However, the situation in Bingzhou and the State of Zhao was entirely different. The crisis in Bingzhou arose from a strategic miscalculation, not from any moral failure on the part of its leadership.
Because of this, the people of Bingzhou could understand; after all, their leaders made those radical mistakes out of a desire to secure a better life for them.
The State of Zhao, on the other hand, was completely different—it was a fundamental failure of character.
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