Family Cultivation: My entire family are Villains

New Yu Era, November 18, 1332

There are only three days left until the agreed deadline for the Neutral Zone.

Since Xingnan Prefecture City declared itself a Neutral Zone, over 40 million people from Zhaoyang and Jianye's two prefectures, with the aid of the Hou Clan's army, have been continuously flowing in from the east and west. In twenty-seven days, with five counties and twenty-one districts added to the prefecture city, totaling twenty-seven cities, the population experienced an explosive growth and quickly became incredibly overcrowded.

The population capacity limit for a county is one million, for a prefectural city three million, the prefecture city can hold up to ten million, and for Tao City over ten million. As for the capitals of various states in The World, they can hold a maximum of fifty million.

Of course, these so-called capacity limits refer to extreme conditions.

Under normal circumstances, take Hexi Dao as an example: county populations are usually three to five hundred thousand, prefectural cities over a million, prefecture cities over three million, and the largest Hexi Dao city, after expansion, only has a little over five million people.

After the Hou Clan unified Hexi, they spent considerable effort to deliberately average out the population across the four prefectures within its borders, bringing each prefecture to around twenty million people.

Xingnan Prefecture already had a population of twenty million. With an additional forty million coming in, it naturally became crowded. In reality, if the Hou Clan had not early on established a population resettlement plan, relying solely on Xingnan Prefecture's twenty-seven cities would have been impossible to accommodate so many people.

Xingnan Prefecture City originally had a population of over seven million. Planning to double each city's population, it would add up to fourteen million people, but if they truly did this, the prefecture city could not bear it. So when Hou Yuduan made the plan, they compromised by allocating six million people to other cities, allowing only eight million to enter.

Yet even so, the population still reached fifteen million, far exceeding the population capacity limit of a regular prefecture city.

The downsides of exceeding population capacity limits are terrifying.

With a massive population gathered, there are nearly hundreds to thousands of violent clashes involving Martial Artists every day, and the hostility among ordinary citizens continues to rise. It requires a large number of Martial Artists to maintain order. Due to the immense population, grain supply issues have also emerged. In less than a month, in the outer city where ordinary citizens live, situations of hunger have already appeared.

City security, quality of life, food supply... all are rapidly deteriorating. This is despite the Hou Clan following the Martial Registry Command, separating Martial Artists and ordinary citizens into two regions, inner and outer city. If they were to live together, the situation might be even more severe.

This is only the prefecture city. It should be known that the entire Xingnan Prefecture's twenty-seven cities are in this situation now. Moreover, the prefecture city originally should bear a population of fourteen million. With six million allocated elsewhere, the situation is already this severe. For those other cities receiving the six million resettled people, the circumstances will only be worse.

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The armies of Great Jin and the alliance are on both sides, set to clash in three days. At present, throughout Hexi Dao, only Xingnan Prefecture's Neutral Zone can ensure their safety.

Being unable to leave, they can only bear the various inconveniences and a variety of malicious incidents within the city. The hostility within everyone's hearts deepens continuously, and the incidents of violence and crime occur more frequently. If the Hou Clan were not employing a large number of Martial Artists to maintain order, things might have already fallen into chaos.

The quietest place in the entire city is probably the City Lord's Mansion.

After the grand feast at Hexi Dao City, almost everyone from the Hou Clan came to Xingnan Prefecture. With the completion of the citizen relocation task, the Hou Clan's five million strong army has gradually returned to the prefecture city, currently stationed around the City Lord's Mansion. Thus, no matter how chaotic other parts of the city become, no one dares to cause trouble here.

In the grand hall of the City Lord's Mansion, Hou Yuxiao sat with eyes closed at the head, while Zhao Qingxue sat beside him, also meditating with eyes closed. Below, there were two others, Yuwen Qing on the left, and Lian Ningxue on the right.

With Hou Yuxiao and his wife having their eyes closed, and Yuwen Qing and Lian Ningxue looking grim, the spacious hall remained silent, making the scene exceptionally eerie.

"Family Head, I have an urgent matter to report!"

Suddenly, a voice came from outside the hall. Hou Yuxiao and Zhao Qingxue above immediately opened their eyes, while Yuwen Qing and Lian Ningxue below also turned their heads to look over, a trace of tension appearing on their faces.

"Enter."

Hou Yuxiao lightly waved his hand, and a golden light barrier appeared in the once empty hall. Within less than three breaths, the barrier vanished, and at the same time, the person outside the door slowly walked in.

"Report to the Family Head, I have been in Jiujun County..."

The person walking in from the door was a young man who had just encountered Tuoba Yu in Jiujun County. Seeing that there were others in the hall besides Hou Yuxiao, he paused his intended report, looked up at Hou Yuxiao with a questioning gaze.

Seeing this, Yuwen Qing and Lian Ningxue's faces turned even gloomier. However, Hou Yuxiao showed no reaction, his expression calm as he said:

"It's fine, speak!"

Though puzzled, the young man obeyed Hou Yuxiao's command without overthinking. He directly reported on the recent incidents in Jiujun County, including the battle at the Prefectural City east gate between an army and five unidentified scouts.

After listening to the young man's report, Hou Yuxiao's demeanor became slightly solemn, but he soon relaxed and smiled at the young man, asking: "What is your name, and what position do you hold in the clan?"