The goal pursued in alliance with the weak people was exactly this: the people were weak, but the nation was strong.
Therefore, in each major Deceit Country, over ninety percent of the bottom tier "Reserve Food" and "Vegetable People" were definitely destitute!
In the past, the rulers wanted to implement the "poor" strategy to suppress them.
The unspoken method was through taxation and the continuous bloodsucking by officials of all levels.
Issuing various types of inferior Virtual Coins and even Tin-Clad Iron Coins that were not based on precious metals was also a method for amassing wealth, but it was indeed very troublesome.
But now, they had found a more efficient new toy to their great surprise.
—Printing money!
Using it was silent and undetectable, those commoners who could not even recognize large characters wouldn't understand until their death how their wealth had vanished.
In fact, it was not just in Tanhuan.