Due to the revival of spiritual energy between heaven and earth, many things have changed, and the climate in various parts of the Kyushu continent has become abnormal.
This wave of winter lasted extremely long, and it took a full eight months for the temperature to rise again.
Even with the best preparations, Ziyao's village has experienced a certain degree of attrition.
This is inevitable. Under extreme conditions, the original fate of this backward village should be complete destruction.
During the winter period, she was not idle and led people to build a brick kiln stove.
I usually bake bricks and make tiles without stopping for a moment.
Using these fired bricks and tiles, more than a dozen simple water storage towers were built.
As soon as spring began, people were ordered to shovel snow into the tower to reserve water for the subsequent drought period.
The ignorant villagers did not know her good intentions. They tried to resist, but were suppressed by Ziyao.
Even though she looks like a weak girl, a monk is a monk, and no matter what, he will never be bullied by a mortal.
She also transformed the fields near the village. She dug ditches and buried wooden troughs in them, and then mixed unmelted snow and soil into them.
When the snow melts, the soil in the wooden trough will remain moist for a longer period of time, and more food can be grown in it.
On the other hand, Jiang Li's life was as smooth and moist as possible under the influence of illusions made out of nothing.
Not a single one of the remaining villagers died, and all of them were very fat.
Every one of the working-age women in the village is pregnant.
Because Jiang Li asked them not to do anything, but they must try to expand the population.
If you want a place to develop, population is the first factor. I believe that population also accounts for a large factor in the assessment criteria for the trial.
In order to better cope with the subsequent military disasters and beasts, he also needed a large number of people as soldiers.
In addition, Jiang Li, who wanted to cheat further, also discovered that in addition to Qin Shuman, who was directly attached to him.
If you want to bring other ghosts in, you must have an entity identity in the fantasy realm to enter.
"Sir, there are twenty refugees coming from outside the village."
When Jiang Li had nothing to do and was trying to practice the Guanyin Heart Sutra in the illusion, Qin Shuman reported the news to him.
"This game, oh no, there are actually refugees in this illusion?"
When Jiang Li went out and took a look, he saw that there were just 20 refugees in ragged clothes.
When asked where they came from, they were told that there was a severe drought in the north and they came all the way south to seek a way out.
On Ziyao's side, road signs have been erected early, indicating that they are recruiting refugees and are actively cultivating fields with the newly recruited refugees.
Take advantage of this precious time before a complete drought to plant as many crops as possible.
Jiang Li saw it and saw that this was a good way to increase the number of people.
These twenty refugees were directly recruited.
Then they asked the village to cook several large vats of rice, which was also served with a large amount of chicken, duck and fish. A group of people moved to the road at the entrance of the village, gathered around and started eating.
At this moment, Qin Shuman next door was dumbfounded.
All the refugees passing by this avenue were attracted by the smell of Jiang Li's rice, and no one came towards her at all.
Not only that, but the few refugees we had just recruited all ran away in the blink of an eye.
Even the residents of the village were complaining and were very envious and wanted to join the other side.
Although Jiang Li seems to have done nothing, can they still have fun together like this?
Time flows very quickly in the fantasy world, and to the senses, a year does not feel long to Jiang Li.
Not long after, the snow melted away, but not a drop of rain fell from the sky.
Under the scorching sun, the earth cracked bit by bit, baked by the drought.
In a land thousands of miles away, the grass and trees are withered and yellow, and everything is withered.
Over at Ziyao, a batch of potatoes and beans were collected before the crops withered.
Instead, they gave up a large area of ordinary farmland and used the snow water saved from earlier to water the plants in wooden troughs little by little.
There are more and more refugees on the road, swarming in groups, seemingly endless.
Because there were too many people, Qin Shuman also recruited a lot of people. However, after the number reached one thousand, she stopped recruiting because no matter how many more people she had, she couldn't afford to support them.
Someone who is just cheating doesn't have this concern.
Jiang Li's village accepts everyone who comes.
Every day on the road, he performs magical tricks, transforming food and houses.
With his simple operation, which was like cheating by inputting codes, the village was quickly upgraded to a small town, and the small town was quickly upgraded to a county seat.
A place of prosperity and prosperity, a paradise on earth in troubled times.
The first batch of ghost soldiers under Jiang Li were finally reincarnated in the illusion.
Those babies born can grow up to three feet tall in one day.
In just a few days, more than a hundred babies have grown to be as big and thick as adults.
The most important thing is that each of them can still display the strength of the monks in the Qi training period.
At this point in time in this fantasy world, the monks in the Qi Refining Stage are already at the top of the world.
There are more than a hundred Qi Refining monks who can scare people into fainting if they tell you about it.
After another period of famine,
People in this area are in dire straits and there are dead bones on the roads.
In the two human cities not far away, due to the influx of a large number of refugees, public security has become extremely poor, and public resentment is widespread.
If this continues, a civil unrest will inevitably occur.
Officials can provide them with porridge for one month or two months, but they cannot afford to feed them any more.
When the food runs out, turmoil will inevitably break out in the city.
Then the two cities unanimously chose the same measure.
Conscription, war!
Using food to recruit refugees to join the army can strengthen one's own strength to suppress those refugees who are unwilling to join.
Secondly, the army can be sent out to raid and alleviate the food crisis.
Thirdly, if a war breaks out between the two sides, the extra population can also be killed. If there are fewer mouths, won't there be more food and water?
The rapid expansion of Jiangjia City has undoubtedly attracted the attention of the two cities.
Their geographical location is awkward and awkward, right in the middle of the two cities.
Normally, this is a good place with convenient transportation and suitable for development.
But now, it is the first choice for unlucky people.
In such a prosperous city, how can they feel at ease without a wave of robbery?
Two armies composed of refugees, one on the left and one on the right, rushed towards Jiang Li and the others in a mighty manner. Almost no chickens or dogs were left behind wherever they passed.
Kill all that can be killed, rob all that can be robbed,
When the scouts discovered that nearly 100,000 troops were coming from both sides at the same time, Ziyao's face turned pale with shock.
Although she built a wall and fence, she also built some mechanisms and defensive equipment on it that could be operated by mortals.
But she can cope with a small army of several hundred, but how can she withstand an army of tens of thousands of soldiers attacking from both sides?
Logically speaking, they should have passed as long as they survived in the chaotic environment.
But because Jiangli's villages were developing so well and their goals became bigger, this situation arose.
But no matter how well the village develops, more refugees will be recruited.
For a period of time, they had no way to smelt metals and make weapons on a large scale. If they faced off against a real army, it would be no different than seeking death.
What she didn't know, or what she couldn't imagine, was that hundreds of qi-training monks had appeared in Jiang Li's village or city.
Under the pressure of the military disaster, Ziyao made a decision after thinking about it.
He decisively led his villagers to abandon their stronghold and escape. As long as they hid in the mountains, no one would be able to find them again.
Although doing this means that all the previous preparations have been wasted. But it can avoid this military disaster and keep the green hills, so that we can find opportunities later!
Heading in the direction of Jiangli Village, she whispered, "Wish you all the best," and then led the villagers away.
But this decision caused her to reduce the number of villagers by 30% and join Jiang Li's command.
She abandoned her home to store food and water, and fled into the mountains. For 70% of the population to follow her, she is already a very charming person.
Jiang Li has some ghost soldiers as scouts, so the information is naturally much better informed than hers.
In fact, although qi-training monks are much stronger than ordinary people, during the ordinary qi-training period, one enemy against hundreds of people is almost the limit.
A man in his early 100s who practices qi and faces tens of thousands of mortal soldiers. If both sides are brave enough to fight head-on, then the chances of winning may not be very great.
But the monks are fast and have many methods, so they can use other methods to win.
For example, a shovel is a good choice.
One hundred and eight villagers who were reincarnated as ghost soldiers were divided into two teams, each holding a shovel, and rushed towards the armies on both sides along the road.
What they want to do is not to beat those soldiers to death with a shovel.
Instead, they destroy roads and block traffic.
An army of nearly 100,000 people was already slow and stretched.
Their baggage carriages were even heavier.
It was fine at first, but soon, the road in front of them turned into a mess of potholes. As far as the eye could see, there was no smoothness at all.
That was the damage that Jiang Li ordered people to cause in advance. For those ghost soldiers, a shovel would turn into a big hole without any effort at all. The speed of digging the hole was much faster than the marching speed of the army.
Ordinary infantry were fine, but the carriages carrying baggage and provisions were almost stuck every step of the way, making it extremely difficult to move.
Under such circumstances, the army's march became longer and longer, and it didn't take long for all the heavy carriages to fall behind.
Jiang Li ordered two groups of ghost soldiers to go around to the back, easily broke through the mob, and immediately set fire to the grain and grass carts.
The total number of soldiers on both sides, which totaled nearly 200,000, was all covered up on the road.
There is no village, no store, and no food or grass to support them. If they can't get there and can't get back, they will starve to death on the road.
When it was already a famine, encountering fatal hunger again caused the morale of the army to collapse on the spot.