Three short days passed in the blink of an eye, but they directly refreshed Charman's understanding of Great Zhou.
Although Charman had once been the emperor of the Holy Roland Empire, his understanding of Great Zhou was not much deeper than that of his subjects.
He had heard of Steam Trains, but before this, he had never ridden one.
When he took the Steam Train to Black Moon City, everything he experienced along the way shook his original worldview.
After arriving in Black Moon City, everything he saw brought him comparatively less of a shock, but to Charman, it was still filled with fresh and unfamiliar things.
The living conditions of Great Zhou's people far exceeded his expectations.
Balem was merely intrigued by it all, but Charman was different. From these things, he saw Great Zhou's path of development and its political structure.
As a nation continued to develop, circumstances such as entrenched social classes and unequal wealth were almost impossible to prevent.
Those who first obtained power and status would inevitably be people who had contributed to the development of the nation.
But who could guarantee that they would not use that power for the sake of their descendants?
To a certain extent, this was already a tacitly permitted privilege in itself.
The same applied to those who possessed wealth.
Human nature was greedy and never satisfied. People who truly had the ability to obtain something yet chose not to were few and far between—so rare that they could hardly be found anywhere in the world.
Those who possessed wealth would only want to acquire more, making their fortunes grow larger and larger like a snowball rolling downhill.
In the end, seventy percent, or even more, of a nation's wealth would be firmly clutched in the hands of a