Taming beasts starts with understanding bird language

It was already evening when the four returned to the Censorate.

As soon as Gu Chan sat down in the lobby of the front yard, Yan Xishan quickly ordered the servants in the mansion to prepare a table of delicious dishes and bring out a jar of aged wine to entertain her.

Gu Chan sat at the table, looking at the large table of delicious food and wine, and sneered, "Master Yan, the food in your house is really not delicious! I have been in Jiangnan City for so long, and tonight is really the first time I have eaten at your house!"

"Didn't we say that we should be united? Stop holding on to what happened before!" Yan Xishan said awkwardly.

At this time, Bai Xi walked in quickly from outside the door, sat down next to Gu Chan in a familiar manner, took the initiative to pick up the wine pot to pour her wine, and said with a smile, "Seventeenth Prince, I apologize for offending you before. I hope you can forgive me. I will drink a glass of wine to make amends to you."

After saying that, she picked up the wine glass, tilted her head back and poured the wine into her mouth.

Guo Huai also quickly raised his glass to toast, fearing that Gu Chan was still angry with him because of what happened before.

Anyway, among the four people sitting at the table, only Bai Jingtian seemed the calmest. After all, he had been very good to Gu Chan from the beginning, and there was no possibility of offending her, so at this moment, he could just sit there as steady as a rock.

Gu Chan said nothing and drank the wine in the glass silently.

Putting down the wine glass in her hand, she stared at Guo Huai and said, "Old Chairman, you drove my medicine shop out of Jiangnan City before, forcing me to run the business on the water. You also instigated everyone to hoard the herbs tightly and not give me any to sell. Isn't it time to change this rule now?"

"As long as you become the leader of the Jiangnan area, you will have the final say. It only takes a word from you to change any rules." Guo Huai said quickly.

Gu Chan didn't waste any words. She reached into the bag on her waist, took out the golden dragon seal of the lord, and slammed it on the table with a bang.

The four of them were stunned and could hardly believe their eyes.

Yan Xishan hurriedly reached out and picked up the Lord's Golden Seal, and carefully examined it in front of his eyes. After confirming that this was indeed the Lord's Dragon Seal that only the royal family of Tiancang Kingdom could possess, he carefully placed it on the table in front of Gu Chan, then stood up and knelt in front of her, "Your Highness, Yan Xishan, the Chief Censor of Jiangnan, pays homage to the Lord."

"Okay, get up! I hate it the most when you do this." Gu Chan waved her hand unhappily.

Yan Xishan then stood up from the ground with a forced smile and sat back in his original seat.

Guo Huai hurriedly offered his courtesy and said, "Lord, tomorrow I will announce to the public that they don't need to stockpile medicine anymore. I will fully cooperate with you in implementing the new business model of buying medicine together in the Jiangnan area. Also, you don't need to operate on the water anymore. You can just return to the Yaoduoduo store on East Street and continue to run it."

"No need for that. My Great China is doing well on the Jiangnan River and has become famous. It's just that we're short of medicinal materials. You just need to let everyone sell the medicinal materials they have stockpiled and you don't need to go against me anymore." Gu Chan said.

Guo Huai nodded in agreement, not daring to be negligent in the slightest.

Gu Chan put away the Lord's Dragon Seal and said, "Next, your first priority is to collect 3 billion taels of silver, then transport it to the border by water and hand the money to the Ninth Prince. This way, my mission can be completed ahead of schedule."

"Lord, if you take the water route from the Jiangnan area to the border, you have to take a long detour, and it's not as fast as taking the official road over land!" Yan Xishan reminded.

"What can we do? Now the great general under the Crown Prince is leading a hundred thousand soldiers to take over the Jiangnan area. He will definitely cut off the official road to the border. If such a large amount of silver goes through the official road and is intercepted by them halfway, and then reaches the ninth prince at the border within the specified time limit, he will have a reason to deal with me." Gu Chan said, spreading his hands.

In fact, she herself understood that traveling by land would definitely be faster than traveling by water, but in this situation, in order to avoid the prince intercepting her border relief silver, she could only choose to take a detour by water.

Bai Jingtian said solemnly, "Lord, your idea is good, but you can think of taking the water route to avoid the prince, and he must have thought of this as well. If he sends more troops along the water route and blocks the water route, what will you do?"

"Let's load the ship first. No matter what, traveling by water is the safest way now." Gu Chan said in a deep voice.

Bai Jingtian was speechless. The current facts were indeed as Gu Chan said. There was no better way than this.

Gu Chan added, "The Chang family owns the largest wharf in Jiangnan. When the time comes, you can transport all the silver you have collected to the Chang family wharf and use the Chang family's cargo ships to load it. The Chang family's dozens of cargo ships are enough to load so much silver."

"I understand. I will issue a secret order tomorrow, asking officials, businessmen and wealthy people from all over the country to transport all the money they have raised to Chang's Wharf." Yan Xishan said.

"I will also go to Chang Wei to say hello to him, you just follow the plan." Gu Chan ordered calmly.

Yan Xishan and Guo Huai both nodded in agreement.

Gu Chan suddenly changed the subject and said, "By the way, why haven't I seen Yan Li? It seems like I haven't seen her for a while! She shouldn't be so quiet, right?"

"Hey! Lord, you don't know, our daughter ran away from home a long time ago. Until now, we don't know where she went. Last time, you asked Commander Bai to come back and break one of her hands, and then she left in anger." Bai Xi said in a crying voice.

As a mother, she really missed her precious daughter during this period. However, the people she sent out to look for Yan Li everywhere in the Jiangnan area could not find any trace of her, and she had no other choice.

Gu Chan's heart trembled, and a bad premonition arose in her heart instantly.

Yan Li is not an easy person to deal with. The last time she asked Bai Jingtian to break one of Yan Li's hands, her purpose was to teach this arrogant young lady a lesson. However, Yan Li's temper is so vicious and she left in anger, so she will definitely not give in easily.

At this critical juncture, she was worried that this girl would cause some trouble for her.

But Gu Chan didn't say it out loud, pretending to be indifferent and said, "That's good, let her go out and experience some hardships, it will be good for her, otherwise she will stay in Jiangnan City and scheme against me all day long."

"Lord! It's because my husband and I didn't teach our daughter well that she caused you so much trouble before. I hope you can be magnanimous and not hold it against her." Bai Xi pleaded with a bitter face.

"Okay, I'm not that stingy. I won't talk about her anymore. Let's start eating! Eat and go to bed early. We'll be busy starting tomorrow." Gu Chan said with a smile.

Bai Xi bowed and thanked him gratefully.

After that, the five of them no longer mentioned the unhappy things in the past, but instead talked while eating about how to deal with the prince next.