"All right, for the promise of you becoming the future King, it was time to properly discuss your future development."
"Do you remember what Blustro told you? That was also what I wanted to say. Huidun Territory was far too poor now. Other than the two old professors in Huidun Academy, it had nothing else worth showing off. When I first went to speak with Blustro, he had not thought highly of Huidun Territory's future either."
"I knew that. The territory lay in the kingdom's far west. The only things it could produce and sell were the beast cores, beast pelts, and beast bones left behind from the annual extermination of Magic Beasts on the outskirts. Those things had always been suppressed in the market as well. More merchants preferred to purchase them from the Governor's Mansion in the Western Territory. But I thought you must have found me one or several goods with considerable and sustainable profits. Otherwise, that old fellow Blustro would not have come looking for me."
When Wisdom Shield spoke of the straits his territory was in, he no longer felt as embarrassed as before. He stated it openly, then firmly asked Chen Cheng for a way out.
Chen Cheng did not beat around the bush any longer and said directly,
"Based on what I had learned in the city these past few days, the thing we exported the most each year was cloth for the low-end market. The first target I had set my sights on was the cloth business."
As the lord of the territory, Wisdom Shield naturally knew this. However, he remembered that the export price of those fabrics was extremely low. The profits might satisfy a few minor Barons, but they held no appeal whatsoever for a Count like him.
Seeing Wisdom