Leopard

The moment Lin Qi opened his mouth, he left Your Majesty the Emperor unable to continue.

The main reason Amelia Province had failed to develop was that the nobles were unwilling to go there. For one thing, Amelia Province was a "concession," and in this world, there was no such saying as a concession becoming permanent after lasting more than a hundred years.

No matter how long a concession lasted, it would have to be returned when the term expired.

In other words, if the nobles invested massive amounts of money into developing Amelia Province, then after a hundred and twenty years, once the region had been developed and perhaps even surpassed Gefra Main Island economically, it would have to be returned to its "original owner" as soon as the term expired.

All the time, effort, and wealth invested over so many years would ultimately benefit someone else—and an enemy nation of Gefra at that. It would practically amount to aiding the enemy.

Once the original owner took the region back, would they really treat Gefran nobles and merchants favorably?

Impossible. The nobles would be grateful if they were not arrested en masse. No matter what, they would at the very least be driven out.

That meant the Gefran nobles' hundred and twenty years of effort would go to waste. All the assets a noble family had poured its strength into would ultimately become someone else's property. How could they possibly be interested in answering Your Majesty the Emperor's call to develop the region?

Before this, there had also been rumors that the Gefran Emperor had no intention of returning the land. They would completely conquer the entire country when the next war broke out, turning it into a forward base for Gefra's conquest of the world.

The problem was