Xu Yi could no longer remember how many people had asked him, or how many times they had asked, whether he had gone mad.
Ever since he had publicly announced at a meeting of the Xinfei Merchant Guild's senior management that he was voluntarily relinquishing his noble status, almost everyone who knew him well had asked him that question when they saw him.
Even those who barely knew him and were merely acquainted with him did not ask him outright, but their expressions made it easy to tell that they were thinking exactly that.
And when he decided to accept the proposal Lord Kamadu had made countless times, cooperating closely with the Kingdom Magic Industry Administration and transferring a series of Magic Machinery technologies currently exclusive to the Xinfei Merchant Guild, it was not just Servini who demanded to know whether he had gone mad. Even his subordinates in the Xinfei Merchant Guild, who had always admired him immensely and obediently carried out every instruction he gave with all their strength, cast doubtful looks his way.
The President... had he really gone mad?
Otherwise, with his intelligence, how could he fail to see just how serious the consequences of accepting the Magic Industry Administration's proposal would be?
It was no exaggeration to say that although the Magic Industry Administration's proposal this time merely asked the Xinfei Merchant Guild to transfer some of its technology to the ten merchant guilds it designated, anyone could foresee that the administration would subsequently make more and more demands of the Xinfei Merchant Guild, even issuing compulsory orders.
And when that happened, with his noble status gone and both Lampari the Thirteenth and Princess Royal Servini no longer serving as his powerful backers, what could Xu Yi use to oppose the will of Eric, His