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.

“Chris, what do you think I should do next?” I asked.

Chris, who was organizing documents beside me, put down her pen and responded, “You’ve secured profits comparable to gold and silver mines, and you’ve been pushing yourself non-stop since the battlefield. Don’t you think it’s time to rest?”

The odds of a major crisis happening if I took a …