Now That We're Here, Why Not Attend Clan School First?

Xin'an Town.

This town, nestled right beside Shouzhe Pass, was the first large-scale agricultural town the Wang Clan had developed after beginning their expansion into the Outer Realm.

After one hundred seventy or eighty years of development, it was already bursting at the seams, with too many people and too little land, making it exceptionally crowded.

Although the Wang Clan continuously expanded outward and opened up new land, and people constantly migrated from Xin'an Town to various newly developed smaller towns, population growth after food and clothing became abundant was simply too rapid to contain.

Here, every scrap of land had been utilized to the utmost. Even the mountainsides were filled with terraces in dazzling abundance. Yet many people who had been born and raised here all their lives had grown accustomed to their existing way of life and refused to venture elsewhere or relocate.

And the Wang Clan's policy for settling the people had always been not to employ coercive measures, relying only on publicity and persuasion.

For this reason, despite their desire to change things, the migration and expansion of Xin'an Town's population remained a longstanding and thorny problem.

Shouzhe Pass, that imposing fortress built during the great construction projects of those years, had long since ceased to be an outer checkpoint defending against Fierce Beast incursions. Instead, it had become a disguised transportation hub.

To keep Shouzhe Pass from becoming a bottleneck for freight traffic, its gates had been expanded again and again and remained open year-round, ensuring unimpeded travel in both directions.

Xin'an Town's center beneath Shouzhe Pass had always been bustling, thanks to the residents' generally high standard of living. All manner of shops, restaurants, workshops, and functional facilities could be found here, and commerce was highly developed.

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