"Last year's tax revenue increased quite a bit again. My decisions really were all correct.
Encouraging the Descenders to open Blue Star-style hotels, restaurants, and a whole range of lifestyle experience centers in the city.
These were all excellent, advanced things for everyone on Domirank Star."
The dragon brought his two claws together, closing the little notebook, and a trace of satisfaction appeared on his draconic face.
Three whole years!
He had worked tirelessly, without complaint! He had given it his all!
He had brought tremendous development to Niro City.
He encouraged the Astral Realm Walkers to lure away the populations of other cities and encouraged Niro City's locals to have more children!
By now, the city, which originally had only seventy or eighty thousand people, had seen its population soar to a hundred and sixty or seventy thousand!
These were all his beasts of burden-no! His treasures! His future family!
Unfortunately, with the surrounding cities losing large numbers of people, their noble lords had begun guarding against it rigorously, severely restricting the Astral Realm Walkers' recruitment plans.
Otherwise, the population might already have broken the two hundred thousand mark!
On Domirank Star.
In a small country, a city with two hundred thousand people.
That absolutely counted as a developed city!
Of course.
Such a tremendous population boom had also cost him an enormous number of gold coins.
The Astral Realm Walkers had lured over roughly forty thousand people.
That had cost him a full eight thousand gold coins! In the past, back in the old lord's time, coming up with that many gold coins would have been a pipe dream!
Even three years ago.
It would have completely drained both Xiluo's and the lord's private treasuries!
But things were different now!
Thanks to Xiluo's vigorous development efforts, the population