Chu Zhenglin knew that although the State of Wei was now very powerful, it was still not strong enough to cope with a joint counterattack from multiple countries.

Chu Zhenglin entered the palace and reported the matter to Chu Fan, hoping that Chu Fan, the Emperor Wei, would make the decision.

After learning of this, Chu Fan said to Chu Zhenglin with a nonchalant tone, "The reason these countries sent warriors to Wei is simply to investigate Wei's strengths and weaknesses. Since they want to investigate, let them do so. There's no need for us to hide anything. Let them report back everything that happens in Wei."

Chu Zhenglin also expressed his doubts: "Your Majesty, if we let them pass on the information like this, will it arouse their vigilance? If they guess our intentions, they may become wary of our future plans. Then, it will become more difficult for our Wei Kingdom to unify the Shengwu Continent."

Chu Fan smiled and said, "When did we say we were going to start a war? Even though the Wei court has begun to issue war funds, we have never conducted large-scale discussions on Wei's specific military actions. In the entire court, only the princes of the Royal Government Affairs Office, the Prime Minister Cao Mengde, and the six ministers know about these things.

Even though there are various rumors and speculations within the Wei Kingdom, they are just speculations after all, without solid evidence. Furthermore, they might not even speculate from this perspective, but instead think we are deliberately playing tricks, and that the Wei court is simply using this method to determine the wealth of the common people and the aristocratic families.

You should know that except for the weapons currently being used by the front-line troops, the weapons in stock in many troops of the Wei State have been sold by us, and even some old equipment have been taken out in exchange for money.

Our new weapons haven't been fully distributed yet, and they're only being used by a small number of elite troops. The spies from other countries who came to Wei couldn't possibly know about the new weapons. But the fact that Wei was selling a large number of weapons was impossible to conceal. Once they learned that the Wei court was willing to sell even military weapons for money, what wouldn't they do?

This would only make them look down on Wei even more, thinking we are only interested in collecting wealth and have no desire to fight. Furthermore, with a court that would do anything for money, Wei would collapse on its own without them having to attack.

By then, even if they would stockpile troops on the border after receiving intelligence and wait for Wei to take advantage of the civil unrest to attack, they would not be very vigilant against Wei, and might not even think that Wei would launch a war in a short time.

When the Wei court has completed all the preparations for war, we can directly catch them off guard. Even if they react by then, it will be too late for them to mount an effective resistance."

When Chu Zhenglin heard Chu Fan say this, he secretly admired Chu Fan's wisdom and courage. He was still worried that these spies from other countries would bring back this information, which would make some countries wary of us. However, he never thought that His Majesty was thinking from another perspective, using these rumors and speculations to confuse the enemy and make them mistakenly believe that we are only concerned with making money and would never start a war.

Chu Zhenglin then left the palace and began to prepare for the world's number one martial arts competition. You know, this is not a trivial matter. After all, it is related to the face of the Wei State.

Although the Wei court already knew that these warriors from other countries were spies from other countries, His Majesty said that they would not be dealt with for the time being and let them pass on some information they thought they had back to their own countries. However, they were also warriors. It was obvious that they had come to Kaifeng City to participate in the Wei Kingdom's No. 1 Martial Arts Conference held by the Wei royal family.

If they defeated all the warriors of Wei State and achieved good results in the martial arts competition held in Wei State, it would be a huge blow to the warriors of Wei State. Therefore, Chu Zhenglin had to arrange for masters from the royal family to secretly snipe the warriors from other countries to ensure that they could not achieve excellent results in the martial arts competition, so as to maintain the dignity and morale of the warriors of Wei State.

When the spies from other countries saw that the carrier pigeons and other birds they released to deliver intelligence flew safely into the sky, they became even more convinced that the so-called war fund being sold by the Wei State was just a means of making money and was not intended to raise funds to attack the Xiongnu and the Qian Kingdom.

After all, if Wei really wanted to attack the Xiongnu and the Qian Kingdom, how could it easily allow its spies to pass on information? Even when its own country was about to start a war, its own country would closely monitor and intercept spies from other countries to prevent intelligence leaks.

Since the State of Wei now allowed him and his men to enter and leave Kaifeng City as if they were defenseless and also allowed the transmission of intelligence, it was obvious that they had no intention of fighting.

The first thing these spies from other countries wanted to investigate was Wei's technology for producing refined salt, but the department that produced refined salt in Wei was the Censorate and they did not recruit outsiders into the salt factory, so these spies had to settle for the second best thing and began to investigate the selling price of Wei's refined salt.

These spies thought the Wei court was making some money from selling refined salt. Instead, they learned that the price of refined salt sold to the people was extremely low, even lower than the cost of producing it in the state of Gan. Could the Wei court really make money after deducting costs at such a low price? Was Wei simply trying to please the people without regard for its own interests?

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