At first, I thought I would see an assassination duel, but who would have thought it would turn into a mobilization rally.
Thinking it over, this whole series of blood-oath covenant and troop mobilization arrangements must have been prepared by Wei Hu long ago. When that Mr. Niu charged back, Wei Hu could not possibly have had concrete evidence. He only had some suspicions and decisively executed him on a whim, even using the head to signal the start of a campaign. Smooth as flowing water, crisp and ruthless.
Li Fan admitted he truly could not learn that level of tact.
In his earlier years, he too was once outwitted by a Confucian scholar and nearly lost his life, which led to Li Fan's long-standing poor impression of the rigid scholars and officials in the court. He saw them as pedantic and power-hungry, sinister and vicious, corrupt in mind, spouting grandiose morality while engaging in deceitful rhetoric.
