After handling the matters of the Loose Cultivators, Wei Yuan was already gathering the list for this session's Foundation Establishment candidates. Just one month after the war, Qingming had replenished over 300,000 Refugees, and the population climbed back to 1.7 million.
All thanks to Cui Shutong, who now seems to have an extreme desire for weapons and Armor. Thus, he did not ask for silver, only Armor at its equivalent value, which made him willing to give an extra fifty percent of the Refugees.
With Qingming's current steel output, producing ten thousand sets of Heavy Armor a day was not a problem. Hence, in one month, Cui Shutong sold more than 300,000 Refugees to Wei Yuan. During this month, only over 30,000 Refugees came to Qingming on their own. The flow of information among the Refugees was blocked, and many people still thought Qingming was at war and dared not come over.
