Xu Xuan felt like laying down his burden.
Of course, this didn't mean he was throwing in the towel and running away, but rather that he planned to set aside his current affairs for a while to deal with matters elsewhere.
Daoism held most of the strongholds in Guanzhong and with a siphoning population, there were more than three million subjects, with the number continuing to grow steadily.
It wasn't that a large population had suddenly emerged, but rather, after the extermination of the noble clans, the people previously sheltered by the sects and clans were re-accounted for. Add to that the "household registration per land area" policy, and cases of infanticide in the rural areas had decreased.
The war had reached a stage where it was simply a tedious grab for territory.
Apart from the well-known forces of the sects and clans, other places were just small families who couldn't stir up any significant trouble.
