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The Great Zhou could tolerate these princes leveraging forces from the Martial Arts World of Jianghu for their own purposes, much like Ji Haodian and the Esoteric Sect did before.
Both sides could cooperate, or even become members of the Great Zhou, like the Esoteric Sect did, but what they couldn't tolerate were these princes becoming puppets of the Martial Arts World, and even betraying the interests of the whole Great Zhou in the end.
Therefore, these people must die, and there could be no pardon!
Ji Xuanyuan coldly said, "Take them away, and notify the people from Zongrenfu to handle this."
The so-called Zongrenfu was a department that specifically dealt with royal affairs in the Great Zhou, and was actually managed by the Ji Imperial Clan.