Chapter 840 Isn’t this a bit too…

Chapter 840 Isn’t this a bit too...

The next morning, there was a bitter look that appeared on my face.

The prime minister seemed to have worked all night with how dark the bags under his eyes looked.

It seemed like he had pushed himself to the limit just for this one thing as I could see that there was a thick folder that was on the desk in front of me.

From the few parts that I could see, I could tell just how detailed his plans were.

It didn't seem like the prime minister was planning to show any mercy to the merchants who had double crossed him.

However, that bitter look that was on my face became even more bitter as I read what was inside.

"Isn't this a bit too much..." I couldn't help saying this as I read this, but the prime minister didn't say a thing as he waited for me to finish reading.

I didn't say anything once I finished reading and just handed the folder over to Haley.

She had been standing silently on the side, waiting for me to finish reading.

But she didn't hesitate to take the folder from me to read what the prime minister's plan was.

As Haley read it, the expression on her face also changed like mine did, but it didn't change as much as my expressions had changed.

During this, I just stared at the prime minister with narrowed eyes as if I was accusing him of something, but he didn't seem to react at all. He had a calm look on his face as if he was certain that he did nothing wrong.

Once Haley finished reading, she also looked at the prime minister as if she was trying to tell if he was being serious about this.

But the prime minister just stood there with a calm look on his face as if he was waiting for someone to say something.

So in the end, I was the one that broke the silence by saying, "You know that this will destroy the economy of our kingdom, right?"

This was one of those things.

Haley also came closer to read it with me, but she had a much bigger reaction than I did this time.

That was because this was something that she was completely unfamiliar with, but it wasn't that unfamiliar to me since this was something that I had seen before. Of course, it wasn't something that I had seen in this world, but rather in my old world.

It was employment insurance which would help these families tide the period of unemployment over.

This world didn't have a thing like employment insurance since it was a world that was focused on the nobles.

The nobles didn't care about the commoners since they thought that they were beneath them and suppressing them made them easier to control. So if the commoners faced any problems, it was up to them to solve it alone.

The nobles would never take out money to help them.

But this employment insurance that the prime minister was proposing would do the opposite.

It was like employment insurance in my previous world where the government would pay a portion of their lost wages while they were out of a job so they could have the time to find a new job.

As for where that money came from, it was said to come from the taxes that the companies that they were employed by paid. But in reality, it was coming from the money that we would be taking from the companies after we destroyed them.

But the prime minister had also laid out a plan for how things would go in the future where we would rely on tax payments to fund this.

After all, taxes were much greater in this world where nobles controlled everything than in my previous world.

It would be easy to pay for things with taxes since there was so much of it.

However, there was something else that I couldn't help thinking about...

How could the prime minister come up with such a modern idea?