The Northern Sea discovered by the School of Names and the Mohist School could provide Bingzhou with a massive amount of high-grade timber required for construction, and all of this timber was over a century old, completely capable of supplementing Bingzhou's critically deficient timber resources.
Furthermore, the Xiongnu had also been brought under their control, making the transportation of timber from the Northern Sea to Bingzhou extremely convenient, thus eliminating Bingzhou's reliance on timber supplies from the Central Plains.
Therefore, developing the west seemed to be the optimal strategic plan.
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