The silence of the civil and military officials was deafening.
They had always been accustomed to cutting through tangled hemp with a sharp blade. Once they discovered signs of corruption, they launched a sweeping investigation from top to bottom. The deluxe three-piece package of investigation, arrest, and trial flowed as smoothly as running water, usually following this pattern-the evidence was uncovered in the morning, and the culprit was in prison by noon.
Though the advantages and disadvantages were evenly matched, the efficiency was truly extraordinary.
Under this system, no one had ever thought up such a... such an unorthodox scheme that struck from an unexpected angle.
The officials cast unreadable looks at the little dumpling atop the Golden Terrace-
Ever since the words "mountains of gold and silver" had first appeared, the little one seemed to have tumbled straight into a coin's square hole, constantly thinking about how to rake in money.
Money from tomb robbers, money from the Enemy Kingdom, and now she was planning to squeeze money out of corrupt officials!
This was truly...
Wonderful!!
It wasn't that they wanted to heap merit upon themselves. They simply wanted to do something useful for Great Rui!
Yes! Exactly!! That was it!!!
Jiang Yingcheng's eyes sparkled as she pondered how to rake in money, occasionally drawing little gasps. [The first batch alone has dozens of cartloads of Medicine Packs, and they'll need several more batches afterward. If they want to replace all of them, that'll cost quite a lot!]
[I-if we could pretend to be herb merchants and trick them into thinking we happen to have those herbs, but they're all stockpiled in Ruxin Town, and if they want them, they'll have to pay a deposit first...]
She had it all figured out-
In a corruption case of this scale,