Chapter 865: Chapter 443: Jealousy or Comprehensiveness_2
"Yes, the identity of a mere merchant can no longer satisfy their ever-expanding interests. This is partly to blame on someone who hasn’t explained himself for a long time, leading many subordinates to have other ideas."
Louis was embarrassed.
But this does have a little to do with him.
The Mayer Commerce Association was initially his protective measure.
If the empire encountered problems and he was powerless, even if Beatrice and Olivia cried and made a scene, he would bind them and send them through Mayer Commerce Association’s channels.
This matter was known even to Ais and others.
But no one expected that in recent years, the expansion speed of the Mayer Commerce Association would reach such a level.
Here’s a joke.
Previously, people said that dragons were greedy, unwilling to move away from their hoard.
But now, the Mayer Commerce Association can even afford a demigod to grace their events, and the cost-effectiveness is extremely affordable.
For what?
Several demigods have chosen to offer their services simply to utilize the Mayer Commerce Association’s vast transportation network and a resource pool of massive scale.
Especially now, behind Mayer Commerce Association’s resource pool, there’s Louis, an exception, making the situation even stranger.
Ais softly said:
"Many small countries can’t even afford the wealth of a demigod, let alone one that can move freely. Such demigod means are very limited.
But now there is a commerce association with a real controller of Divine Realm, coupled with the ability to mobilize more than 4 demigods. How do you expect people below to think?"
Louis further did not want to speak.
If he had come out and explained earlier, there might have been a chance to control it.
But now, it’s completely out of control.
Within Mayer Commerce Association, countless people believed that Louis himself intended to separate Mayer Commerce Association from being a half-ense official commerce association.
Not to mention outsiders, even locals of Ense had suspicions.
Initially, Lord Rom could help him explain.
But later, with the commerce association’s expansion speed increasing faster and more professional managers being hired, through layer by layer of hierarchy...
Anyone who’s been a high-level leader knows that the result of passing messages through layers is that many meanings change when they reach the bottom.
Chief butler Lord Rom: "Lord Louis and Empress Beatrice are inseparable, Mr. Mayer is loyal to Lord Louis, and Mayer Commerce Association will always be part of the empire."
Level one manager: "Pass it down, Mr. Mayer is loyal to Lord Louis, and Mayer Commerce Association will always be part of the empire."
Level two manager: "Mayer Commerce Association is part of the empire, everyone should understand and not spread nonsense."
Level three manager: "The one behind Mr. Mayer won’t separate from the empire, but Mr. Mayer might establish something else, turning the commerce association into a private asset for that Lord. Don’t cause trouble, we still need the empire’s help."
Commerce heads of various nations: "Don’t make things difficult for Lord Louis and Lord Mayer, the higher-ups have already prepared to separate Mayer Commerce Association and entrust Lord Mayer with its management."
Heads of Chapters: "Willing to serve Lord Louis loyally, about our multinational organization..."
That’s roughly the situation.
Of course, there were many unseen undercurrents interspersed within.
For instance, Mr. ONE from the Business Land of the Am Empire highly praised Mayer Commerce Association’s ideology, that commerce owners are no longer restricted to a single country, but to unite resources across numerous nations.
For example, the commercial rising star of the Dragon Empire idolized Louis, openly stating that the concept of Mayer Commerce Association was initially established by Prince Louis.
The evidence is now widespread across the continent, chains of Mayer restaurants, all originally created to satisfy the Prince’s needs.
The person in charge of the Sun Chaser Commerce Association from the Supreme Forest expressed the hope that there would be an opportunity to sit down and discuss business concepts with the one behind Mayer Commerce Association. He was willing to pay Ten Thousand Gold for this.
Dwarf merchant lords from Furnace Castle straightforwardly stated that if that Lord agreed, he would be willing to kiss the Lord’s boots in respect.
The Wealth Goddess Church initially wanted to clarify and say not to excessively distort that Lord’s intentions.
Then...
Then one day, the Pope received a divine oracle to crown that Lord as the living human representative of the Wealth Goddess.
What?
You say he’s not?
Then the problem might be over at the side of the goddess, right?
After the divine oracle was issued, the high-ranking members of the Wealth Goddess Church were utterly shocked to discover one thing.
The goddess’s chosen Divine Favorer was not Mayer, but...Louis.
At that moment, the church’s high-ranking officials instantly thought of two possibilities.
Either Mr. Mayer indeed existed, but Mr. Mayer was merely a representative launched by that Lord.
Or, there never was a Mr. Mayer; it was just that Lord sweeping across the commercial world of the continent.
Later on, on the Giant Plain, they sensed the bestowed mark of a Divine Favorer from the goddess when they were at Lord Mayer’s place.
Although they didn’t know whether that Lord deliberately disguised as Mayer to go to the Giant Plain, they wouldn’t expose this matter.
But after returning to the church, a small rumor spread among the high ranks, saying "that magnificent prince who must not be addressed by true name truly resembles the goddess incarnate."
After the rumor spread, the commercial elites, who had planted many of their people in the Wealth Goddess Church, quickly received the news.
Thus, the saying "everything is according to that Lord’s arrangement" became widely circulated.
Alas.
Don’t say it.
Truly, don’t say it.
They singled out some key information, and the related content was all correct.
Even if presented before Louis, he couldn’t refute them.
Because individually considering the evidence they presented, it was indeed...quite convincing.
"So when Beatrice talked about this matter, even I didn’t understand it at the time."
Louis, overwhelmed with emotion, said.
Do you know one late night, when his first wife suddenly came over and said to him, "Mayer Commerce Association’s rapid expansion is thanks to my lover. If you think it’s inappropriate to be mixed in, just tell me directly. Let them mess around below; the influence isn’t good..." What kind of feeling did Louis have back then?
He couldn’t close his mouth at the time.
Not really, what exactly happened?
Sweetheart, why do I understand every word you say, but when they’re put together, I can’t understand at all?
"In any case, although it’s their misunderstanding, the scale of the Mayer Commerce Association now, if trying to maintain reasonable operations and satisfy the demands of all subordinates, it might indeed need to separate from the empire.
However, it doesn’t matter, the actual control is still in our hands; nominal separation, in exchange for real control and the stability of the commerce association, along with potential future expansion, will be more beneficial than if it were solely in our hands."
The Empire belongs to the Empire.
Mayer belongs to Mayer.
It’s inevitable for the Mayer Commerce Association to enter the historical stage as an independent force; there’s no need to force it.
In this regard, Beatrice even sees it more openly than him.
"So Olivia, you must understand that until now, the Major Sin of Greed hasn’t manifested. It’s not that it doesn’t want to but because I’ve always been satisfying it, even to the point of making it overwhelmed.
When it has the power to create influence..."
Louis opened his palm.
In his palm, a delicate yet illusory small world appeared.
That is the Soldier Realm.
Louis said calmly, "When I mastered the power of the Divine Realm, although it is unavoidable that I’d be influenced, I ultimately acquired the ability to resist its erosion."
Ultimately, the power of authority originates from information.
Authority operating on the informational level can directly modify reality by altering information.
It’s nearly impossible for anyone in the Legendary Realm to possess such power.
Even few in the Demigod Realm have corresponding means.
But entering the Divine Realm is different.
By intervening in the information of the small world, directly altering its structure from the root, whether on Louis’s side or on the side of the deities, it operates through the means of self-power informational interference.
In truth, if it weren’t for that damned sin of Lust throwing all its accumulated Abyssal Pus at once, Major Sin of Lust wouldn’t be so easily out of control.
The little swan pouted:
"You say it like...your suppression power over Lust is indeed the strongest, but Major Sin of Greed requires too much."
