Inside the carriage, a long silence fell after Gu Yingtian finished speaking.
Zhou Tieyi finished flipping through the ledger and closed it with a snap. "But there are two questions you haven't made clear. First, why tell me this directly? Second, what do Monk Zhi or the Dazhi Monastery need so much Ink Stone for?"
Gu Yingtian replied, "I told you this, Marquis Zhou, partly to demonstrate the sincerity of the Ning Mansion, and partly to remind you that those you consider friends may not necessarily be friends, and your enemies are not necessarily your enemies. The Ink Stone issue began with that Mohist Giant three hundred years ago. He drove the development of Ink Stone mining, and in the hundred years that followed, the three Taihang provinces did indeed prosper. However, the problems left behind are so deeply intertwined that even those who wish to resolve them find themselves tangled in the web."
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