Zhang Weiyu asked Chongxuan Sheng if he intended to have the Chongxuan Family stand surety for Jiang Wang.
It was both confidence in his own ability to uncover something in Green Sheep Town, and a warning to Chongxuan Sheng: if Jiang Wang was implicated in treason, did he intend to drag the Chongxuan Family into it as well?
It was a pointed rap on the knuckles.
But Chongxuan Sheng decisively said that his honor and disgrace were bound to Jiang Wang's. If Jiang Wang was involved in treason, then he would surely be involved as well.
At this point, Zhang Weiyu instead had to take the initiative to cut them apart.
The price of stomping Jiang Wang into the Abyss was utterly different from the price of stomping Chongxuan Sheng down alongside him.
One could say Jiang Wang had committed treason. One could not say Chongxuan Sheng had committed treason.
Chen Fu often said that no matter one's position or what one was doing, one had to understand the two words "proper measure."
Zhang Weiyu had etched those words firmly in his heart.
His goal was very clear: utterly defeat Jiang Wang and strive for the position of Commander of the Northern Office. To that end, he did not hesitate to clash with Chongxuan Sheng.
But doing anything to Chongxuan Sheng was not his purpose.
He understood all too well the gap between himself and scions of great houses like Chongxuan Sheng. It might take generations of effort to erase. Just as the many storms now battering Jiang Wang, this newly risen star of the empire, could never possibly have befallen people like Chongxuan Sheng or Li Longchuan.
If Chongxuan Sheng wanted to follow along, then let him follow.
He had never intended to play any other tricks anyway. He