In fact, it was not only the poor residents of the Port District who had been arranged down to the last detail.
Back at the "Water-Drawing City Big Three Council" in Pride House, Xia Lan Veloss and Kaierben, who had both been present, had likewise been stunned by Li Wei's second sweeping follow-up plan regarding "how to prevent the fighting from affecting the poor residents of the Port District."
In Li Wei's own words: "Since it's a battle—especially with so many High-Tier Professionals gathering for a brawl—the shockwaves of the fight damaging and destroying the Port District's buildings are practically unavoidable.
"Since that's the case, why don't we look at it from another angle?
"Don't you think that, for a port city, these drafty shanties and slums covered in piss and shit are rather... beneath the style of this [City of Splendor]?
"Why not take advantage of everyone having been moved up the mountain and raze this cesspit of filth to the ground?
"Then we can rebuild an entirely new Port District through work-for-relief and rehousing on the original site!
"As for the money, Lord Kaierben, you needn't worry about that either. We can use the land currently being developed across the entire Port District as collateral and issue a batch of 'city bonds' in the name of the Water-Drawing City Lord's Office. As long as the interest is attractive enough, those nobles who do nothing but hand out usury loans to the poor and build workshops will gladly open their purses.
"Of course, the interest doesn't actually need to be that high. For every batch of 'city bonds' they buy, just give them a bronze medal naming them an 'Honorary Wealthy Benefactor of Water-Drawing City's Reconstruction.' Those people will line up to buy them, trust me!
"A once-in-a-thousand-years opportunity,