Chapter 1673: A Scandal Must Break
To be fair, Meng Chao believed that the councilors from the Nine Super Enterprises did not deliberately want to obstruct the passage of the Compulsory Cultivation Act for School-Age Children.
After all, most Transcendents, even those from the Nine Great Families, still wanted to see Dragon City's overall strength grow with each passing day, so that they could conquer the entire Otherworld sooner.
The problem was that the introduction of the Compulsory Cultivation Act for School-Age Children would bring about two issues.
First, the Blue Alliance, which had proposed this bill, would inevitably gain a great deal more influence within the Survival Committee, while ordinary citizens' trust and support for them would continue to rise.
And the greatest beneficiaries of this bill—the middle- and lower-class citizens unable to bear the exorbitant costs of cultivation—were also the Blue Alliance's basic foundation.
In the next Survival Committee Midterm Elections, they would certainly stand firmly by the Blue Alliance, helping it seize more council seats and causing the Nine Super Enterprises' seats to shrink continuously, perhaps even reducing them from those who could once dictate Dragon City's fate to subordinates and vassals.
Second, there was an even more unbearable and unsolvable question—where would the money come from?
Like any plan that looked beautiful on the surface, for the Compulsory Cultivation Act for School-Age Children to pass successfully and be implemented without compromise, it would consume an astronomical sum of money and cultivation resources.
The Survival Committee itself could not conjure up even half a copper coin.
And after decades of the Monster War, even though it had won, Dragon City Civilization was covered in wounds and quietly licking them. Its fiscal system was likewise riddled with holes and on the verge of collapse.
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