章 216: Chapter 215: Representative Figure of the Great Zhou Legal Code

When Dong Wuwei proposed the three cardinal guides, he was doomed not to become a commander in the Imperial Palace, let alone sacrificing his own son.

This is a man who will do anything for his ideals.

Jiang Li could guarantee that if he was recruited to the Imperial Palace, he would work harder than Zhang Konghu, and the annual Spirit Stone reward he received would be more than other commanders.

But his beliefs were contradictory to Jiang Li's.

Dong Wuwei wanted to become Dong Zhongshu, but Jiang Li was not the Han Emperor.

"Your ambitions are too big, too complex, perhaps some monarch might agree with your views, but it wouldn't be me." Jiang Li left it at that and left.

Being straightforwardly rejected by the ideal ruler he envisaged, Dong Wuwei felt mixed emotions, as if the pursuit of his life had been cut off, leaving no way forward.

All the preparations of these twenty years had been in vain.

Dong Wuwei sat in the tea house, drinking one cup of cold tea after another.