Chapter 408: Third Rank?
# 408. Third Rank?
*According to Ji Qian, before the fortune is extracted, the vessel must remain intact. In other words, if the ‘vessel’ is shattered, does that mean the fortune will return to Great Feng?*
*If I tell Duke Wei about all this, how would he treat me?*
Xu Qi’an blew out the candle and lay on the bed, when this question suddenly surfaced in his mind.
He could filter the information and only tell Duke Wei about the existence of the First Jianzheng and the lost royal branch of the Great Feng, without mentioning the fortune.
The problem was, he had no idea which level Wei Yuan was on, just like how he couldn’t see through which level the Jianzheng was on.
If he shared this information with Wei Yuan, and Wei Yuan combined it with the knowledge and intelligence he already had, deducing the truth about the fortune…
Oh, so the reason Great Feng’s national power is declining, the people are living in misery, and the court is plagued with corruption — all of it stems from the loss of the fortune, which now resides within Xu Qi’an.
As a man with ambition and aspirations, a true statesman devoted to ridding the nation of its ills, would Wei Yuan sacrifice personal ties for the greater good, or would he choose to shield him and turn a blind eye?