C44 The Wedding

He knelt down and gently closed the eyes of No.1, who had died with a look of disbelief. Chen Bai then made a vow that the families of soldiers fallen in this conflict would receive a hundred taels of gold in compensation.

He harbored no concerns about Sima Zhen objecting to this gesture. After all, it was commonly understood that the National Advisor held more sway than the sovereign himself