If Connor didn't guess wrongly, the full name of this young man named Houldin should be Houldin Barrera, the first successor of the Barrera Consortium! If Connor guessed correctly, it was understandable that Houlding would provoke George. After all, Houlding had been messed up by George recently.
The Barrera Financial Group's main business was to refine the ores that Donghuo Company transported to Loen and sell them to various parts of the Empire, the Pohsis Kingdom, the Odin Empire, and other places. A few decades ago, when shipping between the Empire and the Khoy Continent was limited, the Barrera Financial Group quickly made a fortune with their processing business. However, with the development of shipping and transportation, the relationship between the Khoy Continent and the Empire became closer and closer. A large number of talents who lived hard in the Empire chose to go to the Khoy Continent to make a fortune. Among them were a large number of skilled workers who could only earn a meager salary from the capitalists and factory owners in the Empire.
The arrival of skilled workers and the advanced machine tools from the Empire greatly improved Donghuo Company's ability to process ores. Therefore, Donghuo Company was unwilling to only earn money from selling ores like before. They also wanted to get a share of the profits from the ore processing business.
Although Donghuo Company had to bear the cost of shipping their products from the Khoy Continent to the Empire, with the cheap and abundant labor of the Khoy people, Donghuo Company quickly gained a foothold in the ore processing industry. Not only that, after a few years of development, Donghuo Company's products quickly occupied 30% of the Empire's ore processing market, and it was still rising.
The Kaman Empire's market was only so big. If Donghuo Company had a large share of the pie, others would naturally have less or nothing to eat. Since they couldn't compete with Donghuo Company, many companies like the Barrera Financial Group started to look for countermeasures. Some of them started to attack the markets of the Pohsis Empire and the Odin Empire, while others chose to upgrade their family businesses.
The Barrera Financial Group chose the latter, and they chose to attack the banking industry where the Sanchez Bank was located. However, the banking industry in Loen was also in a state of saturation. It was monopolized by the Sanchez Bank and a few other banks. When the Barrera Financial Group wanted to interfere with the banking industry, the Sanchez Bank and a few other banks were naturally unwilling to be infringed. They worked together to set up a few traps for the Barrera Financial Group, causing the Barrera Financial Group to lose a lot of money.
As far as Connor knew, the leader of the traps set up by the Barrera Financial Group was George, who wanted to prove himself to his family. On the other hand, the Barrera Financial Group was led by the first successor of the Barrera Financial Group, Holdin Barrera. After being cheated by George, Holdin was in a sorry state. His position as the successor of the Barrera Financial Group was also questioned by the Barrera Financial Group.
Now that Holdin and Sophia were like this, it was highly likely that they had an affair before!
"What do I want to do?" While Connor was trying to recall Holdin's background, Holdin Barrera, the heir of the Barrera Financial Group, had an evil smile on his face when he heard George's words. However, in the next second, he abruptly pulled Sophia closer to him. Sophia didn't expect Holdin's action at all. She screamed in surprise and her breasts hit Holdin's chest. She was squeezed into a meat patty.
"Slap!"
Not only that, but Holdin also slapped Sophia's voluptuous breasts hard, and said to George provocatively, "George, I forgot to introduce her to you. This is my new lover. What do you think?"
George's eyes were burning with anger when he saw this scene. However, one second before he exploded, Connor sighed in his heart and stood in front of George to protect him.
"Bang!"
With a muffled sound, Connor's palm fiercely slapped the face of this guy named Holdin. Although Connor didn't use any mana and had held back most of his strength, even so, Connor's physical fitness was infinitely close to that of a Great Knight's. Holdin was stunned by this slap, and the evil smile on his face froze.
"I'm going to kill you! I'm going to kill you!" Actually, Holdin had some knight's cultivation base. Additionally, his battle strength was not weak. Although he was stunned by Conner's slap, he soon recovered his composure. At the same time, his evil smile disappeared. Instead, his handsome face twisted ferociously as he intended to charge at Conner.
However, before he could reach Connor, a woman in grey with a cold expression stopped him. "This is Mr. Desilio's welcome party. Gentlemen, please behave yourselves!"
It could be seen that Holdin, who was slapped by Connor, could no longer control the anger in his heart. When he saw the black-clothed woman who suddenly appeared, he opened his mouth and wanted to scold her. But as soon as he opened his mouth, he saw the East Hoy Company logo on the gray-clothed woman. He seemed to have thought of something. His eyes that were filled with anger immediately regained their rationality. He could only shut his mouth awkwardly.
"Who are you?" Across the black-clothed woman, Holdin's expression was ruthless as he asked Connor darkly.
"I'm Connor Ferguson!" Glancing at Holdin with disdain, Connor tidied up his formal suit and said calmly, "This guy is a noble.
"That's the guy. He's a fallen noble. Because George gave him a loan, he became George's lackey. He even claimed that his family and Mr. Desilio's Ranieri Family were old friends and that he had to give Mr. Desilio a gift. I really don't know how shameful it would be if he gave Mr. Desilio a gift with such a shabby appearance!" At this moment, Sophia actually got excited and took the initiative to 'introduce' Connor with a vicious look.
"Sophia …" George glared at Sophia. Although he didn't say anything else, the threat in his words was very dangerous.
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