Afterward, I read out the two combat reports from that time. As the students below heard me recite them, they all wore expressions of "that was only to be expected." However, the dozen or so men under General Zhao were indignant.
They asked why their brothers, who had charged into battle with hundreds of thousands of men and achieved such illustrious merits, had received no rewards. It turned out it was all because their "good master" had been pulling strings from behind the scenes.
I asked them smugly how they liked the way their teacher had written those reports.
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