"No, why would we stop it?" The Gray Fort Emperor's voice and expression instantly turned ice-cold. "If they don't screw up, how are we supposed to solve all the problems that have built up from these years of reform?"
The Gray Fort Empire's reforms over the years had constantly weakened the old nobility while pushing out new nobles, but those old nobles still controlled massive resources. And the new nobles' hunger for resources kept growing by the day. You could say the whole Gray Fort Empire was like a bomb that had been teetering on the edge of collapse. This time, with large-scale riots breaking out, tons of resources would become ownerless, easing the entire empire's tensions.
No doubt, using an event like this to ease tensions would seriously hurt the empire—it'd cause major internal damage and might make the whole country unstable. It'd be way more comfortable to just expand outward instead. But since things had already reached this point, why not go for it?
