A day was enough for the retaliation to begin. With the spark of a worker's death, which was used as an excuse. A small war happened in the dark, away from the eyes of common people.
"Brother, something odd is going on, the response, this whole incident, everything feels wrong." Around the evening of the next day, the Azure Dragon family noticed that the response of their enemies was too fast.
The bartender's guild never even bothered to come to them with a complaint, trying to de-escalate the situation, or at least come for a dialog. There was no attempt at communication at all.
Making it obvious to the Azure Dragon that something else was afoot and the Bartender's association was just using this small incident as an excuse to get back at them.