Wang Su and the other ministers stood in the road, heads lowered, waiting for the emperor's carriage.
At that moment, many of the Three Excellencies, the Nine Ministers, and even the senior officials of the Imperial Secretariat were all standing in the road.
None of them had imagined the war would go so smoothly.
They had thought this war would surely drag on for a long time. Yet they had barely waited at all before, while attending to affairs in Luoyang, they received news that Jiang Wei had been defeated and fallen back to defend Jiange.
The ministers had only just begun celebrating the recovery of Hanzhong when they heard that the Shu Kingdom had surrendered and Wei had won a sweeping victory.
Now, all of Wei was talking about it.
From the highest ministers to the common people at the bottom.
Everyone discussed it with relish.
Both Zhuge Dan, the nominal commander of the Conquest of Shu, and the emperor, who had personally led the expedition, had now seen their reputations rise to considerable heights.
Especially Cao Mao.
After destroying the Shu Kingdom, he truly was a Monarch no one could shake.
Never mind Sima Zhao-even if Sima Shi and Sima Yi crawled out of their graves, they could pose no threat to him.
The Wu Kingdom was one thing, but the Shu Kingdom had been a thorn in Wei's heart ever since its founding.
After all, those people called themselves Great Han, while Wei's legitimacy came from Great Han's abdication in its favor.
The fighting between them was a struggle over legitimacy.
Both believed themselves to be the legitimate dynasty, the true successor to the Great Han Empire.
Although the Shu Kingdom had not dealt Wei any great blows in recent years and its destructive power was limited,