“Look at Yuan’s past campaigns to suppress rebellions. It has always been like pushing down one gourd only for another to pop back up[1]. Some places had barely been retaken for half a month before rising in rebellion yet again,” said He Chunhua slowly. “Suppression in the form of combat alone is not enough. Zhao Pan and Ke Jihai are among Yuan’s finest generals, yet they remain constrained by every manner of interference from the rear and cannot fully realize their ambitions.”

Those two men were unquestionably loyal. Whenever the king ordered them to fight, they went straight to the front.

Yet after all this time, they still had not recovered the lost territories.

The longer the wars continued, the larger the hole in the treasury became.

The more the logistics failed, the more impossible the fighting became.

Back and forth it went, forming a vicious cycle.

He Chunhua continued complaining, but He Lingchuan merely smiled. “It seems Father has already thought everything through. Whether managing...