The man needed more support and help from his servants, but was constrained by the reality of resource shortages and long-term consumption pressures.

If he were a cruel and cold-blooded user, he would likely reduce the team's resource consumption by letting servants die... but Su Yan wasn't that kind of person. His values wouldn't allow him to treat his people's lives so cheaply.

Even if they were just cards in name, Su Yan would never become an executioner.

Yet he needed more servants and couldn't kill them to manage the population... it was a completely contradictory dead end.