Wrongly Accused

Shrek Academy, Inner Court office.

Zhang Lexuan After reading the contents of the diary, Jiujiu was speechless. He stretched out his hand to roll up the file and put it back to its original place, sighing softly.

History is always like this, everyone has their own reasons, and no reason is absolutely clean.

He Caitou's choice is a betrayal in the eyes of the Sun Moon Empire. Anyone who sees He Caitou's behavior is a traitor and a traitor.

But who is right and who is wrong depends on which angle you look at it.

But there was one thing she felt Lin Ye was right about. Fighting for the people she wanted to protect and betraying the country for profit were completely different things.

Confusing the two is the biggest misuse of the word "traitor".

[Of course, the most unavoidable controversial point about He Caitou is Huo Yuhao.

To be precise, it was He Caitou and Huo Yuhao who jointly caused several large-scale casualties to the Sun Moon Empire on the battlefield.

After the Sun Moon Empire's side learned the truth, they described He Caitou as Huo Yuhao's "accomplice".

It is believed that without the support of Soul Tool from He Caitou, Huo Yuhao would not have been able to break through the Sun Moon Empire's defense line in such a short period of time, and would not have been able to cause such heavy losses to the imperial army.

This accusation is true to a certain extent. The Soul Tool technology of He Caitou did play a key role in many battles.]

[But there is a detail worth noting here.

Most of Huo Yuhao's attacks on the Sun Moon Empire on the battlefield are aimed at military targets, such as military camps, logistics supply lines, Soul Tool positions, and frontline command posts.

Of course, direct civilian casualties are not zero. After all, the scale of the war is so large that it cannot be completely avoided.

But Huo Yuhao's combat style is precision strike, not indiscriminate massacre.

He Caitou allowed Huo Yuhao to use the Soul Tool he made. At least he wanted these weapons to be used on military targets, not civilians.

This is completely different in nature from the Holy Spirit Cult's approach of planting Evil Soul Formation on the battlefield in order to collect souls and involve all the soldiers and surrounding civilians on both sides of the enemy.]

[Not to whitewash He Caitou, but to ask a more basic question: Is there a "clean" stance in war?

He Caitou chose to stand with Shrek because Shrek took him in and gave him a new life.

Is it wrong for him to want revenge? From his own perspective, yes.

From the Sun Moon Empire's perspective, he is a pure traitor.

But, who has the final say? In the absence of a referee who is transcendent of both parties, there will never be a standard answer to this question.]

[So whether He Caitou is a traitor essentially does not depend on what he has done, but on which side the person who asks this question is on.

If you stand in the Sun Moon Empire's position, he is a heinous traitor.

If you stand in Shrek's position, he is a loving and righteous partner.

This is the paradox of history. There is often no absolutely objective answer to a person's most important question.]

Ju Zi was sitting in front of the desk. After updating her diary, her attention completely drifted away.

Now she simply put down her pen, leaned back on her chair, and concentrated on reading the article about He Caitou.

He Caitou, or Xu He, this name is indeed an extremely sensitive existence in the court of the Sun Moon Empire.

Imperial Family people never call him by his name when they mention him, they always use "that person" or "son of the late emperor", as if even his name carries some kind of ominousness.

Ju Zi knew the story behind this name when he first entered the palace. The late emperor's legitimate son, whose mother was a commoner from a foreign country, was framed to death by the late emperor's favorite concubine, and he himself almost died in the palace.

Later, he fled to Shrek and became an irremovable scar on the Sun Moon Empire royal face.

Lin Ye Today's diary entry puts He Caitou, who was reviled by the court as a "traitor", before her again.

Ju Zi has long been immune to these politically correct official narratives.

In her opinion, He Caitou's problem was never whether he should be loyal to the Sun Moon Empire, but how Sun Moon Empire treated him back then.

Xu Tianran first killed his mother and father, then hunted him down, and finally asked him to go back and serve the dynasty loyally. There is no such logic in the world.

If Xu Tianran could have let him go back then, He Caitou would probably be sitting in the court serving the empire now, as an idle prince, instead of standing in Shrek's camp and fighting against the country of his birth.

After all, the people who forced He Caitou to be a "traitor" are the same people who are now criticizing him the most.

But she was more concerned about another detail mentioned by Lin Ye. Huo Yuhao's attack on the Sun Moon Empire on the battlefield was a selective and precise strike, while Sun Moon Empire used war formations to collect souls.

This comparison made her heart sink again.

She is now accustomed to reading more information than the surface text from Lin Ye's diary.

The nature of the war described by Lin Ye in his diary was not a simple battle between two countries, but one side was fighting a conventional war, while the other side was taking the opportunity to engage in sorcery sacrifices.

He Caitou helps Huo Yuhao. On the surface, he is helping outsiders beat his own people, but in fact, he is preventing Sun Moon Empire from turning into a sacrifice ground full of blood under the influence of Holy Spirit Cult.

Looking at it from this perspective, He Caitou is not only not a traitor, but Sun Moon Empire is a truly sober person.

Ju Zi stood up and walked to the window. It was already dark outside.

She whispered, her voice as soft as talking to the air. "He Caitou, you are right to escape. You should have left a place like Sun Moon Imperial Family long ago."

[He Caitou Another point that cannot be avoided is his weight and Martial Soul.

No joke, these details are repeatedly exaggerated in the folklore of the Sun Moon Empire.

In the anecdotal stories about the Sun Moon Empire, Xu He is described as a gluttonous fat man, and Martial Soul is a food-based person who relies on eating to supplement Soul Power.

This image has been gradually vilified in folk communication, turning him into "a waste who only knows how to eat and has taken refuge with the enemy."

This is actually quite ironic. When Sun Moon Empire officials criticized He Caitou, their favorite angle was that he betrayed the empire, while the popular angle was to ridicule him for being fat and mocking his Martial Soul for being useless.

But the fact is exactly the opposite. The value of Food-type Martial Soul from He Caitou is huge on the battlefield.

A food-type Soul Master that can quickly replenish Soul Power for teammates on the battlefield, and its contribution to the battle situation is greater than that of several Power Attack System.

When he cooperates with Huo Yuhao, he can ensure that the team remains in the best condition during a long battle, which is of immeasurable value in war.

Sun Moon Empire doesn't cherish him, but Shrek treats him as a treasure. This is the difference.

A preliminary conclusion can be drawn.

Whether He Caitou is considered a traitor depends on your definition of "country".

If "country" is the land and people who gave birth to you, then He Caitou has indeed betrayed it.