Chen Fu sighed slightly, his face full of worry. He raised his hand and gently adjusted his official hat, saying, "Prime Minister, I carefully calculated yesterday, and at least eighty thousand households in the Northern region have sharply decreased since last month."
As he spoke, he bent down to dip his fingers in the tea and slowly drew circles on the table, the motion seemingly depicting the sharp decrease in the Northern population, "At this pace, in three years, North Zhili might become 'a thousand miles of uninhabited land'."
Ultimately, the North and South must be unified; if the Northern region becomes uninhabited, it would undeniably be a huge burden for the Court. In the Central Earth Dynasty, Huaxia citizens and non-Huaxia citizens are worlds apart.
