The enormous merchant ship rode the wind and cleaved the waves, every part of its hull existing within its own order.
The merchant convoy sped onward in orderly fashion, while no one knew of the undercurrents in the hold below.
In this dark cabin crammed full of cargo, silence only deepened the oppression.
Of course Su She could not have forgotten the name he had heard. Back when Treasure Gathering Chamber of Commerce had been crushed and he had been driven into a dead end, Chongxuan Sheng had merely been a challenger before Chongxuan Zun, someone people regarded as a joke.
No one had believed that unremarkable fatty could win the position of family head and bear the title of "Bowang."
Just as Su She had never imagined that the Treasure Gathering Chamber of Commerce, linked to a vast web of interests, would be pressed into collapse by a single fat finger.
Back then, he had looked like such a harmless little fatty.
Now, he was already a topmost power standing at the pinnacle of East State, a colossal being in every sense.
Wasn't that why Su She had always hidden behind the scenes, broken up and reorganized the chamber of commerce, and established such a complicated power structure? Because he feared Chongxuan Sheng.
Yet he and his Hechang Merchant Alliance had remained in Chongxuan Sheng's palm all along.
All his scheming and strategizing was utterly laughable.
All his painstaking efforts had merely made a wedding dress for another!
Fortunately, evil men had their own evil men to grind them down.
No matter who ground down whom, it was all good.
He had been too kind. King Qinguang would not be.
He looked at Yin Guan, waiting for his leader's decision.
The utterly vicious King Qinguang was silent for a