After observing for quite some time, Chu Mu sent Fu Xuan a message.
Fu Xuan promised to offer the merchants of Aurum Alley a series of preferential policies and support for their industries.
Industry was the key to revitalizing a local economy!
If others could make what you made, with the same quality and at a lower price, why would customers buy from you?
Aurum Alley had once flourished. A large part of its current decline came from its merchants remaining mired in their past glory, with no desire to improve.
The lives of long-life species were so long that it might take them decades, or even a century, to realize this mistake.
The preferential policies Fu Xuan offered would serve as a guide, attracting merchants to establish industries there. To a certain extent, this would intensify competition and promote commercial prosperity.
Merchants had keen political instincts. Almost the instant the policies were announced, some set off to survey Aurum Alley. Shopfronts advertised for transfer that had previously attracted no interest suddenly became hot properties, with merchants clamoring to inquire about them.
Fu Xuan also promised Chu Mu that she would uncover Aurum Alley's cultural heritage and turn it into a showcase for cultural tourism on the Xianzhou.
On one side was the hard power of industry; on the other, the soft power of culture. Under Fu Xuan's leadership, Aurum Alley would pursue both at once, fostering diversified, coordinated development.
And who on the Xianzhou did not know who Fu Xuan was?
Her ambitions were common knowledge, too!
She was very likely to become the next Luofu General!
So even merchants who had little interest in Aurum Alley felt they ought to go and show their support, since this was a project Diviner Fu was personally overseeing.
Almost overnight, Aurum