Volume 6 Chapter 43 - Establishing prestige (1/2)

Volume 6 Chapter 43 Establishing prestige

King Teruc read the report in his hand and he had a slightly sunken look on his face at first, but he slowly revealed a faint smile as he reached the end of it.

When he finished reading it, he folded it up and his expression became calm again as a strong confidence filled his eyes.

“Did chairman Xu have anything else to say to you?” King Teruc asked Newman standing in front of him.

Newman gave a bow and replied, “Before leaving the Stantine Duchy, chairman Xu found me in secret to have me bring some words back to your majesty.”

“Speak.”

“Chairman Xu said although it seems like the Rudson Kingdom is in a crisis this time, this is actually a very good chance. At the same time, it was also a very good chance for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.”

“Just this?”

“Un, just this.”

King Teruc fell silently into thought for a bit, looking at the letter in his hand. After thinking for a bit, it was as if he had thought of something as he revealed a faint smile.

“Very good, it seems like chairman Xu’s ambitions are even bigger than I thought. That is very good.”

Newman looked at King Teruc in surprise. He thought that it was because chairman Xu and his majesty were both very ambitious people, that was why they had reached this agreement.

This time after fighting the Candra Empire, the entire Rudson Kingdom had fallen into chaos. Everyone was worried that the Candra Empire would start launching powerful retaliation against the Rudson Kingdom because of this, even destroying the Rudson Kingdom.

In this situation, the first thing King Teruc thought about was not how to recover from the influence of this matter and find a solution with the Candra Empire. Rather he mobilized the Rudson Kingdom and prepared to fight the Candra Empire.

Because of the actions of King Teruc, many nobles of the Rudson Kingdom became even more worried and there was an undercurrent surging in the kingdom. Countless nobles had used various methods to ask King Teruc to seek reconciliation with the Candra Empire, hoping that they wouldn’t truly go to war with the Candra Empire.

But King Teruc didn’t care about them at all and continued to prepare for war.

If it was in another small country, that country would have already fallen into chaos. However, in the Rudson Kingdom, the royal family represented by King Teruc had full control of the Rudson Kingdom, so the other nobles couldn’t influence him at all.

Now that King Teruc had made a decision, the other nobles in the kingdom were at their wits end. There were many nobles families that were secretly shifting their family out of the Rudson Kingdom to avoid this calamity.

King Teruc was aware of what was happening in the kingdom, but he acted like he didn’t see it at all and didn’t care about it. He was focusing most of his attention on preparing for war and a bit of his attention on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

When the Rudson Kingdom’s border guards had clashed with the smuggling merchants on the Candra Empire borders, King Teruc had already given the Frestech Chamber of Commerce many favourable conditions in hopes that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would support them within military magic machines.

Now that the conflict between sides had truly erupted, King Teruc immediately sent Newman, who was the most familiar with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to the Stantine Duchy, to negotiate with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce on his behalf.

It should be said that the results of the negotiations with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce weren’t ideal.

Even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce welcomed Newman like usual, Newman could clearly feel that the high level members of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce were only being polite to him. When he tried to discuss the matter of cooperation, whether it was the CEO Kennard or the other high level members, they went to do something else, shifted the topic, or weren’t willing to discuss this.

When Newman started discussing the matter of buying military magic machines, Kennard and the other high level members of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce were all cold towards him.

After being in the Stantine Duchy for a week, Newman already understood the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s stance.

It was clear that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had scruples about being involved between the Rudson Kingdom and the Candra Empire. They weren’t willing to meddle, so they weren’t willing to offend the Candra Empire by supporting the Rudson Kingdom.

This result was not that surprising for Newman. Before he had come to the Stantine Duchy, the people in the Rudson Kingdom had already predicted this.

In the end, compared to the giant Candra Empire, the Rudson Kingdom really was insignificant.

Even if Newman was in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s current position, he would have the same attitude as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

However, when Newman left the Stantine Duchy in disappointment, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s chairman Xu who had never appeared appeared in front of Newman.

Xu Yi didn’t say much to Newman in private, he just gave him a letter for King Teruc while also letting him bring some words to King Teruc.

However, just a single letter and a few words had made King Teruc who had a dark look on his face because of the attitude of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce fill with confidence again.

This made Newman very confused.

His majesty had suddenly changed, it was clear that Xu Yi’s letter had shown his support for the Rudson Kingdom.

However, since Xu Yi supported the Rudson Kingdom, why did the high level members of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce have such an attitude when they met Newman?

Could it be that they had a different idea as Xu Yi who was the chairman?