Post by Maalii on Feb 20, 2004 15:44:47 GMT -5
One odd thing to me about Ui Min's return to the capital and the reaction of the Emperor to him is the complete ignorance of everyone except Dae Seung about the fact that Ui Min had assumed Imperial Style. Dae Seung was the only one who had spies out who saw this. Everyone else seems to think that Dae Seung is describing a UFO sighting or something. Why didn't anyone else have spies working for them? The use of spies is one of the many fundamental principles laid out in the Art of War which was considered a "must read" (along with a number of other military treatises) for military men in most Asian states for many hundreds of years before 1170. That a general can assume Imperial Style, assemble and train a large personal army with no affiliation to his old command--and not in hiding, no less---then have the troops advance to the fringes of capital without anyone knowing but Dae Seung is a military intelligence breakdown of pretty huge proportions in any time.
