Chapter eighty-four 

After over three thousand successful slices, Yang Liu Liu and Yang Jing Jing become like an animal that is skinned and sold for its skin. Tang Wudi and Ying Zetian's men took the still beating heart out of the body of Yang Liu Liu and Yang Jing Jing and throw it respectively in the faces of Shuang Guan Yi and the head of the Yang family. Ying Zetian knew Tang Wudi will be having an emotional upheaval in his mind right now. So, Ying Zetian walks over and hug Tang Wudi from behind in order to calm him down.

Of course, this hug was after Tang Wudi had told the head of the Yang family why he and his family will be suffering today. After sensing that Tang Wudi had calmed down, Ying Zetian turns her focus to ending the drama that she had acted out for the Shuang Guan family. Ying Zetian first forced Shuang Guan Yi to swallow a pill that she designed that will ensured that he could not speak effectively but still could make noises. Then Ying Zetian took her acupuncture needles that her men had given her and use it on Shuang Guan Yi.

After all, Ying Zetian do not want Shuang Guan Yi to die from over bleeding after she hack away his legs and hands. Lastly, Ying Zetian then on purpose took a blunted but still effective sword and hack at Shuang Guan Yi arms and legs. Ying Zetian learns this torture from one of her idols from the modern world, the female emperor, Wu Zetian. After a few successful hacks with her sword, Ying Zetian then signal her men to bring Shuang Guan Yi to hang at the entrance city wall of Changan.

But before Ying Zetian's men moved Shuang Guan Yi, she bend down and said to him

"Dear father, do not worry that you will be lonely, the other three heads of Tai Ping once most powerful gentry families will be accompanying you on the city wall. While you are hanging there, remember that this is payment for what you once did to the Ying family. If I could take out the blood out from my body without dying, I will do it immediately. Who wants your dirty blood in my body?"

Ying Zetian although wanted to take over Tai Ping silently but she still wants the enemies that still exist to be wary of offending her. And nothing beats having the heads of the four once most powerful gentry families hanging on the city wall as a warning that she could not be messed. The visual impact of having the heads of the four once most powerful gentry families in Tai Ping to slowly died and went smelly in front of them. Unless Ying Zetian's enemies is really crazy enough to go after her, a person that do not fear death.

Ying Zetian believe that this will be sufficient warning for her enemies that will still exists. Ying Zetian always like to prepare herself for the worse and she is not that innocent to think that she will succeed in killing all of her enemies today. After all, look at what once happened to her, Ying Zetian. Although Ying Zetian had taken this lesson into consideration and will burn down all the homes of her enemies all over Tai Ping and also use the fire to get rid of their bodies. Ying Zetian also needs this warning as she needed more time to put the affairs of Tai Ping into order and make it stronger while lessening the need for wars.

First, internal country wars are ridiculous in Ying Zetian viewpoint as she hated seeing countrymen that are supposed to be supporting each another killing each another instead. That is why Ying Zetian is so bloody in her takeover of Tai Ping. Not to said that Ying Zetian remember one of the stories from her modern world of the emperor, Han Wudi and make her dislike wars.

The story of how the old Han Wudi went out for a tour of his land to find an old man like him still ploughing the fields for the next season crops. And the answer Han Wudi gotten from the old man is that there is nobody in his family anymore as all his sons had died from the constant wars that Han Wudi carried out. And that is what Ying Zetian do not hope that her empire will become one day after she successfully conquered the rest of the three countries in this part of the world.