Chapter 145: Test
Lu Jin.
Uncle.
A name and title both foreign and familiar.
He existed in Chen Ji’s world in a near-legendary way, thousands of miles away, but like the towering mountains by Spring Thunder Lake, impossible to ignore.
Only Chen Ji, Jin Zhu, and West Wind were left flipping through the official gazettes in Zhou Mansion’s study.
West Wind sat upright in the Taishi chair, his demeanor indifferent and scornful, as if what he flipped through was not the official gazette but rather the memorials of the Jing Dynasty’s various provincial governors.
Jin Zhu sat by the mahogany desk, put down his own gazette, and looked towards the opposite tiger mask, "Do you think the previous firearms explosion in Luocheng was due to infighting within the Jing Dynasty Military Intelligence Department?"
Chen Ji held up the gazette in his hands, spread it out for Jin Zhu to see, "Lu Jin was ousted because of political struggle, and his opponents would certainly want to clip his wings immediately. This would explain why the Jing Dynasty assassins who attacked you were also fighting to the death with monks from Kujue Temple in Jing Dynasty."
Jin Zhu clapped his hands in admiration, "I took a whole day to figure out something you managed to understand just by reading one sentence in the official gazette, impressive indeed."
"So, you knew about this."
Jin Zhu said with a smile, "These purges within the Military Intelligence Department did not only happen in Luocheng but in the Imperial Capital, Jinling, Suzhou, Yangzhou, and Jinmen as well."