292 Perilous Situation for Ming Kingdom (1/2)
Capital of Ming Kingdom
In the entire history of his life, this was the first time the emperor faced something as dire as now. Having two influential families in your kingdom suddenly turned their back towards you was surely not a wonderful experience. Not to mention that a person from another influential family was waiting for his doom at another kingdom.
On the side, Strategist Wu face also paled considerably. He had not calculated that the Nanglong family would suddenly turn their back and launch an attack like this. However, it was not like this was not possible considering how the emperor acted all these years.
Even he felt a bit helpless at the emperor acts. Although people respected him on the surface since he was the emperor, they would mock him on the back because of his action that didn't suit a leader. Many of them disagreed with his act of wanting the power over the entire kingdom, but they never did anything in fear of the power held by the emperor.
Now that the power on his hand decreased, how was it possible that they can rest easy? The number of riots may increase because they were the supporters of Jun and Nanglong family. It seemed the end of Ming Kingdom would occur during this emperor reign.
”Wu, make some strategy or whatever,” the emperor said angrily.
Strategist Wu sighed. The power that the emperor held all these years had made him blinded and do thing foolishly. The way he governed had changed, and the past powerful emperor was no longer here. He didn't understand, what made the emperor possibly changed so much? Power or was it a woman?
He stole a glance at the calmly sitting empress. She didn't bear any child for the emperor, but all these years, she never lost the seat as the Empress. She was not an ordinary woman to make the emperor let her kept the seat all these years.
”Your Majesty, should the worst happen, you need to prepare a way out,” Strategist Wu said calmly.
The emperor was extremely pissed by the decision of Strategist Wu, but he couldn't say anything in refute. The power he has was limited only to Lan family and Lin family.
”Wait, where that Lin person is?” it was only now did he remember about the person from the Lin family that he sent away to negotiate with the Kai Kingdom. Among the officials he has, only these two families were the best at handling international relation.
”He never returned,” Strategist Wu answered.
”Did something happen to him?”
”We don't know,” there was simply no time for them to investigate what had happened to the boy when they were in this dire situation. Just for fending off the enemy had taken them considerably damage and they couldn't spare any time to care for that person.
”You're really worthless!” the emperor bellowed.
Strategist Wu felt stifled. Why did he choose to follow this emperor in the first place? It didn't matter anymore, it's his role to finish every mess this person created. He really missed his old friends, too bad that only two people left from the four pillars of the emperor.
During the early years of the emperor reign, he had four close people handling the matter for him. Each of them was highly proficient in military, strategist, politics, and economic. Everything should have been perfect if only they didn't fall one by one because of the retaliation from the Jun and Lan family.
Strategist Wu took a deep breath. ”Let me go to the east. I will take care of the Nanglong family.”
As a famous strategist, he was not someone who didn't know anything. Rather, he knew a lot of things and used to lead the soldiers from the frontline along with Lan Teng. He didn't believe that he couldn't take care of that little brat named Nanglong Soujin. He will show that brat just what was called powerful.