In Beigong Ling's eyes, this move was somewhat reckless... After all, judging by the outcome alone, the Alt Conglomerate's aggressive actions would definitely do more harm than good.
But for Jonas, it was actually the result of careful consideration.
The Alt District was still in a phase of building up its resources and needed a greater influx of people. Bringing in people from Huacheng would provoke resentment among its original residents, but compared with the improvement in population quality this would bring, that drawback was practically negligible.
Following the merger of the Alt Conglomerate and the Wetting Conglomerate, the Alt District had gained the capital needed to expand. Expansion within the limits of a Second District could no longer accommodate the Alt Conglomerate's growth. In other words, the Alt District was approaching an upgrade to a First District.
The criteria for a First District were not based on the Administration Department's plans, but on the extent of an area's development. The previous Alt District would naturally have fallen far short of those criteria... The most important factors were its permanent population and population quality. Once those two met the requirements, all the Alt Conglomerate needed to do, given its current scale, was build the necessary infrastructure, and the Alt District could soon complete its expansion.
The other reason, of course, was to give the Alt District more options in its future recruitment... If its previous efforts could only be considered a "limited-time recruitment" event, this would undoubtedly make it a "permanent recruitment" event.
In gaming terms, this reduced the cost of recruiting employees, permanently increased the chance of recruiting rare employees, and granted one guaranteed top-tier pull.
A gambler's dream!
Of course, one prerequisite still had to be met for either of these reasons to hold up.
That prerequisite was