like highly abstracted, doesn't interfere with and is in a sense a natural part of diplomatic rather than for any material purpose
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the real survival/supremacy contests are all internecine, civil wars and succession disputes and such, that stuff is definitely the most dramatic/complex
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like the book opens with the ascension of lord yin of lu, ostensibly acting as regent for his younger brother
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a minister argues they have to kill the younger brother, the realm is in disarray with two men either of whom ought to be lord
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yin refuses to join the plot, so the minister kills him and installs the brother as lord huan
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huan is eventually murdered in qi at the behest of his primary wife, who is the sister and also lover of the lord of qi
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huan's son ascends as lord zhuang, reigns for 32 years. as he nears death he has to settle his succession
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three of zhuang's brothers are involved, ya qingfu and you. ya says he will support qingfu, you backs zhuang's son ziban by a concubine
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zhuang tells you what ya said and you tricks ya into drinking poison. zhuang dies and ziban is installed
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but qingfu was also sleeping with his brother zhuang's primary wife, ai jiang
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the marriage to ai jiang was highly inauspicious, she being a daughter of the qi lord who killed huan, zhuang's father
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qingfu has ziban killed for ai jiang. as she's childless, installs her younger sister's son as lord min. min reigns for a year and a half before also being murdered
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the whole book is like this, it's great
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