Seeing how little confidence Cang Yuan had, Pan Long did not know how to encourage him.
To be honest, Pan Long was not exactly... It was not that he disagreed with the provisions of Luonan's Reform. He simply did not think much of them.
It was the sort of feeling that made him want to ask, Kid, are you stupid?
It was not that what Di Luonan and Cang Yuan were attempting made no sense. Quite the opposite—it made a great deal of sense. If they could truly carry out the reforms they proposed, they would sweep away the gloom that had accumulated over a thousand years in the Great Xia Dynasty and breathe vigorous new life into the country.
To borrow the catchphrase of the last president of America in his previous life, they could probably call it "Make Great Xia Great Again."
But... everyone knew there was always a gap between ideals and reality.
The distance from "knowing" to "doing" was greater than the distance from heaven to earth!
Pan Long himself, for example, knew quite a few advanced scientific theories. But putting them into practice... Sorry, he really could not think of a good way to do it.
The biggest problem with Di Luonan and Cang Yuan's plan was that it harmed too many people's interests without offering enough in exchange. In the end, they were asking those people to suffer losses for nothing.
If the people they harmed had no power or influence, then so be it. Ordinary folk, unless they truly could not survive, would usually curse a little when their interests suffered, then put up with it.
But they were harming people with power and influence, and those people would not settle matters by cursing. As far as Pan Long knew, most reforms throughout