"Your Eunuchship's divine arts are unmatched. With this display of force, Charlton will surely no longer dare play any tricks."
Seeing Eunuch Wei return, Old Luo, who already knew what had happened over there, immediately stepped forward and flattered him.
The foreigners had come for profit as well. If not for gain, who would travel all that way with nothing better to do? So long as they bared a little fang and the foreigners felt that the losses from outright plunder were not worth it, they would do business with them properly.
Especially since what they had brought out for trade was medicinal herbs—the foreigners' favorite sort of thing. There was no need to worry that they would not be tempted.
This was also part of Old Luo's plan. By now, the interests the Celestial Empire could occupy had long since been almost entirely carved up by the great clans, warlords, and foreigners. Their faction had been overseas for far too long; if they wanted to return and fight anew for power and influence, they would inevitably have to join hands with one or two of those sides and swallow the interests of another.
Seizing the foreigners' interests was undoubtedly food snatched from a tiger's jaws. No one dared do such a thing. Thus, Old Luo's plan was naturally to ally with the foreigners, with Young Master Lu's True Realm Life-and-Death Sect faction, and with the new faction represented by Huo Yuanhong, forming a new camp to contend for the interests of the old faction led by the Golden Age of the martial world.
Although he knew that Young Master Lu and Huo Yuanhong seemed to have a grudge between them, in his eyes, there were no eternal enemies in this world—only eternal interests.
Right now, Huo Yuanhong was a