On the tenth day of the first lunar month, the Prince of Qin proclaimed himself Emperor in Xijing, inaugurating the Tian Shou era; his foster mother, the Noble Consort, was honored as the Empress Dowager.
Sitting in Xijing, the Empress Dowager issued her first imperial edict to capture the Prime Minister Li Zongxun.
He was accused of forming cliques to usurp power, falsifying imperial decrees to seize the throne, and after his plot was exposed, he set fire to the Imperial Palace in Central Capital, destroying the Li Family's legacy. Without any sense of shame, he fled to Yecheng, colluded with the Military Governor Ge Pei of Xiangzhou to rebel against the Imperial Court, and was denounced as a traitor to the nation, whom all should condemn and execute.
