630 Poor people (1/2)
”This isn't considered going against the court…”
Weiyuan frowned, ”Our Gantian Mountain doesn't prohibit civilian gatherings.”
At this moment he was really envious of the central continent. Under Great Shang rule, most of the commoners were really honest and followed what the Ruler wanted.
How could it be compared to their Rainbow City, it was simply not straightforward!
”They are all people who aren't satisfied! Now their monthly salary had risen to 50 teals but they still aren't willing to stop. What do these people want before they are willing to stop…”
When Kong Rui heard that he became more quiet. 50 teals a month, that was comparable to half a Grade-1 Beast Crystal. It was pretty much five times that of in the central continent.
He realised that he had underestimated Weiyuan. He said that his monthly salary could feed three thousand people and if he was using Rainbow City standards, how much would that be?
He suddenly comprehended the reasoning behind why Weiyuan said these words to him. He most probably didn't want a person like him who came from the central continent to underestimate him…
”That's right! If this continues, there will probably be no one who is willing to do agriculture.”
”Now there already aren't many people who are willing to work on farms. Just yesterday, 1 unit of grain actually rose to 110 wen! This was even after relying on large amounts of purchases from other lands which barely suppressed the price.”
”Sigh! I heard that the central continent always used farming to establish the country. But now our Gantian Mountain wants to hand this important country matter to other people.”
”I heard that the Prime Minister had raised a suggestion in the meeting hall to prohibit purchases of grain!”
”Ah! The grain prices are really going to increase crazily…”
”However, I heard that recently there were some Spirit Masters studying how to use spiritual formations and mechanisms to help people farm.”
”Mechanisms? Wasn't this something the Mohists were good at? Is it the Kongqi Sect? Speaking of which, his Highness is prepared to set up an imperial college like the central continent. He is also preparing to set up a worker course to set up the Mohists techniques as a learnable course. In the future any person in the department of industry would have to complete this course.”
Kong Rui listened to the officials' discussion and he was startled. With 50 teals monthly salary, 110 wen grain prices were actually too low.
Renbo's country policies would attract more farmers.
However, without those preposterous government decrees, he wouldn't have to do this.
Similar to Great Shang, since the Ruler ascended, every year they had sufficient amounts of grain.
However the commoners in Great Shang didn't seem to be as rich as those in Gantian Mountain…
Moreover, the Ruler wasn't fierce and these people seemed to have studied some, so why was this place said to be so barbaric and rough?
Apart from this, building a college was a good thing, but that industry course, to teach Mohists skills was something he didn't understand.
In this world, the only thing that could truly rule the world was the Confucians!
These people continued on and it was going more and more off-topic. However, an hour later maybe because someone felt impatient, he scoffed coldly, ”These people really don't know when to stop. If it were me, I would definitely teach them a lesson…”
”They are indeed troublemakers. We must think of a way to give them trouble!”
”Actually if it was just them it would still be okay and they wouldn't be able to cause many problems. What is annoying is that there are people fanning the flames in the dark with nefarious intentions.”
The other person shook his head and said, ”Please be careful what you say! If others hear this, if those meeting hall members hear this, it would be more or less a problem for our Prefect. These people are worrying about having no methods to attract the eyes of those dumb commoners. It has been close to three years, recently they are preparing for the re-election…”