The old emperor only desires immortality; you must not rebel.

Inside the Xie family mansion,

The Xie family's private soldiers stood in the courtyard, swords drawn, their expressions grim; there were more than three hundred of them.

These were the elite of Xie's private army, all of them veterans who had fought countless battles, including some who had retired from the battlefield.

Behind the crowd, Xie Qianguan slumped weakly in a chair, his body appearing more like he was being placed on the chair than sitting, limp and powerless.

Hearing the voices coming from outside the mansion, Xie Qianguan seemed to snap out of his daze and suddenly threw his head back and burst into laughter.

"What a magnificent emperor of Daqing!"

"What a fine old emperor!"

He laughed wildly, tears streaming down his face.

He witnessed firsthand how tens of thousands of private soldiers were gradually crushed and humiliated by the emperor, and how his spirit was completely worn away.

Tens of thousands of private soldiers failed to stop the emperor's advance, so what could a mere three hundred men possibly do?

Xie Zhixu asked, puzzled, "Father, what exactly happened?"

Xie Qianguan tried to get up by holding onto the chair, but he stumbled and fell back down. He turned to look at Xie Zhixu, his eyes no longer showing the shrewdness he once had, as if all his spirit had been shattered.

"I am a sinner of the Xie family!"

Help me up.

Xie Zhixu did not hesitate and quickly helped Xie Qianguan up.

The private soldiers inside the compound automatically separated.

All eyes involuntarily turned to the Xie family patriarch, who had been in charge of the Xie family for over twenty years.

Xie Qianguan walked through the crowd and, supported by Xie Zhixu, headed towards the gate.

The vermilion gate slowly opened.

Xie Qianguan looked up at the towering figure standing on the warhorse and slowly knelt down.

"Father?"

Xie Zhixu looked completely bewildered.

"This sinful subject has disrespected the Emperor and committed a heinous act of treason. I beg the Emperor to punish me!"

"The blame for tonight's events lies solely with Xie, and with the Xie family!"

Xie Qianguan kowtowed and slowly said, "My Xie clan is willing to offer up our thousand-year-old clan property and withdraw from the capital from now on."

"All the private soldiers in the clan are willing to serve as imperial guards, serving Your Majesty at your beck and call."

A loser should adopt the demeanor of a loser.

Whether the emperor on horseback tonight is possessed by a demon or the spirit of the founding emperor manifested, in the end, the Xie family has lost.

The Xie family took all the blame, and perhaps the other families would help them out of consideration for this.

The powerful families of the realm are united as one, so it's unlikely the emperor would truly exterminate them all.

The Holy Emperor looked down at the kneeling Xie clan leader from his high position and shook his head in disappointment.

"You have disappointed me greatly."

She shouldn't have picked up a knife and fiercely resisted the oppression of this tyrannical ruler; what kind of behavior is it to kneel down and beg for mercy?

"Oh!"

"I will not allow it!"

Lu Cheng shook his head, angrily saying, "Since you're unwilling to make the decision, then I'll make it for you!"

"Anyone taller than a cartwheel shall be beheaded!"

As the emperor's most loyal personal guards, they were naturally determined to carry out the emperor's orders.

Xie Qianguan suddenly stood up, his heart filled with a mix of emotions, his expression shifting rapidly, and he shouted, "Do you really intend to cut yourself off from the world?!"

"You will be destroyed by the Xie clan! No noble family in the world will tolerate you!"

Xie Qianguan's furious roar was shattered by a golden mace.

The shattered corpse slowly slammed to the ground!

The emperor calmly and composedly withdrew his golden mace.

As an elite force that survived the charge of tens of thousands of iron cavalry, they routed Xie's three hundred private soldiers in a single encounter.

Cries of agony, pleas for mercy, and curses rose and fell.

For any disobedient person who dares to insult the Holy Emperor, the Imperial Guards' choice is to first smash their teeth and then cut off their head.

No mercy, no soft-heartedness!

Anyone who dares to disrespect the Holy Emperor—will die!

Tonight, this personal guard that has followed the emperor since the beginning has witnessed the true power of the emperor.

Qin Xiong leveled the wheels on the ground.

As the emperor's most loyal follower, he will meticulously carry out the emperor's orders.

……

When the Holy Emperor returned to his palace, news of the massacre of the Xie clan finally spread throughout the capital.

A decree followed.

The Xie family plotted rebellion and their entire clan was executed!

All properties, land, and grain were deposited into the national treasury.

No one knows how much this asset is. According to insiders, the emperor's smile never stopped when he saw the asset list that day.

The Holy Emperor declared that he would build a wine pool and meat forest, as well as a star-picking tower.

Once the news spread, countless censors and officials gathered in front of the palace gates, vehemently criticizing the emperor for being incompetent.

Several censors and officials simply moved their beds over and sat in front of the palace gates, hurling insults at each other.

As imperial censors, their primary task was to rebuke the emperor at his gate every day.

If the emperor were to kill them all because of their words, it would prove that their words were correct.

In the future, they will leave a significant mark on history books.

Some are greedy for power, some are greedy for money, and as censors and officials who speak out against injustice, they are greedy for fame!

The emperor then ordered people to carry the excrement produced in the palace to the palace gate as a reward to all the imperial censors.

The Holy Emperor is a true dragon, so his excrement is naturally dragon excrement.

Finally, all the censors carried their buckets of excrement home, cursing and swearing.

The large group of officials in the capital has now split into two factions.

One faction has now completely sided with the emperor, while the other faction outwardly submits to the emperor but secretly continues to contend with him.

Their origins destined them to be unable to side with the emperor like others, which would be tantamount to digging their own graves.

The downfall of the Xie family truly damaged the foundation of aristocratic families.

In the current imperial court, those connected with powerful families, large and small, encompass almost half of the officials, not to mention numerous local officials.

The former prime minister was nothing more than a puppet supported by powerful families.

The downfall of the Xie family terrified all the prominent families.

No one could have imagined that what should have been a world-shaking event would instead lead to the downfall of the Xie family.

The 40,000 private soldiers gathered by the aristocratic families either fled or scattered, leaving very few remaining.

For aristocratic families, this battle was not merely a minor blow, but a blow that shook their very foundations.

This is also why the major families reacted so strongly.

No one knows what the aging emperor sitting in the palace is thinking, or which powerful family he will target next.

……

At this moment, inside the Pei family mansion.

The three families were arguing fiercely.

"That mediocre Xie Qianguan has caused the loss of tens of thousands of our private soldiers for nothing!"

"Forty thousand people!"

"Even if it were 40,000 pigs, it would take half a day to catch them all!"

Wang Chengye, the head of the Wang family and former tutor to the crown prince, slammed his fist on the table in anger.

With the death of the Crown Prince, his position as the Crown Prince's tutor became a mere empty title, rendering him completely unemployed.

His Wang family also produced five thousand people, and at this moment, he felt as if his heart was bleeding.

Even with his efforts to gather more men, he only managed to get five hundred in the end.

It is said that those private soldiers have now become the emperor's imperial guards.

crazy!

They've all gone completely mad!

Those private soldiers were all trained by them from childhood.

Does that old man really have that much charm?

"That guy from the Northwest is coming!"

With just one word, Wang Chengye paused, his expression revealing resentment.

"Brother Xie's plan was originally for the benefit of our noble families, but now that it has failed, we cannot blame him."

"However, since that person from the Northwest has arrived, perhaps we can discuss this with the Emperor!"

Pei Zhixing lowered his eyelids and chuckled softly, "After all, we are also subjects of Daqing, and our hearts are with the Emperor."