Chen Yi spent two hours finishing the policy essay, knowing full well in his heart that Ma Shuhan was undoubtedly doomed to die.
Regardless of whether the current Holy Emperor would initiate a war or not, the emergence of such a topic would inevitably cause an uproar among the scholars.
The Great Wei Dynasty had enjoyed the Mandate of Heaven for two hundred years, and its foreign conquests were few and far between. Those worthy of praise could be counted on two hands.
The first was when Elder Master Xiao personally led a massive army to trample Poshisu Country; the second was the western expedition against the Loulan Kingdom fifty years ago; and the third was the northern campaign a century ago that massacred the Rong Tribe, the largest nomadic tribe on the steppes at the time.
