Ying Yi openly possessed only one fief, Sea City, but Sea City was already a top-tier province rich enough to ooze oil. With the three neighboring provinces secretly under his control as well, it was equivalent to having four top-tier provinces entirely in his grasp. After more than twenty years of accumulation, Ying Yi had amassed a staggering fortune.
And yet, the total wealth here still far exceeded what it should have been.
Gold, gold, and more gold. The amount of gold in the underground vault was utterly astonishing. Even Lin Qi, who had won an enormous fortune gambling against the Yun Clan, was left gaping at the quantity of gold stored here. There was simply too much of it—so much that Lin Qi could not believe it was wealth Ying Yi should have possessed. The total amount of gold here was at least a hundred times greater than Lin Qi's current fortune!
Fortunately, the inscriptions Lin Qi found on the gold bricks stored in several vaults explained where this gold had come from.
These gold bricks actually bore the engraved emblems of several hundred princely estates and tens of thousands of noble families from the Blood Qin Empire. Clearly, these gold bricks did not all belong to Ying Yi. The princes and nobles of the Blood Qin Empire had all deposited a certain amount of gold here.
Lin Qi nodded to himself. That made sense. The sheer amount of gold here was terrifying; it must have been entrusted to Ying Yi for safekeeping by those princely estates and noble families. After all, Ying Yi was the master of Sea City. If those princes and nobles wished to conduct maritime trade, storing a huge sum of gold here was far more convenient than carrying it back and forth themselves.
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