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The guards outside the command tent hesitated. Their faces shifted in color, but their feet stayed planted.
Then, Zhao Pan’s voice came from within, “Let him in.”
He Lingchuan pushed past the tent flap in big strides and saw that only his father, He Chunhua, and Zhao Pan were inside.
So it was just the two of them arguing?
“Father, what happened?”
He Chunhua plucked a twig out of his son’s tangled hair. “General Zhao and I were just exchanging a few thoughts.” He glanced him up and down. The boy was caked with mud and sand from head to toe.
“Winning and losing are normal in war, but the consequences shouldn’t fall on family,” Zhao Pan said bluntly, refusing to soften his words just because this was a father and son. “Governor-General He, this time you’ve gone a bit too far.”
Consequences shouldn’t fall on family? He Lingchuan blinked. What did my father do?
“They loot Xia Province’s civilians and slaughter my Xia Province’s soldiers, and you expect me to treat these invaders with moral courtesy?” He Chunhua’s smile was cold. “General Zhao, you’re being pedantic.”
“Morality is not useless,” Zhao Pan said, voice deep. “You kidnapped Hong Chenglue’s wife. Now he has every reason to use any means necessary against you.”
“And when he raids my grain and disrupts all your frontline deployments, that isn’t him using any means necessary?” He Chunhua shook his...
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