In the Imperial Capital, within the Imperial City, inside the Golden Throne Hall.
The heavy palace doors blocked out the howling wind and snow of the outside world, but they could nothing to seal away the air within the hall, which felt as though it was about to freeze solid.
The copper tube containing the eight-hundred-li urgent military report lay silently beneath the imperial steps like a piece of glowing red-hot iron. The hands of the Minister of War, Lord Wang, held high above his head, were trembling slightly.
Chapter 221