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After a brief, deathly silence, the pent-up pressure found an outlet, and a wave of astonished, doubtful voices instantly filled the Ancestral Hall's Council Hall.
Many elders and stewards who had been sitting upright, gravely observing the proceedings, suddenly changed expression. Their gazes darted back and forth, and barely suppressed gasps and whispers rose one after another, swiftly swelling into a commotion impossible to ignore.
Even with its supply of forty percent of the Heavenly Spirit Legion's standard military equipment, together with the scattered civilian orders and custom workshop commissions it struggled to maintain, the Tang Family's total annual revenue from all its businesses barely hovered around ten million gold coins.
Yet now, the guaranteed order value the Chen Clan had announced through Xia Ying for civilian goods alone had already reached ten million.
That meant the trade volume carried by this single contract almost directly matched ninety percent of the Yellow Emperor Tang Family's current total revenue.
What made their breath catch even more was that the "ten million" Xia Ying had mentioned was a clearly defined minimum, written into the contract.
For the Yellow Emperor Tang Family, this was far more than a simple increase in orders-its scale would practically force the family's entire existing forging operation to double its output out of thin air, on top of its military and civilian commitments, just to accommodate it.
Even though everyone present belonged to the Tang Family's inner circle, concrete questions instantly surfaced in their minds:
The family's workshops, those hundreds of master craftsmen, the existing buildings, furnaces, equipment, and material supply chains...
With the original military supplies continuing uninterrupted, this enormous civilian order had suddenly descended upon them, equal in scale or even greater...
*Could the Yellow Emperor Tang's existing workshop