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Yuan Shijia left. He did not say exactly what preparations he intended to make, but he did say that over the years, he had made many contingencies to deal with the national fortune and Dragon Qi controlled by the Qing Court.
If they forced the issue and accidentally scattered the thing, it would be a disaster for all of China. They needed to proceed gradually.
With no worries at his back, Yuan Shijia also stated that he would handle that matter.
Xu Yue naturally trusted him. Having him personally pull the Qing Court from power truly was the best option.
He was probably working with Dragon Soul. Though Dragon Soul had only a scattered few left, its foundations were still there.
After the fierce confrontation earlier, the Qing Court was truly struggling just to hold Chengdu. It could no longer stir up trouble even if it wanted to, so there was no harm in setting it aside for now.
(It would not be easy to strike the right balance after the Qing Court fell. In any case, just know that this was still the late Qing Guangying period in an overhead parallel world.)
The Penguin Merchant Guild differed from Beiyang. It was a merchant organization where everyone cooperated and made money together.
Even though it had openly sided with Beiyang and provided them with material support before, those proxy legions had not done anything to the Penguin Merchant Guild. They had simply pretended not to see it.
And after inheriting everything from Beiyang, that remained the case!
The Qing Court alone could no longer hold on!
Japan had successfully extinguished Beiyang, but the devastating blow it had suffered left it unable to recover. For the time