"If you don't offer a way out, I'm afraid not many families will be willing to go to Jiangnan."
Inside Cloud Capital, Chen Qing and his West Sea Army had not yet left. According to the alliance, Jiangnan could accept anyone within the Great Jin territory who was willing to go to Jiangnan to avoid disaster, so Chen Qing and his group were given five days to register.
The people of Cloud Capital are of high quality. They grew up in a place with relatively high spiritual energy, so their physical constitution and spiritual aptitude are generally better than those in other places. Most importantly, there is very little pollution.
Now that Spiritual Energy Revival, demons are proliferating everywhere. Any parasite can become a terrifying demon that controls your mind. We need to conduct a large-scale screening at the gate. Although there are gate gods in Jiangnan, if there are many demons mixed in with the procession and the procession is large, chaos could break out and cause a lot of civilian casualties at the gate. We need a large number of soldiers to divide the crowd into countless small teams to avoid such chaos and casualties.
However, doing so would be very manpower-intensive, and given the current strained military strength in Jiangnan, it would be difficult to introduce civilians on a large scale.
The situation in Cloud Capital is different. Cloud Capital's unique barrier has changed the living environment of the lower levels, and there are almost no demons. It is the most worry-free population. The army only needs to bring them all back to Jiangnan and make arrangements.
Chen Qing was very proactive in attracting people to Cloud Capital. Yesterday, he organized the West Sea Army to visit each household to invite them, explaining the benefits they would receive, how much land they would be allocated, and how much of their assets they could exchange for. Even merchants could completely transfer their assets there, and the treatment was quite good.
However, Chen Qing seemed quite casual about being invited by aristocratic families. He didn't send anyone to invite them or explain the situation. Yesterday, when the elder of the Ziyi Murong Family came to visit in person, he ignored him. This attitude immediately made Ziyue feel a little strange.
This guy... I never realized he had such a strong grudge against aristocratic families. He didn't seem like someone who resented the rich.
" Jiangnan's development is indeed rapid, but you should know that talented sorcerers will play a huge role in the future and cannot be completely replaced by spell array masters. Moreover, the family's inherited spells will also be of great use in the future. Now is an excellent opportunity, so why turn them away?"
"We can't flatter those people," Chen Qing shook his head and said, " Cloud Capital beautiful mountains and rivers, fertile land, and no demonic calamities. As the saying goes, 'fallen leaves return to their roots,' and generally, unless there are exceptional circumstances, no one will willingly leave their hometown. Therefore, we need to offer huge incentives to attract as many high-quality people as possible. The future population is extremely important."
Ziyue nodded. As a data analyst, she was indifferent to the game itself, but in order to make the data more accurate, she had experienced all versions. This world was both extremely cruel and extremely necessary to the human race. When the Spiritual Energy Revival, a large number of dead people were needed to accumulate resentment to Spiritual Energy Revival. However, in the later stages, the human race could not suffer too many casualties, and there had to be enough embers to support the next round.
Therefore, wise ancient forces may even protect humanity in the later stages, allowing it to recuperate and thrive, like leeks, only harvesting half at a time.
Now, the world is in an era of Spiritual Energy Revival, and all forces will try to cause large-scale massacres to make spiritual energy more abundant. But Jiangnan is different. In Jiangnan, the more people there are, the stronger they become, which is the opposite of the current trend in the world.
Therefore, we should try our best to attract more people when possible, but for aristocratic families...
Chen Qing looked at the puzzled Ziyue and whispered, "The aristocratic families of Cloud Capital have always been arrogant, even looking down on the aristocratic families of the capital. If they don't receive sufficient treatment in Jiangnan, they will definitely feel resentful. These guys all have the inheritance of the Ancient Demon, especially the Five Color Families, which has close ties with the Ancient Demon Clan. You are nominally in charge of the Ancient Demon Clan now, but in reality, the core power has been taken away by that so-called head guard."
The next day, Chen Qing and Ziyue learned the truth from the war priest, and also learned who the real supporters behind the chief guard were.
"Given that connection, the head guard will likely contact these families through the Ancient Demon Elder. To be honest, I don't want to bring any of these Five Color Families to Jiangnan."
"This..." Ziyue fell silent upon hearing this. Indeed, there were many good things in Jiangnan, but the appetites of the Five Color Families were not like those of ordinary families. Ordinary families could gain huge benefits from Chen Qing even if they competed fairly, but these people were different. With the lure of the elders of the Ancient Demon, those Five Color Families were originally loyal to the Ancient Demon nobles were indeed at considerable risk.
"There are quite a few families with inherited techniques. This time, the Chen Household has also pledged allegiance to us. In addition, there are the talents we have cultivated ourselves and the foundation of the Shen Family in Jiangnan. There is really no need to take that risk. Unless these Five Color Families can offer me something that will tempt me, even if they want to go to Jiangnan, I will find an excuse to refuse."
Ziyue looked at Chen Qing curiously. "Many times, I feel that you don't seem like Pu Yunchuan."
"Why?" Chen Qing was taken aback.
"The eccentric designer I remember wasn't good at team management or interpersonal relationships. To the players, Pu Yunchuan was an extremely creative designer, but to the employees, you were a terrible boss."
"Uh... is that so?" Chen Qing was stunned for a moment, but now that he thought about it, it seemed to be true. In his memory, he had been in the studio for ten years, and it seemed that his colleagues had never invited him out privately, not even for a meal. He didn't like meaningless drinking parties, but after being colleagues for so long, not having the opportunity to have a meal together was definitely not harmonious. He was actually aware of this back then, but he didn't care much. In his eyes, as long as his subordinates did their jobs well, that was enough. He was too lazy to care about other interpersonal relationships.
Was I this kind of person before?
"Don't you also feel that something's not quite right?" Ziyue looked at Chen Qing and said, "Look at your current behavior. It's understandable that the people of Jiangnan love you, since they don't know you well. They only know that you created the beautiful Jiangnan, so most of them admire you. But what about those subordinates who are very close to you?"
"What's the problem?" Chen Qing was getting a little flustered.
"The forces in Jiangnan are not simple. Besides Xu Hu, who is a staunch supporter of yours, the Shen Family is a local powerful family, Tian Heng is an outside noble family, and Chen Ying is an exceptionally talented orphan. Not to mention Wei Gongcheng, whom you personally recruited. Such a complex team, and when you were there, there wasn't a single mishap. Don't you think that means anything?"
Chen Qing: "."
"You are definitely not Pu Yunchuan!" Ziyue said with certainty, "You are just someone carrying Pu Yunchuan's memories. As for what that is, I don't know. Maybe, like me, you don't even know who you really are."
"Then who do you think you are?" Chen Qing asked Ziyue curiously.
"I don't know." Ziyue shook her head. "I have memories of both my past and present lives, and they all feel like I experienced them firsthand. They all feel like myself. This kind of Fusion is too abstract. I don't even know what I am right now."
Chen Qing remained silent upon hearing this.
"However, your identity is likely more mysterious, and you might even have a mastermind behind it all."
"That's what I thought too, but I have no clue what to do." Chen Qing shook his head. There was too little information, and he really couldn't figure out his origins.
"That King of Qin must know something, including that guy," Ziyue hesitated for a moment, then gritted her teeth and said, "My nominal father must also know something."
"The head guard?" Chen Qing nodded. "It seems the real mastermind Data City hasn't appeared yet. What we're seeing is just the surface. I suspect that too, so I left Wang Ye there. I don't know how his investigation is going."