Your Majesty, the Emperor is playing your cards again!

She suppressed the itch in her hands, looked directly at the emperor and said, "Xia girl is still in my hands. Is the emperor sure you want to break up with me?"

Now that it has come to this, she is not afraid to speak out.

Xia Baozheng is her greatest support now, so she wants to say it openly.

The emperor would not let anything happen to Xia girl and would definitely deal with her. If the emperor dealt with her just for a little girl and ignored all the court officials, he would be acting like a tyrant.

Bringing Xia Yatou out into the open will be beneficial to her no matter what!

Prime Minister Lu saw through her thoughts and said coldly, "As expected, Empress Xia was lured away by you, the Queen Mother. It seems that the Queen Mother and the Lin family have been planning a rebellion for a long time!"

The Queen Mother sneered.

Ignoring Prime Minister Lu, he only looked at the emperor and said, "So what? Concubine Xia is in my hands. Your Majesty, just tell me, do you want Concubine Xia or the Great Yan Kingdom?"

When Duke Lin saw that the Queen Mother had officially broken off relations with the Emperor, his blood boiled.

He shouted with great pride: "Now, it is not the emperor who has the final say on what you want, but our Lin family!
With one order from this general, a hundred thousand soldiers will be able to destroy this palace. You all should weigh your heads carefully to see if they are tougher than the sword in my hand!"

The group of righteous court officials were almost furious after hearing such arrogant words.

Tutor Song could no longer tolerate this.

He stood up and shouted coldly: "Since the knife in the Duke's hand is so hard, why don't you chop off my head first!

"I can lose my head and bleed, but I will never lose my loyalty to the emperor! Even if I lose my head, I will never submit to your army of 100,000!"

"The Grand Master is right. We can lose our heads and bleed, but we must not lose our loyalty to the emperor! We would rather die than surrender to the rebels!"

"We can lose our heads and bleed, but we must not lose our loyalty to the emperor! We would rather die than surrender to the traitors!"

"..." As Tutor Song stood up, many righteous people who supported the emperor also stood up.

They all held their heads high and faced the big knife in the hand of Duke Lin with fearless determination.

Lord Lin was so angry that he gnashed his teeth as he looked at the old men in front of him who were not afraid of death.

"Good, very good. Since you are so dignified, I will offer your heads to the sword in your hand!"

As he finished speaking, many more righteous courtiers stood up.

It's really that Duke Lin is too arrogant. Even if he wants to force the emperor to abdicate, can he kill all of these old ministers?

Eunuch Jixiang stood behind the emperor, and felt quite relieved for a moment when he saw a large group of old ministers standing up and risking their lives to fight against the knife in Duke Lin's hand.

In any case, there are still many old ministers who support the emperor.

He scanned the faces of these people one by one and memorized them all.

Now, the party that supports Duke Lin will firmly support him to the end in order to find a way out. The party that supports the emperor will also firmly support the emperor and will not fear life or death.

However, a group of fence-sitters don't know what to do at this moment.

If you support the emperor, you are afraid that Duke Lin’s 100,000-strong army will end up losing their heads.

I support Duke Lin, but I am afraid that Duke Lin will be so arrogant that he will force me into a dead end. If his rebellion fails, it will be a heinous crime that will lead to the execution of all nine generations of my clan!
My mind was shaking wildly and I had no idea what to do.

The entire court was divided into three factions. Surprisingly, the number of people in the three factions was almost the same. (End of this chapter)