At least for the first two or three months after the two great empires signed the Ceasefire Agreement, the Xinfei Merchant Guild seemed, at first glance, to have done nothing.
Although the Xinfei Merchant Guild had been actively restoring and rebuilding its various facilities that had closed or suffered serious damage during the war, most people saw these as nothing more than trivial matters, hardly anything of importance.
No one believed that the Xinfei Merchant Guild would take such an enormous risk, even going to war with the two great empires, only to restore everything to its original state after winning.
Yet the Xinfei Merchant Guild really did nothing else. It simply continued its restoration work, step by step, according to its own plans.
Still, people could easily see that the facilities the Xinfei Merchant Guild restored and rebuilt now clearly held far greater importance than before.
Not only in many small countries, but even in vast empires such as the Candel Empire and the Malo Empire, every Xinfei Merchant Guild establishment received all kinds of support and preferential treatment from the local authorities. Often, they were treated even better than the two empires' own merchant guilds.
This was, of course, a benefit the Xinfei Merchant Guild had gained through the war, but many people still considered it far from enough.
After all, the Lampari Kingdom and the Drake Duchy had both acquired vast stretches of valuable territory and had already stabilized the situation there.
Although the Rulson Kingdom had not gained vast territories, it had absorbed the land formerly belonging to the Norton Duchy. It had also received enormous war reparations totaling over two hundred million gold coins from the Candel Empire, along with countless other benefits whose value could not be measured.
Despite being a merchant guild that