After Tomeko left, Luo Fan opened the conference room door and let the Councilors who had gone out return.
Although Luo Fan was nominally just a Councilor like everyone else,
everyone who came in looked toward him. At that moment, they all instinctively regarded Luo Fan as the central figure of this meeting.
"I just had a talk with Tomeko. Does anyone know what we discussed?" Luo Fan asked once everyone had sat down.
"Was it about those survivors from Eastern Japan settling here?" Wen Hao was the first to ask.
Tomeko had suddenly barged in at such a critical moment. Anyone of reasonably normal intelligence could more or less guess why she had come.
"That's right. It was."
"She made a suggestion about those people from Eastern Japan settling here. I think I should discuss it with everyone."
Luo Fan nodded.
A suggestion? And one that needed discussion?
Luo Fan's words made quite a few Councilors' hearts skip a beat.
Luo Fan called it a discussion, but what was it really? Surely he was only proposing a discussion because he already agreed with it?
If he disagreed, he would simply have rejected her himself, just as he had when she went to Fuyuan City alone. What need would there be for a discussion?
"What exactly is the situation?" Master Wen Hao asked Luo Fan.
"Tomeko's suggestion is that all the men from Eastern Japan must be driven out and cannot settle within China, but all the women among the survivors from Eastern Japan can stay. What does everyone think?"
Luo Fan explained the situation to the Councilors in the conference room.
Upon hearing this suggestion, the Councilors' expressions changed in different ways as they exchanged looks.
Keeping only the women from Eastern Japan!?
It had to be said that