Throne of the Myriad Civilizations
Chapter 1981

The Great Zhou's Shock

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After the weather warmed up, there was no way the elves could keep wearing their thickened cotton clothes, but they could always switch back to their original linen and animal-skin garments.

But going from frugality to luxury was easy, while going from luxury back to frugality was hard.

After touching that soft, comfortable pure cotton fabric, how could they possibly stand their original coarse linen clothes now?

The elves could only wonder why their wages were so low. The seasons had changed, and now they could not afford to buy new clothes.

When had Wright ever encountered a situation like this? For a moment, he was completely dumbfounded.

According to his people, they needed more jobs and more income.

But where was he supposed to produce so many jobs?

Wright truly lacked experience in this area, but he was not a fool. He knew that for a job to exist, it first had to be capable of creating corresponding value.

At this stage, their Elf race relied on logging and mining to obtain timber and ore. They then sold the timber and ore to Great Zhou in exchange for currency, and only after that did they have the currency to pay the elves' wages.

It was a cycle. If he wanted to add more jobs, those jobs first had to generate profit.

For Wright at this moment, this was an enormous problem.

During this period, Wright had not failed to consider whether he should bring out some of their race's special resources for trade.

But he was not foolish either. He knew what could be traded and what could not.

Not to mention that some things were useful only to the Elf race and had little value to other races.

As the Elf King, Wright would occasionally vent some of

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