During Zhu Rihe's training, Lieutenant Zhou Ye of the supply platoon was sent to the snow ditch in Liaodong in the fourth year of the Apocalypse by a Blue Army smoke bomb.
In front of him, eighteen "grainless people" were waiting to be stabbed because they had no grain; behind him, there was an advanced warehouse that would only replenish supplies if he personally completed daily tasks such as cooking.
The warehouse can save eighteen people, but it cannot feed the people who keep fleeing. Zhou Ye could only use limited modern supplies to deal with emergencies. He used hot meals, rosters, sentries, and public accounts to organize fugitives, miners, and laborers. He then seized food and roads from the enemy's false accounts, concealment of reports, and competition for credit, and fought for the names of living people.
Faced with the Hou Jin siege, the Ming army's levy of pay, and successive years of famine, Qingshidian had to do more than just win a few battles, but also grow grain, smelt iron, trade, and establish rules so that everyone could make a living on their own and hold on to the land.
What Zhou Ye ultimately wants is not to be king and emperor, but to be able to close that warehouse with his own hands one day.
