Li Wei's homeland had an old saying: "Things of a kind flock together; people of a kind group together." The saying applied just as universally to most worlds.
Xia Lan and Kaierben were both old hands who had weathered the ups and downs of the business world.
Even if they did not fully understand Li Wei's entire arrangement in Water-Drawing City, understanding his current moves and coordinating with him posed no problem.
After all, they were now a community of shared interests, shearing the wool off every gray force and lordly noble in all of Water-Drawing City.
And shearing them was not enough—they were even preparing to slaughter those gray lambs busily building up their fleece, then sweep them out the door.
Their intentions could not have been more sinister.
To achieve this, however, they first had to make those people truly believe that Hogg Workshop was joining forces with the Xia Lan Chamber of Commerce to suppress Lord Kaierben's Blackstaff Merchant Guild.
Only then would they believe that Hogg Workshop and the Xia Lan Chamber of Commerce were conducting these current "loss-making" sales at any cost.
The more they bought, the more Hogg Workshop and the Xia Lan Chamber of Commerce would lose!
And pulling this off was not difficult at all. Li Wei did not even need to give special instructions.
After he, Xia Lan Veloss, and Kaierben reached a preliminary three-party agreement, Xia Lan Veloss naturally climbed into her family's luxurious carriage, radiant and beaming as though bathed in spring breezes, and returned to her Pride House.
Meanwhile, Kaierben walked out of Hogg Workshop with a "grave expression."
The rumors released to the outside world instantly confirmed that negotiations between the "two sides" had broken down.
Thus, membership application forms, which had already reached the thirty-copper threshold,