"President Xu, you... are so impulsive." President Lanke looked at Xu Yi and sighed softly.

After meeting with the new city lord Earl Stark, Earl Stark made it clear that he did not need merchants to accompany him, so the Bonta City business representatives who went to greet him disperse themselves, but gathered together in President Lanco's private residence.

At this temporary joint meeting of the Bangta City Business Federation, Xu Yi once again became the focus of everyone's attention.

Although many people have a slight admiration for Xu Yi, thinking that he dared to refute her in response to Earl Stark's attitude towards merchants, in the eyes of more people, Xu Yi is indeed too impulsive to do so and too care about the consequences.

Earl of Stark is the new city lord of Bonta City. Xu Yi and Xinfei Chamber of Commerce are chambers of commerce within the jurisdiction of Bonta City, so they will naturally accept his jurisdiction in the future.

Now that Xu Yi is blatantly ramming Count Stark so blatantly, it would be strange if Count Stark didn't cause trouble for him and the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.

"Why are your expressions so heavy?" Unlike everyone else, Xu Yi looked relaxed. "I am not you who refuted Earl Stark in person. If Earl Stark wants to cause trouble, he will definitely come for me and will definitely not look for you."

The others looked at each other and smiled bitterly.

President Vincent sighed and shook his head and said, "President Xu, what everyone is worried about is not the person he will cause trouble, but the attitude shown by the new city lord."

"Yes." President Cruise also sighed. "This new city lord doesn't like our businessmen so much. I suspect that the future business in Bonta City may be difficult."

"This... shouldn't be that serious, right?"

Because he embraced the public transportation system in Bonta City, Filson now joined the Commercial Federation. This time, President Pompei also attended the meeting. Seeing that his colleagues around him were sighing, he couldn't help but speak out at the joint meeting for the first time.

"Now Bonta City is developing so fast. Last year's tax revenue has even reached nearly ten times that of previous years. To be honest, it is entirely due to us merchants. We have paid most of the tax revenue. I think even if Earl Stark looks down on us merchants, he should admit this fact and will not do anything to us, right?"

"Hmph, what can't you do?" President Cruise groaned: "You haven't seen what happened today. If you want to talk about the contribution to the development of Bonta City, who dares to say that you can compare with the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and President Xu? But have you not seen how Earl Stark did it? He clearly deliberately picked Xu Yi out today and wanted to cause trouble for him! Of course, then again, Xu Yi, you are indeed too impulsive. Even if Earl Stark deliberately causes trouble for you, you don't have to confront him like this, right?"

Xu Yi shrugged: "Since he knows that he is deliberately causing trouble for me, what's the point of avoiding me? He is the new lord of Bangta City. Can I still avoid the trouble for me?"

"But you don't have to offend him completely, right?" President Cruise frowned.

"Do you think... a big man like Earl Stark was offended just because of my mere rebuttal? His attitude towards me had been decided long before he came, and it was impossible to change."

President Cruise fell silent.

Because everyone knows that the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and Xu Yi obviously belong to the faction of His Highness Prince Sevini. However, the Stark family clearly announced that they would support His Highness Prince Eric to become the next king.

Earl Stark wanted to make trouble for Xu Yi and the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, but it was not because Xu Yi had just contradicted it. It was something he decided at the moment he became the lord of Bangta City.

The conference room fell into a strange silence for a moment. Everyone looked at me and I looked at you, but they all knew what to say for a while.

After a while, a thin-looking and narrow-eyed businessman whispered: "Actually, I think... Earl Stark may just want to target President Xu, but not necessarily all of us Bonta City merchants. So I think... I think... would it be better for everyone if the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce withdraws from our Commercial Federation?"

Everyone's eyes instantly focused on the thin businessman, with shock, suspicion, confusion, but a little bit of excitement in their eyes.

"President Lawrence! What do you mean?" Before Xu Yi could speak, President Cruise had already slapped the table, pointed his other hand at the thin businessman, and said furiously: "At this time, did you think of asking the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to withdraw from our Commercial Federation? Do you still have some conscience? Have you forgotten? Your Chamber of Commerce almost went bankrupt last time, or did Xu Yi transfer the magic kettle technology to you in advance without charging a penny, and rented various magic machine tools for free, and sent technical workers to guide you. Your Chamber of Commerce was reborn with this. Now you say such words? You are ungrateful!"

A hint of shame blushed across President Lawrence's face, he lowered his head and retorted softly: "I...we gave a lot of copper coins later..."

President Cruise was even more furious and slapped the table again, cursing loudly: "Do you think that if you give money later, Xu Yi will not be considered as helping you? If Xu Yi didn't help you at that time, you might have jumped into the Sandy River and committed suicide! What qualifications are there to sit here now and say such words so shamelessly?"

President Lawrence may have been angered by President Cruise's blunt reprimand, and suddenly raised his head, blushed and said loudly: "That's right! President Xu helped us before. But now I am considering from the perspective of all the merchants in our entire Bonta City! We are just some weak merchants, how can we fight against the Lord of the City? Now that President Xu is being targeted by the Lord of the City, we can't get ourselves in, right?"

"Bad! You guy is ungrateful and just say it directly. It's really disgusting to dare to pretend to be so righteous!" President Cruise spat hard on the ground and wanted to scold him again. However, Xu Yi reached out to stop him.

"Okay. President Cruise. Don't scold me anymore. Although President Lawrence disappointed me with him, his proposal was very good. I was already ready to accept the anger of Earl Stark, but I couldn't let my colleagues in the city be implicated by me. So I decided..." Xu Yi turned to President Lanko. "President Lanko, from today on, our New Flying Chamber of Commerce withdrew from the Federation of Commerce."

The conference room was silent for about a second, and then exploded instantly.

"President Xu, are you kidding?"

"You actually want to quit the Federation of Business? Are you making a mistake?"

"Your New Flying Chamber of Commerce is now one of the largest chambers of commerce in our Bonta City. How can you withdraw from the Federation at will?"

"That's it. If even your Xinfei Chamber of Commerce withdraws, what else is the need for this business federation to exist?"

"I don't have to quit, right? I think President Lawrence is simply worried."

"That's right, it won't be..."

...

Everyone chattered, but Xu Yi just smiled and said nothing.

After a while, everyone stopped naturally.

Looking at the expression on Xu Yi's face, everyone understood that Xu Yi had already made up his mind and it should be impossible to change it.

President Lanko shook his head with a wry smile: "President Xu, why do you always do things so fiercely?"

Xu Yi smiled and replied, "Because time does not wait for anyone, I don't have so much time to achieve my goals in a peaceful but slow way."

President Lanco sighed: "I can see that your ideal is probably much greater than what I imagined. Well, since you have made the decision, I have nothing to say. As the president of the Business Federation, I approve your application for the New Air Chamber of Commerce to withdraw from the Business Federation."

"Okay, thank you for your understanding, President Lanko." Xu Yi nodded and turned to others and said: "I promise you as the president of the New Flight Chamber of Commerce that although our New Flight Chamber of Commerce withdrew from the Commercial Federation, everyone in the Federation is still the best partners of our New Flight Chamber of Commerce. Withdrawal from the Federation will not affect our cooperative relationship. Of course, the premise is that you still have the courage to cooperate with our New Flight Chamber of Commerce, haha..."

Xu Yi's joke was too cold, and no one smiled.

Others stared at Xu Yi, and some people wanted to say something, but found that nothing was meaningless, so they fell into silence again in the conference room.

After a while, President Cruise suddenly slapped the table and said to President Lanco: "Since that's the case, then okay, our Amley Chamber of Commerce has also applied to withdraw from the Federation of Commerce. President Lanco, please approve it."

Everyone looked at President Cruise in shock.

After all, Xu Yi is just a young man in his twenties, and it is understandable that he is a little young and energetic. You, Cruise, is a middle-aged man who is about to be over fifty years old. Why is he as impulsive as Xu Yi?

However, the shock of the crowd was just beginning. After President Cruise, more than ten presidents of various chambers of commerce also applied to President Lanko to withdraw from the federation.

Those who are qualified to participate in the joint meeting of the Federation of Commerce are of course representatives of the Chamber of Commerce who have a certain status in Bonta City. Although these more than ten people are obviously not as good as the Amley Chamber of Commerce, which President Cruise, they cannot be regarded as small Chamber of Commerce.

Now they also choose to withdraw from the business federation, and more than half of the chambers of commerce participating in this joint meeting chose to withdraw.

President Lanke could only smile bitterly again and looked at Xu Yi and said, "President Xu, the Bangta City Business Federation has been established for almost a hundred years. I didn't expect that today it would become in name only because of your withdrawal. I really don't know if I should be angry or admiring you."

Xu Yi smiled, then sighed softly and said, "President Lanke, you should know that this is not what I mean, but everyone's choice. I can only say that...the times have changed now."

President Lanko's eyes flashed across the faces of President Cruise and more than a dozen other chamber of commerce representatives who applied to withdraw, and finally fell on Xu Yi, and nodded slowly: "Yes, times have changed..." (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!