Mu Yan smiled when he heard this and replied in a prepared manner, "This is because our county currently only has the foundational structure of a county. We don't even have all the constitutions of the Human Dao, specifically lacking a Craftsmen Guild.
Besides this, a larger county usually has two or three sects.
Without something like this, how could we propel the growth of the county?
Martial artists, in the end, are mostly fighters and not producers. Literati can still produce texts, poetry, art and such, but they don't have direct uses for cultivation.
Their resources are internally consumed and can't be used for real trade.
Your Shan family and the Shi Gui family are both cultivation families – I know you buy most of your cultivation resources from outside because you're merchants, but if we want more families and forces to grow, then we need to produce resources here rather than buy them en masse.
Not to mention, martial artists and literati also consume these resources.
