Inside the room, Zhao De was drinking tea.
Seeing Yang Ling approach, he asked casually with a smile:
"Has that shipment from the Great Dream Dynasty all been put into storage?"
"Master, what exactly is going on with this shipment? That Eighth Prince kept talking about a treasure contest. What is that about?"
Yang Ling hurriedly asked.
"Let's start with the treasure contest. The Great Dream Dynasty took a fancy to something belonging to our Rong State and wanted to trade for it, but we refused."
Zhao De smiled. "So they proposed settling the matter through a treasure contest.
"Each side will bring out a treasure and see whose is more powerful.
"If we win, everything the Eighth Prince brought will belong to the Rong State and enter the national treasury.
"Until then, these treasures can only be kept in our Iron Clothes Department. After all, we've only just been established. We're new, without all those tangled dealings.
"Everyone can see what goes on."
"That's why? It's not what I thought?"
Yang Ling froze slightly.
"However, I've already received reliable information that the Heavenly Will Sect's Land Immortal has been making eyes at the Great Dream Dynasty.
"She'll sneak over here next, take these treasures away, and pin the blame squarely on us."
Zhao De said with some feeling:
"That way, the Great Dream Dynasty will have grounds to demand compensation from our Rong State and take the thing they want.
"Not only will we have to give it to them, we'll also have to apologize, and perhaps even compensate them for their 'lost' treasures.
"If that really happens, the Rong State's martial artists will be hard up for the next several decades."
Just as I thought! Only a few details are different.
*The Heavenly Will Sect is already playing