"Brother Zhaode wants to see me?" Shen Tang silently counted the days, then smiled faintly. "I've been so busy these past few days that I forgot about the important matter. Brother Zhaode has quite the patience. I thought that after what happened with Da Yi, he wouldn't be able to sit still for more than a couple of days."
Huang Lie had lost one of his three younger brothers, and the other two had been captured.
That meant the power Huang Lie had painstakingly built up over the years had now collapsed so completely that not even its foundations remained. The remnants had lost the pillar they could rely on and scattered in every direction, while the common folk Huang Lie had deceived into following him had fled like birds and beasts. Ganzhou was already in the bag; only the final handover remained. As one of the meritorious contributors, Wu Zhaode had the right to claim a share of the spoils, yet Shen Tang's side had said nothing about it.
That was not a good sign for Wu Xian.
Lately, Shen Tang had been making sweeping reforms in the prefectures and counties of Yanzhou without consulting Wu Xian. Clearly, she considered Yanzhou her own territory. If Wu Xian kept quiet while Shen Tang played deaf and dumb and continued sending people to clean up Ganzhou's mess, then by the time he spoke up, there might be nothing worthwhile left to claim. And with Zhao Feng having scooped up the military credit at Tianhai, Wu Xian had come to see her.
Shen Tang and her aides had figured out about seventy or eighty percent of Wu Xian's intentions. Qin Li had also served as Wu Xian's aide for many years, bringing that seventy or eighty percent up to a full hundred.