Qing Zhen had not expected he would miss Xu Xianchu by such a narrow window, having just returned later by a moment.
However, he was not someone to dwell on such matters. Since he had missed his chance to get him, there was no point in regretting it.
"Let's enter the stronghold," Qing Zhen said calmly. Actually, what he should be most concerned about was not Xu Xianchu, but how the old fogeys from the Qing Consortium were going to punish him. Or rather, how they were intending to usurp his authority.
A lot of people in the outside world thought the Qing Consortium was helmed by Qing Zhen. But in actual fact, he only controlled a portion of the military.
Because the consortium's external affairs were mainly handled by Qing Zhen, outsiders thought that Qing Zhen was very influential within the Qing Consortium.
