One morning in September of the year 3251 of the Great Tang Calendar, an important meeting was being held in the Liu Household's newly completed Peach Blossom Grand Hall.
Inside the Peach Blossom Grand Hall, dozens of the Liu Household's Foundation Establishment elders sat cross-legged on a floor laid with golden sandalwood.
Liu Changxu and Yang Qingxue sat side by side on the golden thrones at the head of the Grand Hall, with Su Jinxiu, Qin Yulian, Li Zhenxin, Wu Yunyue, and Liu Fuyue seated on either side of them.
Clan Head Liu Fuyue had proposed this meeting. For that purpose, he had also invited his father, Liu Changxu, and his aunt-mothers to attend.
"Father! Mother! Aunt-mothers! Elders, I have gathered you here today to discuss something extremely important!"
Liu Fuyue began:
"What is it? Go ahead!"
As Liu Changxu looked at his increasingly mature son, he felt deeply satisfied and offered that encouraging prompt.
Liu Fuyue pondered for a moment, then said:
"Father! Aunt-mothers, elders! The greatest difficulty our Liu Lineage currently faces is our insufficient population. Yet with the establishment of New Peach City, more and more cultivators are pouring into Peach Blossom Island!
"Many of these cultivators have brought their families with them and intend to settle permanently in New Peach City! If this continues, the island's population of outsiders will inevitably keep growing.
"Meanwhile, our lineage's population growth over the past few years has been far from satisfactory. In all that time, we have gained only thirty people, a number so small as to be negligible compared with the rapid increase in outsiders.
"Doesn't that mean the territory our Liu Household fought so hard to claim will become a wedding gown sewn for someone else?
"So I believe our Liu Household must adjust its marriage and