Jinkou, Tianxing Tower!
Once part of the Duke of Xiaoyao's family holdings, it had become one of the imperial properties after the Shadow Fiend incident.
Lin Hao sat there, revisiting an old haunt.
He sat in the courtyard with his legs crossed, drinking straight from the spout of a teapot.
He also held several Flying Eagle Messages taken from the Zhili governor-general's study, studying the coded passages with interest.
What a coincidence. He had only just finished exterminating three clans and had not even bathed when a message arrived from South of the Yangtze. It was written in code, unreadable to others.
But Lin Hao happened to have kept the shadow of the Zhili governor-general, an Intent Condensation Grandmaster, who happened to know the code. It really was fate.
"South of the Yangtze is a fine place. Looks like I can leave the Lin Family alone for now and bait the spot first.
"Hmm... Given how far the Fu Family and Lin Family have declined, keeping information from them shouldn't be difficult.
"They didn't even know before that Li Yanbing was the Great General's Adopted Daughter. Keeping information sealed off in this era really is quite simple..."
Lin Hao smiled faintly and tucked the letters into his robes. There was little left for him to do in the Capital City now.
They had kept their word. When they said he would not need to concern himself with much, they meant it.
The Military Affairs Office had merely gained a State Preceptor and a Great General. They would decide matters great and small, while Li Yanbing only needed to play the foolish monarch infatuated with Prince Qi's beauty.
Right now, Li Yanbing was exchanging as much silver from the imperial treasury as possible for gold and other valuables.
That damned emperor