"Replying to Your Majesty, mountain roads in Sichuan are difficult to travel, so Gao Shiming probably hasn't arrived yet. However... Yuan Jixian should have received the imperial edict by now."
Yuan Jixian... was merely an auxiliary; whether Zuo Liangyuk could be executed remained uncertain.
Furthermore, the key to success or failure did not rest with him, but rather with Qin Liangyu, the seventy-year-old veteran general.
Chapter 148