All businesses must strive for sustainability.@@@@

    Monopolies, too, require long-term strategies to ensure they remain profitable for generations. Naturally, having secured a monopoly on military food supplies, I must ensure that it remains intact, ideally until the empire itself collapses.

    The odds of a major crisis happening if I took a break now were close to zero. The military supply contracts, if maintained at their current level, would guarantee that all food-related operations for the next ten years remain under the Rothschild family. The resulting enormous profits, after minimal taxes, would be safely stored in our family vault.

    However, money—or more specifically, opportunities to make money—always comes with timing.

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