The First Green Robe Tower was also Green Robe Tower's Main Headquarters.
Apart from Huo Xiu, the Chief Leader of Green Robe Tower, only a few of his trusted confidants knew of this place. Every day, intelligence from the other Green Robe Towers was gathered here, along with their money.
Though Huo Xiu's clothing hardly seemed extravagant, he was actually one of the wealthiest men under heaven.
For every contract Green Robe Tower took, only half the bounty went to the assassin. Of the remaining fifty percent, ten percent went toward keeping Green Robe Tower running, and forty percent belonged to him, the Chief Leader.
Sometimes, someone paid a hundred thousand taels for a life, while an assassin might accept the contract at Green Robe Tower's internal price of thirty thousand taels. In reality, the assassin only needed to be paid fifteen thousand taels, leaving him a net profit of eighty-two thousand taels.
There were also contracts that went unfulfilled, yet the money still ended up in Green Robe Tower's pockets, because the paying clients had been disposed of.
Over the decades, the One Hundred and Eight Green Robe Towers had amassed enormous wealth for Huo Xiu.
And because Green Robe Tower was shrouded in mystery and skilled in assassination, none of the renowned major sects under heaven dared oppose it.
Someone had once remarked that the Green Robe Tower chief's power exceeded that of such towering figures of Jianghu as Shaolin's abbot, Wudang Sect's leader, and the Beggars' Gang's chief.
At that moment, Huo Xiu was drinking Western Regions Grape Wine as he listened to his subordinate report the day's news.
"We've just received word that the seventy-eighth, eighty-third, and ninety-fifth towers have all been wiped out by forces led by Great Ming officials. Some assassins escaped, some died,