"Just outside the city, it's really cold now. According to custom, the Ministry of Revenue would open some porridge stalls as a token gesture, but this year the National Treasury is full, and yet there's not a peep about it," that person muttered.
Someone sneered beside him: "That's because His Majesty held the Yellow River Clears, Blue Sea Calms Conference, claiming that the One Whip Law is the greatest benevolence policy through the ages. Yet many of these commoners were bankrupted by the One Whip Law and had no choice but to come near the Capital to eke out a living. If the Ministry of Revenue were to set up porridge stalls, wouldn't that be a slap in the face to the Court?"
"So we're just not going to do anything?" asked the young Scholar from South Zhili, who was on his way to the Capital for the examinations, influenced quite a bit by the ideals of the Recovery Society and still somewhat hot-blooded.
"What else can be done?"
