"Xu Yi, is your guild planning to give up the Magic Fan and Magic-Powered Kettle businesses entirely?" Servini asked with some curiosity.
"Making all our technology available is completely different from giving up, my dear City Lord," Xu Yi said with a chuckle. "Even with exactly the same technology, I'm certain the Magic Fans and Magic-Powered Kettles produced by other guilds still won't match our Xinfei Merchant Guild's in quality and performance. Do you believe me?"
"Why wouldn't I?" Servini rolled her eyes at Xu Yi. "Do you think I know nothing about producing magic machinery? Besides production technology, plenty of other factors determine its quality and performance, such as materials, manufacturing processes, and so on... Don't forget, you taught me all that yourself."
Xu Yi laughed. "We're truly fortunate to have a City Lord who knows so much about producing magic machinery. In that case, my dear City Lord, I take it you'll approve this draft plan for further developing the Industrial District outside the city?"
Servini nodded with a light laugh. "Of course. With such a good proposal, wouldn't plenty of people curse me if I didn't adopt it? But Xu Yi, there's a problem with your draft."
"Oh? What problem?" Xu Yi glanced in surprise at the draft he had placed on the table. He had settled on this plan after discussing it with Kennard and the presidents of the city's other major merchant guilds, so it should have been thoroughly thought through. How could there be a problem?
"Look..." Servini pointed at the map of Bunta City attached to the draft. "There's nothing wrong with expanding the Industrial District around Sankton Manor, but have you noticed that, according to this plan, construction would extend all the way to the banks of the Sandy River? That would