Chen Changsheng ignored Cui Tian Rui's words, set down his teacup, and spoke.
"You all saw what I just did."
"Since that's the case, let me test you while we're at it. What was my purpose in doing that?"
Faced with Chen Changsheng's question, Shui Yue was the first to speak. "I know. Sir was establishing his authority!"
"We've only just arrived, so the people below definitely won't be convinced."
"For something as minor as delivering account books, Sir could clearly have had them send someone over. Yet Sir made them deliver them in person."
"Obviously, Sir wanted to take the wind out of their sails."
Listening to Shui Yue's answer, Chen Changsheng nodded. "You saw through a bit of the surface. Not bad!"
"What about you, Tian Rui?"
When Chen Changsheng called on him, Cui Tian Rui thought for a moment before speaking.
"Brother-in-law did this not only to establish authority, but also to place his own people."
"Those two vacant positions just now should have been deliberately left open by Brother-in-law."
"Not bad. You saw a little deeper."
"Since you both have your own insights, tell me—how should we break the deadlock before us?"
The moment those words fell, difficult expressions appeared on both Cui Tian Rui's and Shui Yue's faces.
It was not that they had no solution. They simply had not seen what the deadlock before them even was.
Seeing the confusion in their eyes, Chen Changsheng said calmly, "The marketplace is like a battlefield, and the human heart is the most complicated thing under heaven."
"As Head Manager of the Qinghe Realm, I currently have two tasks."
"First, increase the Qinghe Realm's profits."
"Second, eliminate some of the forces within the Sixty-Eighth District of the Qinghe Realm."
"These two tasks must be carried out at