Era of the transmigrating earth-Chapter 2018: Finally Unable to Hold Out Any Longer

Du You’s strong attack on those Kingdom Empire forces behind him did not cause external resentment. After all, Du You’s approach was of great help in addressing hidden dangers, and there was little opposition from insiders.

And Du You’s current domineering demeanor was because he had earned this qualification.

As an empire occupying one-third of the world, who would dare defy him being domineering?

Moreover, there are almost no traces of demons on this one-third of the territory. For anyone, this is an indelible achievement, and internally there is only praise.

Even in many external places, civilians are thinking every day about when Du You will be able to capture their cities.

In their view, being conquered by Du You is not a bad thing; they would be safe, and their lives would be better. It’s known that these years, many cities have been very weakened when captured.

Some cities even had soldiers who would unite to voluntarily open the city and offer their city managers to the opposing side.

Because over the years, internal traitors have increased, those cities have become increasingly harsh towards their subordinates. This has resulted in a vicious cycle, with most city residents growing increasingly dissatisfied with their rulers.

Of course, Du You still let those initially independent cities go, which is an expression of his integrity. After all, without integrity one cannot stand, whatever was promised back then should not be actively broken even if one becomes powerful.

But as the years have passed, these guys are barely able to hold on.

Du You looked at the data in his hand and smiled, "This Wildgrass Clan, first to propose independence, is finally about to crumble, right? This should be their last resistance."

Du You and the group of subordinates around him burst into laughter, this clan purely asked for it themselves.

After three cities succeeded in independence, these five cities essentially stood on their own. Subordinates were not allowed to communicate with each other, and even many lands outside the cities had issues, with disputes endlessly over a bit of land.

This situation could be maintained at first, but later everyone gradually found things weren’t right.

Because in order to fight against enemies, along with habitual thinking, they kept encouraging childbirth, hoping for more population. But unexpectedly, this population was the biggest problem.

Ten years passed, a generation grew up, and food issues emerged before them. The food wasn’t enough to eat, and the originally restrained situation gradually changed.

The conflicts among everyone grew more intense, and the land disputes outside the cities became increasingly severe.

There were even many instances of people not killing each other, directly attacking each other’s rice fields, just to starve the other side’s population. But later this situation worsened, without sufficient food, the internal conflicts in cities erupted.

So later, everyone restrained themselves, for survival, five cities united to draw border lines, forbidding crossing. Simultaneously, they stipulated no destruction of each other’s farmland, to ensure their survival.

However, behind the scenes, these guys thought of getting food from outside, but Du You had long ordered confinement, so they couldn’t dream of buying anything. There were air forces patrolling every day around, no one could cross the border.

The wall’s blockade made it impossible for their people even to try to flee, leaving them to continue staying inside.

Another ten years passed, generations grew, the population kept increasing. Although they had tried every means to control the population, those born still couldn’t just be killed, hence the conflicts intensified.

In their youth, they were constantly bullied, but after adulthood, they were different.

United to seize food, then for survival, they formed stronger organizations. Initially mixing in their streets, and later began fighting against other surrounding streets.

Organizations kept being established, most were wiped out, but a few grew. When grown to a certain extent, they would catch the attention of city rulers, who then began sending people to suppress them.

For survival, they had to resist, and many soldiers also grew up among them.

So this suppression and redevelopment, mutual resistance, kept cycling. When things developed to a certain extent, the city’s controlling families’ ability to control internal affairs weakened increasingly.

Yet external forces only recognized the Wildgrass Clan’s attitude, and they had no way to get even a bit of supplementation from outside. Later on, those rules lost meaning, as these people wouldn’t follow them.

Constantly grabbing food, someone always thought of causing destruction. After all, all kinds of people exist, this chaotic situation gradually became uncontrollable. In the end, several families could only control a part of the area before their eyes.

Most of their city’s territory they couldn’t control, let alone fighting external wars.

This chaos continued to develop until now, with no trust between people, filled with hatred. Even cooperation requires mutual vigilance, the army became mere ornamentation.

Various organizations are now the mainstream, only those big families can barely maintain themselves with their strength.

The Wildgrass Clan’s people tremble all day long inside the castle, apart from the internal area of the castle, they can’t control any place. External people attribute all blame to them. 𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶

Had it not been for the castle’s protection, the Wildgrass Clan’s people probably would’ve died out long ago.

Back then, the two candidates were driven out long ago, but those who came after couldn’t sit firmly in the family leader’s position for long. Because as the family’s situation worsens, their internal conditions also grow increasingly dire.

"Everyone, we can’t continue like this, we must seek refuge with the United Empire, in our name. The United Empire only recognizes us, so whoever first proposes surrender will become the family controller afterwards."

"Absolutely not, surrendering now will definitely cause us to lose the city’s controller status."

They knew what the situation was now, surrendering now wouldn’t gain others’ recognition. So many years of persistence made them heavily sinful, at least in others’ eyes.

"Don’t think of controlling the city anymore, if this continues, we won’t even be able to maintain ourselves. There’s already a situation of not having enough food to eat within the family, how long are you going to keep insisting?"

The new family leader couldn’t help but shout, these people still couldn’t let go of that bit of power even at this time.

But the problem is, do they even have power now, when even half of the family members have died in the struggle. If not for so many dying, the remaining ones wouldn’t even be supported by this castle.