Ping Zhao, full of doubts, followed Chen Ji out of the teahouse, not knowing where Chen Ji was headed.
A group of people headed north all the way, and Chen Ji returned to Taoye Ferry where the Late Sun was docked and boarded the painting boat by stepping on a sampan.
On the deck were three large wooden chests. He uncovered them, revealing neatly piled salt permits packed tightly within.
Chen Ji closed the wooden chests again and called Yuan Xing and others to help carry the chests off the boat.
Ping Zhao asked him, "All the salt permits are here, what do you plan to do with them?"
Chen Ji retorted, "The Lamp hasn't bought any salt permits, has it? If it has, be sure to sell all the Huguang salt permits before evening today."
Ping Zhao shook her head, "Don't worry, you said to only use the 1.2 million taels of silver, so I only used the 1.2 million taels of silver. I've only collected 90,000 permits in these few days, is that enough?"
Chen Ji smiled and said, "It's enough."
