Daily Intelligence System: Don't Kill Me, Honey!

Of course, this included Chen Jie’s planning. If a ship was captured by Elder Liu before even setting out, that would simply be a business issue. Lord Yelu, upon investigating, would discover that Nan Batian was just trying to make money, plain and simple.

But what if several ships had already set out? At that moment, if you were to seize those ships, who could be certain what the eight ships that escaped were carrying?

Of course, Lord Yelu was very unlikely to believe that Nan Batian had truly gone mad and would so blatantly help the Zoroastrian Sect transport weapons. But since the ships had already set out, who knew what was on board? What if Nan Batian had anticipated Lord Yelu’s assumption and believed that Yelu wouldn’t trust that he was transporting weapons for the Zoroastrian Sect?

Heh heh...

This was a trap of suspicion, one without end once begun.

What Chen Jie now had to do was to amplify that suspicion, to make Lord Yelu increasingly disillusioned with Nan Batian. When the critical point was reached, then a fatal blow could be dealt, eliminating the tyrant who had dominated Mianshui for over a decade.

That’s why Chen Jie didn’t speak up yesterday, choosing instead to reveal everything today.

By transforming Nan Batian’s covert shipping into a fait accompli, when Elder Liu made his move at this juncture, Nan Batian would surely be left without a leg to stand on!

Qin Ying stood on the dock, commanding his disciples to move the cargo. Three ships had set off in the morning, and now, in the afternoon, three more ships were being loaded. Once they were finished and had eaten, they could set out. Two thousand taels of silver per ship—that’s twelve thousand taels of silver in just one day. Making money like this felt fantastic.

It’s a pity there weren’t enough ships, but the Gang Leader had already arranged through connections to requisition more from the Huangzhou Prefecture. If they could bring in twelve thousand taels daily...