The Second Prince's Handwritten Edict

How could anyone be so shameless?! Especially an emperor of the empire—he actually treated his own words like farts. Marquis Krilos trembled with rage as he held the handwritten edict delivered by the Second Prince's men. Clearly, the Second Prince had once again refreshed Marquis Krilos's understanding of the limits of shamelessness. That father and son were both truly something else...

In July, the Norton Family substantially raised its purchase prices for raw materials, supplies, and mineral resources at Qilin Port's Trade Market, offering nearly one-third more than before. Marquis Krilos immediately ordered the Antares Merchant Guild to follow suit. But the Norton Family then raised its purchase prices again, continuing until they had doubled.

The Antares Merchant Guild was already in an impossible position. Marquis Krilos had no words for his bitterness. At the current purchase prices, buying raw materials, supplies, and mineral resources not only brought no profit, but meant that the more they bought, the more they lost. After all, sending a merchant convoy of several thousand people with a huge fleet of wagons from the Imperial Capital to the Commercial Alliance and back was no small expense. Marquis Krilos discovered that each trip cost the guild a loss of roughly seventy or eighty thousand Gold Fude.

At the original purchase prices, they could have earned four or five hundred thousand on each trip. But with the prices doubled, transporting raw materials, supplies, and mineral resources worth several hundred thousand, nearly a million, to the Commercial Alliance not only brought no profit but also required them to cover the transportation costs. The expenses of feeding people and horses along the way were no small matter. In particular, when passing through the Peterson Kingdom, even though the Peterson Kingdom allowed the convoys' cargo to pass unhindered, the regular