When they arrived at Falling Rain Valley, Xu Yi jumped down from the carriage and said goodbye to President Cruz.
Xu Yi did not invite President Cruz inside to rest. He knew Cruz must still be thinking about their conversation on the road about a new source of profit, and would be eager to return to Bunta City to investigate in person.
In fact, Xu Yi was certain that as soon as President Cruz returned to Bunta City, he would head straight to the banks of the Sandy River, as Xu Yi had suggested, to survey the site. If nothing unexpected happened, he would then immediately seek an audience with Earl Stark to buy the riverside land and prepare it for commercial housing development.
That was right. The new source of profit Xu Yi had offered the Amli Merchant Guild was, in fact, commercial housing development.
Strictly speaking, it could not really be called entirely new. Commercial housing development still fell within the construction work the Amli Merchant Guild had always excelled at; it was merely an extension of it.
But the true concept of commercial housing had yet to appear in the Lampari Kingdom or on the Sains Continent. On this sparsely populated continent with abundant land, where ordinary people were generally poor, most people only needed a place that sheltered them from the wind and rain. They had no real expectations for the quality of their homes.
That was why President Cruz had immediately objected when Xu Yi proposed the idea.
Having worked in construction for so many years, the Amli Merchant Guild naturally knew the building industry around Bunta City very well. President Cruz understood that there was essentially no market for this so-called commercial housing.
But after hearing Xu Yi's analysis, President Cruz gradually went from