The Emperor of Qi, Jiang Wei, pondered for a moment before suddenly ordering in a deep voice, "Pass the order: summon all ministers to the palace immediately for a council!"
Before long, the civil and military officials of Qi arrived at the Imperial Study. The Prime Minister, Tian Ji, was nearing sixty; with his thick brows and wide eyes, he carried the air of an upright and virtuous statesman. As the patriarch of the Tian clan and a Prime Minister of over twenty years, he was the undisputed head of the bureaucracy, and even Jiang Wei treated him with a degree of deference.
"Xinjiang has fallen?"
Chapter 252