Elder Yu woke early in the morning and saw that his personal secretary's eyes were bloodshot. He paused. "What happened to you...?"
The secretary gave a bitter smile. "There were three calls for you last night. They wanted to know about that missing warship."
The information Elder Yu had provided had indeed alarmed some people.
After asking where the three calls had come from, he gave a disdainful smile. "Even little doves dare come looking for me? They've got some nerve."
By "little doves," he did not mean that they were weak. He meant the Dove Faction.
There was no need to discuss factional disputes here. The Dove Faction's position did not necessarily make them surrenderists, but when faced with something like this, their likely attitude would be: We've gotten word about this warship. We should squeeze some benefits out of the Mairui Country people before informing them.
Another possibility was that relations between Xia Nation and Mairui Country were currently rather tense. Taking the initiative to notify them could help ease those relations.
The Hawk Faction's stance, on the other hand, was: Screw that. If I have a chance to get my hands on it, then I'll get it by any means necessary.
And then there was the Centrist Faction... Stop arguing, everyone. Let's first analyze how difficult it would be to acquire this thing.
Elder Yu only had his secretary return one call, saying that the chances of obtaining it were very high.
The person answering on the other end was also a secretary, who asked just one question: Where had the old gentleman gotten this information?
The reply was: An old acquaintance of Elder Yu's. They have circumstances they cannot disclose, so please consider them patriotic compatriots...
By noon, Little Du called Elder Yu again and said