Chapter 554: Half a city’s allegiance

Far away in Binzhou, having previously obtained a vast portion of Lu Zhixin’s shares, Old Jin was actually Hucheng’s largest shareholder now. Still, Xu Tingsheng had been entrusted the shares for the next five years as he would control them on his behalf.

This had also been part of the earlier agreement. This time, Old Jin himself had proposed it.

The two had once talked about the matter of trust, regarding which Old Jin had said: Rather than purely relying on loyalty and unconditionally trusting another, why not have things set distinctly, both sides holding things which place them on the same boat. This way, there is simply no need to worry about the relationship.

This was what he had said, as well as what he had done.

In truth, Old Jin had made only one request of Hucheng as their largest shareholder: Opening a private school which...