After leaving the oral imperial edict, Zhao Jue got up from the dragon throne and left the Benevolence Hall. Seeing him walk away, the chief eunuch hurriedly shouted: "The morning court is adjourned!"
All the generals and ministers quickly knelt down and shouted in unison: "Long live the emperor for ten of thousands years!"
Now that the emperor had issued an oral imperial edict, everyone looked at each other in blank dismay. Because the emperor did not say who should do it, nobody spoke for a long time. No one wants to take the responsibility of killing the common people, but they are also afraid that if they don't obey the imperial edict, the ones who will lose their heads are themselves.
