Grandet knew Iver was busy, so after they finished talking, he politely took his leave and departed.
Objectively speaking, Grandet's presence had helped Iver resolve quite a few troubles.
Gray-Green clearly knew a little about Grandet's background. And the trouble and cunning Iver had displayed while negotiating with that "Mr. Gold Coin" had spared her the need to test Iver further. This had saved both sides time and effort.
Unlike the large-scale orders involving core national policies that Grandet handled, Ms. Gray-Green's request was quite simple.
She merely hoped that Iver would become the new president of Lloyd's, thereby stabilizing those Avalon merchants whose thoughts had begun to stir.
As a merchant consortium, Lloyd's consisted entirely of merchants—and merchants had no loyalty to speak of.
Once they confirmed that Lloyd's was being targeted by those in power, those merchants would abandon Lloyd's without the slightest hesitation.
But that did not mean they would not gather again. They would simply choose another group as their core and regroup into a new merchant consortium... Perhaps they would even give it a new name, such as the "High-Rise Society" or the "Prince Society."
Perhaps it would be out in the open. More likely, it would be in the shadows.
But in essence, these organizations were all the same. Different small factions would inevitably try to seize the right to speak, bringing instability and change to the environment. For the sake of fairness, merchants who already possessed resources would certainly wish to keep things as stable as possible.
At a time like this, if Iver, as the Minister of Everything, became president of Lloyd's, it would undoubtedly send these merchants a very friendly signal: the Round Table Hall might not want Lloyd's to disband, but merely want to intervene and take a share of