"Gongsun Long, Director of Ceremonial among the Nine Ministers, died in May of the ninth year of the Great Huan Era. While serving as an envoy to the coalition of eighteen feudal lords, he was killed in the coalition's main command tent by Zhang Yi, a general of the Shu State...
Li Yuan, Pacify-Chu Marquis, Governor of Sishui Commandery, and City Lord of Sishui Royal City, died in June of the seventeenth year of the Great Huan Era. He fought to the death defending Sishui Royal City and was slain in the City Lord's Manor by Xiahou Dun, a renowned general of the Great Wei State...
..."
With Xiao Ying's wisdom and experience, the list of civil officials and military officers of the Great Huan Celestial Dynasty ranked third grade or higher who had fallen over the past twenty years, together with its detailed annotations, was enough for him to discern many problems!
The list Xiao Fengtian had provided was quite thorough. Even this list of the fallen included specific notes on their identities, positions, times and places of death, killers, circumstances, and more!
"Whew..."
Merely reading the list of the fallen had darkened Xiao Ying's expression and unsettled his breathing. He could not help letting out a long, deep breath as he pressed the thick stack of lists onto the table!
He was almost afraid to read the list of ministers who had left over the years, especially the civil officials and military officers of Great Huan who had not dared come this time!
Putting himself in their shoes, the methods of the Wei, Shu, and Wu States and the many rebel armies of feudal lords could be described as stopping at nothing to achieve their goals. They used every means imaginable. It was entirely understandable that Great Huan's