When he had set such an oddball rule, the series of actions the people of Water-Drawing City were now taking through their own ingenuity had long since appeared in Li Wei's script.
It was merely a matter of seeing who would be the first to discover the "loophole" and eat the crab.
They were an outsider force. If they thought they could monopolize the market and rake in gold throughout Water-Drawing City with nothing but a batch of high-quality, low-priced goods and twenty-odd people, they were daydreaming. They might even end up dead one day without knowing how they had died.
After all, this was Water-Drawing City, one of the three great port city-states with a history stretching back over a thousand years.
By his estimates, the waters in this city ran deep and muddy. Aside from the Masked Four Lords represented by Kaierben in the open, as well as the Ahghairon Family, who nominally held royal authority, and the nobles beneath them, forces such as the thieves' guild, the Zhentarim, and even Bane's followers would likely all become involved. And those unknown "enemies" would only grow in number, not shrink.
Rather than let them lurk in the shadows, constantly scheming against him and Hogg Mining, he might as well cut off a few chunks from this immense chain of profits, toss them into the water, and wait for them to fight over them.
Once they all came out into the open and tore at one another like dogs, the resistance they faced afterward would be far smaller.
So, it was quite nice to be regarded as some dimwitted fool throwing money around~
After all, as long as this fool kept throwing money around, Li Wei would be the coolest and safest kid in all of Water-Drawing City!
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