From the Ministry of Personnel, to the Ministry of Rites, to the Imperial University, to his dear little brother himself. Liu Yao had no idea just how many people were working against the very peace that he sought to protect. This made him painfully aware that if he couldn't topple the system, he would amount to little more than a puppet emperor. That was what they had done to his father, leeching him dry of all actual say in most matters of the state until he was merely a dry husk on top of the throne, a figurehead to be pandered to with sweet flattery, who was content with his lot in life as long as there was enough wine and beauties to go about.
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