The True Person with the greatest computational prowess in the world, and the True Person with the greatest killing power in the world, would join Yue Kingdom after Huang Weizhen returned. From then on, they would uphold Yue Kingdom's national fortunes and fight for its realm and people. The condition was that Ren Qiuli be allowed to make a move upon the chessboard that was Yue Kingdom!
Gong Zhiliang only learned of this transaction today.
Ever since Gao Zheng's death, Wen Jingxiu alone had held the whole of Yue Kingdom in his grasp. The few core figures in the country—Gong Zhiliang, Zhou Sixun, Bian Liang, and the like—each knew only a part of it.
Countless tangled threads, the weight of a nation's thousand autumns, were all tied to the emperor alone.
When facing a crisis, one could not help but advance. When undertaking great deeds, one could not help but keep them secret. Yet shouldering ten thousand jun alone—how distant was the road ahead for Yue Kingdom!
Only now, alone with a minister of the state, did some trace of the exhaustion deep in Wen Jingxiu's eyes and brows emerge.
Gong Zhiliang, mature and steady, who all his life had done nothing but "follow Chancellor Gao's rules," stood before the Son of Heaven with no ease in his bearing. "True Persons Lu Shuanghe and Ren Qiuli are naturally talents to astonish the world. Should they enter Yue territory and serve in office, they would greatly strengthen our national power. Yet this old minister still has several doubts."
He weighed his words. "First, are they truly sincere toward Yue Kingdom? When Southern Dipper Hall fell, no word was heard from them. When Calamity Deliverance Peak changed its banner, they concealed themselves deep within Fallen Immortal Forest. If Yue Kingdom hangs in