"And when they go to the town to work, sometimes those heartless people see they can't read and trick them into pressing their fingerprints on documents, causing them to work for nothing, not getting a single copper coin,"
"They actually want to learn to read too, but their families are so poor they simply can't afford schooling, so they continue to be completely illiterate."
Emperor of Xiyun sighed, "Jingjing, I have pondered over this issue as well, but it's difficult to implement. Although the national treasury is currently full, all the silver is being used for things even more important and urgent than this, such as preparing for natural disasters, war, manufacturing weapons—there are so many things, I couldn't even finish telling you right now. We truly don't have spare Silver Coin to run a school that doesn't charge fees."
