Luo Qingqing found a chair and sat down.
The third village chief couldn't wait to speak: "Luo Qing, you've been going to town quite often recently. Have you heard any news? What you just said about strengthening the village was really shocking. I just discussed the development of the village with the chief village chief again, and we all want to hear your opinion."
Luo Qingqing smiled and said a few humble words, but in the end she could not resist the repeated persuasion of the third village chief.
She expressed her thoughts, "The previous commander of Tongzhou was Zhao Lian, an old general with great military achievements. He had spent his entire life fighting the Western Rong people. He was their natural enemy.
Now that he died suddenly, the Western Rong people must be unable to sit still. They are now only invading the mountain strongholds on the border, probably to test how the Jin Dynasty will respond.
If the imperial court did not respond strongly, the Western Rong people would probably launch a large-scale invasion next.
Our Jiuyou Mountain Stronghold is located at the border of Tongzhou and Shanzhou. As long as a war breaks out between the two countries, we will inevitably be implicated.
By then, we will no longer have such peaceful days.
I think we should strengthen our own resilience and learn to protect ourselves."
The eyes of Xiao Jiuchen and the third village chief lit up at the same time.
Luo Qingqing usually seems to be a person who doesn't care about anything. They didn't expect that Luo Qingqing's analysis of the current situation was so profound.
Xiao Jiuchen opened his mouth and asked, "Does Luo Qing have any suggestions?"
Luo Qingqing rolled her eyes quietly.
This bastard has been alienating her for so long, and today he is finally willing to talk to her?
Luo Qingqing cursed Xiao Jiuchen inwardly for being stingy, but she still expressed her thoughts. "First, our village isn't short of weapons, but food. We should stockpile more food. Second, many people in our village don't have the ability to protect themselves. I think we should strengthen our own defense capabilities. Third, the defenses in our village should be strengthened, and we should always be vigilant against attacks from the Western Rong people."
Xiao Jiuchen and the third village chief nodded continuously, as these ideas coincided with their own.
After Xiao Jiuchen had a thorough discussion with the three village chiefs, several new regulations for the management of the village were immediately introduced.
Luo Qingqing also has an additional job, which is to supervise the implementation of the new regulations.
First, rob more and increase the village’s wealth.
Second, everyone in the village must practice after finishing their work.
Third, strengthen the village’s guard team.
Fourth, store more food.
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Luo Qingqing walks around the village every day, observing the implementation of various regulations and reporting to the three village chiefs every day.
But most of the time, the second leader was busy training people, the third leader was busy managing the warehouse, and Luo Qingqing spent most of her time facing Xiao Jiuchen.
Every day, one of them talked while the other listened, and the two seemed to have returned to the time when they lived in harmony.
The village is growing stronger day by day, and the situation outside is also changing day by day.
The Western Rong people became more and more arrogant. They kept probing and invading, and they appeared in many villages in Tongzhou and Shanzhou.
Wherever they appear, the fate of the people there will be extremely miserable.
The Western Rong people stole their food and property.
The Xirong people killed all the men and children and took away the women.
The Xirong people burned and looted their houses and fields.
The Jin Dynasty sent a lot of troops to the border, but the Western Rong people were elusive and the generals of the Jin Dynasty had no good solution for a while.
As the situation outside the village becomes more serious, more and more people become homeless, and more and more new members enter the village.
Xiaoshuang is responsible for registering the information of new employees. He is so busy every day that he has long forgotten about Miao Xiaohua.
Luo Qingqing sees new faces in the village every day, and she has become a senior among the seniors.
When everyone saw her, they respectfully called her "Brother Luo Qing".
After all, she is someone who has a say in front of the village chief.
Luo Qingqing had long forgotten the task given to her by the system to have a child.
Every day she was busy with work, observing the operation of the village, and thinking about how to make the village stronger and protect the safety of the people here.
She cares about the affairs of the village more than anyone else.
As more and more people came into the village, big problems began to arise.
There is not much food left in the warehouse!
Even though the fields in the village produced a lot of grain during the autumn harvest, no matter how the third village chief calculated, the grain in the warehouse could only feed the more than 10,000 people in the village for three months.
Three months later, the coldest winter will arrive.
At that time, if there was no food in the village, everyone would starve to death.
No one wanted to starve to death, so everyone tried their best to find a solution.
Suggestions kept coming in.
"I heard there's a big military camp in Tongzhou with a lot of food shipped from Jiangnan. Why don't we go and rob it? The food in one military camp is enough for us to eat for a long time."
"The people nearby are very caring towards us. They are our good neighbors. We cannot steal their food, but we can go to places farther away to steal food."
"I originally wanted to rob more recently, but the situation in the northwest is very chaotic. Trade between the two countries has almost stagnated. Many unscrupulous merchants and corrupt officials have stopped coming here. It's rare to see even a fat ant on the road. Robbery is not feasible for the time being."
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The three village chiefs listened carefully to everyone's opinions and then considered whether it was feasible.
Luo Qingqing took out a scribbled map he had drawn himself, spread it in front of the three village chiefs, and said in a resounding voice: "We can't rob the corrupt merchants and officials, but we can't bear to take the people's food. So, let's go and rob the Xirong people of their food."
The three village chiefs looked at Luo Qingqing in a daze.
Luo Qingqing's suggestions were usually quite reliable, but robbing the Xirong people was a bit too far-fetched, wasn't it?!
The Jin Dynasty had so many well-trained generals, but they were unable to defeat the Western Rong people. What could these bandits do?
Luo Qingqing pointed at the map and said to them, "Three village chiefs, please look, this is the territory of the Xirong Kingdom's Tuomin tribe.
The people of this tribe were the most comfortable among the Western Rong people. Their land was fertile, and the annual grain production accounted for half of the Western Rong Kingdom.
You see, they are very close to us. As long as we go around Jiulin Mountain and cross Huamingling, and run for a while on the grassland, we can reach Minrong, the central city of the Tuomin tribe.
Now, the strongest troops of the Tuomin tribe have been summoned to the capital of the Western Rong Kingdom. They are discussing attacking the Jin Dynasty. Now is our best opportunity to rob the Tuomin tribe.
Three village chiefs, our Jiuyou Mountain, Jiulin Mountain, and Huaming Ridge all have the You River flowing through them. After we rob Minrong, we can use the waterway to transport the food back."
The three village chiefs were all shocked when they heard this.
It has to be said that Luo Qingqing's suggestion of transporting food by water was something they had never expected.
They had been in Jiuyou Mountain for many years, but they never knew what the local geography was like.
Xiao Jiuchen was the most well-read among the three of them, but he didn't even know where the You River flowed.
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