Northern State, inside Yong'an Hall.
Yibai was quite curious about the affairs of the Wu Dynasty, and he asked Wang Wenzhi and Old Tortoise for the specific reasons.
Neither Wang Wenzhi nor Old Tortoise hesitated, and they explained the situation to him.
The achievements of the Wu Dynasty were not particularly outstanding; it was a cycle of reaching the pinnacle of national fortune, only to decline again, and then a wise ruler would emerge to support and revive the Wu Dynasty. This cycle of rises and falls had continued for many years, and it seemed that the dynasty was now nearing its limit.
According to the two, the imperial family of the Wu Dynasty had shown signs of having no male heirs. The recent emperors had all been only sons, and even the current emperor of the Wu Dynasty had no male offspring—eighteen children in a row, all daughters, an indication that the dynasty's time was running out.
