"Without a doubt, the number of elite population in a village would determine its potential for future development. Unfortunately, elite population was far too difficult to obtain, and it was impossible to recruit elite population blindly. Without ordinary population as the foundation for development, the village's ability to withstand risks would be far too weak."
"At this stage, what I needed more of was ordinary population, especially ordinary people who could quickly start families and have children."
Zhang Yang carefully analyzed the situation, then took out two white-quality Fragments of Hope and directly split them into 200 gray-quality Fragments of Hope.
He then recruited 100 women of childbearing age and 100 adult men. Their arrival could greatly alleviate the village's population shortage.
The women could no longer be recruited into life professions, but the men could be recruited as craftsmen, chefs, butchers, farmers, Lumberjacks, and ordinary village guards.
They would take over the village's construction work, thereby allowing the soldiers to become fully dedicated to combat.
However, after recruiting these 200 villagers, Zhang Yang discovered that he could not simply distribute them among the Residential Houses, because they first had to get married.
And marriage was not as simple as pairing them off one by one. Every person had a unique personality and preferences, and anyone who forced a match had to bear the consequences.
There was nothing he could do. Zhang Yang could only examine the personalities of these villagers one by one.
For example, this one—
The village girl Jiang Chunhua was cheerful and outgoing, blunt and straightforward, forthright in her actions, and bold in both love and hate. Among the 100 women, she was considered quite a good one.
Zhang Yang matched her with the village man Zhao Ergou. He was mild-tempered, slow-witted, kindhearted, hardworking, fond of