Cutting off business with Zhu Di.
That was tantamount to Zhu Di tearing off all pretenses.
Although neither of them had openly fallen out with the other, the meaning was already clear.
"Prince."
"What should we do?"
Zhu Neng raised his head and looked at Zhu Di anxiously.
"Xiongying, since you want to play, I'll accompany you to the end."
"First, I'll wipe out this band of deathsworn men under your command," Zhu Di thought coldly.
Then—
His gaze fell on Zhu Neng. "Now that my Northern Peace Army has withdrawn from the Northern Frontier, we can deploy some of them to suppress bandits."
"Pass on my order."
"Other than the twenty thousand Northern Peace Army troops stationed to defend the northern garrisons, the rest shall be assigned in batches to guard the key routes throughout Beiping Prefecture. For any merchant caravan within Beiping Prefecture, the larger its scale, the greater the protection provided by our Northern Peace Army. At minimum, a company of one hundred soldiers shall escort them until they leave Beiping Prefecture."
"From today onward, suppress bandits throughout all of Beiping Prefecture. For every bandit killed, reward one hundred coins; for every ten killed, reward ten taels of silver. If a mountain bandit is captured alive, reward one tael of gold."
"This time, I will purge the entirety of Beiping Prefecture," Zhu Di said coldly.
"This subordinate accepts the order."
Zhu Neng immediately bowed.
"As for the liquor business..."
Zhu Di looked at the man before him who represented his interests among the common merchants. After considering it for a moment, he said, "If we cannot do the liquor business, then so be it. Close the taverns from now on."
"Prince."
"The profits from liquor are extremely considerable. It is currently the most profitable of the Prince's