Xu Shifu consoled Yun Zheng with a warm smile, "Being the Prince Jingbei is no easy task! Just consider this title a posthumous bestowal from His Majesty!"
This point was not hard to see. Anyone with a sliver of intelligence could tell that Emperor Wen had already made peace with the idea of Yun Zheng dying in battle in Shuobei. Otherwise, why grant a title without the retinue and honors due to a Prince? At the very least, a proper Prince's Mansion should have been built for him.
Yun Zheng's previous trip to Shuobei might have been an escape to save his life. But now, a war in Shuobei was inevitable, and given Yun Zheng's utter lack of competence, heading to the battlefield was simply marching to his death!
Chapter 48