Inside the carriage, Yuchi Pojun’s feigned anger vanished. He reached into a cabinet to the side and took out a bottle of wine.
"A bronze mirror? That’s a much more apt analogy than a whetstone. The old man here was dim-witted."
He chuckled as he poured the wine. If it were a whetstone, it would imply that Zhou Tieyi and the Great Xia Emperor were still in a state of confrontation—the sharpening is an act of the whetstone. A bronze mirror, however, suggests the two are reflecting each other’s gains and losses, implying a far lesser degree of antagonism. From the perspective of the Great Xia dynasty—and his own—a bronze mirror was indeed far better than a whetstone.
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