It's things like these that make people actually pause and wonder if the Zhuming actually does have legal allowance for someone to "seize" weapons on the battlefield and claim ownership, even if they belong to still living allies rather than the enemy, or if Yunli was just making that up.
I think regardless of whether Yunli is BS-ing the practice of seizing weapons, her point that the verb should've been 抢 (rob) not 偷 (steal) is on point and seems to be her actual hangup. Her hangup is Yangqing calling her a thief is an insult when she robbed by force. Which seems to me is probably meant to show that Zhuming is actually a bit less "civilized" and a bit more "strong rule the weak" type of society, and less about the actual laws/legality of the situation.
As for "diplomatic envoy"... My interpretation is that the title was only used because it was carrying an Arbiter-General (天将), rather than any ship
Yah, my point is that a "diplomat" refers to head of state (or ambassador) from a different country. A higher ranked officer crossing provincial/prefecture lines are not refered to as "diplomats". They'd be called something like 钦差 or 御史.
Maybe we can liken the ships to the US states of the pre-Civil War USA and the 六司 to departments in the federal government?
I'm wondering if they're similar to modern Interpol and such supra-national organizations. But then in the modern system, these organizations don't deal with local politics, which 六司 is deeply involved in. Even in the USA example, the federal government still has to fight with the local government for jurisdiction. Maybe we can look to Spain's more devolved government as an example? But again, this raises the question of a) where is the local government system if the 六司 is equivalent to a federal organization and b) why is the federal organization so involved in the local politics? (I suspect the answer is because miHoyo writers didn't think about any of this and are just pulling words out of their ass.)
And then, the Generals themselves could be members of heads of a department of the 六司 (eg. 云骑将军), but they don't necessarily have to be. So it's 2 systems that can intersect, but one isn't a subset of the other.
Hm... Do we have evidence of any of the 天将 not being a head of the 六司? It seems like being the head of a department is the pre-requisite.
...something just occured to me, 景元 was promoted to 将军 and 天将 simultaneously. From what I've seen so far, this actually seems to be a bit of a rare situation, as one is usually promoted first the head of a department then considered as second-in-line for the 天将 position. 怀炎 actually said that there's a lot of people looking for an excuse to push 景元 out this entire time and the fact that he managed to hold his position meant he played the politics well. So...帝弓司天将 might actually be part of a religious system (in the sense that this position is specifically in relation to the god of Hunt and their power). So it's like a God-King type of thing (but lower on the hierarchy ladder, like Pope-General).
Dan Heng being the infodump source makes it more and more looking like he has more than just a little memories from Dan Feng, honestly...
I mean I am starting to question just how much Dan Heng doesn't remember at this point. Like, for a guy who grew up in jail and then spent the majority of his adolescent life outside of Luofu, he's surprisingly well versed on not only the political structure and history, but also on things like ceremonial ritual and stuff.
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I think regardless of whether Yunli is BS-ing the practice of seizing weapons, her point that the verb should've been 抢 (rob) not 偷 (steal) is on point and seems to be her actual hangup. Her hangup is Yangqing calling her a thief is an insult when she robbed by force. Which seems to me is probably meant to show that Zhuming is actually a bit less "civilized" and a bit more "strong rule the weak" type of society, and less about the actual laws/legality of the situation.
Yah, my point is that a "diplomat" refers to head of state (or ambassador) from a different country. A higher ranked officer crossing provincial/prefecture lines are not refered to as "diplomats". They'd be called something like 钦差 or 御史.
I'm wondering if they're similar to modern Interpol and such supra-national organizations. But then in the modern system, these organizations don't deal with local politics, which 六司 is deeply involved in. Even in the USA example, the federal government still has to fight with the local government for jurisdiction. Maybe we can look to Spain's more devolved government as an example? But again, this raises the question of a) where is the local government system if the 六司 is equivalent to a federal organization and b) why is the federal organization so involved in the local politics? (I suspect the answer is because miHoyo writers didn't think about any of this and are just pulling words out of their ass.)
Hm... Do we have evidence of any of the 天将 not being a head of the 六司? It seems like being the head of a department is the pre-requisite.
...something just occured to me, 景元 was promoted to 将军 and 天将 simultaneously. From what I've seen so far, this actually seems to be a bit of a rare situation, as one is usually promoted first the head of a department then considered as second-in-line for the 天将 position. 怀炎 actually said that there's a lot of people looking for an excuse to push 景元 out this entire time and the fact that he managed to hold his position meant he played the politics well. So...帝弓司天将 might actually be part of a religious system (in the sense that this position is specifically in relation to the god of Hunt and their power). So it's like a God-King type of thing (but lower on the hierarchy ladder, like Pope-General).
I mean I am starting to question just how much Dan Heng doesn't remember at this point. Like, for a guy who grew up in jail and then spent the majority of his adolescent life outside of Luofu, he's surprisingly well versed on not only the political structure and history, but also on things like ceremonial ritual and stuff.