Money can communicate with the divine, but when one really has so many gold coins that they reach a certain level, there's no need to spend money anymore.
At this level, Lu Ping'an could get a lot done just by relying on the prestige of the Fruit, alone.
However, at the "City Lord" level he had reached, he was close to hitting his limit.
Here in the Foreign Domain of the Feather Tribe's Multi-universe, was a remote world, one that was somewhat stronger than a medieval steam industry world, with not a small population, but only a moderate level of development in its civilization index.
The steam vehicles were reasonably fast, but that was all they were, just reasonable, and an overly rich and abundant life made long-distance travel a choice rather than a necessity.
Such a social structure meant that each city was separated by considerable distances, and at the same time, each city was a Small World in itself, at least an independent state.