With Ji Yao's authority established among the pack of hungry wolves, the discussion on the way forward was underway. Ji Yao seriously looked into crippling Emperor Yu and the nobles as retaliation.
As he thought this through the members of the concord didn't hesitate to put across their ideas. Each idea was more violent than the next ranging from storming the imperial city and a declaration of war.
But Ji Yao ignored these suggestions putting himself in his father's shoes. The man might be ruthless when dealing with the enemy but he would never declare war mostly because the casualties of conflict are usually innocent citizens who have no involvement in political disputes.
Human, Nocru or half, he didn't want any of them to suffer as a result of their leaders' stupid decisions. He decided to deal with their leaders directly by imposing importation and exportation rules that will directly screw with the noble class without affecting regular citizens.