Chapter 463: Chapter 296: Black Knight General Yan Jinnian!_2

Phoenix looked at Yan Wenli and asked, “What does the director mean?”

“If we let the Lu Family walk away without any consequence, that’s a dereliction of our duties,” Yan Wenli said with a grim expression and a hoarse voice. “How do we explain this to the citizens? How do we explain it to the King? How do we answer to our own conscience?”

Phoenix understood.

Yan Wenli was not satisfied with the current outcome of the case.

He had handed this case to Phoenix, wanting to inflict serious pain on the Lu Family, possibly even looking to break them apart.

Only then would the Lu Family truly fear the Royal Family.

Whether they surrendered or were devoured, the Royal Family would have much more initiative.

To wrap up the case in such an insignificant way meant nothing changed; the Lu Family would remain the same imperious and fierce force it always had been, which was of no significance to the Royal Family.

They needed to bite like a mad dog and not let go, to tear their flesh and break their bones, leaving them unable to stand up again.

At the very least, they shouldn’t be able to stand tall and straight as they did now.

“I understand,” Phoenix said in a deep voice. “We will continue to dig deeper into this case without letting go.”

“We have to start from somewhere else,” Yan Wenli said. “Since Gongshu Wuyu has taken on all the blame, we can’t relentlessly pursue this case further. It would be hard to justify.”

“Lu Yunhang played a disgraceful role in these cases, and many contracts bear his signature. Does he not deserve any punishment?”

“You’ve seen it yourself, they have thrown out Wang Wenyou, the deputy head of the design institute. Wang Wenyou was in charge of all the external cooperation of the entire design institute, and all the business contracts were negotiated by Wang Wenyou and Gongshu Wuyu. At most, Lu Yunhang can be held responsible for poor supervision, which won’t damage the Lu Family’s backbone.”

“If we could turn Wang Wenyou or Gongshu Wuyu against them… would Lu Yunhang fall?”

Yan Wenli looked deeply at Phoenix and asked, “Do you have a way?”

“Let’s try,” Phoenix said. “Gongshu Wuyu is from the Lu Family; it’s understandable he’d take the fall for them. But Wang Wenyou, an outsider, does he really want to spend so many years in jail? Doesn’t he care about his wife and children?”

“Good, then I’ll leave this matter to you to see if there’s anything else to dig into.”

“Understood,” Phoenix said gravely.

Yan Wenli patted Phoenix’s shoulder, encouragingly said, “The first phase was quite successful, I will commend you to the higher-ups. I’m counting on you for the rest.”

“Yes, I will not disappoint your expectations,” Phoenix stood up and bowed respectfully.

“Alright, off you go now,” Yan Wenli said cheerily.

Phoenix and Zhong Jiayuan got up to leave, and upon exiting the door, happened to run straight into a tall, leggy woman dressed in the uniform of the Monitoring Bureau.

Zhong Jiayuan took the initiative to greet the woman with a smile, “Director Yan is back? Long time no see.”

“Mhm,” the woman responded coolly, nodding her head before pushing the door and walking straight into the director’s office.

Phoenix looked puzzled and asked, “Who is that?”

Zhong Jiayuan was the head of the fifth division of the Supervision System, holding a high position and significant power.

Moreover, he was of the Royal Family, being an in-law, after all, not someone who could be ignored easily.

Yet, when faced with Zhong Jiayuan’s greetings, the woman had only nodded coldly.

What surprised Phoenix more was that she pushed open the door to the director’s office without knocking…

“Could she be a mistress kept by the director?” Phoenix wondered internally.

Zhong Jiayuan smiled wryly and explained, “You’re new here and don’t know our Director Yan Jinnian… She’s the deputy head of our division in charge of the Inspection Bureau Black Riders…”

Phoenix’s thoughts became active.

He knew that the Inspection Bureau Black Riders were an incredibly formidable force that could move freely throughout Phoenix City, executing various missions, unlike other troops that had to be stationed at specific defense zones without orders not to be mobilized.

For example, when they wanted to capture Xiao Bai, they had used the power of the Inspection Bureau Black Riders to blockade the entire target area.

Phoenix was eager to get his own people into the Black Cavalry to influence or control it for his own use.

He hadn’t expected such an important force to be in the hands of a woman.

How to begin?

Use Xiao Bai’s beauty to his advantage?

Xiao Bai was very good-looking; that shouldn’t be a problem…

“Surnamed Yan?” Phoenix’s mind raced, but his face remained impassive as he asked, “What’s her relation to our director?”

“The director has no children, she’s his adopted goddaughter,” Zhong Jiayuan explained.

“No wonder,” Phoenix nodded. This would explain why she could ignore Zhong Jiayuan, her superior, and directly push open the door to the director’s office.

She was his daughter, after all.

“Director Yan is quite capable…” Zhong Jiayuan whispered to Phoenix.

Just talking about capability, not character.

That meant, in Zhong Jiayuan’s eyes, she wasn’t easy to deal with.

Phoenix caught the implication in Zhong Jiayuan’s words and said, “I never thought that our Inspection Bureau’s Black Knight General would be a woman… Since the Black Cavalry is part of our division, our core force, I assumed it was under our control.”

This struck a chord with Zhong Jiayuan, who also desired to have this force under his control.