Refugees and Yellow Turbans

A group of refugees in ragged clothes gathered at the entrance of Xia Village. Most of them were jaundiced and thin. There were about forty or fifty people, and only a dozen of them were young and strong.

The civilization background of the Eastern Han Dynasty was the Yellow Turban Rebellion. Yellow Turban troops and bandits were rampant everywhere, and it was normal for the people to be displaced. But in fact, these were the refugees randomly spawned by the system, and the village was first built for the lord to quickly upgrade the village.

If you relied on the natural birth rate, who knew when one could meet the conditions for upgrading the village?

Only forty or fifty refugees were refreshed at a time, and the number seemed to be a lot.

"My lord, our village was ransacked by a small group of Yellow Turban soldiers, and the village was destroyed. Some young people were also killed in rebelling against the Yellow Turban soldiers. Village chief, please take us in. We are too hungry to keep walking..."

One of the young men who was a leader had tied a rag with blood stains to his arm. He knelt and asked Chu Tian to take them in.

It seemed that these villagers had encountered a fierce battle.

Saving a life was better than building a seven-level pagoda, not to mention that Xia Village really needed these refugees to refill the population.

The population size was an important condition for the upgrading of the village. The population condition could be met only when 80% of the population limit was reached. In other words, there had to be at least 240 villagers in Xia Village.

"Elder Li, you take the villagers to the granary in the village. Take out some of the stored grains and distribute them to these poor people, then help them settle down. Take whatever wood and stones in the warehouse that you need and build thatched huts or wooden houses with them. You can also heal their wounds."

Chu Tian made the village's first administrative talent, Elder Li, responsible for resettling the refugees.

There was a lot of initial grains in Xia Village, so it was not a problem to deal with 47 refugees.

"Thank you, village chief! Thank you, village chief!"

The group of refugees was very grateful to Chu Tian, who took them in.

There were 47 refugees, plus the initial 100 villagers, now there were 147 villagers in the village.

"Popular Sentiment rose to 67, Public Security dropped to 51."

When Chu Tian returned to the lord's mansion and checked the stone tablet again, the data on the stone tablet had changed due to the addition of these refugees.

The refugees were grateful to Chu Tian for taking them in, so their loyalty was high, improving the Popular Sentiment of the whole village. But after all, they were new refugees who had joined the village, making the village's Public Security drop a lot.

Public Security could be increased slowly. Popular Sentiment wasn't so easy to improve.

Although the influx of refugees was a good thing, it had also brought bad news - there was a small group of Yellow Turban soldiers roaming this area.

The current Xia Village could not counteract the Yellow Turban soldiers.

There were only 40 local soldiers in Xia Village. A local soldier was the lowest-ranked fighter. It did not require training; one could fight with a hoe and sickle.

"No, because the refugees joined, there are now 53 local soldiers, including a bronze-level Ordinary Hero."

Chu Tian discovered that, in addition to the changes in Popular Sentiment and Public Security due to the entry of refugees, the military score had changed from 40 (40 local soldiers) to 74 (53 local soldiers, 1 bronze-level Military Commander).

The new bronze-level Military Commander was that leader of the refugees from earlier.

"Village chief, how may I serve you?"

This refugee leader was called up by Chu Tian.

Chu Tian tried to recruit him. "Are you willing to be loyal to me and protect this village?"

"Yours truly, Zhao Qi, and the many villagers are under the care of the village chief. You not only took us in, you also generously gave us food, herbs, and helped us build houses for shelter from wind and rain. Zhao Qi is willing to be loyal to the village chief!"

"Ding! Bronze-level Commander, Zhao Qi, is loyal to you."

After Zhao Qi pledged loyalty, Chu Tian could see his panel.

[Name]: Zhao Qi

[Talent]: Bronze-Level (Ordinary Hero)

[Rank]: 30

[Experience]: 1342/10000

[Role]: Seventh son of the village chief of Shangtian Village

[Loyalty]: 81

[Status]: Light injury (Strength -10)

[Command]: 20 [Strength]: 31 [Intellect]: 19 [Politics]: 10 [Charisma]: 60 

[Equipment]: Iron spear (Bronze-Level weapon, Attack Power +1)

[Phase]: 45

[Characteristics]: Commander of Country Fighters: Small (Characteristic E, while commanding Country Fighters, the Country Fighters have Attack Power, Defense Power, Speed +1)

Zhao Qi's strength was 31. He had the highest strength in Xia Village. Compared to Elder Li, who had only a strength of 5, he was much stronger.

And this Zhao Qi was very loyal.

Chu Tian asked Zhao Qi for intel about the nearby Yellow Turban soldiers.

If these Yellow Turban soldiers were around, they were a huge threat to Xia Village.

"Our Shangtian Village was by a mountain forest about 20 miles to the west. A few days ago, we were ransacked by the Yellow Turban soldiers. My father and six brothers were all killed by the Yellow Turban soldiers. Originally, there were more than 300 people in Shangtian Village, but now we only have 47 people. The village was destroyed, and our food was robbed."

"How many Yellow Turban soldiers were there?"

Chu Tian was a little surprised.

With a population of more than 300 people, Shangtian Village was already a Level 2 village.

If even a Level 2 village was ransacked, how could his Level 1 village defend against these Yellow Turban soldiers?

"They had about 60 people, and their combat power was more than that of Country Fighters. One of their leaders was very powerful and killed a bunch of us. We fought hard and only killed a dozen Yellow Turbans. There should still be about 40 of them."

So, one Yellow Turban leader and 40 or so Yellow Turban soldiers, while Xia Village only had one Bronze Commander, Zhao Qi, and 53 Country Fighters.

The Xia Village seemed to have an advantage in numbers, but in fact, it wasn't true.

The Yellow Turban soldiers were fiercer than Country Fighters, and their combat power was stronger. The Yellow Turban leader could kill several Country Fighters in a row and had more strength than Zhao Qi too.

They weren't easy to deal with.

"From now on, you will be responsible for training Country Fighters. Heal your injuries first."

Chu Tian found that if Zhao Qi's injury were not healed, it couldn't be rushed. At this time, letting him recover his injuries was the only way to increase his winning rate in defeating the Yellow Turbans.

After Zhao Qi left the lord's mansion, Chu Tian frowned, thinking about how to resist the Yellow Turban soldiers who could appear at any time.

If the Yellow Turban soldiers broke through the village and destroyed the stone tablet, Xia Village would gradually fall apart and be recycled by the system.

There were three ways to strengthen the military score of the territory. One was to recruit troops, and the other was to build fortifications.

Xia Village had a small population and could not recruit troops other than Country Fighters, so recruitment was unrealistic.

Building fortifications was also not possible. Level 1 villages had no decent fortifications. There was only a wooden fence surrounding the periphery of the village, which was barely the lowest fortification.

The third way was to recruit powerful commanders. In the early stage of a village's development, a powerful military commander was worth ten people and highly useful. In the later stages, he could also recruit and command the army.

Chu Tian took out the golden recruitment order.

Recruitment orders were divided into bronze, silver, gold, platinum, and diamond levels. You could recruit Ordinary Heroes randomly generated by the system, and there was a very small probability that Special Heroes would appear. The Special Heroes that appeared in the recruitment order in the Eastern Han Dynasty were civil servants and commanders of other dynasties other than the Three Kingdoms.

[Golden Recruitment Order]: Can recruit one gold-level Ordinary Hero, very small probability of recruiting a Special Hero.