Hearing these questions, the Crown Prince was not angry at all. Instead, he told me with great pride that his nation had a population of several billion, and pulling out a few tens of millions of people at random to build an imperial palace was a mere trifle to him.
I immediately put on an expression of adoration and excitement, then briskly walked over to the Crown Prince's side. "After I help you build your palace, could you lend some people to me? We have so few people over there. I asked those old men to assign 100,000 people to me, but they refused. They insisted on testing my ability and letting us fend for ourselves. When we came out this time, they only gave us 100,000 people in total, and they are truly unwilling to give us any more, talking nonsense about letting us sink or swim."
"If we develop well out here, everything we earn can be taken back to build my own imperial palace. If we don't develop well, they'll make us go back and obediently serve as ordinary city lords, telling me not to daydream about impossible things. You tell me, how could a son of destiny like me be content like those old fogies, managing a mere twenty million people every day and living in that kind of old-fashioned imperial palace? I must strive for greatness and become the most legendary city lord in the history of this world!"
Chapter 167