Life at the Top

The president had a devastated expression on his face as he said, “Little Prince, our losses are massive. Not only d o we have book losses, but even more importantly, our upstream and downstream supply chain shave also suffered losses as a result of these attacks.

“We can’t sell our products if the raw materials are out of stock, and we’ve already reduced the factories’ production by a third. And this is after we, the strong ones, made advanced preparations. If this goes on, the smaller companies and factories are all going to close down.

“If one link in the industry goes down,

it’ll deliver a blow to the entire industry,”

His words resonated with many people

around him.

What he had said out loud was the dilemma everyone was in now.

The people here belonged to powerful companies in their respectful industries.

They would not have been qualified to attend the economic forum if they did not have the required talent.

However, if even they had felt how powerful this attack was, there was no doubt that the smaller companies that were far less resilient and powerful than them had too.

A slight increase in force would be enough to uproot them entirely.

Modern companies were intimately interdependent as industries were all closely linked. A single industry chain might be formed by countless corporations both big and small.

Large corporations had plans of their own, while smaller corporations also had tricks up their sleeves. They had long since formed a mutually beneficial relationship, such that these large corporations would not last long if the smaller corporations all collapsed.

the little prince’s face when he saw how the people around him

storm, there was no doubt that the royal family, who had deep roots in all sorts of industries,

on the way here, he had already heard from the family that several of their industries had already run into

of these difficulties were due to losses in the financial market, but even more of them were because of problems that arose and caused a chain reaction in the

Company provided materials for B Company to manufacture into products for C Company, who then sold the products to the

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onto A Company

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the Royal family’s

the upper-middle reaches

supply chains.

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