The Nie family's sudden move completely shattered the conservatives' forecast. This was something they had never anticipated. Since the conservatives had gained the upper hand, a nationwide craze of cracking down on speculation had emerged over these past few months. After sentencing a number of individual traders, the momentum of reform had slightly eased, somewhat contained.
Just when everyone was celebrating and preparing for a potential counterattack from the reformists, they were caught off guard by the Nie family, which at this moment, had unexpectedly taken the lead in the reformists' counterstrike.
