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Across from the venue, the Chairman of Yun was having tea with the representatives from other commerce chambers.
As operators, they usually just sent their confidants to guard the venue and rarely showed up in person.
It so happened that today, the Chairman of Yun, because he was entrusted by the Hundred Streams Sect to keep an eye on Jiang Lu, was alone and bored, which is why he called a few of his well-acquainted fellow commerce chamber representatives for a small gathering.
The seven or eight people present all implicitly regarded the Chairman of Yun as their leader, which naturally was because there was also a hierarchy among the commerce chambers. As the saying goes, when three people gather, a group is formed. When closely allied commerce chambers formed small groups, they essentially turned into consortiums, each with their own area of responsibility, working together for mutual benefit against the outside world.
