Qianye was in no mood to argue with Song Zining. Seeing the seventh young master’s flippant attitude of schadenfreude, he had to try fairly hard to resist the urge to kick the other party.

There was no solution to this situation. Qianye also knew that he wouldn’t get an answer from anyone else.

The loading of military supplies took an entire three days. After everything was ready and the fleet was formed, a small squadron of three airships arrived at the port.

A dozen or so men walked down from the vessels, whom Song Zining introduced to Qianye. “This is the second young master of the Luo family. This is the Yin family’s fifth elder. As for this person, he has a deep relationship with us, Zhang Xu of the Zhang clan. Let’s get along from now on.”

Qianye was still puzzled after being dragged over to greet these strangers. He had no idea what they were here for, but he noticed that they were all from major aristocratic families. Two of them were managerial-level characters from famed merchant companies.

The difference was that everyone was overly respectful toward Qianye this time, almost like a pack of tail-wagging...