At first, Huang Xiao had been alarmed to discover so many people converging on Jicheng. He had thought his identity had been exposed.
But he discovered that it was only a false alarm. What was happening here had little to do with him.
"Chen Xiangrong is planning to announce the establishment of the Trading Company Alliance in Jicheng? He wants to unite the strength of the trading companies, not just the Four Directions Trading Company and the Eighteen Families Firms this time, but every trading company under heaven, large and small, to put pressure on the Heavenly Sword Sect and force them to hand over the culprits behind the massacre of the Eighteen Families Firms and his Four Directions Trading Company." With a little asking around, Huang Xiao learned all this from the people of the Jianghu.
This information was no secret. Everyone was passing it along by word of mouth, and the people in the city had long since heard it. That was why countless people of the Jianghu had gathered in Jicheng.
Only after learning that it was not about him did Huang Xiao secretly breathe a sigh of relief.
"Deep pockets make for a loud voice. Deep pockets indeed!" Huang Xiao said with feeling.
Money was behind the grand spectacle Chen Xiangrong had stirred up this time. On behalf of the Trading Company Alliance, he had promised generous rewards to anyone in the Jianghu who supported them.
This had brought countless people of the Jianghu here. Seeking wealth was part of their nature, too.
However, those seeking wealth were generally only ordinary people of the Jianghu or ordinary Jianghu factions.
Those Great Powers had sects swimming in wealth themselves. Surely they would not care about Chen Xiangrong's generous monetary rewards?
That was why Huang Xiao could not