Heaven Dou's Aoswei was a kingdom neighboring Toske Province. Since it bordered the North Sea to the north, its fishing industry was quite developed, and the vast majority of the seafood in Heaven Dou City was supplied by the Aoswei Kingdom.
There were many nobles within the Heaven Dou Empire, and these nobles held a severe monopoly over every trade and industry. The Aoswei Kingdom was no exception. Almost all the local ports had basically been seized by nobles, then rented out to fishermen who made their living from fishing as access points to the sea, causing commoners to have to pay extremely high departure fees if they wanted to go out to sea.
But human greed was endless. The commoners' submission only made these nobles even more unscrupulous, and every so often they would join together to discuss raising the departure fees, stirring up endless resentment among the commoners, who still did not dare resist. After all, these noble lords all had Soul Master power in their hands to a greater or lesser degree. How could ordinary people fight them?
Though the broader environment was like this, wherever there was darkness, there was bound to be light. The Aoswei Xun Family was not very willing to sink to the level of these nobles who preyed on the people. The ports occupied by the family only charged a token amount for maintenance and repairs before being rented to commoners to go out fishing or engage in trade.
This caused the throughput of the Xun Family's ports to be several times, even dozens of times greater than that of the other noble families' ports. Only fishermen who were poorly informed or lived far away would still choose the other nobles' ports to go out to sea, greatly reducing those nobles' income.