Ganingling, on the seventh day after Yuan Shao's death, a grand funeral procession set out from Ganling City and headed south.
Xu You and the others were all part of the procession. It had already been three days since they left Liu Bei, yet their expressions remained grim.
For the first time in their lives, they had been thoroughly looked down upon—or rather, it was no longer a matter of being looked down upon. They had been rendered invisible...
The blow had struck them hard. Fortunately, they had still kept a backup plan. Although they had once been certain Liu Bei would welcome them with open arms, they had prepared for the worst, and in the end, they really had to use it.
Fortunately, there was still enough time to give Yuan Shao a magnificent ceremony. As his ministers, escorting his coffin south would fulfill the great duty between ruler and subject and become a tale celebrated through the ages!
Of course, more importantly, no one would stop them. They could leave Jizhou, this land of trouble, with a perfectly legitimate reputation.
It was not that they were especially afraid of death. If they had been dealing with another warlord, he truly would not have dared do anything to them. No matter how far they went, at worst they would lose their own lives; their families would never be implicated. But Wang Xuan's reputation in this regard was atrocious. He casually wiped out entire households.
As for claims about going to the barbaric wilderness to spread civilization, in the eyes of the Scholars, being sent directly overseas was no different from having one's entire household exterminated.
It was precisely because of this infamous reputation that these people genuinely did not dare completely fall out with Wang Xuan.
Though their relationships