Secondly, at the crucial confluences of tributaries where shipping conditions were fundamentally improved, Gu Jun would, in the name of the court, offer preferential policies to attract merchants and settlers from all directions to establish workshops and shops.
All these methods were extremely natural.
Under a mature trade system, the people and merchants in various places would also make the most appropriate choices.
And as these series of measures were implemented one after another.
The entire Great Song seemed to come alive once more, the heavy atmosphere dissipating into thin air, replaced by a brand new vitality.
This new vitality did not come from the dignified edicts of the court.
But rather sprouted naturally from each port saturated with commerce, and each revived riverbank.
Even Gu Yi had to admit.
Even though he had witnessed countless prosperous times over the millennia, the current prosperity of the Great Song was among the greatest.
