I Will Save the People of This City

Yan Nujiao's idea, simply put, was to trade a city's worth of supplies for a good reputation and a legitimate pretext to seize the Zhao Family's cities.

Only with a just cause could they silence the masses!

Yan Shuangying lowered his head in thought. To be fair, he felt his daughter's proposal was actually feasible.

The Yan Family steward beside him frantically shook his head, utterly opposed. "No, Patriarch! This deal is far too unprofitable. How long would it take us to earn back a city's worth of supplies?"

"We've already taken over four cities. What does it matter if we don't take Unnamed City? There's no need to pay such a huge price just to forcefully take over this city."

"As for our reputation... if we didn't do it, then we didn't do it. We only need to issue a notice to announce it to the world. Those people can believe it if they want, and forget it if they don't. Could those commoners possibly do anything to our Yan Family?"

The steward was speaking entirely from the perspective of profit.

To him, the Yan Family had indeed struck it rich by taking over four of the Zhao Family's cities.

But those cities still needed to be managed, and their profits would have to be earned gradually over the years. They couldn't possibly imitate the Zhao Family and empty all four cities at once, could they?

Wouldn't that be like killing the goose that laid the golden egg?

Yan Shuangying was somewhat conflicted, because he felt the steward's words made sense as well.

He made a rough estimate. Taking over Unnamed City would require them to immediately provide supplies worth twenty billion copper coins just to ensure that the city's residents would not starve to death within the next