However, with the war going on, to prevent the imperial court from once again falling in a situation of having no money available, the Grand Council took the opportunity to put forward the idea of stopping the official casting of silver, following the Westerners’ policy of ‘jiaozi*’ in the occupied land and the previous dynasty, let the Bank of Long An issue a special type of ‘temporary silver’ to use in place of gold and silver coins, and drew up a series of new regulations, sending it together with the apology letter.

As long as the new regulations were feasible, everyone had no opinion on whether it was ‘iron jiaozi’ or ‘paper tongbao**", it could never be controlled by the Grand Council.

*A type of paper money issued in Sichuan in the Song dynasty.

**tongbao: A way to call coin money.

So at this time, the steam rail that was about to be formed had unexpected problems.

The north and south sections had been basically connected, only the middle section was left. If they were connected, the work would be completed. However, the last section had been delayed for more than a month and they dared not start the construction. The problem laid on the land.

Most of the land along the line had been reserved, but it was impossible for such a long area of land to be all without an owner. If it was private property, it would be bought at market price by the Canal Office. At the same time, it would give some other subsidies, such as tax relief and so on. There were also people not willing to sell their ancestral property, thus the court would rent it instead and write down the lease and pay the rent every year.

Since the year of the Yuan He dynasty, the government of Great Liang had paid attention to being a benevolent government, strict with civil and military officials, but very polite to common villagers. Because of this politeness, there was a fatal omission in this lease — it only stated the lease term, not what would happen if the original owner no longer wanted to rent.

They didn't expect that someone would destroy the imperial court's agreement.

And the last part of the road happened to be a large piece of rented land. The original owner was a major landlord, doing other businesses in his family. They had already come to an agreement; although the construction had not reached this place, the rent had already been paid.