Chapter 234

Odysseus said coldly.

"So, in your heart, it doesn't matter who comes to the throne between me and Elsa, but who can stabilize the situation in the empire is more important, right?"

"In your eyes, father, we are just candidates for your successor, and there is no family affection at all, right?"

"You..."

Odysseus watched Arthas's emotions gradually collapse, and pointed at Arthas angrily.

However, the next second, a sense of powerlessness came over Odysseus' heart, his eyes went black, and his body fell backwards instantly.

Arthas was also shocked when he saw the scene in front of him.

"Come here! Father has fainted!"

In the palace, Arthas's heartbreaking voice came.

...

When Elsa hurried back to the palace from the police station, Odysseus had been carried to the bed.

The court physician's diagnosis was that he was in a coma caused by too much stress, and no one knew when he would wake up and whether there would be any sequelae.

Elsa walked into the bedroom and immediately saw Arthas kneeling beside Odysseus.

She came to her brother and asked anxiously: "Brother, what's going on with father?"

"Today, my father and I were discussing the progress of the case. When he heard the news that the key witness was missing, he was a little angry. I comforted him a few words, but it didn't work..."

"Really?"

Elsa asked doubtfully.

But soon, he saw Arthas turned his head and looked at him.

At this time, Arthas' eyes were red and swollen, and his pupils shrank slightly. The expression on his face looked very creepy.

"Elsa, don't you trust me, your brother?"

"No... No." Seeing this, Elsa shook her head quickly.

"It's just that my father is seriously ill in bed, so I asked subconsciously..."

"Now I'm back, brother, you can take a rest."

"No." Arthas shook his head. "I want to stay with my father. I still have a lot to tell him."

Elsa saw this scene, although she had some doubts in her heart, she still said worriedly: "Forget it, brother, go back and have a good rest. When my father wakes up, I will definitely inform you, how about it?"

"..."Alsace stopped talking.

Looking at Alsace's actions, Elsa was also very helpless. She came to the door and asked one of the guards.

"When the accident happened today, was it only my brother who was with my father?"

"Yes." A guard said affirmatively.

"Then how long has my brother been kneeling in front of my father?"

"About... it's been three hours."

"..."Elsa heard this and said nothing, and walked straight back to the room.

Looking at her brother, she also imitated him and knelt beside him.

Alsace heard the movement next to him and turned his head to look at Elsa, but he did not stop him.

"If you can't handle it, don't do it."

He gave Elsa a piece of advice, and then continued to stand guard in front of Odysseus.

Elsa saw this and said nothing more.

A black cat lay on the wall outside the palace, feeling the sky getting darker, it yawned, then arched its back to stretch its muscles, and then jumped off the wall.

On the other side, Orson came to the Saint Laurent City headquarters of the Lison Chamber of Commerce alone.

A merger ceremony will be held here today.

Cherinina's business war has finally come to an end.

The Silver Moon Chamber of Commerce is about to withdraw from the stage of the empire and be completely merged into the Lison Chamber of Commerce.

Chapter 45: Things that must be done

The first floor of the Lison Chamber of Commerce has now been used as a banquet.

The chefs of several large restaurants in Saint Laurent City are all preparing meals in the kitchen, and those attending the banquet are all business celebrities in the empire.

However, ironically, the purpose of this banquet is actually the funeral of the Silver Moon Chamber of Commerce, which was once the first chamber of commerce in the empire.

Yes, after fighting a trade war with the Lison Chamber of Commerce for more than half a year, Louis, the president of the Silver Moon Chamber of Commerce, has completely lost the ability to fight against the Lison Chamber of Commerce.

First, the branches of the major dukedoms collapsed and were acquired, and then the changes in the Naples region directly wiped out the rights and interests of the Silver Moon Chamber of Commerce in Naples.

With Chelinina being elected as a minister in the cabinet of the Duke of Naples, she is quite successful in both politics and business, and she is no longer comparable to the Silver Moon Chamber of Commerce.

At this moment, the faces of the celebrities participating in the exercise are all filled with smiles.

On the prairie, when a lion successfully hunts a bull and feasts on it, the surrounding jackals, hyenas, and vultures rush up and eat the remaining flesh and blood of the bull, leaving only a skeleton in the end.

The fall of the Silver Moon Chamber of Commerce is bound to mean a round of

a major reshuffle in the business community of the empire.

The new chamber of commerce represented by the Lison Chamber of Commerce will replace the old chamber of commerce and redistribute the market share of the empire.

In addition to distributing goods, the new chamber of commerce has more control over the production of goods, so they can set prices more freely.

At the same time, the new chamber of commerce has also carried out a large number of other businesses and created a lot of revenue.

Just like this banquet, only the Lison Chamber of Commerce can declare its rise in the heart of the empire, Saint Laurent City, with such a big hand.

At the same time, when the banquet hall on the first floor was bustling with people, the meeting room on the second floor was silent.

Chelinina sat on one side of the negotiation table, and the only person accompanying her was Orson.

Across from her were her father Louis and elder brother Mark.

Louis and Mark looked at the terms of the acquisition. Although the conditions were very harsh, they still left a considerable amount of cash property.

With this money, even if they did nothing in the second half of their lives, they could still live a rich life.

Louis was old, so this clause was naturally not attractive to him, but it was undoubtedly very tempting to his son Mark.

The Silver Moon Chamber of Commerce was already dead in name only, and the revenue data of various businesses in the past month had been rotten.

In the eyes of others, the Silver Moon Chamber of Commerce had nothing left except its fame.

In this case, instead of inheriting a heavily indebted chamber of commerce in the future and spending his whole life to pay off his father's debts, it would be better to sell the Lison Chamber of Commerce now and make his life better in the second half of his life.

Yes, the acquisition was initiated by Mark.

Seeing that his son had lost confidence and even joined other managers to put pressure on him, Louis was forced to sit at the negotiation table.

"How?"

Cherinina said casually.

"I held a banquet downstairs today. If our negotiations go well, you two should be able to have a good meal downstairs."

Mark heard this, glanced at Louis beside him, and then whispered:

"Father, you are the president of the Chamber of Commerce, and you should talk to my sister about this matter."

Louis closed his eyes when he heard this.

All the past events appeared in front of his eyes.

From the first time Chelinina rebelled against him, to later confronting him, and the subsequent business war.

Yes, she gave her the first pot of gold, but the things that followed were all her hard work.

Whether Orson helped her or not, Louis believed that Chelinina could defeat his Chamber of Commerce in the future.

After a long time, Louis opened his eyes and took a deep breath.

He looked at Mark beside him and said angrily:

"Mark, if you and your sister switch genders, I won't leave you a penny."

He said this, signed his name on the acquisition contract, then stood up, came to Chelinina, and took the initiative to hand it to her.

The identities of the two, at this time, apart from the relationship of kinship, have undergone earth-shaking changes.

"Chelinina, congratulations."

Louis said this with a fake smile.

"You have successfully destroyed the foundation left by your grandfather and built your business empire on it."

"You are very powerful, Chelinina, as a father, I am proud of you."

Although it sounds ironic, Louis' words are sincere.

"Although I regret that I didn't know who my successor was until the end, it doesn't matter. As long as the empire's business overlord is still firmly in the hands of the Bonaventura family, I will be at ease."

Chelinina took the contract from Louis's hand, glanced at the content, and nodded.

"In that case, let's tell the people below this good news."

Chelinina and Louis walked out. At this moment, only Orson and Mark were left in the conference room.

"Haha... Duke Orson, long time no see, you are now the Duke of Naples."

Mark saw that there were only two people left in the room, so he wanted to take the initiative to build a good relationship with Orson.

"I was also born in Naples. Strictly speaking, I should be considered your subject."

Orson said nothing and looked at Mark with interest.

He wanted to see what else he could say.

Mark saw that Orson did not reply to him, although he knew that he was trying to get a cold shoulder, he still

continued to talk.

"That... Duke Orson, I want to ask, what do you think of my younger sister? Of course, I know you have a fiancée, but you have helped my younger sister so much, it is impossible that you have no thoughts about her..."

"Mr. Mark."

Orson finally spoke.

"You are talking so much now, what do you want?"

"No... nothing, I just want to ask some questions, if you feel it is inconvenient, Duke Orson, then I won't say it..."

"Not really."

Orson shook his head.

"You left a good impression on me, but your father left a better impression on me."

As Orson said this, Mark's happy expression suddenly overflowed.

Sure enough, flattery is still useful.

But why did he say that his father left a better impression on him?

Could it be that his father did not like Orson and Chelinina on the surface, but was actually secretly making friends with them behind the scenes?

What? He thought his father was such an upright person, but at this time, he still had to admit his weakness?

"Do you want to know the reason? Your father, that is, the old Mr. Louis who just left, I was quite impressed by his words."

Mark was shocked when he heard this.

Could it be that his father had said some thought-provoking famous sayings?

"That time, I think you will definitely remember it if I tell you."

"Last year, at a banquet in Saint Laurent City, Mr. Louis invited Mr. Donny, the son of the Duke of Napoli at the time, to match him with Celinina. Do you remember this banquet?"