Chapter 208
They Would Deal With The Store A Little Later
“So the count offered the funds, and then received a portion of the profits… If things went according to plan, the business would be a success. So he would not lose anything.”
“Why would the count do such a thing…”
“I am not sure. Is it to hurt His Grace, or merely increase his fortune… Well, I doubt it is that alone…”
As for his intention, you would have to ask him to find out.
What purpose could he have for doing something in such a roundabout way, and hurt innocents in the process…
“If all he wanted to do was make a profit, he could do that on his own lands… There would be less risk of it being known outside. And there would be less taxes as well.”
As Sebastian said, if he wanted to ensure that no one found out about it, doing it on his own land would make more sense.
Sebastian and the others would not have found out, and he would not have made an enemy of a duke.
But then again, he would be making his own people suffer, and there would be a lot of other problems that would arise.
However, he went out of his way to do it on the duke’s lands. It had to be a purposeful act of hostility… Though, that was assuming that he was even acting with any rationality.
“In any case, we know so much more now. Shouldn’t we have that store closed immediately?”