Lin Miao gently persuaded Miles
"Some things should never be set in motion. Once they discover that threats can make you back down, these guys will escalate and demand the government hand over more benefits. By then, the political capital you've painstakingly accumulated over the past decade will be put at the disposal of others, going down the drain."
"As long as there's profit to be made, even if it's just a penny, they won't flip the table and gamble their lives with you. You soften, they harden; you harden, they soften. That's how business works."
Originally, Lin Miao wanted to say that in America's three hundred years, there hadn't been a rumor of merchants rebelling against the authority. However, realizing that in this era merchants indeed seemed to have taken over, he had to change his tone.
Miles, lost in thought, was equally unwilling to concede, but a few words from Lin Miao probably couldn't change her mind, so Lin Miao voluntarily spoke
