Hun Tong Raises Funds

"Tu Ji..." Tan Mo had hit a snag with Tu Ji. Thinking back on it afterward, he gritted his teeth in hatred.

If Tu Ji had come from any other background, Tan Mo would still have had room to maneuver. But Tu Ji came from the Bloodlight Tribunal, which made him deeply wary and left Tan Mo feeling constrained at every turn.

As for the possibility that Hun Tong had not gained any spoils of war or made a fortune from the war, Tan Mo had actually considered it as well.

It was simply that he preferred to believe Hun Tong had made a killing.

"Even if he's short on cash, a rotten ship still has three pounds of nails. I refuse to believe I can't squeeze more out of him!"

"If I let an opportunity like this slip away, I'll regret it for the rest of my life."

"How should I extort him?"

Tan Mo began racking his brains.

If Tu Ji had been willing to cooperate with him, he could have easily kept Hun Tong under his thumb.

But Tu Ji would not cooperate, making things difficult.

Although Tan Mo was an investigator for the Empire Secret Agent and secretly bore certain expectations from the Seventh Prince, the current situation was that an investigator from the Bloodlight Tribunal was involved as well. With both sides conducting a joint investigation, neither the Bloodlight Tribunal nor the Empire Secret Agent would take his word alone.

If he directly slandered Hun Tong and fabricated evidence, that would be pure recklessness. Tan Mo would only be making trouble for himself, and it could become a crisis for his career as a Naval Rear Admiral.

"What should I do?" As Tan Mo kept pondering, Hun Tong also felt the pressure.

Hun Tong sought