After Steward Du Li left for work, Yue Yang wandered around Silver Maple City by himself.
This place was divided into four major districts.
They were the commoners' district, the residential district, and the commercial district. As for the slums, they lay outside the city—the vast sprawl of chaotic shanties. The poor had no right to enter the city at all. Whether reincarnators or native residents, those of low status could only rise to commoner status after earning enough money to buy a house within the city and shed their pauper registration.
As for nobles, they were born that way. There was no need to mention the native residents; challengers had their status decided from the very instant of reincarnation... In other words, no matter how hard a pauper or commoner worked in the future, how many Heaven Crystals they earned, or how much wealth they amassed, they would never be qualified to rise to nobility.
Even if commoners possessed immense wealth, formed enormous merchant guilds, or even became the Dragon Head of some industry and monopolized everything, they still had no chance of becoming true nobles.
They had to attach themselves to nobles.
Like those serving Yue Yang's Star Diamond Castle, commoners had a chance to become the mayor of a town.
Of course, that was the absolute limit of what commoners could achieve. Most commoners could barely manage food and shelter.
In Human Valley, even if commoners had the opportunity to enter noble social circles, they were no more than nouveaux riches in the eyes of the nobles.
If Yue Yang had treated those town mayors and guard captains too amiably today, they would probably have looked down on him from the bottom of their hearts, thinking he did not resemble the descendant of a noble lord. What