Population Explosion V [Please Subscribe]
After quickly checking the statistics for the Third Order Warriors, Zong Shen raised his head again.
"The daily food consumption figures must be properly recorded."
"For the 'surplus' population with no work assignments for the time being, their food standards can be temporarily lowered."
"As long as their basic daily need to fill their stomachs is met."
"I'll find a way to bring back a batch of food in the next few days."
Zong Shen knew exactly what the greatest pressure brought by the territory's sudden population surge was.
This wave of transferred population from the captive lords, combined with the territory's original population, had directly pushed the total number of subjects under Zong Shen's command past one hundred thousand, even nearing the threshold of one hundred and twenty thousand.
It had gone straight from the level of a large settlement to that of Bang City.
Bosbang only had a population of one or two hundred thousand.
With so many people officially joining the territory, daily food consumption became the biggest problem.
If the territory had not already possessed considerable food reserves, and if they had not plundered two native villages in succession over the past few days, along with the Long-term Storage Military Rations accumulated through various Point Exchanges, those hundred-odd thousand people probably could not even have been fed for three days.
For now, the territory's reserves could still barely sustain them for a while.
But Zong Shen had to find a new food supply channel as soon as possible. Otherwise, it would not be long before the territory faced a severe food crisis.
When calculated in detail, the long-term food consumption of more than a hundred thousand people was absolutely an astronomical figure.
This was no longer something a few villages, a