"Take another careful look—are there other differences between this document and the letter?" Jiang Changbai returned to her chair, calmly and placidly gazing at the three before her. "Differences," Xie Qianbing muttered, bowing her head to look carefully. The style of writing was roughly the same; looking over the entire thing, there was only one difference. She raised her head, looking at Jiang Changbai, and asked, "Bixia, you mean the inscription?" "You are intelligent," Jiang Changbai nodded. "When the Great Li was founded, there was a General Song of outstanding military service, who didn't have any children, but did adopt in nearly a hundred homeless orphans. These orphans all took her surname of Song. In the countless years since, it can be counted as a common surname in the Great Li." In a flash, Song Juguang understood what Jiang Changbai meant. "The number of high-ranking officers in the army surnamed Song is not ins...

"It's good you've both come," Jiang Changbai said, gaze sweeping across the three of them; as she did so, she put that stack of letters to the side, and added, "tell me what the situation in the South is." "Putting down the rebellion in the South this time can be counted as a decisive victory. When we first arrived in Luyuan, we were lucky to receive timely intelligence, and so met up with reinforcements in the mountains. We happened to run into the rebel forces who were using the mountainous terrain to their advantage; the Cangwei army are, to a one, heroic and skilled in battle, and engaged with them in battle, winning decisively. Due to the location of the battlefield in the depths of the mountains, the fighting and outcome were rapid, and it didn't affect the common people." "…Afterwards, we pursued the retreating army to press home the attack, and realised with a start the frailty of Lian Zhigao's forces, who were unable to bear a...