Chapter 202: If you keep telling a lie, it becomes the truth (4)
"Abolishing the guild system is like telling Gildo to burn his own table, or rather, his entire fortune."
Any sane person would naturally feel resistance to such a suggestion.
“What? What did you just say?”
“You heard me correctly. I want you to advise His Majesty the Emperor to abolish the guild system.”
Gildo immediately rejected my words, not responding.
I felt a sense of satisfaction, knowing that I had planted a seed of doubt and even brought up personal emotions, all for the sake of this moment.
Though he hadn’t yet given me a definitive answer, the fact that his internal conflict had begun to show on the outside meant that, in effect, the persuasion had already been completed.
‘Just a little push is all it takes to make them waver.’
Now, let me try to guess why he’s so unsettled.
Before I could begin my reasoning, however, Gildo himself answered a question I hadn’t even asked.
“If I were to advise His Majesty to abolish the guild system, all the guild masters across the country would come after me and try to kill me.”
Economics and power are as precious as life itself.