Kingdom - Vol. 70 Ch. 765 - Battle of Shadows

[Groceries]

Trusting your deceased friend who warned you or the deceiver who just gave a convincing speech.

 

[Amariithynar]

snip However, we can easily imagine that the dragon one would remain pristine from lack of use while the dog one would be pretty janky from constant use, so...

Exaaaaaactly.

OK, for people who want to crucify Youka right away, most likely Youka's network here is serving as a replacement for the historical Mohists. In Qin apocryphal histories, it is said that the Mohist school under its third generation leader secretly pledged support to Duke Xiao of Qin and started setting up a network of affiliated officials in all Warring States that strove to influence the states in ways that would benefit the reunification of China (Mo Di shared Confucius' belief that China used to be one state).

It isn't known if this effort survived to the time of Ying Zheng, but Mohists were the preeminent military engineers and strategists of all 7 kingdoms all the way to the end, and supposedly the secret deal between Qin and Qi was made possible by Mohists serving as messengers. Mohists were masters of mathematics and cryptography too.

When Qinshihuang suppressed the Confucianists and other schools opposed to the Legalists, he left out the Mohists. They eventually fizzled out of existence because their ethical teachings were absorbed into Confucianism and the Han peace made their military skills less useful to the state. This sounds very similar to what Youka is proposing here.

Thanks for the history lesson! It's refreshing being the one getting informed rather than the other way around, hah!

 

[LordofAlI]

WOW Youka is good at gaslighting

 

[Konrad2]

Thanks for the translation.

 

[Chitatapu]

I feel like Kingdom needed an arc like this one, too bad it's basically over?

 

[maxiusagi]

rip kanpishi
the translator will always remember you as the annoying stuttering guy

 

[shin-san]

I would say let him cook, but the exposition of his character and schemes is such a dread to read.

Let's see what the next chapter will look like.

 

[b3pis]

sadge I hope ri shi actually consults others on this before making a decision

 

[nachzil]

I think Rishi should at least inform Sei and Shoubunkun, even if they decide to keep this quite, at least they have this information that Youka "might" be a traitor.

 

[StuntDoty]

OK, for people who want to crucify Youka right away, most likely Youka's network here is serving as a replacement for the historical Mohists. In Qin apocryphal histories, it is said that the Mohist school under its third generation leader secretly pledged support to Duke Xiao of Qin and started setting up a network of affiliated officials in all Warring States that strove to influence the states in ways that would benefit the reunification of China (Mo Di shared Confucius' belief that China used to be one state).

It isn't known if this effort survived to the time of Ying Zheng, but Mohists were the preeminent military engineers and strategists of all 7 kingdoms all the way to the end, and supposedly the secret deal between Qin and Qi was made possible by Mohists serving as messengers. Mohists were masters of mathematics and cryptography too.

When Qinshihuang suppressed the Confucianists and other schools opposed to the Legalists, he left out the Mohists. They eventually fizzled out of existence because their ethical teachings were absorbed into Confucianism and the Han peace made their military skills less useful to the state. This sounds very similar to what Youka is proposing here.

This is my second time reading this arc and my opnions about Youka still the same, i think he's an ally of qin, having this historical fact abou Mohist really reainforces that, my line of thinking its how brasen he is with Rishi, indeed you need to be wary of him, after all a "quadruple" agent will display qin plans but to reach Riboku is necessary

Spoiler: Riboku end

we alredy have Hara sensei building the foundations of what will truly take Riboku down, information time again being the ultimate weapon in any war, especially the manipulation of it, Youka probably be the one that influences the king/prime minister of zhao to poison Riboku