Chapter 216: Everyone hates the noble families, but everyone wants to become one_1
Zhang Sui'an and the others watched Huang An's expression, feeling a sting in their hearts while secretly cursing him for being a country bumpkin, but they still managed to put on a pleasing expression.
As long as one has subordinates, power, and land outside the city, the speed of earning silver would be unimaginable to the average person.
The common people, and even ordinary martial artists, cannot possibly know the methods and speed at which the noble families accumulate wealth.
Land is the foundation of all wealth, these powerful families occupy a large amount of land, and they use everything they can, such as land-tenanting, interest, power, armed force, to exploit the common people over a long period of time.
In Huang An's hometown, just having the advantage of authority or capital can keep countless people suppressed.