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Faced with An Wuyang's question, Chen Hongzhi pondered.

As one of the world's foremost powers, the Xia Kingdom naturally had ties, to varying degrees, with the countries surrounding it.

Whether it was Japan, Koria, or the other countries in the surrounding region, all of them had countless connections with the Xia Kingdom.

Don't say that Koria and Japan were countries that supported the White Eagle.

Yes!

That was a fact!

But the issue had never been binary, nor was the world simply black and white.

Koria and Japan did indeed lean toward the White Eagle, but who said they could not maintain secret ties with others?

As for Koria and Japan, why couldn't the local powerhouses within them play both sides?

Didn't such people exist already?

Whether in Koria or Japan, both had seen chief ministers with pro-Xia Kingdom leanings take office.

Between nations, there were no so-called alliances and no so-called "good friends," only the most direct relationships of interest.

It was precisely because of this that An Wuyang asked Chen Hongzhi whether the Imperial Capital Circle had any connections in Koria.

Such connections definitely existed; the only difference was whether Chen Hongzhi had any contact with them.

Chen Hongzhi bluntly asked in return, "Didn't the Taebaek Mountains get attacked by drones spraying mercury? Is it still worth making such a big move over there?"

The drone mercury attack on the Taebaek Mountains was no secret!

At least, it was not a secret within the Imperial Capital Circle.

Back when Five Watches made such a major move in Linji Province, the Taebaek Mountains had been implicated, bringing them into the Imperial Capital Circle's field of vision.

An Wuyang answered without concealing anything, "The [FE02] I mentioned before is processed from a special phenolic compound contained in the Korean ginseng