Let us first look at the current situation in Great Shang.
Under Di Xin's rule, there were now eight hundred minor feudal lords, commanded respectively by the Four Great Lords: Marquis Jiang Hengchu of the East, Marquis Ji Chang of the West, Marquis E Chongyu of the South, and Marquis Chong Houhu of the North.
Each of the Four Great Lords commanded two hundred feudal lords!
Di Xin himself was extraordinarily brave, possessing the strength to support beams and replace pillars. He was also competent at leading troops into battle. With Grand Tutor Wen and Martial King Huang Feihu holding the court and the frontier respectively, along with the assistance of the old prime minister Shang Rong...
Great Shang was flourishing.
Yet under such circumstances, Yuan Futong of the North Sea and seventy-two other feudal lords had rebelled. Though this was but a minor ailment to Great Shang, Grand Tutor Wen had personally gone to suppress the revolt.
The goal was to crush them with thunderous force!
To display Great Shang's majesty.
But who could have expected it... With Grand Tutor Wen's strength, he had actually been tied down in the North Sea, unable to return to Chaoge for so long!
There was no need to think about it.
There had to be some hidden scheme behind this...
Only by keeping Grand Tutor Wen pinned down in the North Sea would there be an opportunity for Di Xin to become muddleheaded and act recklessly!
Even in the original course of events, after Grand Tutor Wen returned victorious to court, he had harshly rebuked Di Xin during assembly and proposed ten national policies to reform Great Shang...
Di Xin had obediently agreed to every one of them.
He had not dared utter a single word of refusal to Grand Tutor Wen!