Inside the royal conference room,
"Your Highness! Forgive my bluntness, but there is absolutely no need to visit every village to awaken Martial Souls. The Martial Souls those lowborn peasants awaken are nothing but trash. This is simply paying money to invite trouble!"
"We can agree to cooperate with the Soul Hall and vigorously develop Soul Tools, but I oppose using Soul Tools to build Relief Stations on our Star Luo Empire territory for those commoners to use free of charge!"
"Delivering Soul Master subsidies to commoners and even building Relief Stations for them is thankless labor that weakens our nation!"
"In my opinion, if we want to improve the empire's overall strength, we should have the Soul Hall contribute their Soul Tools and secret arts directly. That would raise our Star Luo Empire's strength to an unprecedented level!" The power the Soul Hall possessed had attracted quite a few greedy nobles. After learning of its relationship with the Star Luo Empire, they had hoped to obtain it through moral coercion.
"Exactly!" the others chorused.
"Everyone, please calm down first. I understand your concerns!" Xu Jiawei's authoritative voice rang out, his face full of helplessness.
When he had first announced this decree, nearly half the officials had voiced their dissatisfaction. Although Shrek's influence had gradually quieted much of the opposition, some hidebound fools still objected.
That was why this meeting had been called. The nobles present made up the bulk of those opposed to awakening Martial Souls for commoners free of charge.
Along with his headache, Xu Jiawei was inwardly cursing. Tian Chen, give me my money back!
That damned brother-in-law had dumped all the work of building Relief Stations in his fief onto him and left. Now he had to come clean up the mess. It was only because