1854, Three Years
Tang Xiao took a deep breath and nodded.
He knew that this was the Duchy of Dawn's current situation. Governing a nation—especially one spanning hundreds or thousands of star systems—was never as simple as addition.
Having 600 billion people, most of them educated and highly qualified, join the nation was naturally a good thing. But bringing in 600 billion people was far from as simple as a number popping up that said population +600,000,000,000.
Those people had to be settled, fed, assigned suitable roles, and truly put to work creating value. This was an extremely long-term undertaking.
To put it plainly, even on Rendili Planet, those 600 billion people had gradually emerged through thousands or tens of thousands of years of development. Every one of them had their own job, but the work they did on Rendili Planet was not necessarily work that the Duchy of Dawn could provide.
According to the statistics provided by Adele-Ulan, around half of those people had been engaged in contract manufacturing, outsourced administration, agency work, and similar jobs for the Galactic Republic. Once Rendili Planet rebelled against the Galactic Republic, their original work lost its meaning.
At that point, those people needed to be reassigned and given new roles.
As a result, both the three sectors of the Duchy of Dawn that had taken in huge numbers of people and Rendili Planet, which had lost huge numbers of people, suffered declines in strength.
In other words, the next few years would be a vacuum period for the Duchy of Dawn.
During this time, the Duchy of Dawn absolutely could not come into conflict with the Galactic Empire again!
Adele-Ulan's report had been flawless, and the relocation work on Rendili Planet had also been completed exceptionally well. The powerful learning ability and