Yun Tian visited every small tribe in the Northern Wilderness.
As the population grew and resources became plentiful, the drawbacks of centralized distribution had begun to show.
With more people came more discord. Many conflicts had already arisen; they simply had not escalated to the point where he needed to intervene.
Yun Tian sighed and sat alone outside the gate of a small tribe.
"Little Tian has grown up. You even have worries now."
Two men approached from afar. They were Feng Xu and Yun Fei, who had just returned.
Feng Xu sat beside Yun Tian, while Yun Fei headed back to the Northern Wilderness's main settlement first.
"Uncle Xu, I'm several hundred years old. I stopped being a child ages ago."
Yun Tian propped his head in his hands.
"What's troubling you?"
"What else but tribal affairs? Before, the clans kept everyone in line, and nobody dared cause trouble. Now that those commanders are taking their people away, all sorts of little problems have surfaced."
Family disputes, quarrels between neighbors, and the like were mostly related to the allocation of resources.
"Quite a few people spend their days just muddling along, too. They could clearly do more, yet they insist on slacking off. At this rate, the tribe's development will hit a bottleneck."
Feng Xu added to his concerns.
"As long as there's enough food, why work hard to produce more? Now that everyone has a good life, why can't we let them take things a little easier?"
"A good life?"
Feng Xu shook his head helplessly. "We've barely taken the first step. Enlightenment has only just begun, and the entire Human Race is still savage and ignorant. They live merely to stay alive, with no goal to strive toward. How are they any different from beasts?"
Yun Tian