Woman

As the saying went, once one had enough to eat and wear, one started thinking about women. That was right—beauties were as lovely as jade, after all.

For more than two million bachelors who had no worries about food or clothing, that was equivalent to two million qilin arms. If they rubbed them together at once, the resulting heat energy might well be enough to blast all of Qingzhou into the sky.

Although the people seated here did not come from prominent clans, as the upper echelons of Liu Bei's faction, which one of them lacked women?

None!

Therefore, they had never thought of this issue. Moreover, they had no information to support such a line of thought. How could they have considered it? Even Li Ru, who currently served as Liu Bei's personal aide and was specifically responsible for explaining various policies and measures to him and making up for omissions, had never thought of it.

After all, Liangzhou had neither such a stark imbalance between men and women nor the same situation when it came to finding wives. Over there, one relied on force to find a wife. If one could not seize one, whom could one blame? Those who caused trouble were beaten to death. Qingzhou, however, was different. War and famine had caused the ratio of men to women to become severely imbalanced.

Seeing that everyone understood the seriousness of the situation, Wang Xuan continued, "And that's not all. The development of Qingzhou requires a great deal of labor. The future development of the entire Han Dynasty will require even more labor. With the development of navigation and the expansion of the range in which we can operate effectively, we will need even more labor in the future."

"Yet right now, because there are too few