Xie Wen's unspoken meaning was that Si Peng and the others had underestimated Lifeng Trading Company's capabilities—and at the same time, underestimated what the Divine Might Army itself represented.
One had to know that having money did not necessarily mean one could train such an elite army with formidable martial strength.
There was no shortage of potential great generals within the Divine Might Army. The six guard generals—Hong Tianzheng, Li Ao, Shen Zhihang, Fang Gongming, Mo Li, and Xu Fei—each possessed the ability to command an army on their own and were well versed in military strategy and battle formations. Such people were exceedingly scarce elite talents.
There was no lack of highly skilled martial artists. Lifeng Trading Company could likely find some fighters of that sort within its ranks as well. But those who could also master the art of military strategy and formations were far rarer.
Put plainly, the Divine Might Army was not a band of common marauders, weak in capability from top to bottom. Rather, it was an army capable of rivaling the Imperial Court's proper elite troops.
With the same thirty thousand men, the Divine Might Army could defeat three hundred thousand bandits while suffering minimal losses itself.
And all of this was the foundation of Commander Bai and the power he controlled—the talents they had unearthed.
Those talents could originally have helped him achieve great things himself, but Meng Zhao had snatched them away midway. It could be called a devastating loss.
What some ambitious people within Lifeng Trading Company were willing to spend enormous sums to maintain were precisely such elite, powerful troops—not the disorderly soldiers and bandit troops now scattered all across Liang Prefecture, who would shatter at the first touch.
Xiang Qing was somewhat puzzled as well.
"Your trading company is