As Lord Wang anticipated, the issuance of such a government decree would undoubtedly provoke dissatisfaction among all the gentry and powerful clans.
As expected, a very serious incident occurred on the outskirts tonight.
A team responsible for distributing propaganda newspapers arrived in this city in the latter part of the night.
At such an hour, in the dead of night, it was impossible to gather all the citizens to have the newspaper contents read to them.
Although the decree was definitely more beneficial than detrimental to the people, and undeniably a great boon, it was impractical to disturb them at night. The leader of the team was well aware of this.
Even though they were on a mission and would not get too entangled with the local authorities until the reading was complete,
arriving outside the city at such an hour required notifying the local officials for entry.
