To Xu Yi, Leslie leaving the Stark Family was not actually a particularly serious matter.
When he first became acquainted with Leslie several years earlier, he had already realized that Leslie's views clashed with the Stark Family's overall philosophy. Leslie had always strongly opposed the family's methods.
Previously, Leslie had declared that he would return and devote himself to competing for the right to inherit the family. His hope was that, once he became its head, he could gradually change the Stark Family's philosophy and reshape the entire family according to his own ideas.
Although he had failed now, from a personal standpoint, it could still be considered a kind of liberation.
Ultimately, he was Duke Stark's biological son. However little affection Duke Stark felt for him, the fact that he carried the family's bloodline meant the duke could never truly do anything too drastic to him.
Leslie had said he wanted to order at least ten medium-sized armed Mana-Powered Ships from the Xinfei Merchant Guild. That required an enormous sum of money. Without Duke Stark's tacit approval, Leslie could never have taken that much money with him when he left the family.
Perhaps, just as Xu Yi suspected, Duke Stark had expelled Leslie to leave the Stark Family a way out.
Thus, Xu Yi was not particularly concerned about Leslie's expulsion. Whether Leslie went to sea as a pirate or became a maritime merchant, Xu Yi would support him as a friend.
Beyond that, the matter had little effect on either Xu Yi or the Xinfei Merchant Guild.
For the entire Stark Family, however, and even the entire Lampari Kingdom, it had far-reaching consequences.
Through rumors, the nobles of the Lampari Kingdom learned that Duke Stark had expelled even his own son because Leslie opposed his political philosophy and