His master watched him curiously.
"If I had asked it, Li Wen, where would your counsel have led ?" "Towards peace, Highness.

I do not trust Immelan.

It is not in such a manner that China's Empire shall spread.

There are ancestors of mine who would turn in their graves to find China in league with a western Power." "You are a wise man, Li Wen," his master declared.

"We hold the mastery of the world.