Qin Siyang moved fast, and Chen Zhongming had already grasped that crucial point.
Pursuing speed naturally meant that quality could not be guaranteed.
But in Qin Siyang's view, the most important thing was to get something done. Doing it well could come later, through gradual improvement.
In the same amount of time, turning in three papers scoring sixty points had far more impact than turning in one scoring ninety.
Chen Zhongming did not disappoint Qin Siyang. He did an excellent job distributing grain in State 13.
He had expected Zone 1 to make trouble for him over it, but nothing happened.
Before the people in Zone 1 could react, another heavy blow came their way.
The United Merchants' Association, the United Church, and the Joint Medical Association were established simultaneously.
Of the three newly founded organizations, the merchants' association was naturally the largest.
Commerce in the Safe Zone had long been controlled by the Three Major Merchants' Associations. The Zhao Merchants' Association had risen unexpectedly the previous year, becoming a rival to all three.
Even with the Zhao Family and the Warren Family secretly joining forces, they had been unable to shake the commercial order that had become firmly entrenched in people's minds.
But one great battle outside the Safe Zone completely changed the landscape.
Jerry, the son of Kyle, president of the Warren Merchants' Association, and Alexander, First Vice President of the Lotus Cloud Merchants' Association, had been exposed one after the other for their ties to heretical cults. The two presidents, Kyle and Zoff, had never taken part in the battle at all, and their whereabouts raised plenty of questions.
The ambiguous stance of the Warren Merchants' Association and Lotus Cloud Merchants' Association leadership, supporting neither Zone 1 nor the other regions, left those lower down feeling even