No wonder Qiu Tu always felt that Yan Chen's last two sentences before leaving were a bit odd.
He said any one of the three intelligence reports would be enough to enlist Qiu Tu's help.
He also mentioned that even if he had done some bad things, he hoped that Lord Qiu Tu would be magnanimous and not hold it against him.
At the time, Qiu Tu thought Yan Chen was merely exaggerating his merits and apologizing for their previous conflicts.
Now he got it!
Yan Chen was preemptively inoculating him to prevent him from getting angry!
But more importantly, this was actually a conspiracy by Yan Chen.
Now it seems, although Yan Chen gave Qiu Tu three intelligence reports, the real target wasn't Qiu Tu at all, but Elder Tang.
The reason he handed over so much information to Qiu Tu was to ensure Qiu Tu would keep quiet when he discovered the plot.
