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Mercy is a strategy, not a weakness

This lesson plays out across 1 chapter of the chronicle. Read where it was learned — and what it cost.

• The Burning of Qi
  Warring States · 297 – 273 BC

  Twenty-five years that turn the age. <Char id="king-wuling-zhao">King Wuling</Char> of Zhao starves to death in his own palace.