Zheng Cai (Direct Wealth): Wealth That Consumes. Steady Does Not Mean It Is Wanted
Zheng Cai also consumes. For Jia Wood it is Ji Earth: what the day master controls, with opposite yin-yang. People call it steady income, the resource that belongs to the post. Steady describes how it arrives. It does not mean this is the god the chart wants.
When the day master is strong, this cost can be used. Fixed duty and fixed income are easier to carry. When the day master is weak, wealth that is steady is still a cost. The sum you have to pay every month only pulls a day master that is already short, once a month. The word "direct" does not turn it into support.
So do not write "Zheng Cai means safety," and do not write "seeing wealth means loss." It answers whether this resource is in the element the day master must control, and whether the day master has the force for that cost. The label can say "steady receipt." Whether it is wanted follows the strength reading.
Only Ji against Jia is Zheng Cai. If Ji Earth is so much that it buries the wood, the cost becomes pressure. That is still whether the day master is enough. Zheng Cai has not changed its name. Before you move a budget or a contract, look at the day master, not at whether the two characters sound good.
Source: the chapter on Zheng Cai in *Ziping Zhenquan*. This is Ichinen's own reading.