Qingzhou's Great Families Appear

Gan Ning had spent nearly half a year traveling back and forth across the sea, but what he had gained was far less than expected. It truly wasn't because he hadn't tried hard enough—the actual situation had simply been somewhat unexpected.

"Those so-called Three Han are basically just a bunch of natives. Conquering them wasn't difficult, but the problem is that there are only one hundred seventy to one hundred eighty thousand women of suitable age. We've already brought them all back."

"How are there so few!?" Wang Xuan frowned. The investigation showed that although the shortage of women wasn't as exaggerated as two or three million, they still needed more than 1.5 million. They couldn't possibly end up with the terrible situation of one woman having several husbands, could they?

"There's nothing we can do. The entire Three Han has a population of less than six hundred thousand!" Gan Ning said with a troubled look. "That place is far too backward. Although they're not still practicing slash-and-burn farming, they're practically at that level. They simply can't support that many people, so there really are only this many women of suitable age."

Wang Xuan lightly tapped his fingers on the tabletop. After a moment, he answered coldly, "Then bring back the little girls too. Tell those bastards to stay home when they have nothing to do and do everything they can to have children!"

"Whoa, seriously? You're into that sort of thing too? You won't even spare children!" Zhang Fei blurted out without thinking.

Wang Xuan's face darkened instantly. He snatched up a paperweight beside him and hurled it over. He was already at the Qi Refining into Gang realm, after all, and the paperweight tore through the air with a sharp shriek as it flew toward Zhang Fei.

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