The Yearning to Tread the Bones of Nobles Across Heaven Street

"Subsidizing unemployed cultivators' cultivation can only be a temporary measure."

"If it goes on any longer, Tushan Immortal City's finances will be unable to bear it. We can only part on good terms and abandon the construction plan for the Northern Plains economic and trade center."

Jiang Ding watched the Green Skirt Maid's departing back.

It was not as though there were no solutions. They could invest in infrastructure, waterworks throughout the region, orders and investments led by Tushan Immortal City, construction of spirit veins, and so on. All these could absorb a certain amount of employment.

Unfortunately, the Land of Three Kingdoms itself was too small a pond.

With only three Grade 3 Spirit Veins, it had already gathered dozens of Golden Core Cultivators and five to six hundred thousand Foundation Establishment and Qi Refining cultivators. It was already overloaded, relying entirely on outside transfusions and the development of processing trade to sustain cultivation and prosperity.

Having lost its greatest external source of transfusions, no amount of internal investment by the Immortal City authorities would be useful. They might as well lie flat and rot.

When the time came, those willing to remain and endure the harsh cultivation environment could do so as long as they obeyed the law. Those who wished to return to the Northern Plains would receive subsidies for part of their passage.

That was all there was to it.

"The key lies in the Northern Plains situation, the situation on the Black Snow Great Grassland..."

Jiang Ding thought calmly.

Even so, expecting him to personally intervene in the Northern Plains Royal Court War was mere wishful thinking.

A mere economic loss could never make him violate his own principles and throw himself into danger.

"Still, eighteen years from now, Blazing Sun Spirit Iron will emerge.