"Has His Majesty the Emperor of Candel shot himself in the foot this time?" Xu Yi put down his newspaper and smiled at Leslie, who sat across from him.
Leslie set down his tea and laughed.
"That idiot stirred up opposition to your Xinfei Merchant Guild in the Candel Empire all by himself, but never expected his nobles to be even stupider than he was. They actually misunderstood what he wanted and went much further than he'd intended, choosing to go straight to war with your guild."
At this point, Leslie shook his head and sighed before continuing, "It looks like your Xinfei Merchant Guild has kept the nations of the Sains Continent under such a heavy thumb all these years that it's warped their thinking. Otherwise, no matter how stupid they were, they wouldn't have done something like this."
"No, I'm not surprised at all." Xu Yi smiled faintly. "Opposition to the Xinfei Merchant Guild began showing itself years ago. There's nothing strange about it reaching this point now. And I can say for certain that this sort of thing will only become more common. After all, nobody likes having someone looming over them, do they?"
Leslie frowned. "If you saw this coming long ago, why didn't you take measures to deal with it sooner? And judging by what I've heard in the few days since I got back, you really don't seem to be handling much of the guild's business anymore. Are you actually planning to leave the entire Xinfei Merchant Guild to Freya? Can you really rest easy doing that?"
"Then can you rest easy leaving the entire Southern Continent to David?" Xu Yi asked with a smile.
Leslie laughed. "I'm getting old. Sooner or later, I won't be able to manage things anymore. The sooner David