Chapter 74: Rose approve.
"Stop her." The elder statesman ordered. "Long Rize, this meeting has not yet ended. It is rude of you to leave half way through."
Rize put the phone away and she sat down. "What else is there to decide grandpa? Isn’t it simple? Nobody in the family should protect Mo Liang anymore. He is an attempted murderer, two times guilty. I don’t think that this is the kind of man we want to be known for associating with."
"I agree." Long Ruoxi was quick to show her support for her aunt.
"I think it is time that we address some of you that are engendering this royal family by harboring ill feelings towards our allies. You seem to think that our royal family is untouchable and you forget that we are only as strong as our closest allies. If we are the tree, they are the roots and when those roots weaken, the tree falls. That is what happened to the royal family in France ten years ago." The grand emperor said, reminding everyone of the fact through a resonant voice.
A thoughtful silence settled over the room as each royal weighed his words and remembered the day France’s royal family fell.
"It was not the only one. In the last decade, the Russian empire’s royal family was changed, so was Peru’s and so was Kenya’s. If we begin alienating our allies, their allegiances will shift. Many influential families in the empire already have branches of their businesses in foreign nations.
If you break their hearts, they might end up moving away along with their core technologies. Together, the industries owned by the Chi and Jun family employ at least one and half million people world wide. Seven hundred thousand are our citizens alone.
Who of you here will be responsible for the loss of all those jobs?" The grand emperor asked.
Of course he was met with silence, after all, nobody wanted to be responsible for that loss, not even Long Bo who thought the royal family was superior to everyone.