Qiao Zhishu explained all of this.
But the commoners merely exchanged meaningful looks and glanced at one another. Not a single person responded.
"I only have to work a few days a month as it is. If you do this, won't we have to work every day?"
"Exactly. Can't you just give me money? That would solve the problem at its root."
"Cleaving through mountains to build roads would work us commoners to death! Lord Qiao, have the Imperial Court send a hundred thousand troops to build the roads. Then it might be doable."
Clearly.
Qiao Zhishu had underestimated human nature.
There was a reason Hezhou City was so impoverished.
They would rather abandon their baby girls than work a few extra days to put food in their children's mouths.
He felt utterly powerless. Looking at the hideous expressions on their faces, Qiao Zhishu was disappointed beyond measure!
What was the point of saving people like these?
"Don't you find yourselves disgusting? You want to be rich, but you don't want to work! If you can't afford to raise children, don't have them! You give birth to them only to throw them away. Your day of reckoning will come!"
These commoners had nearly driven Little Lucky Star mad with anger.
The solution Lord Qiao had spent so long discussing with her master and mistress was perfectly workable.
Moreover, the Zhong Family was willing to use its resources in Jiangnan to help Hezhou escape poverty, yet these people could not even take that first step.
Were they going to sit there eagerly waiting for Heaven to hand them money?
They were utterly disgusting!
She tightened her grip on her whip. Anyone who dared rush forward would get a lashing!
"Are you from Hezhou? How dare you talk so big? If we