"These people listed on this paper are unwilling to settle, they are trying their luck, be it a desperate fight to the death, or as a way for the nobility to purge the internal threats within their own ranks, and now they also serve as the chess pieces offered up for Zichuan," Chen Shang said with extreme calmness.
"Do they know they are chess pieces? Or do they understand what's really going on?" Chen Xi speculated as he asked, "Or perhaps, do they know what the rest of their families think?"
"Those listed here are now aware that they are going to their deaths, as chess pieces for Marquis Chen, to help Lord Xuande gain greater benefits. That way, even if it were a rebellion, the situation would still be under Marquis Chen's control, you would have the greatest flexibility, and we, the surviving aristocratic family members, would also gain the greatest recognition," Chen Shang said with a clear trace of sorrow in his eyes.
