These Wanderers had no families.
As long as they had money in hand, they would spend it.
If they did not, they might die on their next voyage.
Then it would become the tragedy of a man dying before spending all his money.
So most sailors would spend as much of their money as possible whenever they had it.
On food, drink, entertainment, and women.
That gave them even greater motivation to earn money—or rather, to plunder...
The more they spent, the more they earned, and the more they would spend next time.
That formed an economic cycle.
They were the group among the common people with the strongest purchasing power in the earliest stages of a commodity economy.
The wealthy class alone could not sustain the great development of a commodity economy.
After all, any one person's consumption was ultimately limited.
That was why the largest enterprises all dealt in necessities, pursuing broad sales channels and low prices rather than luxury goods.
In other words, sailors served as one of the main consumer forces in the ancient commodity market. Among the lower and middle classes, none had greater purchasing power than sailors.
The schoolhouse fell silent.
The many students pondered what their master had just said.
Some nodded, while others shook their heads.
Some wore pained expressions, while others found it difficult to decide.
In any case, very few of them truly thought going to sea was a good thing.
After all, it was something almost entirely unfamiliar to them, as well as an enormous challenge.
Wenren Sheng swept his gaze over them before speaking again. "The sea holds endless wealth. Beyond the sea lie endless treasures and endless lands. Those lands can solve the problem of refugees currently flooding every part of the Great Han Dynasty."
"Let me