Chapter 225: "The Chairman Has Reviewed It and Approved the Slaughter"
"Sixth Cement Factory"
"Location: No. D-91, Outer City"
"Affiliation: Qin Family Merchant Association"
"Number of Workers: 86"
"Recommended Successor: Factory Captain Lu Qi"
"Current Person in Charge: Qin Shou"
Le Yu glanced at it, picked up the rectangular seal, dipped it in red ink, and stamped two lines heavily onto the report—
"The Chairman Has Reviewed It and Approved the Slaughter"
The next report was for the Qin Family's Tianfu Restaurant. Le Yu skimmed through it and stamped it with the same seal.
There were 156 reports like this, all submitted by Yin Minghong alone—or so he claimed, and Le Yu believed him. However, everyone knew that this was information White Night had painstakingly gathered over the course of the past week.
Le Yu had given the Silver Blood Merchant Association one week to raise money and fill the military funding pool after weighing various considerations. It was partly to lure out and execute a batch of greedy goblins who valued money over their lives, but more importantly, it was to buy time to investigate before completely replacing the Silver Blood Society.
How could something like taking over the Silver Blood Society's means of production possibly be accomplished simply by having the Coastal Army lead troops over, punch the merchants, kick the nobles, and casually pick a lucky spectator to be factory manager?
It wasn't impossible, but it would be too inefficient and would create countless risks.
Le Yu knew there were plenty of clever people like Duke Wanghai. However, at most, they believed the Jing Family merely wanted to unify the Silver Blood Society and dominate Dongyang. Perhaps they even wanted to ally with Lan Yan and reach for the world. Therefore, they did not resist much. After