LOL: Summoner of Goddess Janna

A few days later, Zaun, the headquarters of the Wind Leader Association.

"That's probably what happened..."

"Camille discovered my plan in advance and joined several family elders to banish me, my descendants, and my followers from the Philos family in one fell swoop."

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

Stevan said this calmly while sitting in a wheelchair.

"Well..." Levi's expression was very teasing.

He didn't expose it, but only said half-jokingly: "Speaking of which, Piltover has been very uneasy recently. It's the same with all the major families. Families are divided, and families are fighting among themselves... I don't know what this means. What’s wrong, haha.”

Yes, Philos isn’t the only one who is smart.

After the shock brought by Mel in the parliament a few days ago, almost all the big Piltover families have experienced "infighting" and "schism" in just a few days.

Some families split into two, with one continuing to act as a stubborn conservative and the other joining the leader with sincerity.

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

One family held on to the Piltover family business, the other defected to the Leader, and the other N families sold off their fixed assets in Piltover in advance and fled with their capital overnight.

Escape to Noxus itself, or Noxus' colony in Shurima, and other places where the business environment is relatively good and suitable for the development of capital parasitism.

So in just a few days, Piltover's stock and real estate markets experienced a tragic and comprehensive plunge. This caused many small citizens who were keen on speculation to cut off their leek roots and queue up to go to the rooftop.

Fortunately, the gold hex coins, silver wheels and copper rings used by Pi City are precious metal currencies that maintain their value, so the money in the hands of ordinary people will not depreciate violently due to this financial tsunami.

And because of the friendly and cooperative attitude currently shown by the Leader Association, and because many assets were difficult to transfer in a hurry, Pi City Capital ran away, but not all of it, and a large part remained in Pi City.

So although the market is in chaos, the overall social environment in Piltover is relatively stable.

Mel had already anticipated this situation. She planned to short Piltover in advance, and she helped the Wind Leader Association make a lot of money by taking advantage of this moderate chaos.

"Yeah, it's been quite chaotic lately." Stevan agreed calmly, not feeling embarrassed at all by being teased.

When Li Wei saw this, he stopped joking with him, and just stood up and shook hands with him seriously:

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

"I promise that I will try my best to take care of you and your family's future life, work and organization in the base area."

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

The two parties are considered a family.

It is impossible for Stevan and his family to return to the Philos family. At least until the demise of the Wind Leader Association, they will all be members of the Wind Leader camp.

For the sake of artificial Hex gem synthesis technology, Levi is also happy to take in these "exiles" of the Philos family.

Anyway, with Janna here, 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 the house or occupying the magpie's nest. He only needs to feel free to use the resources and talents of these noble elites.

"I have to tell you one more thing, Mr. Levi," Stevan added.

"Say." Levi listened attentively.

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

"If I guess correctly, the special envoy from 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 hooked up with Noxus... You took the initiative to tell me such important information like this?"

"Why not?" Stevan smiled.

"Camille and I are now two families." He emphasized: "After joining the Wind Leader, I am on your side."

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

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

Levi: "..."

You are still thinking about this, you cold-blooded...

"Please don't look at me like that." Stevan was quite honest: "The so-called family affection and morality are completely meaningless to me."

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

Too. Levi nodded.

Although Stevan is an incompetent scumbag. Camille is like a perfect good person to her family.

But the route is wrong. The more perfect a person is, the more reactionary he becomes.

So a coward like Stevan can 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 no longer criticized Stevan's personal morality.

"You just said that the special envoy from the Noxus Empire will arrive in Pi City soon?"

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

"Yeah." Levi nodded.

The relationship between Noxus and Piltover is, quite inappropriately, like the relationship between Piltover and Zaun.

Most of the companies in Zaun are controlled by Picheng Capital, and most of the profits are captured by Picheng.

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

There are even many Piltover businesses that were originally branches opened by Noxian nobles in Piltover - such as Myrdalda.

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

The Windleader Association is currently only expropriating the capitalist class in Zaun, and still shows a friendly and cooperative attitude towards Piltover. This is because there are too many Noxian elements in Piltover seeds, and they are far from being able to provoke them.

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

"From the day you defeated Takeda Saito."

"Takeda Saito?" Levi thought thoughtfully.

He seemed to understand somewhat.

Although among the shareholders of Takeda Group, Noxus is not directly involved. but...

"Takeda Saito is engaged in the arms business including alchemical potions and biological and chemical weapons."

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

Don't even think about it.

Who needs arms and weapons most in Rune Land now?

Of course it was Noxus who was killing everyone.

Of the many weapons that Takeda Saito produces every year, except for a small part that is sold to the pirates of Bilgewater, most of the rest are sold to the Noxian army.

As for the natives of Ionia and Shurima who were being beaten by Noxus, they also needed weapons.

But both the north and south sides of the Twin Cities are Noxian territories and colonies, just like Constantinople surrounded by the Ottomans, geographically completely enveloped within the empire's sphere of influence...

Takeda Saito would not dare to sell weapons to Ionia and Shurima, to the enemies of the empire, even if he had the heart of a bear and the courage of a leopard...

Well, actually I still dare.

After all, Janna said that when Ziben has 300% profit, it will dare to commit any crime and even risk being hanged.

Takeda Saito's smuggling fleet has often traveled to Shurima and Ionia in recent years.

But even so, he only smuggled weapons to Ionia in small batches, selling a small amount very carefully and secretly.

A large-scale arms trade is impossible.

Takeda Saito's big customers include the Noxian military.

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

"You took down Takeda Saito's industry, which caused the arms trade to stop. To be more serious, it may even affect the empire's war deployment in Ionia."

"So the envoys from the Noxus Empire will definitely come to the Twin Cities to check on the situation."

"I understand." Levi was vaguely aware of this when he was sorting out Takeda Group's financial statements these days.

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

However, unlike Stevan’s worries, Levi was actually looking forward to the arrival of this special envoy:

"To be honest, I was just trying to talk to someone from Noxus—"

"Takeda Saito 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?"

If you sell weapons to Noxus, doesn't that make you an accomplice of the Noxian invasion force?

Based on the moral standards of a leader, is it appropriate to do this kind of business?

"There is no way..." Li Wei said helplessly something he couldn't understand: "Millions of water workers depend on their food and clothing, and this business can be stopped at any time."

Arms is a rare industry with technological advantages in Zaun, and it is a key export project to earn foreign exchange.

The Takeda Group's main business 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 fell swoop, what would these more than 10,000 workers do?

Not to mention, he had to consider the diplomatic and military pressure of cutting off trade with Noxus.

Therefore, facing Stevan’s doubts, Levi could only say:

"We have a relatively long history of arms development and a relatively rich industrial workforce."

"In other words." Stevan: "You still have to sell weapons to Noxus?"

"This... we implement the trade strategy because we want to gradually optimize the industrial structure, do a good job in infrastructure construction, and develop Zaun's circular economy in the process of adjusting the layout..."

"So, are you selling it or not?" This time it was Stevan's turn to tease.

"Stop talking, stop talking..."

"Haha." Stevan said with a smile: "I thought that all of you leaders were morally obsessive."

Levi reluctantly replied: "Survival and purity, sometimes we can only choose one or the other."

"Until the worker employment issue 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 war group that Camille contacted is famous for being cruel and bloodthirsty in the Noxus Empire."

"She will never like your leader."

"She is?" Levi frowned.

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

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The second one will be later..._(:з　∠)_