Chapter 752 Justification
Chapter 752 Justification?
In Ashen…
South of Leopoldine was one of the largest states in terms of area and population in Concordia.
In this magnificent place, considered the strongest state in the southern region, Saints lived in the daylight and were known for their deeds in this area.
Unlike Leopoldine, where no one knew the number of experts and few knew their identities, this place had several famous Saints, and the number of experts was of public knowledge.
Anyone who looked would find information about the total local strength.
That made this state one of the strongest regarding the number of Saints in the entire continent. Even though it was in the southern region, the weakest in Concordia, it had hundreds of known Saints.
Just one of the many powerful organizations in this state was currently dealing with a matter that had recently arisen.
In a business room of a large headquarters hidden in a forest, a dozen well-dressed people with powerful auras were gathered in a 50-square-meter room decorated with paintings and plants.
At one end of the table, a goateed and balding man had a reflective expression while his hands were clasped in front of his face. 𝚋ｅ𝚍ｎ𝚘ｖｅ𝚕．𝚘𝚛𝚐
“House Elssler intends to bring this Ritter Motor Company to our state.” This man said in a solemn tone, speaking of their greatest rival. “We cannot allow that. If it happens, they will pass us without allowing us to catch them up later.
That will be the end of us in the Emerald Valley!”
The people around the rectangular table in this room stood with even more solemn expressions.
They had heard of Lothur’s cars weeks ago when they discovered the number of gold coins their enemies had spent on a deal in Leopoldine.
But as the weeks passed, the number of cars in Leopoldine had increased considerably. Not only that, but the number of people talking about the cars and the number of coins coming into Viktoria’s hands through the various car-related side businesses had reached increasingly impressive numbers.
With such growth, even high-ranking officials from such lands kept an eye on Leopoldine and followed the company’s development with interest.
The speed at which the Ritter Motor Company was growing was incredible! If it continued at its current pace, even the major cities of Leopoldine’s neighbors would be dominated by automobiles within a few years.
As much as the cars themselves could do no harm, the currencies generated by this business could give a lot of power to people, families, and organizations, which could cause a lot of problems for other powers.
In the case of this group, their main rival would have enough resources to develop, overtake, and, if they wanted, eliminate them from the game!
This was worrying!
One of the women there listened and said. “The rise of the automobile is unstoppable. Now that tens of millions of people know about this business, we can’t just destroy it. That would bring too much negative karma upon us, and we would have too many enemies.
On the other hand, it will not be easy to enter the Ritter Motor Company. As far as I know, the last auction had an average cost of 7 million gold coins per fraction of the company.
If there is another auction, more families will try to enter this company, so I wouldn’t be surprised if the minimum amount to buy a fraction of the company reaches 30 million.
Even high-level powers would have trouble meeting such expenditures and the following investments!
“That would be an expensive and risky deal for a small part of the company…” Someone commented.
But then a young-looking guy, blond and thin, suggested. “We cannot destroy the Ritter Motor Company or enter the company by traditional means. We are left with two options. Destroy the Elssler family, which would be difficult for us, or encourage other powers to take over the company.”
“Oh?” An old woman looked at the man with interest.
It would be impossible to destroy the Elssler family. If they alone had that ability, they would have destroyed this house by now!
They could not persuade the other powers of their state to destroy this family because it was a noble power that followed imperial laws. The rivalry between the two houses would never lead the local imperial family to help one destroy the other.
However, the Ritter Motor Company was a foreign company favored by the Leopoldine family and would bring greater benefits to the powers of this state, which owned most of this company.
This company had an excellent business and would certainly leave Leopoldine to enter other states like Ashen in the future.
It would not be so challenging to put the local powers against Leopoldine and the current management of the Ritter Motor Company!
“What exactly are you proposing?” The man at one end of the table asked the blond.
“Very simple, patriarch. Let’s take the Ritter Motor Company.” The level 20 blond guy smiled. “As far as we know, the founder of this company is missing after being reported as a possible hybrid.
Let’s spread the word that he is indeed a hybrid! What should we do against the creation of a hybrid?”
“Destroy it?”
“Yes, but we can’t do that in this case. Then let’s convince the powers of our state to take over the Ritter Motor Company along with their allies!” The blond man said in a louder tone. “We cannot allow the creation of a hybrid to go this far under the power of his family.
Then I propose that we destroy the Ritter family and take this company from Leopoldine’s power!”
If they raise the flag that Lothur is a hybrid, the people of Leopoldine itself would be in favor of outside powers taking over this company and destroying the Ritter family.
Not only that but powers from different states would have a justification to attack Leopoldine and take over the Ritter Motor Company!
In normal situations, one state could not just invade another or start a war without reason. This continent had been around for a long time, and many wars had been fought, to the point that there were treaties all over the continent to prevent further wars.
One state could not openly try to invade another state for small things. But if it had a reasonable justification, even destroying all the ruling families and taking their possessions would not be frowned upon by the continental community!
With this strategy, this family had an excellent justification for taking over their rivals’ businesses and profiting from war results!
The people in this room liked this; they felt they would get a significant return if they brought this opportunity to the imperial family.
“Excellent! Let us do as Elder Timm suggested.”