"You little brat! Since when did you have so many crafty tricks up your sleeve?!"
After hearing Jiang Xiaobai out, Jiang Jingcheng could not help drawing a sharp breath.
Indeed, he had listened to the whole exchange from the side, and it had left his heart pounding with dread.
It felt as though a single misstep could have plunged them beyond all hope of redemption!
Besides, Jiang Xiaobai had been locked in the same prison as him. Could he really have accomplished something this huge just by sending out a single letter?
"You old fool, what do you know? These aren't crafty tricks!"
Li Bingzhang glanced at the astonished Jiang Jingcheng, then said coolly, "This is political strategy. Hmph, you wouldn't understand even if I explained it!"
As he spoke, Li Bingzhang turned back to Jiang Xiaobai, admiration still written on his face. "With a single stratagem, you cleared the Northern Guardian Marquis's Estate of its false charges!"
"And in the end, you even elevated the Northern Guardian Marquis's Estate to the Duke of the State's Estate. Such a stratagem is simply astounding!"
Indeed, from the moment Jiang Jingxuan took over the Northern Guardian Marquis's Estate and stepped through its gates, this trap... had already become inescapable.
Jiang Jingxuan had thought that obtaining His Majesty's Imperial Writ would let him control the Northern Guardian Marquis's Estate.
But how could Jiang Jingxuan's orders be what those thirty thousand soldiers truly obeyed?
Indeed, what did it matter if a man who had spent ten years in Northern Yu suddenly returned, even if his surname was also Jiang?
Third Master Jiang?
Hah, who even remembered this Third Master Jiang anymore?!
Besides, just as Jiang Xiaobai had said, what could Jiang Jingxuan do even if he refused to rebel to his dying breath?
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