"With this plan, the future of New Tieshi City will focus on commercial transit and trade, weapons manufacturing, the sale of pills and Spirit Medicine, as well as the cultivation of spirit fruits, spirit vegetables, ironwood trees, and grain. We will arrange housing for the remaining refugees along the corridor between New Tieshi City and Lincang City. This will effectively alleviate the housing and farmland pressure on both cities, while simultaneously supporting the continued development of Lincang City, New Tieshi City, Tieshi City, and Heze City. If the population of Bohai Commandery reaches over ten million, I believe the Beast Tide will no longer be a problem at all; instead, it will become an inexhaustible source of trade for the Commandery. If we can install defensive arrays in New Tieshi City, our cultivation of Spirit Medicine will have even broader prospects, and the city will become a vital treasure trove for Martial Practitioners to train and advance."
"Your Highness’s proposal is truly magnificent and farsighted. We had been worrying about how to continue using the 'work-for-relief' program for the ever-increasing number of refugees. After all, once the walls of New Tieshi City are completed, a massive amount of labor will become idle. The remaining projects—road construction, grain cultivation, fishing, livestock farming, and housing development—cannot fully absorb a workforce of a million people. But this plan changes everything. Connecting Heze City to New …
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