The Tyrant's Sickly Consort Refuses to Die novel · Chapter 19 of 24
Chapter 19: Tea for the Dowager
"Sign it," said Su Ming.
Xiao Jue looked up from the mobilization order.
"Su Ming."
"Sign it," said Su Ming. "Send the General north at dawn with all four hundred, in front of the whole city."
"Let the Prime Minister see him ride out the north gate."
"The pass is probably empty. Pan has invented it to strip my capital of the only men who will obey me."
"Yes," said Su Ming. "That is why."
The Emperor put down the brush.
"I will not have it. I will take Pan Liting by the collar tomorrow and put him in a cell beside the Imperial Physician."
"I have the letters. I have the grain. I will hold the audit at the point of a sword."
"And the court will say the madman is back," said Su Ming.
Xiao Jue's jaw tightened.
"Every minister in that hall has watched you kneel on the floor and cry over me," said Su Ming. "They did not hate it."
"But they are afraid of what you will do with the next one." He kept his voice low and even.
"I want them to watch you do nothing. I want the Dowager to think she is clever. And I want her to act."
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