Chapter Forty-Three Last Night the East Wind Stirred the Small Tower Again (III)
Word Number：220
Author：一曲雨霖铃
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Release Time：2025-09-21
A minister fears the rumors of the day, Wang Mang was humble ere he usurped the way. Had I died back then, who’d know true from feint? A single life’s truth, who can long acquaint? It was said that after Li Jingye’s proclamation, the pamphlet by Luo Binwang spread through Luoyang and even reached the Empress Dowager. She read it and praised it, then handed it to Shangguan Wan’er: “Wan’er, what say you of this pamphlet — is it talented?” Shangguan Wan’er took it, read, and replied, “It’s very skillful, but it reminds me of Wang Zian’s old ‘Proclamation to Lord Ying’.” The Empress Dowager smiled: “Wang Zian had no treason in his heart.” Then she added, “Poets are poets; gift for verse does not mean mastery of statecraft.” She sighed: “If only Wang Zian had been able to instruct Xian’er and Xian’s brother, they would not be mere lovers of cocks and birds.” The thought moved her, and she remembered Li Lingyue — she wondered, “How does Moonying fare now?” The Empress Dowager asked a court servant: “Who wrote that pamphlet?” The servant answered, “It was composed by Luo Binwang.” The Empress Dowager sighed: “A minister of such talent allowed to drift unused — that is the ministers’ failure.” After the fox-spi
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