Too many people were unhappy!
Luo Sheng did not know how much meaning lay within that offhand remark, but he wanted to laugh.
He quieted down and silently watched this very strange Commandery Governor, who had taken him quite by surprise.
The Commandery Governor had said a great deal. Perhaps it made sense, perhaps it was twisted reasoning, but what truly moved Luo Sheng was that one remark: "You don't think of yourselves as Han people."
The clan had rendered many services to Great Han. Luo Ling, Luo Yi, Luo Xin, Luo Chen, Luo Jing, Luo Wuji, and Luo Cai had contributed more than the vast majority of high-ranking marquises and kings.
But apart from Luo Xin and Luo Jing, none of them had thought of themselves as Han people.
What moved Luo Sheng was that, when he thought about himself, he realized this was indeed true. He would feel nothing at the Han Dynasty's decline and fall.
This was not a good thing.
The Han Court and the Luo Clan could be inseparably close, outwardly united but inwardly divided, or even at odds with one another, but they should not let the world see it.
In the eyes of the world, the Luo Clan and the central dynasty should always be one.
For there could not be two suns in the sky, and All Xia had but one ruler!
Moreover, Sage King Zhao had personally said that the clan's reserves had grown far more slowly under the Han Dynasty than they had under the Zhou State, though he had not explained why.
The change in attitude among the Marquis of Anyang and the Lü Clan's faction presumably also came from seeing that the Luo Clan was unwilling to involve itself in the Han Court's affairs and had no intention