Having learned a bloody lesson, Qing Kingdom began targeting members of the Covert Propaganda Department and dispatched local constables to stop people from migrating.
As a result, some clever people stopped heading for Ling Prefecture and Xi Prefecture and went to Sea Prefecture instead!
If the land routes were blocked, then they would take the waterways!
During Jing Kingdom's years of development, the government and the canal transport powers had joined forces to sell laborers from all over into Jing Kingdom.
As Jing Kingdom developed to a certain point, it needed fewer and fewer hands, and the business of trafficking laborers gradually became harder to sustain.
Now, those people had returned to their old trade, transporting commoners along Qing Kingdom's waterways to the various prefectures occupied by Jing Kingdom.
Naturally, Qing Kingdom's government would not let this go unchecked. But after their official ships were damaged one after another by Water Demons, they had no choice but to stop intercepting the waterways.
In the end, Qing Kingdom's Grand Secretariat could only console itself: Qing Kingdom did not lack people.
However, after some of Qing Kingdom's Great Scholars conducted deductions, they discovered a terrifying fact: if the population continued to drain away, the entire Qing Kingdom would collapse, setting off a chain collapse from bottom to top.
Jing Kingdom, on the other hand, had begun attracting laborers and high-level talent from every region years ago, while constantly using every conceivable method to encourage childbirth.
Now, Jing Kingdom's birth rate was more than twice that of Qi Kingdom, which ranked second!
The rapid growth of Jing Kingdom's population was plain for every nation to see. At first, the nations had all laughed at it, because with the Human Race's current capabilities, once the population rose past a certain point, it would become