The Alliance Ceremony's celebrations lasted a full week. During that time, the Jiuzhou Empire also sent a delegation of roughly five thousand people to prepare for the cooperation projects that would follow.
These ordinary people undoubtedly stood out like cranes among chickens in Heaven Dou City. Its people could hardly imagine why people without Soul Power could become the pillars of an empire, when ordinary people in Heaven Dou City could generally do only the lowliest work.
In any case, with the royal family and the many nobles working together to build support, people soon accepted that they would be living alongside these noble Jiuzhou people from now on.
To make management easier, Leng Xiyue proposed to Xue Ye that a section of Heaven Dou City be set aside to house the people about to begin the joint projects. This meant drawing a circle around the current location of Leng Xiyue's Temporary Palace and purchasing the surrounding buildings and land to form something like a concession, where the Jiuzhou Empire would enjoy autonomy, including the right to deploy troops to defend the concession itself and punish petty criminals.
The concession system was clearly still far too advanced for Xue Ye. After turning it over in his mind, he felt there was nothing wrong with it. After all, these people would be working hard for the upcoming industrial plans, and they themselves distrusted or even loathed Heaven Dou. Having the Jiuzhou Empire ensure their living conditions was clearly the better choice.
Moreover, the price Leng Xiyue offered for the land would be a considerable source of income for the royal family.
As for autonomy, that hardly mattered, because all the Heaven Dou people within the concession would move out, and Leng Xiyue would also pay for them to settle into new