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Chapter 1185: Chapter 479: Resource Integration Chapter 1185: Chapter 479: Resource Integration “`

After all, in the eyes of many noble families, they had already consumed the most delicious part of the population dividend and had made a fortune. The remaining interests were no longer considered substantial. Rather than lingering here until the market shrank and making an awkward exit, it was better to find someone to take over while it still seemed prosperous and make another profit.

However, the choice of the person to take over was up for debate; there were at least a few important criteria to be met. The first was wealth, and the second was that this person must not have too strong a power for support.

Wealth was necessary because the agency was incredibly bustling at the moment, and outsiders were green with envy. How could one resist but to fleece them.

Similarly, even the most foolish person, upon actually taking over the agency, would realize that the business wasn’t as rosy as it appeared.

With Chaochang agency’s strategy of winning by quantity and low prices, the order profit margins were not particularly high to begin with. Coupled with the decreasing refugee numbers and the rampant “pirates” at sea, if an inexperienced noble young master with poor judgment wanted to show ambition, after spending a lot of money to buy the agency, he would inevitably end up resenting the person who sold him the business.

So the saying goes, harmony brings wealth; having a fallout with someone directly related to a major power is a potential loss.

This kind of low-level mistake, experienced merchants would not make.

…

Longzhou Calendar 1786

August 1st, early morning

In a small courtyard in the central district of Chaochang,

“Pfft~~” Tang Luo spat out the soup he hadn’t swallowed because of the astonishing news Yun Xiu had just delivered, “You’re telling me you’ve already bought three small agencies? How is that possible?”

“What’s so strange about that?” Yun Xiu rolled her eyes, wiped away the soup stains on the corner of the table with a cloth, and said disdainfully, “Didn’t you say you want to become the largest agency in Chaochang within three years? Are you complaining it’s too fast now?”

Having said that, she tossed the cloth away. Yun Xiu then told Tang Luo, “Take your time drinking the soup. Today I need to visit the agency. There are three earthen jars being kept warm in the pot; remember to eat them over three meals. I’m heading out first~”

No sooner had she finished speaking than Yun Xiu hurriedly left home, leaving behind the Pride of Longxi holding his soup bowl, his face full of disbelief.

A skilled woman can’t cook without rice. While Tang Luo had never questioned Yun Xiu’s business acumen, it was still somewhat suspicious that she had taken over three agencies in Chaochang within just a few months with only a warrior from Fierce Realm by her side.

This piqued Tang Luo’s curiosity immensely, so he summoned Fang Xiong, wanting to ask what exactly Yun Xiu had been up to these past few months with Du Sha and the young men from Marshal Star Pavilion.

As for what had transpired in these months, Fang Xiong’s eyebrows danced with excitement as he recounted the events.

“In these days, Mr. Du led us to be pirates. I thought there’d be fierce battles, but it turns out the fleets of Chaochang are cowards. We just had one ship, blocked their fleets of a dozen or twenty, and they didn’t resist at all. They just came one by one to pay up. We got so much cargo and gold that we couldn’t even fit it all in our ship’s hold.”

“Mr. Du led you to be pirates?” Tang Luo said incredulously, “How could that be possible?”

“Um… Mr. Du said that we are not ordinary pirates, but righteous pirates!” Fang Xiong reported seriously, “We only intercept the slave ships of private owners, freeing the people captured on the ships; it’s a deed of virtue.”

“Alright,” Tang Luo rubbed his temples, which were beginning to throb, and asked, “What about those who resisted?”

“We’d fight them! Don’t worry, we never lost a single battle. If it weren’t for the lady boss’s instructions to show restraint, we would have surely sunk their ships along with the people.”

“So…” Tang Luo’s temples throbbed even harder, “you’ve been spending these days just being pirates?”

“Of course not,” Fang Xiong shook his head, scratching the back of his head, “That’s all I know about being a pirate. The rest I’m not sure about… but I heard from Fang Yuan that the lady boss has been taking him to different agencies in various disguises lately. Exactly what she did, I don’t know.”

“I understand, get Fang Yuan to come here,” Tang Luo instructed.

“Right away, Pavilion Master! I’ll go call Brother Yuan right now!”

“`

Not long after Fang Xiong had left, Fang Yuan arrived in the small courtyard. After respectfully saluting Tang Luo, he began to recount Yun Xiu’s actions in Chaochang.

The seemingly ingenious methods, once broken down layer by layer, revealed nothing magical.

The sudden appearance of elite pirates targeting the agencies was a hint; the disintegration of loose trading alliances was common;

The money-civilian wanting to get involved in the agency business opportunistically appeared, using the money extorted by the pirates to buy shares from those wishing to withdraw.

There was no need for a full investment; just a portion was enough for Yun Xiu to become the actual controller of a certain agency.

Repeat the process with three or five agencies, and three small agencies had already fallen into Yun Xiu’s hands–all of which had unique advantages.

Among the remaining partners of the three agencies were a shipyard heir with a hundred-year history, a madam who ran businesses in the pleasure districts, and a miner from barren mountains.

Today, Yun Xiu was set to integrate the internal resources of the three small agencies, and after optimizing and merging their advantages, they could become one mid-sized agency with unique competitive power.

As Fang Yuan outlined Yun Xiu’s step-by-step actions, Tang Luo felt pride mixed with an unstoppable sense of helplessness.

He had thought that giving the goal of running an agency would consume Yun Xiu’s energy, making her forget about Yun Piaopiao, but now it seemed that it was a vain hope.

Just by the ease with which she handled, it wasn’t hard to see that, what’s a complex business situation for Tang Luo, was as clear as a set of laid flat chopsticks for Yun Xiu.

Thinking to use business to distract the descendant of the Yun Family was a bad move; he still needed to think of other methods.

…

South Sea Glass Road

While instructing the fighters of Marshal Star Pavilion in their training and clarifying their doubts, Du Sha suddenly looked up, narrowed his eyes against the fierce sun for a while, uttered a few words to the young men of the Marshal Star Pavilion, then leapt into the sky.

After soaring into the clouds, Du Sha saw the man facing the sun directly–former Sect Head of Xiling Martial Hall, master of both fist and palm, and the strongman rumored to be a half-step grandmaster, Tang Baichuan.

“Hero Du, seeing you is truly not easy.”

Tang Baichuan, standing with his back to Du Sha while facing the fierce sun, turned around and asked lightly, “Where’s Tang Luo?”

“No comment.”

Du Sha responded proudly and humbly, “If the senior has no business, the junior will leave first.”

“Hold on.”

Tang Baichuan sized up Du Sha, then said, “Hero Du unwilling to share is fine; I won’t press. I just want you to deliver a couple of sentences to that brat.”

“Please speak, senior.”

“He’s become an uncle, now with two nephews. The older one is named Tang Ziqi, the younger one Tang Zilin.”

“Also,” pausing, Tang Baichuan added, “The clan leader already knows.”

Leaving the message ambiguous and without elaboration, Du Sha nevertheless nodded, indicating he had taken note of the words, “The junior has taken note.”

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