At that time, it had been almost a year since the Maitreya Sect's downfall in Jiangnan.
Although there were still skirmishes between the southern powers, they were relatively minor and small in scale. Each clan was reviving production, licking the wounds once inflicted by the Maitreya calamity.
Under the tacit understanding that each force harbored the intention of becoming autonomous, none of them pursued the former Maitreya Sect followers to the bitter end. Instead, they were generally absorbed under the guise of "displaced people" and guided back to agricultural production. The Tang family did the most in this respect, discreetly integrating hundreds of thousands of scattered Maitreya soldiers into the workforce, with the elite reorganized into the military.
