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

Magistrate Zhao arrested dozens of beggars in the city who could not survive and asked them to quietly leave the city and go to some surrounding villages to inquire about the situation.

In less than two days, these skinny beggars discovered that the villages around the county were basically in ruins.

Along the village road, beside the creek, and under the big trees, there were piles of bloody corpses.

A group of wild dogs running down from the mountains were busy eating the corpses. When they saw someone approaching, they opened their mouths and exposed their sharp teeth to intimidate the other person.

Feeling that something was wrong, some clever old beggars hurried back to the city and informed Magistrate Zhao of the situation.

Upon hearing this, County Magistrate Zhao suddenly raised his head and sighed.

"I sigh deeply to cover my tears, lamenting how difficult the people's livelihood is!"

The few masters with mustaches beside him heard his sigh. After looking at each other, they hurriedly stepped forward and persuaded: "Sir, since ancient times, ordinary people have been like weeds. As the saying goes, weeds cannot be burned. When the spring breeze blows, they will grow again. As long as you give them some time to recuperate, they will grow back in a few years."

"Yes, sir, Brother He is absolutely right."

When County Magistrate Zhao heard this, he thought to himself, how could he not know this truth?

He just felt a little pity.

If next spring, the imperial court issues a decree asking him to recruit 5 civilians in the county, then he will definitely not be able to gather this number by then.

The beggars he sent out all said that most of the villages in their county had been killed.

Magistrate Zhao became worried when he thought that this place had suffered serious losses and that he would not be able to pay the tax burden in the next year.

If you fail to fulfill the orders issued by your superiors, you will be held accountable.

Soon, Magistrate Zhao cheered up.

He thought to himself, as the saying goes, another village has a bright future.

I'll think of something else when the time comes. Buy some refugees from outside and bring them back.

As long as those refugees are allowed to settle here, they will be able to have a large number of children within a few years.

In this way, there will be no need to worry about people working in the county.

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Chen Yixuan's days in the Zhang family are like years. He wanted to take his eldest son home. But the county magistrate has ordered the people in the government office to guard the city gate tightly, and no one is allowed in or out.

There is no other way, Chen Yixuan can only worry about his wife, his children, and his eldest brother and sister-in-law every day in the Zhang family.

Chen Yixuan's cousin Zhang Jiqing came back twice. Seeing that this cousin was always frowning and worried, he comforted him and said: "Cousin, don't worry, there is nothing in our city, and there will be nothing outside the city." It's nothing. Those troops just passed through our county and didn't really want to attack us."

"The adults in our county have already written documents, and they have been rushing for 800 miles. They have informed the magistrate, as well as the governor and governor of Youzhou about the northern army passing through our county. I believe that in a few days, they will send The imperial army is coming."

After Chen Yixuan learned about this, he felt a little more relaxed.

Thinking that his daughter-in-law was always worried about the troops outside, bandits from the mountains, and thieves breaking into the village some time ago. She asked the family to build such a strong tunnel. Chen Yixuan felt that his daughter-in-law should have a big head. It's possible that he's already hiding in the tunnel.

Just when he was wondering when he could go back, the governor of Youzhou and the magistrate unanimously decided to send a team of 2,000 people over to check the situation.

Every time the army travels, it consumes a lot of supplies.

Moreover, every time they go to a place, if they don't grab something, those who serve as soldiers will feel that they are at a loss.

Therefore, when the common people in most places in Youzhou encountered the troops sent by the imperial court, they were all extremely frightened. Those who could hide would hide, those who could hide would hide, and those who could run would run away. Most of the valuable things at home have been robbed.

There are so many troops sent by the imperial court this time, and even if they knock the bones and suck out the marrow, it is impossible to satisfy them.

Once this person is not satisfied, he will feel resentful.

The imperial army's discipline has always been loose.

They work as soldiers on weekdays and their military pay is insufficient.

Some of the top soldiers at the bottom were originally held by farmers. If they cannot afford to support their wives, they, like other poor people at the bottom, can only rent out their wives and daughters.

A more flexible head soldier would not fall into this situation. Because they also know that when they have free time, they can walk around the streets and do business.

People who do business are better than farmers.

As a result, the large-scale soldiers dispatched by the imperial court showed two different states.

Those who have a little money are more particular about it. When you rob other people's things, you always grab the most valuable things.

As for those big-headed soldiers who can't even feed themselves, they can rob one household after another.

Food, benches, tables and chairs, clothes, as long as they think they can sell them for money, they can't wait to rob them all.

Moreover, for the so-called military exploits, they deliberately killed those good people.

If they cut off all their heads, they will tell the county magistrate that these heads belong to thieves and northern barbarians.

The magistrates of various counties took into account the menace of these people and their words with murderous intent. They had no choice but to take advantage of the situation and wrote a letter to the imperial court to explain how heroic the imperial army was.

Some county magistrates who are good at flattering people will also deliberately say how vicious the bandits who were killed were... and also said that in this battle, our side had no casualties and successfully wiped out about 3,000 bandits and horse thieves.

It can be seen that the enemy suffered heavy losses.

Governors, governors, salt patrols, chief envoys, magistrates...these dignitaries of the court have long been old foxes in the officialdom.

They have long known what these brainless big-headed soldiers are doing.

However, their place is a sensitive place.

Many people in the capital are watching.

If you don't do it well, you will be beheaded.

After considering many aspects, they decided to just go with the flow.

Those reckless men claimed that they had successfully suppressed more than 3000 bandits, and they reported it truthfully. If the court discovered the clues and insisted on pursuing them, they would be guilty of negligence at most.

And those reckless men... will be demoted, beaten to death or decapitated.

Soon, the capital learned the good news of the great victory in the frontier.

Emperor Kanglong, who was sitting in the Hall of Supreme Harmony in the Forbidden City, suddenly heard about this and was very happy.

Twenty thousand taels of silver were allocated from the Ministry of Household Affairs to reward the three armies.

Moreover, he also promoted officers and soldiers who had made military achievements in the Battle of Youzhou.