Within one hour of the auction gavel falling in the Municipal Land Bureau, the retaliatory strike from the Capital Real Estate Cartel landed like an avalanche of ice.
Across Yanjing, forty-two building material suppliers canceled their contracts with Taichu Group.
Ready-mix concrete trucks scheduled for delivery were diverted to holding depots. Sand barges along the northern canal turned off their diesel engines. Heavy steel distributors locked their warehouse gates with heavy iron chains.
In the regional building materials chat group, Boss Ma of Northern Concrete Company posted a laughing emoji next to a picture of Taichu’s empty five-square-kilometer parcel.
A floating prompt hovered above Boss Ma’s profile:
[Target: Boss Ma]
[Goodness Score: 19 / 100]
[Affiliation: Crown-Home Supply Cartel.]
