The past month on the surface seemed calm and stable, but underneath, it was fraught with turbulence. Under the suppression of tens of thousands of Royal Army soldiers, the southern nobility, after a painful struggle, ultimately had no choice but to comply with the reforms. They relinquished their lands and populations, taking only a few hundred of their direct kin to garrison the north side of the Lerma River. With the arrival of the Priesthood from the Capital City, the population of over two hundred thousand in Zicao County was being systematically registered and established in military settlements, gradually becoming directly subordinate to the Kingdom. The Tekos Tribe from the southwest would also be dealt with during the southern campaign.