Le Yu had never imagined that his plan to accelerate the conflict had escaped the vigilance of the Silver Blood Society and White Night, only to be seen through by a secret organization loyal to Radiance.
It felt like pulling off some flashy move in a game—your teammates did not notice, your enemies did not notice, but a wild monster did.
As for Qin Leyin's words, Le Yu believed thirty percent of them and remained skeptical about the other seventy.
First of all, Qin Leyin should indeed be one of the Huiyao Four Guards. He had no reason to fool Jing Zhengwei with an organization no one had ever heard of. Compared with a secret organization like the Huiyao Four Guards, claiming to be a special agent dispatched by the Statistics Department in Flame Capital would have been more believable.
Second, it was probably true that the Huiyao Four Guards wanted to eliminate the Silver Blood Society. Anyone with eyes could see that this group of merchants had already gained overwhelming influence. If they were not dealt with now, they would cause endless trouble in the future. Especially to a feudal monarchy like the Radiant Court, an alliance of merchants capable of stirring the whole world with nothing but wealth had to be eradicated root and branch.
As for the reasons Qin Leyin had given, Le Yu did not believe a single one.
What "causing wealth to flow out of the country," and "if the Silver Blood Society can advance productivity, the Huiyao Four Guards will support them as well"—it was all just a smokescreen. If the Huiyao Four Guards could truly freely choose their master, select political parties and emperors, then they should not be called the Huiyao Four Guards. They should be called Cihang Jingzhai.
As an intelligence