During this period, Xiao Moshan had also quietly gone out to investigate the situation with Hongyun's people.
He was skilled at reconnaissance himself, and with Ping An, the local powerhouse, providing intelligence, he had a very clear grasp of Hongyun's movements.
Hongyun Conglomerate was enormous, but it had basically had no business on Zi Hong Star before this, only a tiny liaison office.
The office had fewer than ten staff members and merely coordinated a few related matters.
This time, Hongyun had sent quite a few people to discuss the acquisition. Besides the Energy Stone Mine, they were also negotiating other forms of cooperation.
Xiao Moshan had originally thought he possessed quite a bit of information.
Unexpectedly, Silver Fir took him through three cities in six days.
Only then did he learn that Hongyun had quietly gained control over and influence upon multiple factions through acquisitions, shareholding, and other means.
Some of those factions had been in contact with Hongyun for decades.
Most of the time, local Zi Hong Star factions handled matters while Hongyun rarely appeared in person, but that did not mean they did not exist.
After visiting three cities, Xiao Moshan showed nothing on his face, but he was somewhat astonished inside. This guy's intelligence network is that extensive? Even with Ping An's help, I don't have that much information.
However, when it came to close-range intelligence gathering, he still had to take action himself. Silver Fir seemed somewhat lacking in that area.
After another five days of investigation, Xiao Moshan unexpectedly discovered that Hongyun had made quite a few covert moves.
On the surface, they were merely applying pressure through various channels, but that was not the case at all.
Hongyun's methods were extremely discreet. They had first picked apart peripheral factions connected to Ping An