In the novel the travelers are five hundred social te this elite, but no matter how high Zen refers to Nian Daxing before they traveled, after they traveled they all became wastes whose intelligence is inferior to that of a rabbit in the wild, and whose hands are inferior to that of a rat wandering in the wild.
Five hundred wastes carefully operated their colonial he trapped land, experienced many blood and tears of reform, only to finally establish an ostensibly powerful empire of Daming.