Volume 4 Chapter 77 - Save me (1/2)

“Your highness, this is the latest financial report from the store, please review it.”

Seveni looked at the Seveni Chamber of Commerce’s financial report in the hands of the deacon and gave a sigh. After looking it over, she gave a bitter laugh.

“I never thought that in a few months, I would earn several tens of thousands of gold coins. It was no wonder those people did everything they could to chase out the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.”

The deacon looked at Seveni with a confused look. Why would her highness mention the Frestech Chamber of Commerce after seeing this financial report?

Could it be that it was like the rumours, her highness had an intimate relationship with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s chairman, that’s why she cared about the company that much?

“Take out the tens of thousands of gold coins and buy grains, then appoint them to the people in the villages outside the city. They were hit by a flood recently, so these grains should help support them over this time.” Seveni said.

“Yes.” The deacon nodded in response before praising with a smile, “Your highness truly is benevolent. The people in those villages aren’t the people of our territory, but you still think of them. If the lord of Tag City knew about this, he definitely would feel ashamed.”

“Although they aren’t citizens of my territory, they are people of the Lampuri Kingdom. As the princess, it’s normal for me to care about them.” Seveni casually said.

“But your highness……” The deacon paused before finally swallowing the words he wanted to say.

Seveni looked at him with a bit of a warning before waving her hand, “Alright, you can go prepare those things.”

The deacon quickly nodded before leaving.

Watching him leave, Seveni gave a sigh before revealing a bitter smile.

Closing the Seveni Chamber of Commerce wasn’t her original intention.

Seveni was planning on using her own work to let the Seveni Chamber of Commerce be a window that connected the magic machine companies led by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that were expelled, allowing them to continue this relationship with the Lampuri Kingdom.

But a while ago, Eric had summoned her and had a long talk with her.

During this talk, Eric had clearly told Seveni that he hoped she wouldn’t involve herself in the internal affairs of the kingdom because it would make his rule hard.

Although Seveni said that the ten companies only represented the benefits of the large nobles. Expelling the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the other companies was very bad for the Lampuri Kingdom, she was just doing this to soften the losses.

Eric didn’t support Seveni’s ideas at all. He said that the ten companies gave him the support of many conservative nobles in the kingdom, so this situation wasn’t something that he could go against. Even he as the king couldn’t do anything, not to mention Seveni who was the princess without much real power.

But Eric also said that he was clear on the current situation of the kingdom, he was currently beginning to control this situation.

Eric told Seveni that he was currently taking back power bit by bit from those nobles led by Duke Stagg, trying hard to control the Lampuri Kingdom. He hoped that Seveni wouldn’t make any moves during this time that would ruin his plans.

Although Seveni didn’t approve of Eric’s ideas, Eric was the one sitting on the throne now. As Eric’s little sister, she should fully support him, so she listened to what Eric said.

After that, Seveni stopped the Seveni Chamber of Commerce and closed all her stores in the Lampuri Kingdom. She also transferred her factories to the ten companies.

Up to this point, all of the hard work Seveni put into the Seveni Chamber of Commerce had gone down the drain.

Compared to before the Seveni Chamber of Commerce was set up, the Lampuri Kingdom was controlled by the ten companies, or rather the large nobles.

To Seveni, the situation in the kingdom was only getting worse.

This naturally filled Seveni’s heart with frustration.

She thought that she could change the situation with her strength, but she never thought that she would stop midway.

Thinking of how Xu Yi had called her “naive” before, Seveni couldn’t help giving a bitter laugh.

“I hope that Eric can smoothly put his plan in action and take back control of the kingdom step by step.” Seveni gave a sigh and shook her head, throwing this problem out of her mind.

Because the Seveni Chamber of Commerce closed, the refugees Seveni planned on having work in the Seveni Chamber of Commerce needed new arrangements.

Of course Seveni wouldn’t send them back to their original places to be exploited by their lords.

But keeping them on her territory broke the rules between nobles, which others could easily use to target the royal family and make Eric even more passive.

So after Seveni thought about it, she found that she could only ask Xu Yi for help.

It was a good thing that Xu Yi always accepted Seveni’s requests. After receiving this request, he agreed to help take care of these refugees for her without another word.

Adding in the fact that there were more refugees wandering into Seveni’s land, there were over two thousand refugees that had escaped to Seveni’s territory.