Yang Minghao looked thoughtful. "Wiping them out works too. Saves them from provoking us again later!"
Luo Jinsong smiled and said, "Island Master, the population on our Star Moon Island is growing more and more. In another eight or ten years, I'd say we won't be able to house everyone!"
This was no alarmist talk. Shenmu Island's population had already exceeded thirty thousand, and in another eight or ten years, surpassing fifty thousand would not be difficult.
The problems brought by population growth were many. First was housing. Star Moon City had already expanded several rings outward, and the villages scattered across the island were also continuously growing.
Second was food. The island's farmland had long since become unable to meet the people's daily needs. Now, every year, Star Moon Island had to purchase twenty to thirty thousand shi of grain from outside.
The final problem was that the Yang Family had not only Star Moon Island, but also several nearby islands suitable for habitation. Though the populations on those islands had not grown as rapidly as Star Moon Island's, they had still doubled over these sixteen years.
Therefore, the matter of Star Moon Island's expansion was already pressing close at hand.
Luo Jinsong clearly wanted to occupy Shenmu Island to resolve the problem of having nowhere to settle people caused by Star Moon Island's population growth.
And Shenmu Island could indeed satisfy Star Moon Island's needs. Let alone anything else, Shenmu Island was extremely large, more than thirty times the size of Star Moon Island.
There were also six islands on the eastern and western sides of Shenmu Island, and not one of them was smaller than Star Moon Island.
The seven islands formed a line across the vast sea, like an emerald necklace inlaid upon the ocean's surface.