Disaster Simulator, global collapse begins.

People always have to step out of their comfort zone. As a simulator, if he were to spend his entire life indulging in pleasure here, he would only be wasting this opportunity to simulate.

As a simulation, he should use everything he has to pave the way for the original body.

Only by venturing into the tragic surface world can one achieve great things and obtain the entry for "Blessed Mother's Heart".

This simulator has a pretty good personality!

They don't cause trouble, and are even willing to sacrifice their true selves.

I would call him the best tool.

In 1644, you successfully passed the examination to become a Mohist.

To be honest, the exam wasn't difficult. The key issue is that most Mohists lose interest within a year or two and apply to return.

In the same year, Li Zicheng established the Great Shun Dynasty, Zhang Xianzhong established the Great Xi Dynasty, and other rebel armies such as Wang Ziyong and Gao Yingxiang, along with former regional military commanders and warlords, including Prince Fu Zhu Yousong, all established their own independent regimes.

Emperor Chongzhen hanged himself on Coal Hill, marking the end of the Ming Dynasty.

"Zhang Xianzhong... he was a very famous person."

Some people may not know the name of this Great Western King, but they definitely know his legend—the Seven Killings Stele.

Heaven creates all things to nourish man, yet man has no virtue to repay Heaven. Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill!

As a Mohist, your job is to collect information from your local area and the entire world, true or false, and record it on a tablet. Someone will come to collect it periodically.

The task of determining authenticity was undertaken by the people within the city after all the information had been gathered.

They've arranged for you to be a wealthy businessman who plans to settle here.

The network technology in the Mechanized City was underdeveloped, so those who left couldn't connect to the internet to play games or follow novels. This was why most of them didn't last more than a few years. To avoid loneliness and the lack of communication with others of the same mindset, Mohists always worked in pairs.

The junior sister who accompanied you was arranged to be your wife.

Returning to the front of Lonely Mountain, I looked at the already dilapidated Juxian Manor.

You sighed, and without lingering, walked into the city.

I started thinking about my future plans.

……

Chapter 71 The County Magistrate Has Arrived! Xiongcheng is at peace. The County Magistrate Has Arrived! Justice Has Been Bringed Back.

Unlike official history, Shandong had already established its own Great Qi at this time.

There's a folk saying: "Slaughter cattle and sheep, prepare wine and food, open the city gates to welcome the rebel king, and when the rebel king arrives, no more taxes will be levied."

To the common people, Li Zicheng was a revolutionary; to the officials, the "Chuang King" was the founder of a new dynasty; only the local gentry and powerful families wanted to resist.

Even though the gentry in the city were unwilling, with a consensus reached between officials and the common people, the Da Shun army took over Shandong with almost no need for troops; it only required issuing proclamations.

Li Zicheng's slogan was "No grain tax for three years," which sounded wonderful, but an army can't starve. If they didn't levy taxes on ordinary people, they had to find other sources of income.

The Da Shun dynasty's method was "recovering stolen goods to fund military expenditures," using violence to extort money from local gentry, powerful families, and former Ming dynasty officials.

Officials who originally intended to serve the Da Shun dynasty and continue their official careers found themselves not only rejected but also subjected to torture and forced to pay bribes.

This kind of "recovering stolen goods to fund military expenses" didn't just happen once; it eventually escalated to the point where it was openly priced.

"The number of officials is limited to 100,000, provincial governors and censors to 50,000, Hanlin scholars to 30,000, provincial and ministerial officials to 10,000 to 20,000, and scholars, students, and wealthy people to a few thousand each."

It can be said that everyone except the poorest people at the very bottom who have nothing is within the scope of the recovery of stolen goods.

This further enhanced Li Zicheng's reputation among the common people. However, in chaotic times, whoever had the army had the power. This radical policy ultimately forced a group of officials and gentry to rebel, and they reached a consensus once again.

A wave of rebellion against the Shun dynasty arose, and ultimately, the rebel army was driven out of the Qi-Lu region. Following a series of internal struggles and compromises, the Great Qi dynasty was established.

(Note: The above is all fictional history, please do not take it seriously.)

Having successively experienced the "Denglai Incident," the "Great Shun's Entry into the Kingdom," and the "Rebellion Against Shun and Establishment of Qi," this land was already impoverished and its people destitute, with the Great Qi's treasury empty.

Just then, a brilliant strategist appeared out of nowhere and proposed that wealthy merchants from other regions be brought in to sell official positions and titles to replenish the national treasury, while at the same time allowing these merchants to check and balance the local gentry and powerful families.

Your simulator recognized this as a good opportunity, so after communicating with the Mohists, you purchased a position as a seventh-rank county magistrate.

In 1645, Lord Wang took office in Xiongcheng.

Whether it was the local gentry trying to intimidate you or not, a band of armed bandits suddenly appeared near Xiong City and came to rob you.

You're no longer the boy who couldn't even muster the slightest resistance. Relying on the Mo family's traditional martial art—the Thousand Machine Gatling Gun—you and your junior sister wiped out those bandits in an instant.

This was still the strength that the Mohists allowed to expose, shocking the county soldiers assigned to you by the Great Qi.

I never imagined that Magistrate Wang was actually a martial arts practitioner.

Dragging a string of bandit corpses, the group marched in a grand procession towards Bear City.

The local militia guarding the gate made things difficult for you, demanding you prove yourselves. So you unleashed another traditional Mohist martial art – the Palm Thunder – blasting open the gate and entering the city in a grand and glorious manner amidst the smoke and fire.

"Ah, this..."

Looking at the text simulation, Chen Jie couldn't help but rant about energy.

Is this what you call being low-key?

That's incredibly high-profile!

They pulled out Gatling gun grenades with a single pull... How did the Mo family manage to hide all these years?

But after thinking about it carefully, it doesn't seem like it's impossible.

After all, this is an ancient era where martial arts existed.

A first-rate master, roughly at the level of a B-rank Valkyrie, could dismantle a tank in modern times. A top-tier master could easily dismantle a Gundam. A legend in the martial arts world, that amnesiac A-Fu seems to have reached the level of cultivating immortality while others practice martial arts.

In such a chaotic world where individual combat power is absurd, it's not unreasonable for a county magistrate to carry an armory with him.

Looking around, one sees corpses of the starving everywhere, a life of utter devastation. The poor huddle behind broken doors and windows, cautiously peeking at your group.

In contrast, the walls of the grand mansions on the other side were clean and tidy, clearly having been renovated and refurbished after the Da Shun army left. The aroma of meat wafted from the courtyards from time to time.

You've realized two things: the Da Shun army hasn't been harsh enough on these local gentry, and Xiong City is now ailing.

But things can only be done step by step. After all, you are just an official who was bought, while the Great Qi belongs to these local gentry and powerful families.

Thus, a group of bandits appeared near Xiongcheng.

Bandits robbed the Zhao family's granary and dumped bags of grain into the homes of ordinary people.

The next day, the Zhao family sent several carriages through the streets, and they actually collected an extra carriage of grain.

The bandits robbed the Zhang family's treasury again, and various gold, silver, jewelry, and ornaments were scattered all over the streets and alleys of Xiongcheng.

The Zhang family followed the example of their neighbor, the Zhao family, sending several carriages past, only to find that half a carriage of silver was missing.

The Zhang family was furious and searched everywhere, but the small amount of silver and valuables was too easy to hide, and in the end, they had no choice but to let the matter drop.

The Xiong family, the head of the three major families in Xiong City, was not spared either.

So the three families discussed it and decided that the bandits had to be wiped out.

They ignored the magistrate who had bought his way into the city, instead gathering a private army and spending a fortune to hire several second-rate martial arts experts… There was no other way; Xiong City was too shallow, and there were no real big fish to be found.

You lured this bandit-suppression team, assembled by the local gentry, into a valley, where gunpowder exploded, burying them all alive.

The three major families have also suffered heavy losses this time—without their own private armies, they have lost their voice in the chaotic world.

But these bandits must be wiped out; they have no choice but to do so. However, the current situation has exceeded their capabilities.

As a powerful and influential family, they needed someone in the Great Qi court to report the matter. The Great Qi immediately dispatched troops.

But when the army arrived, the bandits disappeared; and when the army left, the bandits resumed plundering the wealth of the three major families.

After repeated visits, wasting resources and manpower, the Qi army vowed never to return to this desolate place.

At the same time, an imperial edict arrived, ordering the magistrate of Xiongcheng County to mobilize the people to suppress the bandits.

County Magistrate Wang took this somewhat comical imperial edict to the three major families.

We need money, we need grain.

They had no choice; whether it was for public or private reasons, they had to give the money and supplies.

However, at the same time, they were also secretly looking forward to the scene of you suffering a defeat at the hands of the bandits.

Little did they know, you were the one in disguise, the bandit.

Part of the money and grain was used to train county soldiers, and the rest was used to provide relief to disaster victims.

The work-for-relief program, which involved reclaiming wasteland for farming, building bridges and roads, also prevented the emergence of a group of lazy people.

The three major families came knocking, and you replied nonchalantly, "Hey, what a coincidence! Maybe the bandits just happened to have moved on to another city."

In 1646, with the new year's grain stored up, the famine brought by war was temporarily relieved, and the entire city of Xiong was revitalized.

The people were all singing: "The county magistrate is here! Xiongcheng is at peace. The county magistrate is here! Justice will prevail."

……

Chapter 72 Junior Sister is so radiant!

"The Mo Sect seems to have some supreme mission, to do something at some point in the future."

"Unfortunately, only the truly top-level executives know about this mission; it's impossible for someone like me, a Mohist on field missions, to know about it."

"However, I can guess a little, which is roughly my own plans for the future."

……

In 1647, you married your junior sister.

My junior sister is so radiant!

???

"I'm just asking for a question mark?"

I'm still single... Okay, let's put ourselves in each other's shoes. If we were really going to live our whole lives in another world, getting married would be pretty normal.

The next ten years.

This simulation embodies Chen Jie's desire to obtain the "Heart of the Mother" entry.

To bring benefits to the local people as a local official.

Do good deeds, but don't be a saint without any limits.

The long period of chaos has temporarily subsided, and the Ming Dynasty has split into fifteen small countries. Due to years of war, none of them have the strength to defeat each other. This is a decade of recuperation and development, the calm before the storm.

The simulation log for this decade is rather lengthy.

In summary:

Developing the local economy; showing affection with his junior sister;

As the economy recovers and the three major families regain their strength, they start acting up again, using subtle tactics to suppress them; they also play role-playing games with their junior sister.

Do some good deeds that benefit the local people; my junior sister is pregnant and has been feeling a bit restless lately, she really wants to take a concubine;

When the Great Qi court heard about Magistrate Wang's deeds, they wanted to summon him to the capital to serve as an official. However, in the eyes of the simulated entity, an official position was merely a passport to fulfill its mission, and it had no desire to climb any higher.

Even a fool could imagine what a mess this Great Qi, a country unprecedented in history, would be.

Coincidentally, the junior sister gave birth and left the child with the Mo Sect members to take back to the Mechanical City, where there was a complete social care system.

As the saying goes, besides the fact that the parents truly love their child, they don't want this child to disturb their time together.

The simulated entity then used the excuse of losing its son to politely decline the invitation from the Great Qi court.

Fortunately, the entire Qi court was truly a mess, the kind that couldn't be plastered on the wall. It was a small temple with many evil winds, a shallow pond with many turtles. It only had this one piece of land, Qilu, which was divided into countless factions.

After the simulation object refused, they no longer cared about this minor county magistrate, and they were happy to have one less person involved and one less person to share the pie.

Little did they know that what they considered a cake was, in Chen Jie's eyes, inferior to either chocolate that tasted like shit or shit that tasted like chocolate.

Then there's the issue of displaced people.

Local officials in other places didn't have Chen Jie's methods and... dirty tricks, so the poor, powerful families, and officials checked and balanced each other, and the people were living in misery, let alone recovery and development.

At this point, Xiongcheng became a unique and outstanding place.

However, the efficiency of information transmission in ancient times was limited, and not too many people came to Xiong City, so it was still within Chen Jie's control.

All those arriving from other places must undergo a seven-day quarantine!

To prevent the introduction of any infectious diseases.