"My king, Lady Xiang Feihu has replied. The meeting will take place tomorrow as planned."
Momojiro soon delivered the message to Zhang Bolu... yet the Pirate Alliance's King of Pirates could not help sighing.
"The world really is a strange place. Huamei is openly running a trading house in somewhere like Malindo now." Zhang Bolu shook his head. "Do you think she can make money?"
Momojiro smiled. "Now that the potions have opened up a market, this trading house really does have room to grow. If she runs it well, it'll do much better than my secondhand shop."
Momojiro was a merchant the Pirate Alliance had sent to Malindo to fence stolen goods. Several generations of business had built up a sizable customer base, but Li Huamei had already surpassed it with ease.
"Let her play if she wants." Zhang Bolu waved a hand. Legitimate business was certainly enticing, but the nature of the Void Pirates could never be whitewashed. He knew perfectly well what he had come to Malindo to do... and he would leave in the end.
Momojiro laughed. "The Empire Nobles have placed far too many orders, far beyond the Titus family's production capacity. If every order actually had to be filled, the real Titus family wouldn't need to do anything for the next hundred years except make potions."
Zhang Bolu frowned. "Have they all paid deposits?"
Momojiro nodded. "They all know Princess Anle is backing the trading house, so they paid without hesitation... some merchants even offered extra to jump the queue. We aren't going to supply the later shipments anyway, so they'll just have to consider those deposits money down the drain."
Zhang Bolu pondered for a moment. As pirates, they had no qualms about pocketing such a hefty sum in deposits... once everything was