In the palace of Jin State, Yan Qing rushed in, his face alight with excitement.
He held a bamboo slip high in his hand. "My lord, Luo State has persuaded your elder brother, Prince Chong'er. He is willing to acknowledge your right to the throne and honor you as Lord of the State."
"What?"
Everyone cried out in surprise. They could not help being excited: Prince Chong'er was different. He had been the beneficiary of the previous testamentary decree.
And he had the two great states of Qi and Luo behind him!
Had they not deceived the Marquis of Jin, Prince Chong'er would have been the one who should have ascended the throne of Jin State.
Now Prince Chong'er had voluntarily relinquished the throne and personally stepped forward to acknowledge Prince Wuzhi's testamentary decree. Its credibility was practically one hundred percent.
If Prince Lin and Prince Wu raised troops again, they would be attempting regicide!
No one wanted regicide recorded against their name in the histories. As for rewriting history, that was even more laughable.
The Court Historians of the world came from the Luo Clan; the historical records of the world belonged to Luo State.
Luo State treated historical records with great care, requiring the Court Historians of every state to record the truth. Even if some things were difficult to say, they could write them obliquely, but they could not fabricate them.
The last man who had been recorded as committing regicide and then killed the historian outright had already had his corpse crushed into dirt beneath Luo State's chariots.
Luo State's insistence on this was almost stricter than its adherence to the lineage system. For the first time in five hundred years, the All Xia states had seen a ruler of Luo State so furious that he