LOL: Summoner of Goddess Jana

Chapter 167 Special Envoy of the Noxus Empire (please subscribe~)

A few days later, Zaun, the headquarters of the Guild of Leaders.

"That's probably the case."

"Camille discovered my plan in advance, and united with several family elders to exile me, my descendants, and my followers from the Philos family in one go."

"We are desperate now, so we have no choice but to come to you, Mr. Li Wei."

Sitting in a wheelchair, Stevan said so unhurriedly.

"Hmm." Li Wei had a teasing expression on his face.

He didn't reveal it either, but only half-jokingly said: "Speaking of which, Piltover has been very uneven recently. All the major families are like this. There are divisions between families and internal strife. I don't know what's going on. Ha ha."

Yes, the Philos family is not the only one who is smart.

After the shock brought by Mel at the parliamentary scene a few days ago, almost all the big Piltover families had "infighting" and "splits" in just a few days.

Some families were divided into two groups, one continued to play the role of a staunch conservative, and the other defected to the leader with sincerity.

Others were simply divided into three, four, or even N families.

One family guarded the Piltover family property, one family defected to the leader, and the N family sold off their fixed assets in Piltover and fled overnight with their capital in preparation for a rainy day.

Flee to the mainland of Noxus, or the colony of Noxus in Shurima, and other places where the business environment is relatively good and suitable for the parasitic development of capital.

So in just a few days, Piltover's stock market and property market ushered in a tragic and comprehensive dive.This caused many small citizens who were keen on speculation to have their leek roots cut off, and they lined up on the rooftop.

Fortunately, the gold hex coins, silver wheels, and copper rings used by Piltover are all precious metal currencies that preserve their value, and the money in the hands of ordinary people will not depreciate sharply with the financial tsunami.

And because of the friendly and cooperative attitude currently shown by the Leaders Association, and because many assets are difficult to transfer in a hurry, Piltover Capital ran away, but not all of them, and a large part of them stayed in Piltover.

So although the market is chaotic, the overall social environment in Piltover is fairly stable.

And Mel had expected this situation a long time ago, she arranged to short Pilt City in advance, and took advantage of this moderate chaos to help the Leaders Association make a lot of money.

"Yeah, it's been quite messy lately." Stevan agreed indifferently, without the slightest embarrassment of being teased.

Seeing this, Li Wei stopped joking with him, and just got up to shake hands with him solemnly:

"Welcome to join our leader, Mr. Stevan."

"I promise that you and your family will take care of you and your family as much as possible in terms of living, working, and organizing in the base area in the future."

"Thank you, President Li Wei." Stevan also expressed his attitude politely.

The two sides are considered a family.

It is impossible for Stevan and his family to return to the Philos family.At least until the leader's association is destroyed, they will all be members of the leader's camp.

And Li Wei is also willing to take in these "exiles" of the Philos family for the sake of artificial hex gem synthesis technology.

Anyway, with Janna around, if their minds are not pure, they will definitely not be able to be officials or hold power.

Li Wei is not afraid of them parasitizing their houses and doves occupying their nests, he just needs to use the resources and talents of these aristocratic elites with confidence.

"I have one more thing to tell you, Mr. Levy," went on Stevan.

"You said." Li Wei listened attentively.

"Actually, on the day when the Takeda Saito Group was destroyed, Camille and I felt that the situation was not good, so we sent a letter through the Hexgate to inform our 'stakeholders' in the Noxus Empire. "

"If I'm not mistaken, the special envoy of the Noxus Empire should be arriving soon."

"Special envoy of the Noxus Empire?" Levi became serious.

He was not in a hurry to ask further, but looked at Stevan curiously: "The Philos family has already caught up with Noxus. Such important information, why do you take the initiative to tell me?"

"Why not?" Stevan smiled.

"Camille and I are now two families." He emphasized: "Joining the leader, I am on your side."

"If the leader loses, it doesn't do me any good."

"And" Stevan looked at his old body with a calm expression: "I still need Camille's heart."

Li Wei: "."

You are still thinking about this, you cold-blooded.
"Please don't look at me like that." Stevan was quite frank: "The so-called family affection and morality are completely meaningless to me."

"That's why we're sitting together, isn't it?"

Too.Levi nodded.

Although Stevan is an incompetent scum.Camille seemed like the perfect good person to her family.

But the line is wrong, the more perfect a person is, the more reactionary he is.

So a coward like Stevan can instead become an "old friend" of the leader.

But Camille stood firmly on the opposite side of the public and became the most evil enemy.

"Let's continue." Levi also stopped criticizing Stevan's personal morality.

"You just said that the special envoy of the Noxus Empire will arrive in Piltover soon?"

"That's right." Stevan explained: "President Levi, you should be clear about the relationship between Piltover and Noxus."

"Yeah." Li Wei nodded.

Noxus is to Piltover, to put it quite inappropriately, as Piltover is to Zaun.

Most enterprises in Zaun are controlled by Picheng Capital, and most of the profits are seized by Picheng.

But just like the big fish eating the small fish, many companies in Piltover are also controlled by the Noxus Empire, and most of the profits have to be paid to Noxus.

There are even many enterprises in Piltover, which were originally branches of Noxus nobles in Piltover—for example, Myrdalda.

It's just that Piltover occupies a higher ecological position in the industrial chain, has high added value of products, and can earn huge excess profits, which makes it seem richer, more civilized, and more progressive than Zaun.

The Guild of Leaders now only deprives the bourgeoisie in Zaun, and still shows a friendly and cooperative attitude towards Piltover, because there are too many Noxus components in Piltover Seed Benzene, and they are far from being able to provoke them.

Unfortunately, Stevan told him: "You have already provoked Noxus, Mr. Levi—"

"From the day you defeated Takeda Saito."

"Takeda Saito?" Li Wei was thoughtful.

He seems to understand a little bit.

Although among the shareholders of the Takeda Group, there is no direct participation of Noxus.but.
"Takeda Saito is engaged in the arms business including alchemy potions and biochemical weapons."

"I don't need to tell you, Mr. Li Wei, you should also know who his big client will be."

No need to think about it.

Now in the entire Runeterra, who needs arms and weapons the most?
Of course it is Noxus, which is killing the Quartet.

Takeda Saito produced so many weapons every year, except for a small part that was sold to the pirates in Bilgewater, most of the rest were sold to the Noxus army.

As for the natives of Ionia and Shurima who are being beaten up by Noxus, they also need weapons.

But the north and south sides of the twin cities are the territory and colonies of Noxus, just like Constantinople surrounded by Ottomans, geographically completely shrouded in the sphere of influence of the empire
Even if Takeda Saito ate the bear heart and leopard courage, he would not dare to sell weapons to Ionia and Shurima, or to the enemies of the empire.
Well, actually dare.

After all, Janna has said that when Ziben has a 300% profit, it dares to commit any crime, even risking hanging its head.

In recent years, Takeda Saito's smuggling fleet has also frequently traveled to Shurima and Ionia.

But even so, he was only smuggling weapons to Ionia in small quantities, and he was very careful to secretly sell a little.

Large-scale arms trade is impossible.

Takeda Saito's major clients include and only the Noxus military.

"Now the Noxus Empire is fighting fiercely on the front line of Ionia, and Takeda Saito is an important arms supplier to the Ionia Front Army."

"You took Takeda Saito's industry, which led to the suspension of the arms trade. To put it seriously, it may even affect the war deployment of the empire in Ionia."

"So the envoys of the Noxus Empire will definitely come to Shuangcheng to check the situation."

"I understand." Li Wei also vaguely realized this when sorting out the financial statements of Takeda Group these days.

He guessed that he might have to deal with Noxus officials soon.

However, unlike Stevan's worries, Levi is actually looking forward to the arrival of this special envoy:
"To tell you the truth, I was trying to speak to someone from Noxus—"

"Takeda Saito has left behind such a big business, and I want to continue to build this business with Noxus."

"You" Stevan was a little surprised: "You still want to continue to provide weapons to Noxus?"

Selling weapons to Noxus, isn't that an accomplice of the Noxus invading army?
Based on the moral standards of leaders, is it appropriate to do this kind of business?

"No way," but Li Wei said helplessly something he didn't understand.

Arms is a rare technologically superior industry in Zaan, and it focuses on export projects to earn foreign exchange.

The main business of Takeda Group is arms, and the number of military industry workers in its territory even reaches tens of thousands.

If Levi stopped the arms trade between Zaun and Noxus in one go, what would the more than 10,000 workers eat?
Not to mention, he had to consider the diplomatic and military pressure of cutting off trade with Noxus.

Therefore, in the face of Stevan's doubts, Li Wei can only say:
"We have a relatively long history of arms development, and we have relatively rich industrial workers."

"That is to say." Stevan: "Sell weapons to Noxus?"

"This... We implement the trade strategy in order to gradually optimize the industrial structure in the process of adjusting the layout, do a good job in infrastructure construction, and do a good job in the development of circular economy in Zu'an"

"So, will it be sold or not?" This time it was Stevan's turn to tease.

"Stop talking, stop talking."

"Haha." Stevan laughed and said, "I thought all of you leaders were morally obsessed with cleanliness."

Li Wei replied helplessly: "Survival and purity, sometimes we can only choose one of the two."

"Until the problem of worker employment can be properly resolved, we must continue to do business with Noxus."

"From this perspective, the arrival of the special envoy is not a bad thing for us leaders."

"That's hard to say." Stevan reminded: "The leader of the battle group that Camille contacted is notoriously cruel and bloodthirsty in the Noxus Empire."

"She will never like your leader."

"She is?" Li Wei frowned.

"Her name is." Stevan replied, "Amistan."

　The second is later_(:з」∠)_
　　
　
(End of this chapter)