Anyone who possessed great wealth tried to convert their grain, property, and supplies into servants and children.
Rather than houses, grain, or land.
Because Devils could take those things away at any time.
A house's deed might have an opponent's name written onto it overnight.
Then the opponent could take it away and use it to screw them over.
Only family members, servants, and deathsworn warriors who could be controlled were truly the most valuable wealth.
As long as one possessed a large number of controllable souls, one could exchange them for anything.
That was the true hard currency of this world.
Only souls were something Devils could not simply take away.
They had to obtain human consent.
Yet deathsworn warriors and servants could be controlled by humans.
Devils could not take them directly, but a person's master could compel slaves and deathsworn warriors to sell their own souls.
Thus, this distorted system instead caused wealth to circulate rapidly throughout the world.
Even the wealthiest people at the very top could not possess fixed assets.
Instead, they possessed large numbers of people, especially deathsworn warriors.
Slaves were also quite likely to refuse their master's soul exchange.
And training deathsworn warriors came at a great cost.
It was not easy to train someone into a deathsworn warrior.
If it had been easy, there would not have been so many traitors in ancient times, nor would ancient feudal armies have mutinied and rebelled at every turn.
Wenren Sheng could not help but smile when he saw this.
Through this method, this world had actually ingeniously resolved the problems of land annexation and wealth accumulation.
Land annexation did not exist here.
Why did wealthy people in ancient times annex land? Because land allowed them to possess more wealth.
Land was the most stable