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Princelings of the Blood
If you want ten years of prosperity, grow trees. If you want a hundred years of prosperity, educate children.
—Confucius
Lenora studied Qi Ru in puzzlement. "Let me get this straight. You snuck from the rural village where you grew up into Shanghai to try to get into college. When they discovered that you were hukou, which was not difficult because of the way you talk and the way you dress, in addition to the government's dossier on you, they rejected you, and sent you home, where everyone in your village laughed at you. So then you worked on a freighter to travel to Britain, and then worked your way through Oxford. You then got a job in high finance, and were on your way to achieving considerable success when you heard that a new BrainTrust archipelago was
