You're right, that really does make the most sense, and also explains why the invaders come through the main gate, even when it's strategically stupid to do so. I guess Ye Zun can only divert smaller groups of people?
Or he needs to be paying personal attention, which I assume he can't/doesn't always want to do?
(Also, we have some evidence of people not ending up at the Dragon Gate when going the other way -- that time ZYL and DQ fell into the bar, because Da Qing had tagged along uninvited.)
That's a VERY good point, great catch! I never really thought about that precedent before, but they enter the passage normally, at the locust tree, and come out at a random place rather than the Dragon Gate. So we know it's possible to divert!
It's like it forgotten that Da Qing spent their first meeting going, "No, I'm just not into you like that! No, she's not my girlfriend!!" ;-p
They might have intended that as "protesting too much". It just didn't come across that way, at all. *g*
Yes! (Your elaboration and hypothetical description of how it could have gone in your other comment are very convincing. :D)
Hee! Great, I'm glad it made sense to you!
I guess they figured that with Zhao Xinci having changed his ways and Minister Guo (who welcomed Chu Shuzhi into his home) running things at the Department of Supervision, we can assume they're working towards a better system?
Yeah, I think that's definitely part of it, that change is implied like that. I just really wish we'd got to see more.
Releasing his deathgrip on the rule of law and the Treaty made such a difference.
Seriously. And ha! about that Zhang Shi quote. Nominally Zhao Xinci agreed (he does say there's no absolute right or wrong), but he's very bad at actually drawing the right conclusions from that, and makes himself the arbiter of right or wrong after all. :p
So now we know for sure that the bullets are physical objects, I wonder where they came from... and the gun, too, for that matter. We never get answers on that score.
And how you make more. And how Zhao Yunlan can be so free with his bullets in YOHE - how does he supplement his ammunition? He can't be carrying that many on his body when he goes to YOHE.
Maybe they're regretting turning down all those requests for schools. Education/critical thinking skills as a cure for propaganda and falling prey to charismatic demagogues? ;-p
Hee! :D
I wonder if that's like in Korean -- kind of a congratulatory "you have worked hard to earn your success" vibe?
I guess it could be? I don't know nearly enough, alas.
I think the thing he was most determined not to do was leave behind children, and he succeeded at that.
Yeah, agreed. (And I'm not very much into kidfic, in most cases, but now I wonder how he'd cope with having a child ... it would be interesting to see how he handled it, considering his hang-ups about his own childhood.)
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Or he needs to be paying personal attention, which I assume he can't/doesn't always want to do?
(Also, we have some evidence of people not ending up at the Dragon Gate when going the other way -- that time ZYL and DQ fell into the bar, because Da Qing had tagged along uninvited.)
That's a VERY good point, great catch! I never really thought about that precedent before, but they enter the passage normally, at the locust tree, and come out at a random place rather than the Dragon Gate. So we know it's possible to divert!
It's like it forgotten that Da Qing spent their first meeting going, "No, I'm just not into you like that! No, she's not my girlfriend!!" ;-p
They might have intended that as "protesting too much". It just didn't come across that way, at all. *g*
Yes! (Your elaboration and hypothetical description of how it could have gone in your other comment are very convincing. :D)
Hee! Great, I'm glad it made sense to you!
I guess they figured that with Zhao Xinci having changed his ways and Minister Guo (who welcomed Chu Shuzhi into his home) running things at the Department of Supervision, we can assume they're working towards a better system?
Yeah, I think that's definitely part of it, that change is implied like that. I just really wish we'd got to see more.
Releasing his deathgrip on the rule of law and the Treaty made such a difference.
Seriously. And ha! about that Zhang Shi quote. Nominally Zhao Xinci agreed (he does say there's no absolute right or wrong), but he's very bad at actually drawing the right conclusions from that, and makes himself the arbiter of right or wrong after all. :p
So now we know for sure that the bullets are physical objects, I wonder where they came from... and the gun, too, for that matter. We never get answers on that score.
And how you make more. And how Zhao Yunlan can be so free with his bullets in YOHE - how does he supplement his ammunition? He can't be carrying that many on his body when he goes to YOHE.
Maybe they're regretting turning down all those requests for schools. Education/critical thinking skills as a cure for propaganda and falling prey to charismatic demagogues? ;-p
Hee! :D
I wonder if that's like in Korean -- kind of a congratulatory "you have worked hard to earn your success" vibe?
I guess it could be? I don't know nearly enough, alas.
I think the thing he was most determined not to do was leave behind children, and he succeeded at that.
Yeah, agreed. (And I'm not very much into kidfic, in most cases, but now I wonder how he'd cope with having a child ... it would be interesting to see how he handled it, considering his hang-ups about his own childhood.)