Black Box

"Are you planning to keep doing this?" Han Jiang asked Kallen.

Kallen took the last gold coin from the bag, tossed it up, and caught it in her palm. "Haven't you noticed how happy so many people were when they received the coins we handed out?"

During this time, Han Jiang and Kallen had used the list Jenna provided to loot quite a few treasures the nobles had hidden away.

They had also distributed large amounts of gold in the lower district. Not every impoverished person had received a coin, but it was safe to say that every household had gotten at least one.

The people at the bottom really were happy, because after waking from a night's sleep, they had received gold coins that would normally take them months of work to earn.

But this could only treat the symptoms, not the root cause.

Once those people spent all the gold, they would still return to their previous poverty.

Moreover, with so many gold coins circulating privately without corresponding productivity or goods, the prices of goods and food on the market would rise.

But after they spent the gold, prices might not fall again. If this continued, the people of the lower district might end up worse off than before.

Kallen was somewhat idealistic. She believed that simply giving gold to the poor was enough, but she had not considered the deeper implications.

That was why Han Jiang had asked her this. He knew that while it seemed like they were helping the poor, they were actually harming them.

As for how to completely solve these problems, Otto might know, Welt might know, and Guan Xing knew as well, but Han Jiang did not know right now.

"Stop while you can. Nothing good will come of this if you