Since the Wu Family decided to pay for peace, they sent people across the river to Linzhou to gather intel. If Chen Mo really came down to Jiangdong to confront them, they could pay in advance to avoid disaster.
Therefore, although Chen Mo's shipyard construction was conducted in secret, it couldn't escape the attention of those with intentions. Having operated in Jiangdong for a thousand years, the Wu Family naturally had their own people north of Linzhou.
The fact that the other party was shipbuilding and constructing docks recently startled the informants, who immediately returned to Jiangdong to report the news to the Patriarch.
To verify the authenticity of the information, Patriarch Wu Yanqing sent his son, Wu Changlin, to investigate personally.
Early in the morning, Wu Changlin led his people to the northern part of Linzhou, near the Celestial River, to a county town named Qiantang.
