rotk.net - Shao Ti

Roles:

politician

Factions:

Cao Wei (primary)

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Appears in 3 chapters:

Chapter 115 — Listening To Slander, The Latter Ruler Recalls His Army; Living In Farms, Jiang Wei Avoids Disaster.
His warning is the chapter's last line and the next chapter's subject. Minister of the Western Affairs, he waits until Sima Zhao has seen Zhong Hui off and then whispers 'My lord has sent Zhong Hui with a large army against Shu. I think he is too ambitious to be trusted with such powers?' — and gets 'Think you I do not know?' The chapter ends on what Sima Zhao says next, which the reader is not told.
Chapter 116 — On Hanzhong Roads, Zhong Hui Divides The Army; In Dingjun Mountain, The Martial Lord Shows His Apparition.
His warning about Zhong Hui in ch115 is answered in this chapter's opening paragraph, and the answer is Sima Zhao's whole political calculation: the timid officers would lose, Zhong Hui will win, a conquered Shu cannot support a rebel, and victorious troops want to go home rather than follow one. 'I know this, as you do, but it must remain our secret.' 'Shao Ti showed his admiration for Sima Zhao.'
Chapter 118 — Weeping At The Ancestral Temple, A Filial Prince Dies; Marching To The West River Land, Two Leaders Competes.
Points out that the expedition is unnecessary on the arithmetic — 'Zhong Hui's army outnumbers that of Deng Ai by six to one. You need not go' — and is let into the real reason, which is the ch115 warning he gave himself: 'I feared lest you had forgotten. I ventured to remind you, but the matter must be kept secret.'