"The trick that we didn’t anticipate was falsely claiming that an item was stolen goods", Kwon Qianhong added, "Since we’re not a black market auction that could be a bit problematic, but I had the auction host announce that in the event of such a claim, both the item, and the one claiming it was stolen would be held in custody until a confirmation was made. If the item was indeed officially declared stolen, the winner of the bid would receive their money back along with an apology, and the one who made the claim the item was stolen would receive a small compensation and released. Of course, the item has to be declared stolen an appropriate ti before the auction, and it has to be an official announcent in order to establish the authenticity of the claim. Since otherwise anyone can simply claim that an item was stolen from them. This rule was then added to the official rules of the auction as well"
"You handled it well", Wu Long smiled, satisfied with the outco for now, "There’s still a few tweaks we probably need to that rule, but that’s to do with various legal possibilities. For example, cases dealing with unique items which owners are publicly known and so on. But that’s sothing we can iron out in more detail a bit later, for now, good job on that"
Kwon Qianhong nodded with a grin, "Once we made that announcent, none of those who tried that trick could support their claims with a na of an actual owner or organization the item was stolen from, since that could be verified exposing them. Those who made those false claims were subsequently detained following that exact policy, we’re actually waiting for instructions on what to do with them, since we’ve already confird than none of the items they pointed out were declared stolen"
"Turn them over to the City Guards through Ko Fuan’s people", Wu Long replied without a pause, "Hmm, actually, we better do it right now. If we’re slow with this, an actual official demand might co from the City Lord Manor, it’s better if we make the move first instead of being ordered to"
As he was speaking, Old Yen nodded and taking out a communication talisman, sent out instructions.
Seeing it was being handled, Kwon Qianhong went on, "While no one considered stealing the auctioned items or starting real fighting because of the Formation, there were those who attempted to subtly release poison, or start releasing Qi pressure, none of which worked of course"
"What about one of the biggest factors concerning our reputation as an auction? Guests winning the bids and owners of sold items being attacked at the exits?", Wu Long asked.
"There were attempts, of course, but since we prepared nurous exits, as well as deployed illusory arrays, and escorted the successful guests and item owners out to safe distances, even if anyone of them is unlucky to be caught later on, we should be still known as one of the safe auctions to both sell items at and win items in", Old Yen answered after finishing giving the instructions over communication talismans.
"Good work, all of you worked hard", Wu Long stood up, clearly showing he was extrely happy with their performance, "There’s still a lot to do from now on, but this one was a key turning point"
"Haha, you’re praising us too much, Boss. To be honest, even if we sohow screwed up, there’s no way you would’ve let this auction fail hahaha", Kwon Qianhong chuckled, Old Yen and Nie Guanting showing similar expressions.
"No", however, they froze the next mont, looking at Wu Long’s completely serious face, "I’m being completely honest with you, I didn’t monitor the situation with the auction at all. If you screwed up, it would’ve been a massive blow to our plans. Of course, I would’ve thought of ways to salvage the situation after, but you genuinely had no backup on this one, just like I told you beforehand"
The faces of all three gradually turned somber as they realized he wasn’t joking, but speaking absolutely sincerely. And thus, knowing him well enough, they knew he was speaking the truth. But even though they suddenly experienced a bit of belated anxiety and heaviness of the responsibility, at the sa ti, they also felt a rush of excitent and pride. The amount of trust soone like Wu Long had to put into them to have them handle it completely without his involvent, made all three of them emotional.
He smiled seeing that glint in their eyes, "There will be more and more tis when I depend on you to do sothing while I am handling sothing else. So you better start gradually getting used to having the mindset of doing things on your own. Of course, we can think of fail-saves to put in place beforehand, since there’s no such thing as a perfect plan, but it would not, in most cases, be my involvent, but rather a different course of action you could take for example. What I’m getting at is that, by now, I know I can trust you with the results, you’ve shown you are competent enough plenty of tis. Don’t worry though, we’re going to do it gradually, and it’s not like I’ll give you a task I don’t believe you will be able to handle. So, unless you doubt my ability to judge the tasks you can handle, you can be confident to handle anything I ask of you"
"""Yes, Boss!""", the three of them exclaid loudly with wide smiles, filled with a sense of pride.
"You should still absolutely use ergency contact talismans when you think any of you could be in danger though", he then added with a chuckle, "No need to be shy about using those"
"Of course not, Boss! I’ll use it the very mont I think sothing went wrong without any hesitation or shyness whatsoever! You can count on , Boss! I’ll do it faster than I can even think out the word ’danger’ in my head!", Kwon Qianhong shouted in the sa tone as before, causing both Old Yen and Nie Guanting to burst out laughing.
As he looked at them laughing and joking with each other with a warm smile, Fen Baihu suddenly appeared on his shoulder in her small fox form, whispering sothing into his ear.
"Hmm?", he made an interested expression, and then turned to the three with "I have to go sowhere now, it seems there’s quite an interesting ’story’ in progress now. You three can have the rest of the day off, and rest tomorrow as well. You deserve a good rest, once again, good work"
Fen Baihu’s mist was already covering him as he was talking, spiriting him away.
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