"Your Majesty the Dragon King, we received military orders from Zhang Xiao, Grand Governor of the Right Water Army under the Dragon Lord of the North Sea, commanding our Jade Scale Dragon Palace to prepare military provisions and make arrangements to reward the army.
"At the same time, Governor Zhang ordered our Jade Scale Dragon Palace to dispatch scouts to gather intelligence on the Human Clan military forces along the North Sea coast, but we must take care not to startle the snake in the grass."
The jade slip urgently delivered by Jade Scale Dragon Palace's Chancellor Gui Luan was extremely detailed, and it even faintly included some analysis at the end.
This greatly satisfied Ye Zhen. Dealing with clever people was simply easy. Clearly, Chancellor Gui Luan of the Jade Scale Dragon Palace was a clever man.
Presumably, from the military orders of Zhang Xiao, Grand Governor of the Right Water Army, as well as Ye Zhen's current identity as Duke of North Sea Prefecture, he had inferred some of Ye Zhen's intentions.
It was an intention that would frighten ordinary Water Clan members out of their wits.
Yet Gui Luan still stood firmly on Ye Zhen's side.
Of course, it was not because Gui Luan shared any deep bond of master and servant with Ye Zhen, but because Ye Zhen's various methods were so effective.
Otherwise, by Ye Zhen's estimation, this Gui Luan might have informed on him at the first opportunity.
After all, the lives and fortunes of Chancellor Gui Luan's tortoise sons and tortoise grandsons were now faintly under Ye Zhen's control. He had no choice but to cooperate.
This was not because Ye Zhen was overly suspicious.
In a matter concerning the lives and deaths of more than thirty million Great Zhou citizens within his