The power of reform!
That was the name Lin Ke had given his own "aura."
It was similar to the Confucian School's scholar's aura, cultural aura, or literary aura, or the Daoist School's immortal aura and spiritual aura.
He belonged to the Reformer School, and his was the power of reform!
It wasn't that he hadn't considered other names. He was simply afraid this world would explode.
Name it after the man whose surname began with "Ma"?
Was he asking to die?
Besides, reform fit its nature quite well.
The world was changing.
Systems, culture, understanding, and a whole host of other things should all change with the times.
For instance, if you made your employees work nine to nine, six days a week, or midnight to midnight, seven days a week, then told them that compared with slavery two thousand years ago, a 996 schedule was a blessing...
That was failing to keep pace with the tide of the times.
What the people of this era-the common folk-needed most was food.
Then food should also be the Imperial Court's first priority in meeting their needs.
If what they needed most were televisions, refrigerators, and washing machines, then manufacturing should be what the Imperial Court valued most.
And so on.
Every era had its own needs.
If everything remained stubbornly unchanged, it would ultimately become stagnant water, doomed to decay, rot, and stink.
This world needed reform!
Even the Sage Emperor, seated high above all, had noticed this and wanted change.
That was what had led to the dispute between Minister Qi and Minister Lin.
In other words, the dispute between entrenching class divisions and abolishing servile status.
Whichever side won, it would bring change to the Great Wei Sacred Dynasty.
Of course, it was precisely because the outcome of