More than thirty-five years have passed.
Due to that battle, the administrative classification of Jiangbei Province, Jiangnan Province, and Jiangzhou Province was downgraded from fourth-tier provinces to fifth-tier provinces because of the loss of resources and population, and they haven't recovered since.
A large number of people who couldn't live in advanced administrative provinces were sent into the three provinces to replenish the population.
Old Deng was one of them, moving into Jiangzhou Province with his elders over thirty years ago, and then into Jiangbei Province, and now he has become the teacher of Xu Songlin, the City Lord of South City.
The reason for staying in South City was not only because of Xu Songlin, but because the Deng Family had thirteen people who, during the Great Crossing River Era, sacrificed themselves in this area of South City.
