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"Bureaucrats in the Republic Government have always been dragging their feet about these things. If it doesn't concern their own interests, how many of them would truly care about the common folk?"
"Of course, the main reason is that the government's finances are incredibly tight right now. My father also mentioned this to me. When the floods first happened, he tried every means to scrape together funds from various sources. He had finally amassed a sum intended for helping those refugees with their recovery, but then the Battle of Shencheng followed closely and that money was taken by the President for military expenses."
Shu Guan fell silent for a while, sighing softly.
He was already a cultivator of the Nascent Soul Realm, a realm which was considered mighty in the realm of cultivation.
But when it came to changing the mortal world, he simply did not have the ability.
