Kingdom - Ch. 803 - The Third Pillar

[Kushinda]

Kyou Kai was inspired by General Qiang Lei, who in real life was a man. I think it's very unlikely that she and Shin would have a child.

I mean, Houken irl was a very wise and generally anti-war man who wasn't known for exceptional skill-at-arms, Heki is supposed to be dead by this point, and Li Xin came from a well-to-do feudal family so...Hara has a good amount of leeway to fuck around if he wants them to have kids or whatever. Yuan Duanhe, Wang Qi, and Huan Yi (Yontanwa, Ouki, and Kanki) are basically nobodies in the Records of the Grand Historian but they got major overhauls and roles in the manga. Qiang Lei's sex also isn't ever explicitly named in the Records which probably means it's a man (since they'd mention it if the general had tits) but hey

Spoiler: Historical Spoilers

Historically, Qiang Lei more or less disappears after the fall of Zhao, specifically after Li Xin (Ri Shin) captures Handan (Kantan) on the orders of Wang Jian (Ousen); it's not said that Qiang Lei dies or anything like that, but no more is ever heard of him, which probably means he either got sick and died after retiring/sustaining an injury or that he never had any more independent actions that resulted in anything worth noting. It's extremely easy to spin that as Kyokai getting herself widened by big Shin chinpo.

We don't know anything about Li Xin's wife, but he definitely had one since he had one famous kid (Li Chao) and Li Guang, Han's "Flying General", is also descended from Li Xin (which also makes Li Xin a direct patrilineal ancestor to the Tang emperors, go figure). That means it's actually feasible for Qiang Lei to get crippled in the Zhao wars and become a homemaker.

 

[yes_1_am]

I mean, Houken irl was a very wise and generally anti-war man who wasn't known for exceptional skill-at-arms, Heki is supposed to be dead by this point, and Li Xin came from a well-to-do feudal family so...Hara has a good amount of leeway to fuck around if he wants them to have kids or whatever. Yuan Duanhe, Wang Qi, and Huan Yi (Yontanwa, Ouki, and Kanki) are basically nobodies in the Records of the Grand Historian but they got major overhauls and roles in the manga. Qiang Lei's sex also isn't ever explicitly named in the Records which probably means it's a man (since they'd mention it if the general had tits) but hey

Spoiler: Historical Spoilers

Historically, Qiang Lei more or less disappears after the fall of Zhao, specifically after Li Xin (Ri Shin) captures Handan (Kantan) on the orders of Wang Jian (Ousen); it's not said that Qiang Lei dies or anything like that, but no more is ever heard of him, which probably means he either got sick and died after retiring/sustaining an injury or that he never had any more independent actions that resulted in anything worth noting. It's extremely easy to spin that as Kyokai getting herself widened by big Shin chinpo.

We don't know anything about Li Xin's wife, but he definitely had one since he had one famous kid (Li Chao) and Li Guang, Han's "Flying General", is also descended from Li Xin (which also makes Li Xin a direct patrilineal ancestor to the Tang emperors, go figure). That means it's actually feasible for Qiang Lei to get crippled in the Zhao wars and become a homemaker.

Thanks for the information, I thought Kyoukai would die at some point and Shin would marry someone else.

 

[KingdomGeneral]

Honestly feels like Shin's getting dumber. What happened to the guy keeping his squad alive against that onslaught of chariots by thinking on his feet, and formulating a strategy based on the unique conditions of the battlefield and the resources at his disposal? Now that was a display worthy of an instinctive tactician.

I swear the last time shin was compotent and acted like a general in a war council was in the arc where the ouhons unit got wiped out trying to cross the river. That was 100s of chapters are ago and now hes pushing 30 and a general of 60,000 still acting like this. Honestly don't know how hes going to reach his goal if he keeps acting like this.

 

[KingdomGeneral]

So much time has passed in this manga without the characters aging physically it’s insane lol

when shin came back to save heki around chapter 370 the artstyle actually aged the group but ever since then they have been aging backwards

 

[comedyxtragedy]

at this point, kyoukai will pass Shin to be great general lmao