wei regained his bearing and continued the meeting.

"What happened to the pills that I have asked you for?" suddenly asked Wang Wei to Yan Liling.

"I’m not done refining them due to the large requirement. I’m still confused, why do you need so many rare and high quality pills?" responded Yan Liling with a confused look on her face.

"I need them for something. I’ll tell you all about it when everything is done."

"Well, given the fact it is extremely hard for me to refine Low Grade Earth Tier pills without a divine sense, it will still take a while for me to refine all of them."

"Well take your time and give them to me when you are done," replied Wang Wei with a calm look on his face.

Yan Liling just nodded and did not ask any further questions. However, someone else did.

"Your majesty," said one official. "What do we do with the war in the Barbarian Wolf Kingdom?"

"Send reinforcement immediately," responded Wang Wei without hesitation. "Tell General 2 that he has less than a week to breach the capital’s city."

Everyone nodded and the court meeting of the day was officially over with all the ministers leaving.

As usual, Empress Dong Lifen stayed behind to talk to Wang Wei. When the room was empty with the two of them left, she got up from her throne and bowed to Wang Wei and said:

"Thank you, your majesty, for listening to my advice today."

As smart as Dong Lifen is, she could tell that his majesty had no plans to just brutally kill all the nobles without any reasons or official statement.

However, when Wang Wei showed that he changed his mind after hearing Dong Lifen’s plea, it provided her with more power in the court; it showed to the officials that the Empress had the ability to influence the Emperor.

With the ability to influence the Emperor came the power to influence the entire dynasty.

As such, there is nothing that officials fear and respect more than an Empress that can whisper to the Emperor’s ear. After all, what if the Empress started to talk badly about any of them to his majesty.

Wang Wei smiled and waved for her to get up and sit down.

To be honest, she was not the main reason that he acted so callous and indifferent during today’s meeting.

Over the years, in order to properly govern his dynasty, Wang Wei has been using the concept that the law is above everything and should be followed and respected.

Although Wang Wei was not as harsh as the Qin’s Dynasty back on Earth, he was still very moderately strict when it came to the law of Great Xia.

Unfortunately a problem soon arose.

A faction of scholars that worshipped the law was formed. These people called themselves the School of Law and became a rabid supporter of this way of ruling the dynasty.

At first Wang Wei supported their factions as it made it easier to control the court. However, recently, these people seemed to have gotten over their heads and started to play with the motion that even the Emperor should be bind and restricted by the law.

So, today, Wang Wei used this opportunity not only to lure his enemy from the shadow, but also to send a message to these scholars that as long as he was here, his words will be absolute, and will be above everything in this dynasty--even the law he himself created.

As for Dong Lifen’s act of acquiring more power, he just provided an opportunity.

In that situation, any of his ministers could have spoken and he would have listened. The fact that she spoke first and took this opportunity showed that she is politically savvy and knows when to take action.

After the Black Moon Sect surrendered, he quickly brought people over from Great Xia to occupy the territories. _{freeωebnovēl.c૦m}