Zhang Hong was clearly a bit dejected when he left, but he couldn't turn back now. As Chen Xi said, they were the rebels, and the situation had reversed.
"Zhang Zigang seems to be just like that. I wonder how the other of the Two Zhangs is doing." Chen Xi watched the dejected Zhang Hong leave. He now stood at the pinnacle of the aristocratic families, and his will represented the will of half of the aristocratic families under heaven.
As for the other half, it's either ******, or like the Wu Family in Yizhou, where the mountains are high and the emperor is far. They can only verbally agree but can't actually do anything.
[But even if this fact is revealed now, it's not a big deal. I actually hope that Sun Ce and Cao Cao will again wield the butcher's blade against their subordinate aristocratic families, unlike Yuan Shu, who nearly stood at the pinnacle of aristocratic families as a crazy reformist. If these two were to wield the butcher's blade...]
