She Became A Downfall Noble Lady

According to Ye Xinyan’s thinking, the first step was to make the engineering project’s losses large enough or sensational enough that neither the court nor His Majesty could ignore them. This would arouse enough fury for them to have a reason to pull out the instigator.

For this, one needed to adopt a tolerant attitude and create a relaxed environment that would let the spy planted by the opponent fully play their part and incur losses that would deal a heavy blow to the opponent—a fatal strike.

Of course, the premise was that the spy or spies had to be under one’s own control.

Jinrong finally understood the key point and stared at Ye Xinyan for a long while before suddenly laughing, "I never thought Ye Zi could be so ruthless—I’ve underestimated you all this time."

This statement seemed to imply a willingness to squander the court’s money and the hard labor of the people to achieve her goal.

Thinking of this, Ye Xinyan felt a bit embarrassed and defended herself, "Railway construction is different from building houses and towers. It can be managed in segments on a flat terrain, and if problems are discovered, remedies can be applied. My intention is to keep the problematic railway within a certain range, not to destroy the entire railway transport project."

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Seeing her getting a bit flustered, Jinrong scoffed, "Of course, it would be best if you can control the extent of the disaster. Do you really want to set all eight hundred miles of railway ablaze?"

Ye Xinyan was not foolish and could tell that Jinrong was deliberately mocking her; the embarrassed look on her face immediately turned into one of vexation.