An Yiqing scrutinized the man from head to toe before turning her head to look at Zhang Yusheng, waiting for what he was about to say.
"Miss, that person is Wang Jianwen, the chairman of the Fulin Group."
"Wang Jianwen? The Fulin Group?"
An Yiqing slightly furrowed her delicate brows, muttering ’the Fulin Group’ to herself repeatedly.
The Fulin Group, it sounded familiar.
Her exceptionally sensitive memory prompted An Yiqing to roughly go through all the recent events. Suddenly, a flash of light in her mind made the words ’the Fulin Group’ pop out strikingly!
"Is it him!?" An Yiqing exclaimed in surprise, eyebrows raised, as she turned to look at Zhang Yusheng.
"Miss has a good memory. This Fulin Group is the competitor of Jinglin I mentioned to you before," Zhang Yusheng nodded as he spoke.
Her thoughts shifted to the recently concluded Xuandu Jade Stone Conference. In that game of strategy, aside from Yuyuanzhai’s greatest gains, the rest was accounted for by Xuanjin Yu Jade and Liao Jinglin.
However, ’the tallest tree in the forest is the most likely to be blown down.’ As Xuanjin Yu Jade began to exhibit an unstoppable momentum, the other companies in the industry could naturally not sit back and wait for their dooms.
An Yiqing remembered Zhang Yusheng once mentioning that Xuanjin Yu Jade had encountered some suppression from their peers, but none of it was serious, and with Liao Jinglin’s tactics, it was well within their capability to handle.
Therefore, An Yiqing didn’t pay much attention to this matter. But today, as Zhang Yusheng brought it up again, she began to take it more seriously.
"Brother Yusheng, does this Wang Jianwen have an issue?" Observing the fat man seated in the auction gallery, sweating and calling out bids, An Yiqing could clearly see he was somewhat nervous.
"Miss, Wang Jianwen isn’t much of an issue in himself; however, Jinglin and I both suspect that he has someone backing him," Zhang Yusheng contemplated for a moment before disclosing all that had happened recently, "You know, the jade stone wholesale business has always been highly competitive, but there are only a few companies in Northern Xuanjin who can truly pull their weight. Setting aside the smaller enterprises, there are two well-known businesses in this industry in the Northern Xuanjin region—Fulin Group and Fengshang Group."
With Zhang Yusheng’s detailed explanation, An Yiqing started to understand the beginning and the end of this matter.
Competition, including some underground rivalry, was inevitable among peers, such as securing the source of raw materials. Although An Yiqing had a one hundred percent success rate when it came to raw jade stone gambling, she couldn’t possibly focus on this every day given how much raw material Xuanjin Yu Jade, a huge company, needed. But even in her absence, with Zhang Yusheng’s many years in the jade stone circle, he wasn’t someone who could be easily played. Thus, under the tacit cooperation of Zhang Yusheng and Liao Jinglin, Xuanjin Yu Jade had been thriving.
However, after the Xuandu Jade Stone Conference, Xuanjin Yu Jade’s remarkable success drew enmity from the Fulin Group and Wang Jianwen.
In the following two months, Wang Jianwen used both overt and covert methods to trip up Xuanjin Yu Jade and Liao Jinglin. Setting aside his despicable actions and scathing mockery, Liao Jinglin had never taken him seriously. But lately, Wang Jianwen had managed to build connections from somewhere, even succeeding in snatching away several shipments that should have belonged to Xuanjin Yu Jade from Country Fei continuously.
This truly irked Liao Jinglin. If he wasn’t going to be benevolent, then he couldn’t blame me for not being righteous. The big boss of Xuanjin Yu Jade was not someone a small fry like him could compare with.
Eager for action, Liao Jinglin, through Nanjin and his connections in Country Fei, fought tit for tat, eye for an eye, taking Wang Jianwen’s destined shipments back