Newm was one of the most commercially developed cities in Climbing Cloud Province of the Servia Kingdom.
It was enormous in scale, with a population far beyond that of an ordinary town.
And that required the authorities to adjust their development strategies accordingly, in order to absorb the ever-growing labor force.
On the other hand, the vast majority of common civilians in this world had never received a proper education.
Professions such as carpentry and blacksmithing, because they were "crafts" one could rely on for a lifetime, had even higher thresholds for learning set by one "old master" after another.
Unless there was a blood relation or real closeness, many people had to spend years as apprentices before they were even allowed to come near, observe, and learn the most basic techniques.
Under such circumstances, for the ordinary civilians in Newm City who had neither family wealth nor connections—especially those living in the shanties of the slums—
the only work they could do was limited to low-threshold physical labor such as porters, dock unloaders, and hired coachmen.
Correspondingly, for jobs that relied purely on physical fitness and exchanged strength for money, the income naturally could not be very high against the current level of productivity in this world.
If they worked themselves half to death for an entire day, filling their own stomachs was basically not a problem.
But if they had a few more mouths to feed, plus the cost of living in Newm City, things became rather tight.
Under these circumstances, as a chain reaction caused by it, some young people who could see no hope of rising up and felt that no matter how hard they worked they could only barely support themselves began to have crooked ideas.
Among those with a bit of ambition, they took