To ordinary people, Wen Wang Gu Yuzhi's whereabouts are a mystery.
However, Li Yanping had known about the relationship between Prince Wen and the Wen family for a long time, and after returning from Jiangnan, he specifically ordered people to keep an eye on the Wen family.
The people of the Wen family were very vigilant. They dared not get too close and only watched from a distance, so they could not find any useful information. However, when they tried to get closer and closer and found that there was still no movement from the Wen family, they knew that something was wrong.
The man said, "Prince Wen went to Xinliang more than a month ago and hasn't returned yet. I also discovered that most of the guards at the Wen residence and the bodyguards at the Wen family's escort agency have been transferred away."
Before Li Yanping returned, this man had never understood anything, but today, he understood everything.
Li Yanping clearly understood as well, and after thinking for a while with his eyes lowered, he said, "Mobilize all the hidden agents in the northern desert. They must be assembled on the road from Changzhou to Xinliang within two days!"
The man immediately raised his head, his heart skipped a beat, and his lips twitched uncontrollably. He barely managed to keep himself from crying out, "Manager, what do you want?"
Li Yanping said nothing, but the man understood immediately. He gritted his teeth and said, "Manager, things haven't come to this yet! If we do this now... then there will truly be no turning back!"
Li Yanping seemed very tired; his breathing was louder than his voice, and in just a short while, he was already so tired that he looked like he was about to fall asleep.
It took him a long time to forcefully lift his eyelids: "There's no turning back now!"
The man was puzzled.
The situation in the northern desert is still under control. What does losing a year's worth of salt permits matter? They still have rice shops, and the price of rice in the northern desert is still under their control!
Li Yanping, whether wanting to talk more or for some other reason, patiently explained, "The situation in Mobei has changed, and there's nothing we can do to reverse it. Bai Jiwu is both stupid and vicious; he never truly submitted to Your Highness, and besides, at least half of the Mobei army doesn't obey him!"
Aside from those truly loyal to the Huo family army, there are certainly many others who want to take their place.
The Northern Desert Army may seem as invincible as before, but Li Yanping knows that it has long been divided into several factions. If the situation in the Northern Desert really reaches that point, Bai Jiwu will never send troops to help.
Before the man could say anything more, Li Yanping waved his hand, panting heavily as if he were pumping an old bellows. His originally pale face began to flush slightly from the slight suffocation.
Seeing Li Yanping like this, he was shocked. He tried to get up and call the doctor, but Li Yanping stopped him. He turned to look at Li Yanping, his eyes red and his voice choked with emotion: "Manager!"
Li Yanping smiled and said, "Why are you crying? It's just that we were in a hurry on the way."
After he finished speaking, both of them fell silent. He didn't care whether the other person believed him or not, and after a while he said, "After you have notified those people, go to Quanzhou."
The man looked up at him and hesitated, saying, "But Quanzhou is now sealed off by Bai Jiwu, and I'm afraid I can't get in."
Li Yanping sneered, "Even if Bai Jiwu is stupid, he knows that this city lockdown is unreasonable. The entire city can't be locked down for more than two days. After you go there, withdraw all the businesses in the entire city and let our people withdraw as they should. Remember to destroy all the evidence, especially the evidence from Bai Jiwu's side."
The sudden events in Quanzhou made Li Yanping realize that he could no longer make a last-ditch effort, as that would only make him sink deeper!
Huo Qiyuan is very likely in Xinliang. Once they come into contact with people in the Northern Desert Army who are still loyal to them, the people they have placed in the Northern Desert Army will be squeezed out of the camp as quickly as possible, just like those confidants of the Huo family army back then.
All of this is related to that six-year-old child!
Li Yanping took a deep breath and repeated, "Don't contact anyone in the military when you go to Quanzhou this time. After you've taken care of these two things, you can return to Jiangnan."
Making money through caravans and using the army to rebel are two completely different things. Li Yanping believed that if the Emperor knew about the things between the Northern Desert Army and His Highness, the Emperor would not hesitate to break the current balance and send troops to suppress Bai Jiwu first!
The man, with red eyes, knelt on the ground, sobbing and unable to get up for a long time. He couldn't understand how his Li Ji Trading Company had become like this in just one year!
"Master Manager, what do you wish to do? I'll accompany you. I'm going back to Jiangnan..."
His family is under His Highness's supervision. If he returns, His Highness will find out, and he will still face certain death.
Li Yanping felt a throbbing pain in his temples and an unbearable itch in his throat. He forced himself to suppress the itch for a while before finally saying, "As long as a person is alive, there is always hope."
The man suddenly looked up, thinking, "Since you know this is how it is, why are you still taking such a risk?"
But as he was about to speak, seeing the manager's deathly pale face, he suddenly understood that the manager had already decided to die.
There was no point in saying more, so the man could only kowtow to Li Yanping several times and whisper, "Manager, I'll be leaving now."
His life was saved by the head manager. If the head manager succeeds this time, then so be it. But if the head manager fails, he will definitely collect the head manager's body!
After he left the room, Li Yanping couldn't help but cough violently, his mouth full of metallic taste. When he wiped it with a handkerchief, the handkerchief was covered in bright red blood.
Li Yanping's eyes dimmed as he looked at the blood on the handkerchief.
He knew while he was in the capital that his health was probably failing, but he dared not rest properly there, as he had many things to do.
Riding through the night at breakneck speed, coupled with the news he received upon his return, was too much for even the strongest man like Li Yanping to bear. His body was on the verge of collapse!
Calculating your own death date is quite a strange experience!
Li Yanping accepted this fact very calmly, after all, even if he wasn't seriously ill, he wouldn't live much longer.
He knew his employer well. The failure of the salt monopoly and the elimination of the Mobei forces would enrage his employer. As the head manager, he not only failed to completely subdue Mobei for his employer, but also caused the Mobei forces to disintegrate due to his oversight. He could not escape death!
Thinking of his elder sister still in the Prince's mansion and his family in Jiangnan, Li Yanping coughed violently again.
For two days, Li Yanping had no time to rest. He sent out message after message, destroyed all the account books in Mobei, and destroyed everything that had anything to do with the King of Chu. Only after two days did he finally put on a thick cloak, sit in a carriage, and head towards the official road.
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