Chapter 864: Chapter 443: Jealousy, or Just Thoroughness?
The young swan had a mournful expression and didn’t dare to lift her head.
Sister Wang didn’t get angry with her, which only made her feel more guilty.
She wished she could slap herself across the face. At that time, she was really possessed to do such an outrageous thing.
In that moment, she completely forgot about the time when Louis’s great sin, Lust, went berserk and the immense risk it posed to him.
A deep sense of guilt spread in her heart, and she wished she could just run out of the room.
Ais wasn’t much better off either.
She was worse than the young swan.
This was also why she wanted to explode with the young swan.
Originally, this matter had little to do with her, but because someone had a brain freeze, she herself...
She couldn’t deny she’d also harbored certain thoughts, and in a muddle, had just gone along with it.
Now, she couldn’t even face Beatrice.
Thinking of this, he felt even worse.
Really, why did things turn out this way?
The two women’s faces were full of embarrassment and guilt, but in the next moment, they were pulled into a warm embrace.
"Alright, stop overthinking it. This was all within my expectations."
She consoled them both, gently patting their heads:
"If the power of the great sin, Lust, were that easy to control, it wouldn’t be a great sin."
Olivia’s voice sounded choked with tears:
"But, if it weren’t for my mishandling at the time..."
"If you hadn’t handled it like that, you would have been looking at a me who had lost Louis."
Olivia’s sobbing came to an abrupt halt.
Right.
She almost forgot, at the time it was to save someone’s life, to prevent him from being tainted by the great sin, that she made this choice.
But thinking of this event only made her sadder:
"So why does this despicable thing have to be Lust?"
Louis: ???
He pointed at himself, with a look of "girl confused.jpg".
"It’s as if I had a choice in the matter?"
"B-but if it were Greed, in your case, you’d definitely be able to suppress it."
Louis paused briefly and sighed:
"Do you really think so?"
"Isn’t it true?"
"Have you ever considered the current extent of the supply chain?"
"..."
"Not to mention the three human kingdoms, the staunch supporters of the supply chain; besides us, various other races have joined this plan more or less. During the era of great industrialization, backward productivity cannot compete with the expansion of the supply chain."
Beatrice nodded and said:
"In fact, any attempt to go against this new concept and the burgeoning tide of new technology will become the target of dumping. Of course, you can choose not to accept it..."
But what the cost of not accepting it is, she believed her sister couldn’t possibly not imagine.
Olivia always knew that the Mayer Commerce Association was expanding rapidly. Now even Lord Rom, the original manager, had suddenly become the chief steward.
Indeed.
The Mayer Commerce Association has grown to a degree unimaginable to ordinary people.
Even the Ense Empire didn’t expect the association to spiral out of control to this extent.
Olivia somewhat knew how terrifying the Mayer Commerce Association had become, but she definitely didn’t have a detailed understanding of the situation.
Speaking of this matter, Louis pinched his brow and said:
"Now the Mayer Commerce Association is not just the Ense’s commerce association. Beatrice and I had previously discussed whether I should consider separating the Mayer Commerce Association from the empire."
"Ah?" *3
Olivia was stunned.
Ais was bewildered.
Lumi was also somewhat shocked.
No.
Such an important asset of Mayer Commerce Association is actually going to be separated from the empire, and it was even Beatrice who brought it up?
This is such a fantastical notion.
But Beatrice explained:
"Then you must understand on what basis Louis’s Mayer Commerce Association expanded so greatly."
"The control of the supply chain, the pricing power of the product, the definition power of product rules, and the continuous expansion into first and second tier cities across the continent?"
"No, none of that." Beatrice said calmly, "It’s that everyone was tied to the chariot of profit, although at first, some didn’t want to get on the chariot, but after being hit once, they became obedient."
"So..."
"The Mayer Commerce Association expanded too quickly in the beginning, making it difficult to control locally, but no matter what, the quality businessmen we can cultivate at home are limited. In addition, wanting to quickly master the situation in other regions, the best way is still to use locals."
Olivia was silent.
She vaguely understood what Sister Wang meant, but still couldn’t sort out the final thread.
But it was certain that as the proportion of Ense people in the Mayer Commerce Association decreased, Ense’s control over the association would also relatively decrease.
Obviously, control had now reached a level where Sister Wang needed to forfeit keeping the Mayer Commerce Association domestically and choose to release it.
However, Ais seemed to be pondering and said:
"A commerce association highly scattered around the world, with profit demands not centered on Ense, but also not centered on other countries, right."
Louis nodded and said:
"Yes, compared to state-owned commerce associations like the Tulip Commerce Association, the Mayer Commerce Association’s transnational nature is stronger. My people, instead of being loyal to other countries, are more like..."
"Loyal to the Mayer Commerce Association itself," Beatrice said faintly. "They’re not trying to overthrow Louis, but they are like a dispersed commercial legion spread all over, in need of a figurehead to stabilize morale."
Olivia was stunned and said:
"They hope for Louis to step up and unify all the regional powers to become a capital flow group beyond national borders?"
