"Let's surrender."
Hearing Qin Leyin say this, the room suddenly fell silent.
After a long while, Quan Xin finally said gloomily, "Doesn't this already count as surrender?"
The others could not help sighing and nodding secretly.
Indeed.
Throughout the history of the Silver Blood Society, it had never been this humble.
The Jing Family wanted money, and they gave it.
The Jing Family wanted factories, and they gave them.
The Jing Family wanted people, and they gave them those too.
Even the military and the imperial court had never gone this far. At most, they wanted money, and at worst, they merely took a chunk of flesh from them. But this time, the Jing Family had practically cut them in half.
After so many days, they had finally realized the truth—Jing Zhengwei had probably told Lan Yan all about the Silver Blood Society's assets to curry favor with him, then deliberately brought five hundred soldiers from the Coastal Army back with him, all so he could carve up everyone's wealth and fatten Lan Yan's private coffers!
If it had been anyone else... No, even if it had been a dog, they would not have gone this far!
Yet even so, they had endured it.
And the Silver Blood Society had achieved its objective.
The Silver Blood Society had originally been an organization formed by several merchants banding together, purely to prevent outsiders from bullying them.
And now, no one really dared to bully the Silver Blood Society anymore.
It was just that the society's chairman was bullying its members.
Going from being bullied by outsiders to being bullied by their own people could also be considered progress with the times.
So when Qin Leyin said they should surrender, they did not feel humiliated. They felt sorrowful instead.
Things had already