"Sir Charlin, I think so too, and your actions will certainly provoke resistance from the councillors, which is not good for you!"

Her Royal Highness said with some concern.

"Don't worry! Your Royal Highness, I am also ready for this!

At this alliance meeting, I will make it clear to everyone that supporting me and supporting the decision made by Her Royal Highness is the most correct choice! So please feel free to inform the members."

However, in the face of the persuasion of Her Royal Highness and Elsa, Xia Lin nodded confidently, and seemed to be thinking about some plan in his heart.

Seeing his appearance, although she was a little curious and worried, it was inconvenient for the Dorothea Empress to say more, so she could only follow his thoughts and convene an emergency meeting of the alliance tomorrow morning in her own name.

Early the next morning, the members of the Business Alliance, who had received a letterhead from the Queen, gathered outside the Venia Opera House in the South End.

The Vignia Opera House is located on the Boulevard Rensat on the River Sein, with shops on one side and the wide and busy River Seine on the other.

The carriages of the councillors of the various chambers of commerce of the alliance formed a long queue on the Lensat Boulevard, and the city guards even began to dispatch to both sides of the Rensart Boulevard to control traffic.

This meeting was different from the past, it involved the distribution of interests of the factories established in the second phase of the Xinglan Industrial Park, and almost all the big nobles were present in person as councilors, and the appearance of these alliance elders made many small nobles and businessmen who had not received the news quite apprehensive.

However, this meeting has nothing to do with them, at most the elders eat meat, the younger brothers drink soup, and then they pick up some bones and gnaw on them.

For example, it is only responsible for the distribution of raw material orders to some industrial parks, or the sales of newly added goods in industrial parks.

A long table was set up on the stage in the Venia Theater, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Princess Dorothea and the four nobles sat down in turn, which looked a bit like the official press conference of Xia Lin's previous life, but the media footage of long guns and short guns was missing.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I am urgently convening the alliance meeting in my capacity as Speaker because His Excellency Charin Carr, the executive director of the Star Blue Industrial Park and the president of the New Leaf Chamber of Commerce, has proposed the second phase of the construction plan of the Star Blue Industrial Park, but this plan has suffered some minor setbacks so far.

As an important member of the business alliance, the Star Blue Industrial Park managed by the New Leaf Chamber of Commerce has brought many benefits to our members.

As the biggest beneficiary, the alliance has the obligation to help the New Leaf Chamber of Commerce tide over the difficulties, so I specially convened this alliance meeting, and I would like to ask the president of the New Leaf Chamber of Commerce, Councillor Charin Carr, to come up and explain the specific situation!"

After the waiters at the venue confirmed that all the councillors sent by the chambers of commerce had arrived, and those who did not have already explained the reasons, Queen Dorosia nodded, got up and gave a brief opening speech to explain the reason for the meeting.

The members of the Business Alliance are familiar with the Xinglan Industrial Park, but there are still most of the junior councilors in the alliance who have not seen Xia Lin.

Seeing a figure standing in the front row, they couldn't suppress their curiosity, and they wanted to see who the alliance founder who single-handedly proposed to promote a business alliance was.

As a result, when Xia Lin came to the stage, these little councilors suddenly showed a look of surprise, if nothing else, this Xia Lin Karl was inevitably too young, almost the same age as many of their sons and grandchildren.

Even many people who have heard of Charlene Carr as a 15-year-old boy are very surprised by this, after all, there is always a gap between what is heard and what is witnessed.

"Good morning, Ladies and Gentlemen, I'm Charin Carr, and as Her Royal Highness Dorothea said just now, in my latest plan, the Star Blue Industrial Park is ready to carry out the second round of construction plans.

It's just that before the plan was launched, we had a little trouble, that is, there was a shortage of steel raw materials.

The reason why I asked Her Royal Highness to convene this alliance meeting was because I wanted to use the power of the business alliance to obtain a batch of steel that was urgently needed in the industrial park.

Here, I would like to propose a steel aid proposal, hoping that you can squeeze out a part of the steel quota in your own industries to support the implementation of the second phase of the Xinglan Industrial Park.

I believe you will be very interested in the second phase of our Xinglan Industrial Park construction plan, and here I would like to explain to you the six new factories we will build in the future, their roles, costs and main ways to make profits......

After some explanation, Xia Lin saw that the councilors in the audience began to discuss with each other in a whisper, obviously discussing the prospects of these new factories and exchanging interests of all parties, and then continued:

"The equity distribution of the six new factories will be different from the equity distribution in the first phase of the plan, Her Royal Highness will still occupy 25% of the shares of each factory, and I will give 40% of the remaining 75% of the shares for everyone to invest, and the remaining shares will all belong to the New Leaf Chamber of Commerce."

"All belong to the New Leaf Chamber of Commerce? Wouldn't the equity of the New Leaf Chamber of Commerce account for 35%? Sir Charlin, do you have too much appetite? This is not in line with the principle of mutual benefit of our business alliances!"

Hearing Xia Lin's words, the audience suddenly buzzed, and after a while, a viscount in the front row stood up, and he complained to Xia Lin dissatisfiedly, as if they were not asking Xia Lin to give up more benefits, but Xia Lin was cutting their flesh.

Although this behavior was a violation of the rules set by the coalition meeting, none of the five speakers on the stage spoke out to stop it.

The princess Dorothea believed that Xia Lin could obtain this benefit by her own strength, while the other four speakers were also a little unhappy with Xia Lin's behavior, which was a silent opposition.

"Councillor Farna, I think this is not the same as in the past, it was the shareholders of the Star Blue Industrial Park who raised the construction funds I needed, and that's why the New Leaf Chamber of Commerce has given so many benefits to everyone.

However, this situation will not be the norm, after the normal operation of our Xinye Chamber of Commerce starts to generate profits, there is not much need for external investment, we take out 40% of the equity for everyone to invest, it is precisely to implement the principle of mutual benefit of the alliance."

Xia Lin said calmly, but he knew that this group of people would not put down their knives and forks because of such reasonable arguments, and in order to distract the hyena vultures, he turned to other things:

"Perhaps we should pay more attention to the problems that the alliance is about to encounter than the equity of the new factory in the Xinglan Industrial Park."

"What's the problem? Our business alliance has just been formed, and everyone is very happy with the situation that the alliance has brought about, so what problems can we have?"

Viscount Farner, who was angry, was very unhappy with Xia Lin's avoidance of talking about key issues.

But the other nobles who had participated in the first board of directors of the industrial park were accustomed to Xia Lin's style, and knew that when he mentioned this kind of topic that had nothing to do with the council itself, it was likely that he had some unique ideas, and one of the viscounts asked with some caution:

"Just like Councillor Farner said, our alliance has just been formed, so what's the problem? Councillor Charlin, what the hell are you trying to say?"

"Of course, there are problems with the alliance, and they have always existed, but everyone does not realize the essence of the problem, and before revealing my mystery, I would like to ask you, who is the foundation of our business alliance?"

Facing these people's questions, Xia Lin smiled and asked rhetorically.

"Who is the foundation? That's our Royal Highness Dorothy, of course!"

"That's right, without Her Royal Highness Dorothea, we wouldn't have been able to form a business alliance at all!"

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In the praise of a group of people, the princess Dorothea looked at Xia Lin's back and fell into deep thought, at this time to mention this kind of topic that has nothing to do with the discussion, what does he want to do?

"No, while you're right, you're too one-sided!"

Xia Lin stretched out the index finger of his right hand and shook it at the parliamentarians in the audience with a calm expression, and said his opinion with some regret:

"The foundation of the business alliance is Her Royal Highness, yes, but it's also me, the president of the New Leaf Chamber of Commerce

I am the president of the Chamber of Commerce who is here!

I call us the merchant class, the merchant class, who are good at doing business and making profits from the circulation of goods, is the foundation of our business alliance and our enlightened faction!

Although there are all kinds of competition among us businessmen, we all need an open-minded, inclusive, safe and stable social environment to ensure our interests.

That's why we will gather under the banner of Her Royal Highness and build this business alliance step by step!"

Xia Lin threw out his own assertion, and saw that the parliamentarians in the audience began to discuss this novel but very much in line with their hearts, and then asked:

"Do you know who the conservative base is?"

"Hmm...... Those peasants should be those who said that, right?"

"And those dead-eyed manor lords and nobles!"

After Xia Lin's inspiration, the parliamentarians in the audience vaguely grasped some of his ideas.

"That's right, it's the peasants and the lords of the manor! Farmers hope to reduce agricultural and land taxes, so that they can accumulate some grain for their annual work, in exchange for some daily necessities such as cloth, salt, and soybean oil.

And the lords and aristocrats of the manors want to make more profit in the same way as they run the land, so their conservative members have the same common interests as our enlightened members, so they are crazy about us.

Because the existence of an empire requires the collection of taxes from various groups, which involves the issue of the distribution of benefits.

Let's all make the cake bigger under the banner of the empire, but because the cake is so big, there will always be people who eat more and some people who eat less, so it is not the throne that the conservatives and the enlightened are competing for, but the power of the throne to share the cake!

The reason why the Minister of Agriculture, Count Hert Arnold, threatened to increase the commercial tax and reduce the land and agricultural taxes was to give the conservatives the support of these farmers and estate owners and give them the right to share the cake.

And the reason why we enlightened people have never been able to confront the conservatives in the past is because the peasant and manor-owner aristocratic class, which is their cornerstone, occupies the majority of the population of the empire, and we the merchant class are the minority.

Even now, we have formed a close alliance of interests, and this trend has not been fundamentally reversed!

Instead, our push will bring conservatives together to form alliances similar to ours.

At that time, our strength will definitely not be enough to confront them, so we can only obediently give up the power to share the cake, and we will become the ruled who work hard to make cakes, but can't get too much cake!

That's the problem of what I call the Alliance!"