"First, you said Lema could at most become an honored concubine, and that elevating her to a principal wife, or giving her equal standing with one, was absolutely impossible. Let me ask you this: during the Wei-Jin transition, Li Feng plotted a coup to exterminate Military Commissioner Shi's clan and seize power. The plot leaked, and Military Commissioner Shi had him killed. Everyone implicated suffered the extermination of their Three Clans. Li Feng's daughter had already married Jia Chong, however, so she escaped death and was exiled to Lelang. Jia Chong divorced her as well. Later, the Sima family finally took the realm from the Wei, and Jia Chong married a daughter of the Taiyuan Guo Clan and became an important minister of the new dynasty. At that point, if someone had told you that Jia Chong would one day reconcile with the daughter of a criminal who had plotted against the Sima family, and openly welcome her home as his principal wife, what would you have said?"
None of the tribesmen present knew this historical anecdote, but they had followed the gist of the story. At Wang Yang's question, they all looked toward Guo Shao.
Guo Shao knew this was a trap and avoided answering.
"I'm only saying that the Chief's daughter cannot become a principal wife. Don't drag in unrelated matters to distract us. Jia Chong's circumstances were completely different. Liu Cheng is not Jia Chong, and the Chief's daughter is not Li Feng's daughter."
"I'm simply asking: if someone back then had told you that Jia Chong would one day reconcile with the daughter of a criminal who had plotted against the Sima family, and openly welcome her home as his principal wife, what would you have said?"
His voice neither hurried nor slow, Wang Yang asked