Volume 6 Chapter 79 - Go in a group (1/2)

Facts proved that Hafra’s group’s encounter in Laru City wasn’t an exception.

After the Lampuri Kingdom and the Candra Empire signed the trade agreement, it wasn’t just Hafra who could see the opportunity.

In the past few months, there were many Lampuri Kingdom merchants who brought large amounts of Lampuri Kingdom products into the Candra Empire.

With the cheap products of the Lampuri Kingdom, these merchants had earned quite a bit in the Candra Empire.

This situation should have continued, but once May came, there were over ten groups of Lampuri Kingdom merchants that were caught in the Candra Empire’s southern province. All their cargos were seized and they were deported, which caught quite a bit of attention from people.

Although the southern province had given an explanation for these, saying that the Lampuri Kingdom merchants had gone against some laws of the Candra Empire, even giving some evidence for this.

Some smart people could easily see that the southern province was clearly targeting the Lampuri Kingdom merchants.

Because although there was targeting of the Lampuri Kingdom merchants in the other parts of the Candra Empire, they weren’t as dense and continuous as the southern province.

Moreover, this matter clearly involved the officials of the southern province, making people think that it was done intentionally.

But the problem was, why would the southern province target these Lampuri Kingdom merchants?

This was a question that the Lampuri Kingdom wanted to make clear. Her majesty Seveni had even sent a letter to the Candra Empire’s department of finance, asking them to give an explanation.

However, the response that the Candra Empire gave was only a letter from the Candra Empire’s department of commerce’s chief Marquis Descartes.

In that letter, Marquis Descartes said that the southern province was only an outlier, it didn’t represent the entire Candra Empire, so they hoped that the Lampuri Kingdom wouldn’t be too worried. The Candra Empire was still willing to trade with the Lampuri Kingdom……

Although Marquis Descartes’ letter seemed alright, the tone that he had shown was actually one that showed that he clearly didn’t care.

In the end, the letter from the Lampuri Kingdom was written by her majesty Seveni. Although there was no need for the emperor to personally write back, at least it should be someone with a higher status that replied.

Moreover, at least the Candra Empire side gave some explanation, not like Marquis Descartes who didn’t seem to care at all.

This didn’t show any sincerity in solving this problem at all.

“Ha, you think that the Candra Empire will really treat your Lampuri Kingdom as an equal? It’s very clear that they just don’t want more enemies at this point. When they discovered that the Rudson Kingdom couldn’t pose any threat to them, the superiority of the large empire would come out once again.”

“You say it like it isn’t related to you at all.” Seveni snappily rolled her eyes at Xu Yi, “Since the Candra Empire side is targeting our Lampuri Kingdom merchants, they will naturally target your Frestech Chamber of Commerce as well. Do you really think you can be this relaxed?”

“Of course, why not?” Xu Yi gave a shrug, “To be honest, the Candra Empire isn’t wrong at all. This targeting of Lampuri Kingdom merchants, if it is as expected, should be the action of the Candra Empire’s southern province and not the entire Candra Empire.”

“How are you certain of this?” Seveni looked at Xu Yi doubtfully.

“Because…..Ke……The southern province’s governor is Duke Windsor and he…..has some private grudges against our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so it isn’t strange that he is targeting your Lampuri Kingdom merchants. Because what your merchants are bringing over are mostly magic machines.” Xu Yi replied.

“You have a personal grudge with Duke Windsor?” Seveni had a look of disbelief, “Your company has never entered the Candra Empire, how can you have a grudge with the southern province’s governor?”

“It’s a long story……” Xu Yi revealed a helpless smile. It wasn’t that we wanted to be enemies, but the other side came forward to be enemies with us, so you can’t blame us for this.

“Alright, let’s talk business. Seveni, I suggested to you before that you use the Lampuri Kingdom’s government to gather up all the Lampuri Kingdom’s merchants that wanted to do business in the Candra Empire, so they would be unified. Not only would it make it easier for them to help each other, it would also help manage those merchants for your Lampuri Kingdom, but you rejected it.”

“Un……I was worried that most of these merchants had the support of nobles behind them, so if I did this, it would be very likely that the nobles would become vigilant which wouldn’t be good. Looking at it now, those nobles can’t even take care of these simple things, so they really disappointed me.” Seveni gave a sigh.

“You can’t blame them for this.” Xu Yi shook his head, “The Lampuri Kingdom has laws that stop the nobles from doing business, so they can’t use their strength directly. Also, in the end, they are just a few nobles, they can’t represent the Lampuri Kingdom. In this situation, do you think that they can go against the Candra Empire?”