As the commander of the Nine Legions and a member of the Military Affairs Hall, he certainly couldn't be thrown into prison at the first sign of trouble.
But when a figure of such standing was confined to his residence, he was already a prisoner in all but name!
Jiang Wang quickly realized how serious the matter was.
Huang Yixing's position was sensitive!
Why had he been appointed Pacification Commissioner of Hengyang Prefecture?
There was only one reason: he was a banner.
He was a banner for Old Yang's assimilation into Qi.
The best example to proclaim that "the people of Yang are also people of Qi."
Cao Jie had reprimanded Huang Yixing partly out of momentary anger, but also to knock him down a peg. He couldn't stand seeing him bring the habits of Old Yang's bureaucrats into Qi.
There was nothing wrong with that in itself.
But now Huang Yixing had suddenly died, and that made it a huge problem!
Jiang Wang could easily imagine what people would say: Cao Jie had driven him to his death!
They would say that Huang Yixing had become a citizen of Qi and had eagerly welcomed the hero returning in triumph. He might have been a little obsequious, but what crime was there in his wholehearted love for his country?
Cao Jie, you kept calling him an Old Yang bureaucrat. Did you simply refuse to recognize the people of Yang as ministers of Qi?
Qi now dominated the Eastern Domain. How many countries had it annexed? And how many people had assimilated into Qi from other states?
Even State Chancellor Jiang Rumo, if you traced his ancestry back a few generations, had been a citizen of Shen!
So those people, those ministers from those countries, had never been recognized by the