Reborn Daughter: The Young Lady Wants to Make a Trouble

After eating the snacks, well, mainly made by Li Xueyue, Li Chenyang opened the closed scroll.

"I found something interesting today," he commented, handing it to her. She looked down at it, raising an eyebrow as she recognized what it was.

"How did you get this?" Li Xueyue exhaled and took it from him. Her eyes swept around and made a list of expenses, income, etc.; it was filled with all the wealth of the Bai family.

"I have my own way." Li Chenyang missed the part where the scrolls were stored in the restricted area, and he had to negotiate to get it. Sometimes, he was really glad that his surname and status opened the door for him.

"When was the last update?" Li Xueyue asked, remembering that the month was almost over.

“Last month. The records are updated once a month.” Li Chenyang smacked his lips. This is why the finance department is sometimes under a lot of pressure.

The entire accounting and auditing process is very complicated. Nobles with titles, such as Viscount Bai and Lord Li, are subject to stricter scrutiny and rigorous corruption checks.

"I have to return this scroll tomorrow, so if you want to keep this information, it would be best if you make a copy for yourself for safekeeping," he added.

"I heard that their business at the port has been negatively affected since what happened at the banquet and the riots on the street the day Yu Zhen and I went out." Li Xueyue closed the scroll and put it beside her. She told herself that if she had time today, she would concentrate on copying down everything.

“Yes, when the new report comes out, we will be able to analyze their plunge.” Li Chenyang nodded. “Once their reputation is thoroughly damaged, we will take advantage of it.”

Li Xueyue's eyes flashed with cunning. "I have an interesting plan."

"Then spill it." Li Chenyang pondered and returned to his seat.

“When the Bai family’s business declines significantly, they will definitely start looking for investors, preferably those who are not from Wuyi, so that the investors will not know their reputation.”

"Interesting, continue."

"Once their reputation declines like their business, the Bai family will fall into despair. They can only survive on their savings for so long. As you know, they didn't make it with old money." Li Xueyue leaned back in her chair leisurely. "The Viscount was born in a humble family. Once he tasted money, it was hard to forget it."

"Are you suggesting that we use a fake investor to bankrupt them?" Li Chenyang asked.

She shook her head. "What good would this bring us, other than a sense of satisfaction?"

"Nothing." Li Chenyang frowned. He wondered where her plan would go.

"Why don't we become the 'foreign investors' they need?" Li Xueyue finally said. "But before that, we need to tear their reputation to pieces until they are forced to sell their merchant ships and businesses at low prices. Once their selling prices are below market price, the 'foreign merchants' will strike. "They make a deal. "

"Well, go ahead." Li Chenyang began to connect everything in his mind.

“The deal is that a ‘foreign trader’ or investor will pretend to see potential in their business and, say, he will buy it for a fixed price and you and I will have full ownership.”

"They won't be willing to sell their business at a low price because they know they can't benefit from it," Li Chenyang pointed out.

"Indeed, they won't, and that's what our next plan is for. The investors will sign a fake agreement proposing that the Bai family turn the business over to us, and in exchange we will provide them with royalties on the transaction, but now the business will be under the name of a foreign businessman."

Li Chenyang's eyes widened. He knew where this would lead. "On the surface, the Bai family will think they still own a small part of the business because of the royalties, but because they sold the rights to us, the trade port becomes ours."

"Yes, the drafted transfer of ownership is real, but the terms of the royalties are not. We will change the name of the trading port and erase all traces of the Bai family until everything is completely different from the original. "It is stated in the contract. Until it belongs to us completely. "

“So are we going to pay them royalties?”

Li Xueyue nodded. "Yes, we need to keep them quiet while we restructure our business and repair our reputation."

Li Chenyang nodded. "Right now, their reputation has been damaged, but not to the point where sales have dropped dramatically. How can we ruin them further?"

"Pirate." Li Xueyue grinned and jumped up from her chair. "Sit here, I'll be back soon with the parchment of my plan." Without waiting for his response, she ran away. She rushed into her room, fumbled in the drawer of her dresser, took out the parchment, and ran back to the tea room.

When she returned, she was out of breath, but she handed him the parchment nonetheless and slumped down in her chair. Perhaps it would be a good idea for her to step up her training. She hadn't practiced swordplay and archery in a while.

Li Chenyang looked at her plan. He raised his eyebrows. "Are you planning to hire pirates to hijack Bai merchant ships?"

"If the goods are stolen, the merchants will no longer trade with the Bai family. They will switch to another dock and look for a better place to trade. Bai merchant ships are rarely equipped with enough weapons to defend against pirates. Besides that, we can buy off the abused or underpaid workers hired by the Bai family to destroy the cargo on the ships that have not been captured by pirates."

Li Chenyang exclaimed. "I didn't expect you to be so scheming. This is well thought out."

Li Xueyue responded with a shrug.

"This will definitely ruin their business. No one wants to work with them, and that's where we come in, am I right?" Li Chenyang thought thoughtfully.

Li Xueyue nodded immediately. "Yes."

“How can you be sure their workers are being treated unfairly?”

Li Xueyue's face was gloomy, and contempt flashed in her eyes. "I was just doing it." She would never forget the faces of the servants who were forced to hold her down and give her rough punishment. She would never forget the remorse that flashed across their faces, and the guilt they felt for being forced to beat a young girl.

They were hired as servants to do chores, not to kill people. She wondered how the servant who had nearly killed her felt. Was he drowning in remorse? Anxiety?

"What about the pirates? How can we reach them?" Li Chenyang asked.

"This is part of the plan I'm making." Li Xueyue pursed her lips. It was well known that there were many large shops in the capital run by foreign tourists, but she was not sure if pirates could be hired from them.

"Don't go looking for them yourself. Leave the pirate part to me. I'll tell you when I've dealt with everything." Li Chenyang's tone was serious and he didn't allow for arguments. He wouldn't risk her safety like this. He shuddered at the thought of her going to the dangerous place of the capital to look for pirates in the tavern.

"Okay." Li Xueyue nodded. "In the meantime, we must find a way to get in touch with the workers in Hechen."

Li Chenyang nodded in agreement, his eyes swept across the parchment, and seeing her chicken claw-like ink marks, the ink was messy, and his lips twitched. This will be a huge plan, and if successful, it will produce the greatest benefits.