Militia of '41

  At present, Lin Xuqi's private army has ten lieutenant generals. Except for the newly promoted newcomers, the most senior ones are Zhang Xin and Wang Liang, two old ministers left by the former Huo Mountain God.

  Although in the past when they were alive, the two deputy generals were only low-ranking officers in the Qin army who commanded a hundred people and didn't even count as generals. However, after dying and transforming into ghost soldiers for hundreds of years now, even a pig should have learned to be clever by now. Although IQ is an indicator that cannot be improved through practice, survival wisdom is different - as long as you live long enough, your understanding of the key to survival will naturally surpass that of normal people.

  The two deputy generals were mediocre, but they had not lived in vain for hundreds of years. When it came to military affairs, no matter how big or small, they could handle everything with ease. And so, under the direct guidance of their top leader Lin Xu, Zhang Xin and Wang Liang began to make plans.

  Based on the reference plan's requirements for troop numbers and wartime consumption, the two deputy generals drafted a list of weapon assistance to Jiangjia Village. Later, through confidential channels, orders were issued separately to various major armories in Jiufeng Town.

  Since the last time, with Huo Shanjun, the tiger demon, as the leader of the monster alliance, the plan to destroy Jiufeng Town was crushed, the monsters who were injured and hurt now need to regroup and lick their wounds in their dens. Therefore, they do not have enough strength or willingness to come out and stir up trouble with Lin Xu. The security environment around Jiufeng Town has rapidly improved. Almost overnight, the residents of Jiufeng Town, who had been anxious for a long time, felt the long-lost peaceful atmosphere again.

  As their minds settled, these new immigrants began to try to enjoy life while sending messages to all parts of the country calling on those close to them to come and share in this rare peace and happiness in a chaotic world.

  As a large number of immigrants moved in, the permanent population of Jiufeng Town expanded rapidly. For Lin Xu, the increase in residents of Huoshan was certainly a good thing, and more people meant more believers, which was a straightforward matter. However, the massive influx of immigrants in the short term also caused serious social problems.

  The mountainous environment with limited peripheral vision, even if terracing and dry farming in the mountains were introduced, as well as various types of windmills and waterwheels and other advanced agricultural irrigation technologies, Jiufeng Town, which is hidden among the vast mountains, still cannot open up much arable land.

  A thousand words, ten thousand meanings. "Hurrying Mountain Whip" is incredibly magical, but it can only move mountains, not stuff them underground.

  In the same region, the overall proportion of mountains, rivers, hills and plains is fixed and unchangeable. It's impossible to let Lin Xu move a big mountain to someone else's territory under broad daylight!

  Insufficient arable land, the agricultural production in Jiufeng Town had to develop towards intensive cultivation. As a result, full-time farmers became a minority in the town, and most residents had to rely on selling their labor force to make a living every day.

  Willing to sell labor, that is not necessarily sold out, otherwise there would be no unemployment in the economic dictionary.

  Nowadays, the world of Great Qin is on the verge of chaos, and there are only two things in the market that are always in short supply. The first one is food, as people need to eat to survive, which is the top rigid demand. The second one is weapons.

  It goes without saying that in a chaotic world where human life is as cheap as grass, a handy excellent weapon means the minimum guarantee of personal safety and property.

  The importance of being armed in a chaotic world is self-evident. Let's imagine, when an enemy with a cold and sharp blade approaches you with a sneer, while you are unarmed at this moment. Assuming the plot develops naturally from here, I believe anyone with normal intelligence has already guessed the ending of the story.

  In the unfortunate event of living in an era where people meet and immediately draw swords to slash at each other, a child's first lesson is to learn that putting down one's weapon means giving up the opportunity to survive. Just like on the African continent in the 21st century, locals joke that you can go out without bringing your ID because no one will ask for it, but you mustn't forget to bring your *47 automatic rifle, or else you're dead for sure. This bittersweet story is the best explanation for all doubts.

  Anyone with a discerning eye can see that relying solely on agriculture cannot support the current population of Jiufeng Town. The only way out is to produce products that are in demand and sell them, using the sales profits to bring in food to support those who sell their labor power and their families.

  Taking into account the actual needs of the external market, and with the guidance of a certain unscrupulous mountain god in secret, Jiufeng Town, which has rich human resources and mineral resources, set foot on the glorious road to becoming a professional military contractor.

  The principle of equal rights and obligations, this is the cornerstone of any system. Unchecked abuse of power is more dangerous than a flood disaster. Having no rights at all, only endless obligations to pay out, is also an unbearable situation. As mentioned above, even as gods, they are not born with absolute freedom and autonomy, and must also be subject to rules. Since ancient times, there has been an unwritten rule in the divine way that gods cannot arbitrarily interfere with human life, especially tabooing interference with human internal affairs based on personal preferences.

  Although these rules seem mysterious when mentioned, in short, they are just one sentence: Do not move without being asked, and do not disturb without sincerity.

  No matter what kind of difficulties the mortal followers encounter, as long as they do not actively ask the gods for help, the gods should not intervene and participate in these matters.

  Similarly, if a deity were to lend a hand to mortals without rhyme or reason, this is not entirely forbidden; occasional interventions are permissible. However, once a certain unknown boundary is crossed, even deities will invite great trouble upon themselves.

  Like Lin Xu now, he has in his hands the vast natural resources of the entire Huo Mountain, and the mountain range that stretches for thousands of miles contains countless wealth. Let's not mention other things, just the precious metal deposits buried deep underground, converted into a staggering amount. If Lin Xu were to move these gold and silver veins to the surface layer for mining, it would be enough to support the people in Jiufeng Town, let alone hundreds of times more. The key to this matter is that Lin Xu cannot do so, nor does he dare to do so, as the divine rules do not allow gods to act so recklessly.

  Although lacking information for analysis, Lin Xu currently cannot be certain what kind of punishment he will face for violating the rules of the gods. However, the gods' keen instinct for their own safety had long warned him that the situation would not develop favorably, so Lin Xu usually did things as cautiously as possible and did not dare to take half a step beyond the thunder pool.

  In the midst of obscurity, there is a master. If you often resort to cunning and deceitful means to achieve your goals, you will inevitably suffer a great loss in the future, and you will have to pay back both the principal and interest before you can be done with it.

  A thousand words and phrases boil down to one sentence: whatever you take out will eventually have to be put back.

  An ancient saying goes: If a person kills another, then he can be killed too.

  Deities are bound by divine rules, they dare not abuse their powers to slaughter living beings, but achieving the same purpose through others' hands is a detour, even divine rules are powerless and can only be left to the law of cause and effect.

  Recently, the White Lotus Sect's backbone took advantage of the unrest along the East Sea coast and the large number of refugees fleeing to Huainan. They prepared to incite their followers in Jiangjiaji, destroy the local people's faith center Tudi Temple, and then build a Wusheng Laomu Temple on the original site. This would establish the White Lotus Sect's authority in the area east of Mount Huo and even in the counties of Huainan. However, man proposes but God disposes. The White Lotus Sect masters' elaborate plan had just begun when Lin Xu intervened and disrupted their plans, causing everything to fall through. Nevertheless, they will not give up and retreat.

  Religious believers are the most stubborn group of people in the world, and their fanatics can be described as even more unyielding. Every time they temporarily fall silent is a precursor to their next frenzied counterattack.

  With batches of simplified versions and other equipment produced by Jiufeng Town, they were loaded onto vehicles and transported to Jiangjiaji Tudi Temple one after another.

  Lao Tudi Huang Shiren felt that the time to take action was approaching maturity, and he subsequently used several local gods he had cultivated over the years to issue a call for self-defense to the residents of the town, mobilizing people to take up arms to defend their hometown and family.

  In ancient China's agricultural society, land transportation was inconvenient, bandits and wild beasts often appeared in the countryside, and long-distance travelers could hardly guarantee their personal safety. The vast majority of people's activities were limited to within a hundred miles of their birthplace. For ordinary people, advocating for national defense is a very distant thing, lacking a sense of reality, but defending one's hometown is entirely different.

  What is a hometown? When a place has your own fields, houses and ancestral graves, and your relatives and friends are all here, it is undoubtedly your hometown.

  If a person loses his hometown, all these things mentioned above will be gone. Isn't it worth fighting for? The answer is naturally yes.

  The Landlord Huang Shiren obviously grasped the pulse of the local people in Jiangjia Village. These people were not fond of the White Lotus Sect, but rather no one dared to speak out against them because there was no leader to take charge. They were the so-called silent majority. Now that a leader has emerged and the necessary weapons and equipment are available for resistance, people's courage has naturally increased as well. This time, the Old Landlord almost effortlessly achieved his predetermined goal.

  In a chaotic world, there are advantages to the chaos. At least the quality of soldiers is much higher than in peaceful times. Everyone's life is precarious, and even half-grown children have to practice martial arts at home before daring to go out. Otherwise, they might encounter unexpected dangers on the way and lose their lives.

  This time, the weapons and materials transported by Jiufeng Town were calculated by professionals, with two overall principles: low unit price and simple operation, which is conducive to large-scale equipment and use, even if it is lost, it will not be heartbroken. Taking the most representative * as an example, the troops of the Great Qin Empire are equipped with *, at least waist-opening crossbows and knee-bending crossbows with a strength of three stones or more.

  The universal range of the strong crossbow is over 400 meters. Because it's very laborious to draw the string, one must use the hook on the waist and both feet to step on it in order to hang the bowstring. Even a robust adult male can only shoot ten or so arrows in succession before becoming breathless. If the Jiang family village militia were to use this type of crossbow, following the same military standards for manufacturing, I estimate that the number of people who could use it with ease would be very small. A good thing that can't be used becomes a waste, and this method is naturally unacceptable.