Mr. Pantalone has no crazy plans today.

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This craze intensified, fueled by Lawrence.

Due to the shortage of high-end liquor and the frenzied buying of futures contracts by more merchants, the price of liquor has been rising at an absurd and unbelievable speed.

It cannot be stopped, it cannot be prevented.

Even though some people tried to quickly quell this irrational frenzy, no matter how much money and goods were invested, it was all in vain, like a drop in the ocean, due to the merchants' frenzied buying.

Moreover, blinded by profit, some businessmen purchased actual futures contracts.

He mortgaged this futures contract to the Northern Bank and obtained a crazy leverage ratio of 30 times, which gave him a huge flow of funds, and he began to buy more contracts like crazy.

This meant that even with Mond Wines working around the clock to keep up with the insane pace of buying, they couldn't keep up with the demand.

As time went on, this unusual smell soon caught the attention of Mondstadt officials.

The first person to be noticed was Kripps Legenfender, the de facto controller of most of Mondstadt's winery and the owner of Château de la Dawn.

He knew perfectly well what kind of castle in the air lay beneath this seemingly fervent craze.

But by the time he realized it, it was too late. Even as the de facto controller of most of Mondstadt's wine industry, he was powerless against the Mondstadt wine alliance formed by the old aristocratic interest group led by Lawrence.

Ultimately, he was just one person and could not fight against such a huge interest group.

Once this booming market took shape, no one could change it.

He knew the only way was to get the Knights of Mondstadt, the de facto rulers of Mondstadt, to intervene. So he went to find Grand Master Falgar of the Knights of Mondstadt, hoping to get official intervention from the Knights.

This practice also attracted the attention of the Mond Wine Alliance, led by Lawrence.

"If the Knights get involved, then things will get complicated."

Schubert's eyes gleamed with barely concealed rage, prompting Anastasia, who stood with her back against the wall and arms crossed, serving as the advisor to the Fools' delegation, to speak calmly.

"What's the panic? It's just the Knights of Favonius. With us, the Fatui, around, there's nothing to worry about. At least on the surface, Winterfell and Mondstadt are still allies. As long as it's normal business dealings, even if the Knights wanted to interfere, they wouldn't have any reason to."

"Unless they want to break the commercial contracts, they should be prepared to compensate the merchants who have already purchased futures contracts for their losses, along with the losses of the Northern Bank."

"Do you think the Knights of Favonius have enough financial resources to compensate for such a huge business loss? Even if the Knights of Favonius could afford it, the money would go into the Northern Bank's account, so we would not lose money no matter how you look at it."

However, what Anastasia didn't mention is that the "we" here does not include the Mond Wine Alliance, including Lawrence.

But Schubert was clearly not able to realize this; he was simply overjoyed after Anastasia said that "we" would not suffer any losses.

The gloom in my heart was swept away along with it.

"I'm relieved to hear that."

"Let's make some other preparations. To ensure that everything goes as planned, a very important person will be coming to Zhidong's place next."

Schubert paused for a moment after hearing Anastasia's words, then asked with a puzzled look.

"What important person?"

"Lady, one of the executors of the Fools."

Anastasia paused for a moment before revealing the identity of the important figure who was coming to Mondstadt, her voice filled with a sense of trepidation as she spoke.

She hadn't expected that not only would Lord Pantarone intervene in Mondstadt, but even another executor, the "Lady," would be coming to Mondstadt.

The message from above was that the "Lady" was sent to Mondstadt to ensure the plan's smooth progress and to ensure that there was sufficient power to restrain the Knights of Favonius and that the plan would not go wrong.

After all, Mondstadt and the Knights of Mondstadt have officially established diplomatic relations and are friendly nations. Therefore, it is necessary to send an executive officer to Mondstadt's Knights of Mondstadt in order to conduct equal dialogue.

However, this is just a pretext. The real reason why the "Lady" was sent to Mondstadt must be related to the plan that Lord Pantalone is currently devising.

Anastasia knew she couldn't possibly think of anything that profound, so all she had to do was obediently follow the instructions.

"The executive officer who came at the winter?"

"That's not something you need to know. Just do your job."

Anastasia glanced at Schubert and then said indifferently.

"Prepare for the dialogue with the Knights in a few days. Considering that this is a business matter, even the Knights are unlikely to use force. If nothing unexpected happens, the Knights should extend an invitation for talks and negotiations in the next few days."

"The Lady will act as Winter's Envoy, responsible for speaking with the Grand Master of the Western Knights. Your job is simply to stabilize the current situation."

Schubert felt deeply humiliated by Anastasia's attitude.

How dare this mere consul-envoy, who came here in winter, speak to me in such an attitude, even though he is a noble person who inherited the blood of Lawrence?

But on the other hand, he also knew that he still needed the power of the Fools.

This made him secretly remember Anastasia's attitude towards him.

When he reclaims Lawrence's glory and becomes the de facto ruler of Mondstadt, the Fools will be of no use to him. Then we'll see how he deals with this little advisor.

"Yes, I will do so."