As she spoke, her sharp eyes swept over everyone present.
Showing majesty.
However, Quentin drank the Keemun black tea in front of him nonchalantly, as if he was just here to make up the numbers.
The members of the Reynard family also avoided her gaze and did not intend to intervene.
Among the three giants present, only Elder Xue on her right took a deep breath and said worriedly, "What do you want to do, Queen?"
Nie Qingru saw the situation clearly, and clenched her fingers tightly around the handrail, with veins bulging on the back of her hand. She remained calm, "My idea is very simple - find a way to stop the ship before they ship the goods to Beijing!"
She had just finished speaking.
Quentin, who had just been drinking tea, put down his teacup with a nonchalant look and said sarcastically, "I'm afraid it's not that simple, is it?"
Nie Qingru looked at him unhappily: "What does the Archbishop mean?"
Quentin had always been at odds with her, so he spoke calmly, "We all know that David and Cage are in charge of the ships that transport the chips and rare earths respectively. Neither of them is the insignificant person you say they are. It's too easy to just stop them."
He did not give Nie Qingru face and said directly: "If the other party conflicts with us, should we stop them to the end or retreat immediately? If we stop them to the end, is the Queen ready to fall out with both F Continent and Beijing City at the same time? Many of our mineral and weapons cooperation with F Continent needs to go through Cage's power. If we fall out, what plan do you have to deal with it?"
He asked several questions in a row, each of which hit Nie Qingru's weak spot accurately. He was also reminding the other members of the Privy Council that Nie Qingru's decision to stop the ship was a stupid one...
There was whispering all around.
Nie Qingru's breathing gradually became heavier, and she looked at Quentin with a look that seemed to be able to skin and rip out someone's tendons: "...The archbishop has some truth in what he said."
She managed to keep her composure.
After a brief setback, he immediately knew how to control the Privy Council: "But Archbishop, don't forget that this time I am not just doing this for personal grudges, but also for the prestige of our hidden family outside. Don't act like it has nothing to do with you and that you don't care about failure at all."
The reason why Nie Qingru was able to persuade the company to suspend several important collaborations with Beijing this time was that she herself had to pay a lot of price.
For example, this time, Smith Bank took the lead in banning trade transactions in Beijing City, despite taking the risk of huge losses.
So she reminded Quentin in a subtle way, and also warned Quentin to quit while he was ahead.
As expected, Quentin straightened his expression and said, "I am just raising my concerns."
"It's a good thing that the Archbishop has concerns, but don't scare yourself and help boost the prestige of others." Nie Qingru said, as if he didn't want to pay attention to him, and turned to Xue Lao and said, "There is one thing I don't understand. It's not surprising that they can find rare earths in F Continent. How did they bypass Tianchen and find chip components in the illegal area?"
She had already made plans in Tianchen, waiting for Qiao Nian to ask Lu Zhi for help.
She has a way to force Lu Zhi not to help.
Everything was going as she planned, but who would have thought that Qiao Nian would not follow the beaten path and never thought of getting the chip components through Tianchen, but she actually got the components.
This was not part of Nie Qingru's plan.
This surprise was enough to catch her off guard.
Because she knew very well that the only two things that could curb Beijing and force it to bow down were rare earths and chips.
Qiao Nian turned the tables on her and the problem came back to her.
(End of this chapter)