With the lesson learned, Gyeongo started to target the people from the Dark Propaganda Department and sent out officials to stop people from migrating.
In the end, a group of smart people did not go to Lingzhou or Xizhou, but to Haizhou!
If the land route did not work, then they would take the water route!
When Jingguo was developing a few years ago, the government and the transport forces worked together to sell labor to Jingguo from all over the country.
As Jingguo developed to a certain extent, the manpower needed became less and less, and the business of selling labor became more and more difficult.
Now, the group of people returned to their old business and started to transport people from Gyeongo to the various provinces that Jingguo occupied.
The Gyeongo government naturally did not give up, but after their ships were destroyed by the water demons, they had no choice but to stop blocking the water route.
In the end, Gyeongo's cabinet could only comfort themselves that Gyeongo did not lack manpower.
However, after some scholars in Gyeongo did some calculations, they discovered a terrifying fact. If the population continued to decrease, the entire Gyeongo would collapse, and it would be a chain of collapse.
On the other hand, Jingguo had been attracting labor and talented people from all over the country since many years ago, and they had been using all kinds of methods to encourage people to have more children.
Now, Jingguo's birth rate was more than double that of the second place, Qi Country!
Jingguo's rapid population growth was noticed by all the countries. At first, all the countries thought that it was a joke, because with the current capabilities of the human race, when the population increased to a certain extent, it would become an extremely serious burden. It would slow down the entire country, and it might even drag down the development of the country.
However, after Fang Yun became a Sage and brought in all kinds of illegal technology, the countries did some calculations again and were shocked to find that something was wrong!
Jingguo's current technology could completely solve the negative effects of the sudden increase in population. On the contrary, because of the mutual promotion of technology and population, Jingguo would enter a state of rapid growth.
A few scholars even deduced that as the human race developed, their desire to have more children would decrease. The larger the population of the human race, the stronger their resistance in the future when there was a recession or crisis.
All the scholars then realized that the human race was never afraid of problems, because the human race was constantly improving, and all problems could be solved by improvement. But without him, it was equivalent to having nothing!
In the past, they only considered the population size, but forgot the characteristics of the human race. The human race was a kind, hardworking, independent, hard-working, and constantly learning race. Such a race, no matter how large the population was, would not have any problems.
Only those who were evil, lazy, greedy, ignorant, and didn't know how to improve themselves would have an overpopulation. When problems arose in such a race, not only would they not turn over a new leaf, not only would they not learn from their past mistakes, but they would also spread like a plague, draining the blood of excellent civilizations like parasites. In times of peace, they would even destroy truly excellent races through their advantage in numbers.
Now, the other countries were sadly discovering that not only were the people of Gyeongo taking the bait, but people from other countries were also attracted to Jingguo.
More and more scholars flocked to Jingguo!
If scholars from all over the world wanted to travel to Jingguo to study and visit the River of Enlightenment, who could stop them?
Once the scholars had adapted to Jingguo but were unable to adapt to the country, the next step would be to move their entire family to Jingguo.
Jingguo had become the future of the human race.
The loss of Gyeongo's population shocked all the countries. Every country started to increase their defense. At the same time, they learned from Wu Guo and learned from Jingguo in many aspects to prevent the loss of talent.
Now, it was not too late for the countries to take action. However, many outstanding scholars had already become Jingguo citizens.
Most of them were from the Gong family.
Jingguo originally had the golden name of the Zhang Heng family. In addition, with the help of the Hall of Works, Jingguo had become the holy land of the Gong family.
The rise of Jingguo's Gong family scholars had become an irreversible trend.
The way Jingguo's army attacked Lingzhou was very simple. They continued to push forward. When they arrived at the city, the ten Confucian scholars made a Notre-Dame ruling. As a result, the ten Confucian scholars mocked themselves as if they were Jingguo's army servants.
After taking over a city, Jingguo's army would rest. Then, other Jingguo soldiers would enter the city and take over.
The citizens of Lingzhou were already mentally prepared. In addition, the Dark Propaganda Department had been setting up traps in the various cities of Lingzhou, so no one resisted.
Everyone who wanted to resist would be scared off by the new flying mechanisms that occasionally whizzed past in the air.
Since things had already reached this stage, Gyeongo did not dare to go too far. They did not encourage the scholars to attack Jingguo. Instead, they continued to think of a solution.
Gyeongo sent out an envoy. It was led by the scholar Yan Yukong. However, Jingguo left the envoy in Jingjing and treated them well. They did not want to negotiate.
Yan Yukong was not in a hurry. He spent his days reciting poems, playing chess, and painting. Every night, he would attend the literary gatherings in Jingjing.
Yan Yukong was an official in Ning An County and had a good relationship with Fang Yun. He was already seen as half a Jingguo citizen and a hardcore Jingguo supporter. Therefore, not only was he not attacked by the scholars from the enemy country, he was also very popular.
Just the fact that he was a good friend of Half-saint was enough to make Yan Yukong the leader of Jingjing.
Yan Yukong did not attend the literary gatherings for fun. He had a learning attitude. He wanted to understand the development of the various families in Jingguo. He wanted to learn seriously and perfect his own path.
Gyeongo's cabinet realized that the situation was not right. Every day, they would send out an imperial edict to force Yan Yukong to make a decision.
Every time Yan Yukong received an imperial edict, he would casually roll it up and throw it on the table. He never took it seriously.
In the end, Gyeongo's cabinet had no choice but to summon Yan Yukong back. However, Yan Yukong refused to return to Jingjing because he had caught a cold.
The scholar had caught a cold? What a joke.
Soon, people realized that Yan Yukong's birthplace had changed!
He had changed from Gyeongo's Qi Prefecture to Kong City!
Gyeongo's government was in an uproar!
Scholars had the freedom to move between countries. However, they had to obtain the approval of the two prefectures. Furthermore, they had to file a record with each country. Therefore, important people usually needed the seal of the Ministry of Revenue to change their nationality.
The cabinet did not know that a scholar had changed his nationality!
The cabinet hurriedly investigated, but they realized that they could not investigate further.
The governor of Qi Prefecture said with a long face that the head of the Yanzi Clan had personally sent a letter to force him to change his nationality. The Minister of Revenue was even more miserable. He said that the Yanzi Clan, the Xunzi Clan, the Xisheng Clan, and the Confucius Clan had worked together to force him to change his nationality. Not only did the two of them personally meet to hand over Yan Yukong's documents, they even suppressed the news and did not report it to the imperial court.
The two scholars had extremely high statuses. In addition, the four major clans had intervened. The cabinet could only furiously suspend the two high-ranking officials' salaries for half a year. They did not even dare to demote them.
They were not afraid of the four major clans. Gyeongo was really short of people now!
The officials of Xi Prefecture had completely cut off all contact with the cabinet. The officials of Lingzhou still obeyed the cabinet's orders on the surface, but they secretly flirted with the officials of Jingguo. They tried to build relationships with the high-ranking officials of Jingguo to show their loyalty in advance and avoid being purged in the future.
Some of the old officials of Gyeongo who had high hopes for Yan Yukong almost cried. They scolded those who had forced Yan Yukong in the imperial court. If not for them, Yan Yukong would not have gone to Kong City.
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