Seonid writes: You have to change the starting bonuses for the Chinese civ in AGE. You can do that by looking through the technologies for the Chinese Civ. Bonus (or something like that). One of the effects in it will be a bonus starting villagers effect. Deleting that should solve your problem.
A note on replacing the villagers. It should work, as long as you are ok with not getting any villagers ever...
A note on replacing the villagers. It should work, as long as you are ok with not getting any villagers ever...