City Guard.
"Have you investigated it thoroughly?"
Chen Mu listened to Liu Song's report and spoke calmly.
Liu Song stood to one side and said, "Reporting to you, sir, the information came from the Blackwater Gang. It should be reliable."
"Good."
Chen Mu nodded slightly.
What he had sent Liu Song to investigate was the Zheng Family's smuggling of medicinal herbs.
Among the Zheng Family's misdeeds, smuggling medicinal herbs was not their gravest crime, but it implicated the most people. Pulling on that thread would uproot the Zheng Family entirely, rather than using charges like bullying men and violating women to catch only two or three big and small fish.
That was right.
Chen Mu had never been interested in slowly playing schemes and intrigues with the Zheng Family.
In truth, in times like these, no one had cared about smuggling medicinal herbs for a long time. Even the imperial court itself could no longer control that trade. It was simply a money-making business, and the Zheng Family had been at it for many years.
Chen Mu was the City Guard's Runner Office Chief. To deal with the Zheng Family, he had no need to fuss over traps or schemes. He merely needed to seize any one of their handles. And the true key was not what crime the Zheng Family had committed, but whether he could cut through the tangled mess with a swift blade.
After all, there were forces behind the Zheng Family. They were wealthy and powerful, with roots and branches intertwined throughout Wutong Ward.
When dealing with such a force, one either let it be, or struck like thunder and uprooted it in one blow, leaving no time for the forces tied to them or the people behind the Zheng Family to react.
Ordinarily, that was