The tough winter is finally over.

Due to the revival of spiritual energy between heaven and earth, many things have changed, and the climate in various parts of Kyushu continent has become abnormal.

This wave of winter lasted exceptionally long, and it took eight full months before the temperature began to rise.

Even though the best preparations had been made, Zi Yao's village still suffered a certain degree of casualties.

This is something that cannot be avoided. Under extreme conditions, the original fate of this backward village should have been complete extinction.

During the winter, she was not idle and led people to build a brick kiln.

Normally, we make bricks and tiles without stopping for a moment.

More than a dozen simple water towers were built using the bricks and tiles fired.

As soon as spring came, he ordered people to shovel snow into the tower to store water for subsequent drought periods.

The ignorant villagers didn't know her good intentions and tried to resist, but were suppressed by Ziyao.

Don't be fooled by the fact that she looks like a weak girl. A monk is a monk and will never be bullied by mortals.

She also transformed the fields near the village by digging ditches, burying wooden troughs in them, and then putting a mixture of unmelted snow and soil into them.

Once the snow melts, the soil in the wooden troughs will remain moist longer, and more food can be grown in it.

On the other hand, Jiang Li was living a very comfortable life under the effect of the magic that created something out of nothing.

Not only did all the remaining villagers survive, but they all became fat and big from eating so much.

All the women of childbearing age in the village were pregnant.

Because Jiang Li asked them that they could do nothing but expand the population as much as possible.

If you want a place to develop, population is the first factor. I believe that population also plays a big role in the assessment criteria of the trial.

In order to better deal with the subsequent war and beast tides, he also needed a large population 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 pull other ghosts in, you must have a physical identity in the illusion before you can enter.

"Sir, there are twenty refugees outside the village."

Just when Jiang Li was doing nothing and trying to practice the Guanyin Heart Sutra in the illusion, Qin Shuman reported this news to him.

"This game, no, this fantasy world actually has refugees?"

Jiang Li went out and saw that there were only 20 ragged refugees.

When asked where they came from, they said there was a severe drought in the north and they came all the way south to seek a way to survive.

On Zi Yao's side, road signs had been put up early on to announce that they were recruiting refugees and using the newly recruited refugees to actively cultivate the land.

Take advantage of this precious time before the drought becomes complete and plant as many crops as possible.

Jiang Li took a look and thought this was a good way to increase the number of citizens.

Directly recruited these twenty refugees.

Then he asked the villagers to cook several large vats of rice, and also provided large amounts of chicken, duck, fish and meat. A group of people moved to the main road at the entrance of the village, gathered there and started to eat.

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 food, and no one came towards her.

Not only that, the few refugees who had just been recruited also ran away in the blink of an eye.

Even the residents of the village were complaining and envious, wanting to join the other side.

Although Jiang Li seemed to have done nothing, could they still have fun together?

The flow of time in the illusion is very fast, and in Jiang Li's senses, a year does not feel long.

Before long, the snow melted away, but not a drop of rain fell from the sky.

Under the scorching sun, the earth cracked little by little due to the scorching drought.

For thousands of miles, the grass and trees are withered and yellow, and all things are dying.

Zi Yao, on the other hand, harvested a batch of potatoes and beans before the crops withered.

Instead, they abandoned large tracts of ordinary farmland and used the snow water that had been saved earlier to water the plants little by little in wooden troughs.

There were more and more refugees on the avenue, in groups, seemingly endless.

Because there were so many people, Qin Shuman also recruited quite a few people. However, after the number reached 1,000, she stopped recruiting because she couldn't afford to support more.

Someone who is just cheating doesn't have this concern.

Jiang Li's village welcomes everyone who comes.

Every day he performs magical tricks on the road, turning food into food and houses into houses.

With his simple operation of entering codes like cheating, the village was quickly upgraded to a town, and the town was quickly upgraded to a county town.

It is a thriving place, a paradise on earth in troubled times.

The first batch of ghost soldiers under Jiang Li were finally reincarnated in the illusion.

The babies who were born could grow three feet tall in just one day.

In just a few days, more than a hundred babies had grown into as big and strong as adults.

At this point in time in this fantasy world, cultivators in the Qi Refining Stage are already at the top of the world.

If you tell others about the fact that there are more than a hundred Qi-refining monks, they would be so scared that they would faint.

After a period of famine,

The people in this area are already living in poverty and there are even corpses on the roads.

The two human cities not far away had become extremely unsafe due to the influx of a large number of refugees, and public resentment was rising.

If this continues, there will inevitably be civil unrest.

The government can provide them with porridge to feed them for one or two months, but they cannot afford to feed them any longer.

Once the food supply is cut off, unrest will inevitably break out in the city.

Then the two cities chose the same measures at the same time.

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Recruiting soldiers, war! Using food to recruit refugees to join the army can, on the one hand, strengthen one's own power and suppress those refugees who are unwilling to join.

Secondly, the army can be sent out to plunder and alleviate the food crisis.

Thirdly, if a war breaks out between the two sides, these extra people can die. Without more mouths to feed, wouldn't there be more food and water? The rapidly expanding Jiangjia City has undoubtedly attracted the attention of the two cities.

Their geographical location is awkwardly located in the middle of the two cities.

Under normal circumstances, this is a good place for development with convenient transportation.

But now, it is the first choice for the unlucky ones.

How can they feel at ease if they don't grab some of the wealth in such a wealthy city?

Two armies of refugees, one on the left and one on the right, came towards Jiang Li and his men in a mighty force, leaving almost no one alive wherever they passed.

They killed all those who could be killed, and looted all those who could be robbed. When the scouts discovered that there were nearly 100,000 troops coming from both sides at the same time, Zi Yao was so shocked that her face turned pale.

Although she built a circle of walls and fences, she also installed some mechanical defense devices on them that could be operated by mortals.

But she could still deal with a small army of several hundred people, but how could she possibly resist an army of tens of thousands of soldiers attacking from both sides?

Logically speaking, they should have passed as long as they survived the chaotic environment.

But because Jiang Li's village developed too well and the target became bigger, this situation occurred.

But no matter how well the village develops or how many refugees are recruited.

They simply couldn't smelt metals on a large scale and build weapons in the short term. If they faced a real army, it would be tantamount to seeking death.

What she didn't know, or what she couldn't imagine was that there were already hundreds of Qi-cultivating cultivators in Jiang Li's village or city.

Under the pressure of the war, Zi Yao made a decision after careful consideration.

He decisively abandoned his stronghold and fled with his villagers. As long as they hid in the mountains, no one would be able to find them.

Although doing so would mean that all previous preparations would be wasted, it would help avoid this war. If there is a green mountain, there will be an opportunity in the future! She walked towards the direction of Jiangli Village, whispered "May the best of luck", and left with the villagers.

However, this decision caused her to reduce the number of villagers by 30% and they joined Jiang Li's army.

She abandoned her homeland, food and water and fled into the mountains. The fact that 70% of the population followed her showed her extraordinary personal charm.

Jiang Li had some ghost soldiers as scouts, so they were naturally much more informed than her.

In fact, although Qi training monks are much stronger than ordinary people, for ordinary Qi training monks, fighting against hundreds of people alone is almost the limit.

A Qi cultivator in his early teens facing off against tens of thousands of mortal soldiers, if both sides are fearless and confront each other head-on, then the chances of winning are probably not very high.

But the monks are fast and have many means, so they can completely use other means to achieve victory.

For example, a shovel is a good choice.

One hundred and eight villagers who were reincarnated ghost soldiers were divided into two teams, each holding a shovel, and rushed along the road towards the armies on both sides.

What they had to do was not to beat those soldiers to death with shovels.

Instead, it damages roads and blocks traffic.

The army, numbering nearly 100,000, was already moving slowly and had a long way to go.

Their baggage wagons were even heavier.

It was fine at first, but soon, the road in front of them became full of potholes. Where was the road smooth at all?

That was the damage Jiang Li had ordered his men to do in advance. For those ghost soldiers, a shovel would dig a big hole, which was not difficult at all. The speed of digging the hole was much faster than the speed of the army marching.

Ordinary infantry were fine, but the carriages carrying baggage and food were almost sinking with every step, making it extremely difficult to move forward.

Under such circumstances, the army's marching team became longer and longer, and the heavy carriages soon fell behind.

Jiang Li ordered two more teams of ghost soldiers to go around to the back, and they easily attacked and broke through the mob, and directly set fire to the food carts.

There were nearly 200,000 soldiers on both sides, all of whom were lost on the road.

There is no village or shop nearby, and without food or fodder, they can neither get to their destination nor go back, and will starve to death on the road.

It was already a time of famine, and the army was then hit by severe hunger, which caused the army's morale to collapse on the spot.

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