Only Shi Si had known of Chongxuan Sheng's feelings before.
Now, Jiang Wang was the only other one.
Shi Si had always spoken little before others. So Jiang Wang said, "Not a single day of our time has been wasted. Today is like yesterday; tomorrow, I expect, will be like today."
We worked as hard today as we did yesterday, and tomorrow we would work as hard as we did today.
Then the success reaped yesterday would be reaped again tomorrow.
It was, of course, a fine hope.
But it was also an affirmation of the path he and Chongxuan Sheng had traveled together to reach this point.
After all, many of the things they had accomplished together had once been deemed impossible!
Chongxuan Sheng laughed first. "I've worked myself thin!"
Only then did he say, "Everything we want will come to pass. Tomorrow shall be as yesterday!"
"War is a matter of supreme importance to the state—the ground of death and life, the way of survival and ruin." Chongxuan Chuliang spoke at this moment. "Do not think war is something you can take whatever you please from. If you go onto the battlefield with that mindset, I fear all I'll be able to do is collect your corpses!"
Jiang Wang and Chongxuan Sheng both turned solemn.
When it came to war, Chongxuan Chuliang undoubtedly had the right to speak.
This time, both Chongxuan Sheng and Jiang Wang were going to the battlefield. Chongxuan Sheng had specifically brought Jiang Wang to Marquis of Dingyuan Mansion so that he could undergo another round of intensive prewar training. He did not expect Jiang Wang to immediately become a master of military strategy; at the very least, Jiang Wang needed to be able to grasp something of the commander-in-chief's intentions amid war.
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