Two months ago, Jiangdu saw the arrival of an even more formidable foreign commerce guild: the Fallen Leaves Commerce Guild.
This was a massive commerce guild jointly established by two ancient families from Northern Su, the Liang and Xu Families. Although the commerce guild represented only the tip of the iceberg in terms of their strength, it was not something that the local "bumpkins" of Jiangdu could compare with. The arrival of the Fallen Leaves Commerce Guild had swept through Jiangdu like a forceful dragon crossing a river, overwhelmingly suppressing the various small and large local enterprises.
In just two short months, half of Jiangdu's enterprises had been annexed, and the remaining ones were either facing closure or awaiting acquisition.
