Purification

Zuo Yi's calmness was not an act.

What did two or three hundred tons of gold amount to? The wealth he possessed and had squandered far exceeded that figure.

He could honestly say that he had no interest in money—without showing off in the slightest.

Of course, Zuo Yi would not turn his nose up at it either.

With a wave of his hand, he stored all the gold in his Spatial Ring.

After returning, Zuo Yi planned to convert all this gold into funds and inject them into his charity foundation.

Then use it to help impoverished people in An Yue.

During the past few days in Spring City, he had learned a great deal of information related to the Bai family.

The An Yue Autonomous Region was three times the size of Jiangnan Province, yet its population was only one-quarter of the latter's. Aside from Spring City, the provincial capital, which was a prosperous modern metropolis, the rest of the region was quite backward and impoverished.

Besides geographical factors, the primary reason for this situation was the Bai family's business strategy in An Yue.

Spring City was the Bai family's old stronghold. Over several centuries, they had turned Spring City into the foundation of their family, investing countless manpower and resources into its transformation and construction.

It could be said that Spring City's current prosperity and beauty were inseparably tied to the Bai family.

Yet the enormous resources the Bai family had poured into Spring City had not fallen from the sky. A large portion had been obtained by bleeding dry and exploiting other regions.

The rich grew richer while the poor grew poorer. An Yue's development over the years had been utterly distorted, and poverty in some places had reached a horrifying level.

What was most shameless