Chapter 98 Negotiations_3

Hashiba Finance was mainly involved in the finance industry, banking, and foreign trade, and due to years of business collaboration, the relationship with the Sky People of the United Assembly was especially close. Therefore, they were first to receive the majority vote support from Takamanohara's Otherworld Board of Directors, which enabled them to achieve an overwhelming victory in the internal struggle after the Oda's downfall and to become the ultimate big winner, the new powerbroker of Takamanohara.

Even to put it in more conspiratorial terms, it might be that fundamentally, it was the Otherworld Directors who, seizing the godsent opportunity of the Oda Family's extinction, used the Hashiba House as a blade to seize power and initiate a military coup, eliminating the Akechi Family and the Qingzhou elders who originally held the central power, and severely weakened the influence of the local Hua Clan samurai group circa 0791.