“Does Madam really think that Sang Qian will order his troops to come along with us?” Zu An asked.

“Of course he…” Qin Wanru suddenly understood what he was implying. The salt permits belonged to the Chu clan and Wang clan. If Sang Qian led his troops in a successful operation to recover them, then the salt permits would, by all accounts, have to be returned to their rightful owners.

That would mean that the Chu clan would make it through the current crisis effortlessly. How could the Sang clan possibly tolerate such an outcome?

However, if the Sang clan didn’t do anything about this, they would have to worry about these salt permits somehow ending up back in the hands of the Chu clan. They wouldn’t want to see that happen either.

There was only one possibility left—the safest thing to do would be to get the salt permits into...