How do you know when shit's hit the fan?, it's when there is no avenue of escape in a certain situation .
A situation like having the entire royal guard storm your home early in the morning at 5 an.if that was all I wouldn't be sweating bullets as I'd bribed off most officials and even some imperial guards.
Some of said imperial guards present had given me the news that made me sweat bullets, the empress was coming.
That alone sent shivers down my spine, my only comfort being that my father, an exemplary former official seemed calm, at least that was until I noticed the blood dripping from his hand.
Now as a transmigrated individual with no cheat codes who had amassed wealth worth a small kingdom, you'd think I had no fear of royalty yet in the cultivation world where might makes right,wealth can become fatal.
This is why I've bribed and invited many experts to the family. As to where these experts are at the moment, I'd sent them away with my siblings along with the remainder of my wealth to the southern continent. Thus was the fear of the new reigning empress.
To get a quick recap, the empress came to power by killing the entire royal line including her father.
The following day after such an incident she held a coronation and held her first assembly that ended with the death of the prime minister and the rise of the first female prime minister.
It was good that at this time my father had left office.
Though her methods were quite rough, they managed to cut off a major chunk of the empire's filth yet, this could not stop the empire's fall.
This prompted a few individuals, mostly those close with our family to make a run for it. Yet here comes the conundrum, moving wealth sounds easy but is actually a lot harder than some might think especially assets such as auction halls that when liquidated, set off alarms in the capital and in turn the crazy empress on the throne that would see her taxes running.
Anyone with a brain would know that the highest percentage of taxes is from those actively carrying out trade and if the biggest business man in the empire runs , it sends a bad message to the others.
Though looked down upon in the cultivation world , it is an undeniable fact that wealth is required for cultivation especially at the golden core and higher as even the thousand year clans start feeling the hole in their pockets.
As these miscellaneous thoughts passed through my mind , a loud voice startled me out of my thoughts.
" her imperial majesty the empress has arrived ".
At the sound of that, the imperial guards retracted the aura of hundreds of golden core realms and took on somber attitudes as though they practiced it thousands of times..
In came two stunningly beautiful women that any man would lust over yet all that was covered up by the nascent soul cultivation realm pressure.
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In a shabby wooden shack , a one eyed old man had a forelone look on his face as though in reminiscence .
S'igh' I guess the first part of the plan went off without a hitch , though we're really pushing it here .
One mistake and everyone would be doomed yet even then fools shall always be fools regardless of time or place.
Placing a hand over the scar that covered half his face , a flash of cold light passed through his eyes chilling the heart of a little Mose passing along .