"As for Gui District, you don't need to know much about those hundred and fifty stalls. You only need to keep an eye on them and prevent any disputes."
"But I think you should learn a little about the eighteen shops along the rock wall."
Kong Yue set down her teacup and looked at the two of them.
"Gui District has three major shops. The first is the Kong Paper Effigy Shop, which belongs to our Kong Family."
"In fact, it isn't just Gui District. Of the other nine districts, two also have Kong Paper Effigy Shops. Wherever there's a Kong Paper Effigy Shop, you won't find shops belonging to Corpse-Driving Wang or Corpse-Stitching Feng."
"Likewise, our Kong Family has no shops in districts where those other two families operate. This was agreed upon by Cangzhou Prefecture's three great yin cultivation families."
"The Demon-Suppressing Bureau approved this arrangement as well."
"Because of the Star Ruins Ghost Market's layout, some districts are inherently at a disadvantage, like Gui District."
"If Gui District has nothing to draw customers in, fewer and fewer yin cultivators will set up stalls here, while the crowded districts will only become more crowded."
"That would put considerable pressure on the Star Ruins Ghost Market's development and management."
As Kong Yue explained, Chen Miao began to understand how it all worked.
Take the Kong Paper Effigy Shop, for example. If yin cultivators wanted to buy Kong paper offerings at the ghost market, they would have to visit one of those three districts, since nowhere else sold them.
To prevent everyone from crowding into a single Kong Paper Effigy Shop, the Kong Family had divided its merchandise into three categories, each sold at a different shop.
That way, customers with different needs would have to visit different shops.
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