"Worldly affairs change easily, human nature does not."
Jianquan spoke calmly, "Before one can transcend the world, one must engage with it. Having traveled the world for decades, I have seen all sorts of people and matters. In the past half-year, the Yu Country has prospered due to railroad construction, leading to widespread money shortages. The speed of casting copper coins cannot keep up with the rate at which people spend them, so the court has authorized the production of more paper money. This has brought new problems. The wealth of the common people has doubled, seemingly improving their lives, but the wealth of noble families and merchants has expanded rapidly with the aid of the railroads, increasing from ten to one hundred. In the future, it will become one thousand, even ten thousand."
