In principle, if you want to figure out someone's motivation for doing certain things, it's actually far less complicated than imagined. You just need to investigate the person, then deduce what they lack through clues, and basically, you can determine why they are doing something.
Like lacking money, so they go get money; lacking water, so they go find water; lacking meat, so they go find food; lacking love, so they cross-dress, etc.
Yuchi thought the same way.
The result of spending half an hour discussing with the City Lord was not just a waste of time, it was simply a waste of breath.
"I underestimated the capabilities of the Great Tang Prison, and I overestimated the capabilities of the Jiangzhou City Imperial Decree Department."
Yuchi was frustrated.
His lips were chapped from talking forward and backward, his smile was stiff, and what was the result?
He didn't learn a thing. In the eyes of the City Lord, what is the Great Tang Prison anyway?
