How to survive in poverty: I use a simulator to farm

Knowing that the northern army was coming, all the respectable people in the county took action.

People who had food, clothing, matches and these supplies at home began to carefully count them.

The more chaos there is, the less chaos there is. Otherwise, their families will face disaster.

All the gates in the city are closed.

The windows began to be sealed with wood and iron nails.

Knowing that a city can only be destroyed in an instant, Zhang Jiqing's father asked all the female relatives and immature children to hide in a dark room in the tunnel.

If these people can survive by chance when the city is destroyed, it can be regarded as leaving a fire for their Zhang family.

Zhang Jiqing's father is over fifty years old this year.

He is over fifty years old and feels that he has enjoyed everything he should enjoy in his life. Now facing such a situation, although he was panicked and frightened, he was not completely desperate.

He took his most outstanding son, Zhang Jiqing, to the slightly shabby county government office.

After entering, I found that there were no less than a hundred people standing in the Yamen lobby.

They were all familiar faces to him.

The squire and landowners who knew they lived in the city were all there discussing the situation outside the city. Zhang Jiqing's father took his son to join in.

Now ask about this, now ask about that.

Especially the military defense in the county, he asked in great detail.

Just as he was frowning and thinking hard, he suddenly saw several government servants in tattered clothes. One covered his arm, and the other held the other tightly.

"Sir, something is not going well, something is not going well!"

Hearing the younger yamen officer shouting that something was wrong, everyone present widened their eyes and looked at him in surprise.

"What's wrong? What's wrong? What happened outside?"

The uninjured young government official had a face full of horror and his eyes were filled with despair as he said: "At the gate of our city and around the city wall, there are a group of troops on horseback and shooting arrows!"

"Someone did some calculations and felt that the army coming this time should be no less than tens of thousands of people!"

"What? Tens of thousands of them came? This should be impossible, right?"

Their county is not particularly large in the entire Northland, especially in the northwest.

Their place only accommodates tens of thousands of people.

When an army of tens of thousands armed with swords confronts tens of thousands of unarmed civilians, isn't this the same as putting meat buns in a dog's mouth?

When I thought of those murderous things, all coming in, burning, killing and looting in the county town, leaving no stone untouched, these landowners and gentry, who had lived a good life of food and clothing all year round, suddenly became frightened.

"What should we do? What should we do? How can we fight with these people in the city against those outside?"

"Oh my God, my God, what kind of evil have we done! Why did we get into this kind of thing?"

"Do you think we can surrender?"

"Are you crazy? If we open the city gate and surrender, they will never spare our lives. Those barbarians are unreasonable and dishonest. I think there was a city called Youcheng in the upper reaches of Youshui River. Wasn't the county town completely slaughtered by them? That place is still a dead city, and no one dares to enter!"

Hearing these words, the squire, who originally wanted to surrender to save his own life, was immediately speechless.

This doesn't work, that doesn't work, what should they do?

Do these unarmed people really want to use their kitchen knives and other things at home to fight with those people?

Just when they were anxious like ants on a hot pot, someone suddenly spoke. "Anyway,... isn't it already winter? We won't surrender, we won't open the city gates, and we won't fight with those people. We only need to adhere to one principle, which is to guard the city gates and ensure that our city gates are not Those people break through. When they run out of food and grass, they will naturally retreat!"

Some landowners from the countryside couldn't help but get angry when they heard this.

"You say retreat, where can they retreat to?"

"Don't you think that if those people have nothing to eat, they will burn, kill and loot in our villages! By then, the entire township in our place will be killed by them!"

After hearing this, someone started arguing again.

"Those armies came all the way. The villages, villages, and townships outside have probably been burned down, killed, and robbed by them long ago! How can those inhuman things still spare their lives?!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the vast majority of people present actually agreed.

Everyone realizes that war is so cruel.

War is inhumane.

War is destruction.

……

The county magistrate, clerks, and masters who were hiding in the nearby room and listening to the matter all came to a unanimous opinion after seeing the landlords and gentry outside discussing.

A group of six of them slowly walked out of the room inside.

Magistrate Zhao has been an official for decades and has already developed a philosophy of being an official.

In his position, the decisions made must be in the interests of the majority of people.

The balance of power and the weighing of interests. This is what he thinks about every day.

Therefore, over the years, the landowners and gentry have respected the county magistrate.

Now when they saw the parent officer coming out, they started asking questions eagerly.

"Sir, what should we do now?"

"Sir, for our current plan, we can only defend the city..."

Magistrate Zhao saw their eyes widening and looking at him eagerly. After he raised his hand to signal them to be quiet, he said patiently: "Everyone, I invite you here today just to defend the city."

"You are all far-sighted and insightful scholars. Naturally, you know that the day our city is destroyed will be the day we are completely destroyed. As you just said, for our current plan, we can only defend the city."

"If we hold on to this county town for one day, we can live one more day. Their troops on horseback have come from afar and they must not be carrying much supplies. As long as we survive this period, they will definitely retreat to other places."

"I would also like to ask you to allocate twenty to thirty servants from your respective homes to form a city protection team arranged by the government."

Everyone present looked embarrassed when they heard this.

Twenty to thirty servants? Didn't this remove most of the strong men in the family?

If the outer city is captured first, the inner city will definitely be in chaos.

When the time comes, there will be countless people who take advantage of the situation to rob, burn, kill, loot, and fish in troubled waters.

At that time, the defense of the home will be empty, and the thieves will break into the home, and they may be destroyed!

Thinking of this, the landowners, squires, prominent officials and wealthy merchants all complained to County Magistrate Zhao.

"Lord County Magistrate, we are in trouble!!"