Deng Hao has been running the Cloud Tiger Trading Team for over a decade, always with great diligence and caution, as if treading on thin ice. The reason is that the scale of his merchant team is too small, with too few hands, unable to withstand losses, and cannot endure too much turmoil. Small private merchant teams like his are quite common; everyone's dream is to latch onto a large city or trading company—once their informal operations are officially incorporated, many worries would no longer trouble them.