Ming Dynasty: Summoning game players at the beginning

Chapter 71 Family members don’t fight against each other
The five prefectures and counties brought Li Mu tens of thousands of destiny points, which was slightly lower than the first time he captured the county town, and there was a feeling of diminishing marginal utility.

Fortunately, the destiny value obtained was large enough, so Li Mu exchanged it for one thousand resurrection reserves, ten thousand merit point reward reserves, and five thousand emergency reserves at one time, and drew all the remaining cards immediately.

Including the recent steady growth of "activation code" players, as of now, there are 800 new players, and the total number of players has exceeded .

The division of labor among players who were originally a combination of workers and farmers is now becoming increasingly clear: combat groups and guerrilla players are still the mainstream, accounting for more than 60%.

Production and construction, scientific research, and village development have also been slowly improving. The "hidden party" roaming the rivers and lakes has traces everywhere, Kaifeng, Luoyang, Runing, Nanyang, Wuchang, Luzhou, Anqing...

According to players, the farthest group of three has arrived in Nanjing.

Li Mu knew that taking over the entire mall was a piece of cake.

But occupying territory and digesting territory are two different things.

Although the Beggars' Army occupied five prefectures and counties, its authority could not reach the countryside, and the collection of taxes and recruitment of soldiers was still done in the style of a peasant army showdown.

If one wants to establish a stable bureaucratic system, one must either cultivate one's own civil service system, or make use of the gentry and powerful people and retain demoted officials and yamen runners.

It is obvious that with the players' temper, they can't squeeze even the poor, so if they don't squeeze the rich businessmen, whose money will they squeeze?

The "debt collection meeting" triggered by this had both advantages and disadvantages. The advantage was that a large amount of money and grain could be obtained quickly, while the "disadvantage" was that it forced dozens of wealthy families to turn around and seek refuge in Lijiazhai.

This shows that although the gentry who kneel to everyone they meet are spineless, if you attack their "vitals", it would be like poking a cockroach nest, and they will definitely burst out with amazing strength.

If the person nominated by the gentry today is not himself, but another official, the beggar army will be caught in a situation where they are attacked from both sides, which would be disastrous.

Li Mu couldn't help but feel fortunate that he had made the right decision to temporarily hide in the Ming Dynasty.

Not only could he secretly fund the Beggar Army to make trouble, he could also optimize his "policy attitude" in order to squeeze the maximum value out of the gentry and powerful.

But if we make such an analogy, when the Lijiazhai forces go to seize the county seat, won’t they end up back in the embarrassing situation of “the government not going to the countryside”?

Of course not.

Since the internal test of the game was launched for players, Li Mu has deliberately divided the career focus of "village cadres".

Being a village cadre in this era is even more tiring than being a poverty alleviation cadre, but the players' thinking is flexible and jumping, and Li Mu gives them full freedom.

There are no complicated official documents or reports, no detailed requests to superiors, and no intrigue in the workplace.

There is only one way, which is to develop productivity as much as possible and provide more money, food and supplies to Lijiazhai.

Although only about 10% of players are willing to be cadres, they are extremely motivated at work. Sometimes they can work for more than ten hours a day and even work at night with torches for lighting.

The originally boring poverty alleviation was turned into "Minecraft", "Lord of the Manor", "A Time Traveler's Struggle", "Rebuilding Homes in the Doomsday", "Production and Construction Competition", "Tumen Village Welcomes Tourists", "My Technology Tree is Wrong", "Do You Like Collective Rural Areas", "Making the Rural Cake Bigger and Stronger"...

Thanks to the enthusiastic dedication of these cadre players, Li Mu was not worried at all about the gentry monopolizing the grassroots.

According to the reference materials provided by the players——

In the early days of the founding of New China, the cadre ratio was that the county government needed about 0.03% of the total population of county cadres and about 17% of the total population of village cadres.

That is to say, for every 100,000 people, there should be about 200 grassroots cadres, and it doesn't matter even if there are some village cadres missing.

Based on this metric, the combined work of these players entering the "cadre sequence" has effectively filled the cadre gap in Shangcheng County. This means Li Mu can plant "supplies" throughout the county, unimpededly drawing on every bit of resources without employing the gentry or powerful.

This time, Li Mu personally led the expedition, mobilizing eight hundred new players, fifty old players who had died in battle and were resurrected, and some militia teams to fill the void and transport supplies, a total of two thousand people.

Three hundred guards stayed behind to strengthen their training, and there was also a group of production and scientific research players left at home, so there was no need to worry about the safety of the nest.

When this army of two thousand strong and weak soldiers marched out of the camp, the wealthy families who had been living there waiting for the troops to be dispatched were stunned.

The Li family army had a strict formation. The column of three people standing side by side was as straight as a pine tree. They advanced in an orderly manner from beginning to end, as if they were printed out of the same mold.

The spear team walked in the front, their nine-foot spears like a hedgehog forest, the swordsmen and archers were firmly in the center, the short spearmen in the back carried several javelins on their backs, machetes on their waists, and prop bags hung on both sides of their belts, swaying gently.

The proportion of cloth shoes and short boots worn by Li's army was quite high, and even those who wore straw sandals had a pair of brand new ones.

The two thousand soldiers were fully armed and in high spirits, far superior to ordinary militiamen and even comparable to the imperial army.

The white-haired rich man exclaimed that Li Mu was a very capable person. This guy had been belittling himself a few days ago, but he didn't expect that he would be so generous in his first move.

These days, thousands of people can be mobilized at the grassroots level. Never mind their combat effectiveness or equipment, just going to that station would be so crowded that they would be crushed in a fight, and the government would have to give them some face.

The wealthy man couldn't help but wonder how many troops this kid from the Li family could mobilize. Two thousand people were definitely not his "entire family fortune."

If Lijiazhai mobilizes all its forces, and cooperates with the surrounding inspection offices, county militia, and government army vanguards, let alone a small shopping mall, it should be no problem to fight the main force of the Beggars' Army on equal terms, right?
Even though they have such strong power, they are still squatting in the valley to manage those broken crops and tinker with those broken workshops!
If they had come out earlier and called out, thousands or even tens of thousands of troops would have gathered, and the beggar bandits would not have been able to sweep across southern Henan so rampantly.

He is obviously a good man with a strong will, but he acts like an uncle, being cautious and hesitant. He is really too cautious.

Li Mu had no idea what the wealthy families were thinking. He only knew to lead his army slowly northward, attacking the Wu family today, the Zhou family tomorrow, and the Wang family the day after tomorrow.

The journey, which was only two and a half days, took three times as long.

The wealthy families were almost going crazy with anxiety, and they all said that speed was of the essence. If the enemy troops came to support, their team would be finished.

Li Mu didn't care what the rich people said, and continued to march slowly as he pleased.

It was not until the wealthy families hurriedly raised 10,000 taels of silver that Li Mu seemed to sober up. He raised his whip and pointed straight ahead. In less than a day, the two thousand men and horses completed the journey that would have taken two days.

The Qihuo Army sent soldiers to defend Shangcheng County, but it was captured by Li Mu in less than half a day. Some of the players defending the city were like new voice actors with poor skills, shouting dryly...

"Our army is defeated, run away."

"It's actually Mr. Li from Lijiazhai, the invincible and brave man!"

"Wow, the prestigious Mr. Li is like the scorching sun in summer, so bright that I can't even open my eyes. I surrender, I surrender!"

So, with the poor acting skills of a group of actors, all the remaining players and the beggar militia were captured, and no one was injured or killed.

"You thieves have finally fallen into my hands! Kill! Kill! Kill them quickly!"

The wealthy people who followed them into the city shouted excitedly, like a group of unintelligent apes, wishing they could personally wield their knives and chop these bandits to death.

(End of this chapter)