On the Discourse Ranking, many people had originally condemned the actions of the Zong Family and Liu Shan. Once the Sea Ban Edict was issued, people continued condemning Liu Shan, but no one attacked the Zong Family.
Every scholar knew perfectly well that this sea ban would stir resentment among more than a hundred million people. It was an extraordinarily severe punishment.
The Clan of the Sage Zong would bear all that resentment!
Saint Zong remained untouched by ten thousand tribulations. The Zong Family could not.
Qing Kingdom bordered the Eastern Sea. Even if the Dragon Palaces of the Western Sea, Northern Sea, and Southern Sea joined forces, they could not overturn the Eastern Sea's Sea Ban Edict.
Many people were still calculating the losses caused by Qing Kingdom's Sea Ban Edict on the Discourse Ranking.
All of Qing Kingdom's naval forces had been caught in a single net. From then on, every nation could treat Qing Kingdom's waters as its own territorial seas. Every fisherman in Qing Kingdom would lose his livelihood, and all waterborne transport would grind to a halt.
Yet none of that was the most frightening consequence. The most frightening thing was that, once the Sea Ban Edict was issued, the climate throughout Qing Kingdom would undergo drastic changes. Rain was needed during sowing, but rainfall would then be scarce. Even rain-praying poetry might fail to summon it.
Rain was not needed during harvest, yet that was precisely when torrential rain would fall for days on end.
From then on, Qing Kingdom's dry seasons would become even drier, while flooding during its rainy seasons would multiply.
Qing Kingdom's scholars would naturally try every possible means to alleviate the situation, but however hard they worked, crop yields would still fall. A conservative estimate put the reduction across