Buying Land and Homes, Nurturing Bandits to Strengthen Oneself

Su Che pinched the tiny Iron Currency coin. A vague, indescribable power lingered upon it.

Incense Karma Coins were hardly rare. Many half-formed demons liked to use such methods to gather Wishing Power.

To fill the national treasury, the current emperor had replaced copper coins with Iron Currency, claiming that "without raising taxes, the state coffers would be full."

Third Young Master Su did not know whether the court had enough money to spend. After all, he did not need to manage the emperor's rotten accounts for him.

But the troubles caused by these wretched Iron Currency coins were everywhere.

He lightly weighed the coin in his hand, then set it aside.

"You said Situ Tu is collecting these things?"

"After the great disaster, plague spread unchecked. Situ Tu ordered the demons under him to treat the people in various places with Talisman Water, charging only one standard coin per person."

"Before drinking the Talisman Water, the demons had the people hold their coins and pray according to their rites, then throw them into wooden barrels. The demons collected these coins, though I do not know what they intended. This subordinate believes the matter is of great consequence. Given the current mood of the people, the slightest misstep may brew a great upheaval."

One standard coin truly was nothing. Though Great Liang worsened with every passing year, every household could still scrape together a hundred or so coins.

One coin to cure an illness. Su Che suddenly recalled a line from a movie in his previous life. He truly had not expected the demons under Situ Tu to be so vicious—they were actually treating the people.

But what they collected was not merely one coin.

There was also a faint trace of Wishing Power clinging to those coins.

Wishing Power