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Agree, unless there is a literal uprising, the general can’t go against the king. It’s unfortunate, but even if he tried to stop all of that, he would have been cut down and things still would have played out upsettingly.
Honestly i didn't take what he said as asking sam myeong to accept responsibility for what chang geon has become. I thought in response to sam myeong being like "why didn't you do anything?", "why didn't you consult me?", he was basically saying smth like we already failed. We'd done nothing and consulted no one wayyy before he became king and this is the end result. These are the consequences. It's too late to be like why didn't you stop him because this is the monster that was made from the actions and inactions of others years ago. Though of course they didn't have much choice in anything at the time. I didn't take it as "take responsibility and feel shame" so much as "what can we expect?"