“Has Auspicious Virtue gone mad?”

“Shopkeeper, this news are absolutely true! It isn’t just South Tomb, South Order and South Face, these three provinces, even Qiantang, Xiangshui, these two provinces’ Auspicious Virtue stores’ rice can be purchased through debt.”

“...”

While listening to what this accountant said, Liu Jing’s hands continuously shook uncontrollably, to the extent where he couldn’t even hold onto the small purple sand pot in his hands, his mouth continuously muttering to himself.

This grizzled haired elder was all the way in River Province’s Iris City, Riceflower Company’s shopkeeper. Meanwhile, Riceflower Company was precisely one of the seventeen allied merchant companies who joined together when they sensed Auspicious Virtue’s threat, when Auspicious Virtue first began to get into the rice business in Sunset Roost Province.

When Auspicious Virtue established large amounts of farmland in Jadewater and Heavenfall Provinces, the seventeen allied merchant companies could already no longer compete against Auspicious Virtue. This was especially the case after Auspicious Virtue’s arrangements in Jadewater and Heavenfall Provinces were revealed and the southern expedition began. There were seven...