Chapter seventy-nine 

All over Tai Ping, tonight is a night that destinated to have the five gentry families disappearing from the history of Tai Ping forever. And the blood of the once powerful will soak into the grounds of Tai Ping. And those gentry families' members that are not even in Changan, Ying Zetian already have pinpointed them out accurately. And even the previous Ying family members are not saved from the massacre tonight.

Ying Zetian has a bad habit and that is she hate unclean people and those who betray the Ying family by taking the surname of the Shang Guan family are unclean to Ying Zetian. The previous Ying family members were not saved from the killings, not to say the smaller families that depended on the four gentry families. Of course, the only exception Ying Zetian make is if the offences that were committed by these smaller families were within the tolerance level of Ying Zetian.

Although it is sad to said, not many such smaller families escape from the massacre tonight. All these smaller families thought that they were also as powerful as the four gentry families they depend on and had committed uncountable offences over the years. Ying Zetian is confident in her abilities that one or two smaller families she did not kill will not affect her in the future.

So, despite Ying Zetian habit of killing everyone and ensure that nobody could come and bite her back in the future, she still did spare such three smaller families who committed kindness and offences equally. All over Tai Ping, members of Ying Zetian private armies have already killed all members of the five gentry families and the smaller families. And reports that were all successful about the killings were making their way into Ying Zetian's hands.

Ying Zetian then sat down beside Tang Wudi and elegantly drink the tea that he gave to her while she watches the massacre that is happening in front of her now. Ying one give the signal for the whole royal family down to the babies to be bought to the front of the banquet hall where the officials have a full and clear view. Ying Zetian could see from the eyes of the officials on how they deem her as a devil right from the pits of hell. But to Ying Zetian, she could not be bothered as she knew history is written by the winners. Anyway, even if the officials are afraid of her now, Ying Zetian knew that as time passed, the fear of her may by dimmed by other greedy needs of the officials but she is confident in her own ability.

So, Tang Wudi and Ying Zetian sat at their place and calmly sipped their tea as they watched the whole Tang royal family is wiped out and blood start to sink into the floors of the banquet hall. Now only Tang Zhong is left alive as the retired emperor as requested by Tang Wudi. Tang Wudi only requested so as no matter what happened in the times after he went back to the royal family, Tang Zhong always stood by his side. And the most important point is that Tang Wudi wanted Tang Zhong alive and be tortured by the fact that he is not the emperor anymore and the whole Tang royal family being wiped out in one night. Tang Wudi wanted this for Tang Zhong so he could redeem the sins that his mother had gone through.

The speedy way in which the whole Tang royal family were wiped out in front of the officials that is on scene tonight and watching Ying Zetian and Tang Wudi calmly drinking shock the officials into silence. And this silence was truly the opposite of how they react when the officials first realized that they had consumed medicine that will leave them immobile. And the silence is so eerie especially when now is already night and one could not hear other things expect for the swishing of the swords that were used to end the lives of the Tang royal family.