Wang Su was Sima Zhao's father-in-law.
Sima Zhao held this father-in-law in considerable respect.
But once Jia Chong spoke and laid these matters bare, Sima Zhao's heart was no longer calm.
Jia Chong was a man who treasured his own life.
To preserve it, he would do anything. In history, his efforts to avoid the battlefield had made an enormous laughingstock of him, turning him into a joke himself.
Now, to avoid taking the blame, he hastily and frantically shoved all the wrongdoing onto Wang Su.
He did not care whether doing so would provoke greater conflict or damage the alliance between the great families and the Sima Family. All he wanted was to stay alive.
To stay alive, he could disregard even his mother and son, so why would he care about the Sima Family's damned interests?
Jia Chong spoke with great confidence, as though this was truly what he thought, yet stopped short of sealing the coffin with a final verdict, leaving himself room to maneuver.
Sima Zhao fell silent.
What reason would Wang Su have to do this?
In fact, Sima Zhao had suspected Wang Su before. He had wondered whether Wang Su, like the ministers now, was impatient to advance.
He was his father-in-law, the maternal grandfather of Sima You and Sima Yan.
If their family took another step forward, he seemed to stand to gain the most.
But the problem was that their family was not yet ready to take that next step.
The military bosses outside had not even been dealt with, yet they were already thinking of advancing further. That was losing their heads. He, Sima Zhao, was no Yuan Shu!
But Lord Wang had an excellent reputation and was a cautious man. How could he be so impatient...
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