Capital of Ming Kingdom
In the entire history of his life, this was the first time the emperor faced something as dire as now. Having two influential families in your kingdom suddenly turned their back towards you was surely not a wonderful experience. Not to mention that a person from another influential family was waiting for his doom at another kingdom.
On the side, Strategist Wu face also paled considerably. He had not calculated that the Nanglong family would suddenly turn their back and launch an attack like this. However, it was not like this was not possible considering how the emperor acted all these years.
Even he felt a bit helpless at the emperor acts. Although people respected him on the surface since he was the emperor, they would mock him on the back because of his action that didn't suit a leader. Many of them disagreed with his act of wanting the power over the entire kingdom, but they never did anything in fear of the power held by the emperor.