East Gate Market

East Gate Market is East Gate Market emerges as a pivotal hub of commercial and administrative transformation within Bairren Fortress, reshaping the region’s economic and social landscape under the governance of the transmigrators—particularly Wu De’s faction. Originally conceived as a strategic grid-based marketplace extending from the fortress’s east gate, it was meticulously designed to accommodate self-built shops along its main thoroughfare ("East Gate Street"), catering to merchants seeking commercial opportunities in a rapidly expanding urban environment. Beyond commerce, East Gate Market acts as a crucial nexus for governance, housing administrative offices like the East Gate Market Administration Office and later serving as a platform for political maneuvering, including the establishment of security and military structures. The market’s origins are deeply tied to the aftermath

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"Chapter 116: East Gate Market Led by Chuyu, Wu De's team quickly found the secret vault—hidden behind wall paneling fitted so perfectly that even careful examination revealed nothing. Chuyu didn't know the opening mechanism, and the transmigrators didn't bother searching for it. Wang Ruixiang grabbed a fire axe and hacked until a gap opened in the paneling. What they found within exceeded all expectations: the manor's master himself. Gou Xunyi had been hiding in this study vault all along. Behin"

"Chapter 117: Ambitions of East Gate Blowing Rain and Solitary Seeking Marriage The East Gate Market Administration Office convened its inaugural meeting in the second-floor room above the hall of public standard measures. The conditions were crude—walls freshly whitewashed with lime that hadn't fully dried from the rushed construction, raw wood floorboards left unlacquered since the Industrial Department had yet to locate any lacquer trees, with modern paint belonging to the distant future. Ther"

"Chapter 118: Commercial Planning The plan for East Gate Market began at the outer moat of Bairren Fortress's east gate, extending three hundred meters westward to form a main thoroughfare christened "East Gate Street." Cross-streets would intersect it every hundred meters on each side, creating a grid of "one vertical, two horizontal." Plots of varying sizes along these streets could be sold to merchants for self-built shops, while the transmigrators themselves would construct additional storefr"

"Chapter 119: Women's Cooperative News of the transmigrators' conquest of Gou Manor spread countywide within three days, provoking wildly mixed reactions across different social strata. The gentry and major households were privately delighted that the universally despised tyrant Gou Xunyi had met his end, yet they nursed growing unease about the short-hairs' expanding power. Among commoners, however, the response was unreservedly enthusiastic. Those within dozens of li had received relief and wer"

"Chapter 120: Grand Opening Despite its impressive name, the Hainan Women's Cooperative Corporation was essentially a secondhand goods shop. Its entire inventory came from the Gou Manor confiscations—antiques, ornaments, calligraphy, paintings, and porcelain that found no buyers in the local market, alongside mountains of ordinary household goods. The clothing alone filled dozens of cartloads, bundled garments that held irresistible appeal for the common folk. A thorny problem emerged, however. A"

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