Him mentioning her 300k soldiers and exposing the fact he knows about the shit she was hiding, doesn't equate to him wanting her solely because of those 300k soldiers. Why? Because that's not the main reason he's trying to make her PM... Why? Because Hara literally spells out the main reason to make her into PM in the following chapter. And ain't jackshit about soldiers mentioned.
But Ri En specifically stated why he needed her. And it was because she had 300k soldiers, and yes because she is the number 2 GG in Chu.
You are taking Ri En’s quote about his method of unifying Chu amazingly out of context. I went back and reread these 2 chapters myself. Chapters 440 and 441 for anyone lurking, and this is why it’s important to have the full context when in discussions and not simply pulling one panel and trying to make a case based on one panel.
So here’s the full context: Karin asked Ri En
why he specifically wanted to create a second prime minister position and not just use his one prime minister position to strengthen Chu himself. To which, Ri En responds by what you posted, that this would only lead to a half-assed Chu.
Do you see? Ri En is not stating that he came to Karin because he needed her to strengthen the state of Chu. He is saying that he created the second prime minister rank to strengthen Chu.
But as to why he chose
Karin specifically to hold that seat, it is because of her 300k soldiers and her 2nd GG rank.
And again, nothing about what Kou En said implied that he recommended Karin or that he even recommended creating the second prime minister spot at all. Ri En was simply using Kou En’s quote to support his own statement that Chu wasn’t capitalizing on its full strength. So this is all we know about what Kou En said.
But know what bro, even leaving aside the bullshit about he only wanted her for 300k and not for the fact she'd be utilizing Chu's resources to their full potential as SHK & Riboku do for their nations. You still made up random horseshit about Rien picking her over Kouen. How do you know Kouen didn't reject it? Now we're comparing Kouen & Karin? lmao like wtf are we doing bruh.
How do I know Rien didn’t approach Man’U about leading Chu? How do I know Rien didn’t approach Ogiko about leading Chu? What kind of question is this lol…we know what we know, and what we know is that Ri En asked Karin to be the prime minister of Chu. If it’s later revealed that he also asked Kou En, so be it lol, I’m not sure why you asked me this.
Kouen who is the 1st-in-command of all Chu military at the time aka the leader of the Chu military. This entity that Rien went to first in order to discuss about stabilizing Chu. Then Rien who decides to act upon the words of that same entity. You think Rien wouldn't want his approval of who the fuck is gone be the one utilizing Chu's resources for military? Bruh do you not understand the type of entity Kouen is? Karin is in the same position as SHK & Riboku... and Kouen is still above her in military ranking. Know what that mean tho? Karin is under Kouen's command, despite being the PM. And of course, Kouen gave Rien the wisdom related to Chu's resources but he didn't suggest him a solution right? Because Kouen the leader of Chu Military doesn't know about the 2nd in command whom Shunshinkun called a "genius of warfare".
Alright, so a few things:
1. Asking if Ri En would want Kou En’s approval for anything is almost like asking if Sei would want Moubu’s approval to do something. Ri En is above Kou En on the Chu hierarchy. He doesn’t need Kou En’s approval for anything at all. He could demote Kou En to footsoldier if he wanted to, he was (briefly) the sole authority in Chu.
2. I think you are selling Ri En short lol…this dude was already colluding with Shunshinkun and Kouretsu, he is super high ranked in Chu. You have heavy respect for Shunshinkun, this guy Ri En got into an assassin-war with Shunshinkun and
won. You can talk about how brilliant Shunshinkun is, what about the guy who
literally defeated Shunshinkun in a political war? Ri En ain’t some ignorant fool lol, dude is a top tier mind who literally defeated arguably the most powerful man in China. You act like this is some dumbass who can’t form a single thought without Kou En Sama blessing him with wisdom lmfao. Literally this guy killed Shunshinkun.
3. Your entire argument is just based on you assuming things about Kou En that we don’t know. While also acting like the guy who had Shunshinkun killed can’t form a coherent thought in his head without Kou En thinking for him.
Nah my man, you gotta do better lol.
