"Joseph, I want a promise from you."
Louis looked at him with a smile.
After a mont, he revealed a subtle smile.
"Very well, I, Joseph Williams, accept this proposal."
Louis knocked on the table and picked up the bell on the table, giving it a shake.
Soon, a butler walked in, presenting a tray.
On the tray was a stack of papers filled with dense numbers.
Louis picked up the papers and handed them to Joseph, saying:
"Everything you wanted to know is here."
He was sowhat taken aback, thinking Mr. Mayer might need so ti to conduct an investigation, but unexpectedly, the information was delivered directly.
He helplessly smiled and said:
"You were just sitting at ho waiting for to co."
Louis shook his head and said:
"I really didn’t know you were investigating these things, but recently I’ve felt that there’s so movent on the Giant Plain, so I conducted so investigations."
Of course, the main goal was to investigate the possible actions of the King of Anger.
However, he wouldn’t say this publicly, and instead chose words that would align more with Mayer’s identity:
"I slled a business opportunity born of blood on that plain."
When he said this, Joseph Williams actually believed him.
Louis smiled and said:
"Of course, compared to these matters, I prefer to make another kind of preparation."
Louis shook the bell again, and the butler walked in once more:
"Patriarch."
"Bring the docunts from my office."
The butler withdrew, and when he returned, he brought over thirty contracts.
Louis picked up the contracts and waved them in front of Joseph.
Signaled by Louis, Joseph picked up the contracts and began to read through them one by one, growing more and more astonished as he read and occasionally looking up at Louis:
"Are you purchasing surrounding grain in the na of Mayer Comrce Association?"
Louis smiled and said:
"Is that not allowed?"
"With this approach, you will quickly attract attention from the tribes. The signs of war clearly have an underlying manipulator, and anyone competing with them for grain will undoubtedly beco a focus of their attention."
Louis gave a slight snort and said:
"Isn’t it a good thing that they notice ? I originally also wanted to talk to them and see what their current situation is."
He got up and walked towards the floor-to-ceiling window, looking out at the scenery and said:
"So matters are better resolved through comrcial ans."
Joseph sighed inwardly.
Mr. Mayer truly is a grand rchant revered even in the heart of comrce, with a business acun not daringly held by ordinary small rchants.
anwhile, Louis also pondered a question.
During this visit to Tunisia, the most unexpected gain he received was the "Tunisia Regional Local Airflow Data Model" shared from there.
This data model is periodically observed by the Mage Towers across various locations, and the related data is uploaded into a large tower spirit for consolidation.
When Louis and his group left, they took with them a formatted split spirit of this tower.
Bringing this back and integrating it into the White Tower Spirit would enable localized airflow data sharing between the two regions.
The Grand River Project is a fifty-year plan formulated by Louis to ensure the ongoing prosperity of the empire.
An essential elent of this plan is the prediction of a nationwide extensive rainfall occurring several years from now.
This involves various tributaries converging, which has caused incalculable destruction in the past.
He initially thought this water disaster wouldn’t manifest clearly until a few years later.
But upon returning to the Tunisia estate and consolidating both countries’ moisture flow graphs, he discovered that not only Ense, but even Tunisia had already entered a fruitful season of abundant water.
The massive damage caused by the convergence was the peak of the disastrous hydraulic aggregation.
This does not imply that there weren’t other hydraulic disasters before this.
On the contrary, aggregated hydrological conditions over the years show that since 10 years ago, hydrological disasters across the empire have been on the rise.
This is only because many disaster-prone territories can self-govern internally, thus it hasn’t attracted much attention, coupled with the incredibly slow flow of information in that era. Indeed, it didn’t quite catch other people’s attention.
But after noticing this situation, Louis had an instant idea.
Among the many impacts brought about by hydrological disasters, apart from the human casualties due to land subrgence, another significant aspect deserves considerable attention.
That is the food shortage problem hidden behind the flood disaster.
While the direct death toll from the Grand River disaster was not exaggerated, the national famine that followed with the disaster was an issue far beyond rely estimating the number of deaths.
Considering the future food shortage problem in surrounding areas, he plans to engage in large-scale grain trading during the harvest years.
Or rather, he had long ago already determined the operational strategy of the Mayer Comrce Association.
This association, under his leadership, has grown to a standard-bearer for maintaining the comrcial sector balance within the Ense Empire.
In this world with exceedingly low globalization, even if he proposed to Beatrice, advising the large comrcial associations, including the Tulip Comrce Association, to start grain preparation, it could not effectively cover the lower rural areas.
These associations primarily exist to maintain the empire’s central stability.
Their innate function limits them from extending their reach into the lowest domains.
At the grassroots level, real comrce functionaries are nurous local small trade groups, individual rchants, and itinerant traders self-organized by local villagers.
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