Chapter 702 Confused
The river of time flows unswervingly until August.
The weather in the three northwestern states of Yan continued to clear up.
Occasionally there is rain, and even the soil layer is still open before it is wet.
The Grand Canal that runs through Xuanbeizhou and Yanbeizhou is almost cut off, and even large ships with slightly deeper drafts cannot come.
The drought has become a settlement, and the food shortage has begun to emerge.
Dali’s grain store is official and will not start prices.
However, the purchase limit has been reduced again and again, from ten kilograms to five kilograms, and then to the store limit.
Some cruel food and fodder officials didn't have the courage to close the door, so they simply sent troops to block the surroundings of the grain store and prevent ordinary people from getting close!
The people are not blind either.
Although governments in various places are trying their best to control the spread of food shortage information.
However, this year's rainfall is short and grain production is severely reduced. This is a fact that anyone can see. In addition, grain purchase restrictions have undoubtedly confirmed the information about the food shortage.
Starting from August, all food related items in Xuanbei Prefecture, such as vegetables, fruits, chickens, ducks, fish and meat, etc., which are not controlled by the grain and fodder industry, are as expensive as sesame seeds, rising steadily.
These ingredients cannot be preserved for a long time like grains, but they can also be made into dried vegetable slices and dried meat, which can be left to relieve hunger during the shortage of food in autumn and winter.
Those poor households who cannot stock up on food take advantage of the lush grass and trees, go out of the city to pick up some non-toxic wild vegetables and leaves and store them as food.
The food reserves in Taiping Pass are still sufficient.
The deacon sent by Qingyetang to buy grain has begun to transport grain to Taiping Pass.
The amount is not large, but fortunately it is continuous.
They all took the route from Yanbeizhou to Xuanbeizhou.
Even if you buy food from Nanshan Prefecture, you have to take a detour to Zhongyuan Prefecture, from Zhongyuan Prefecture to Yanbei Prefecture, and then to Xuanbei Prefecture.
I never dare to go to Xiliangzhou.
Although the food shortage in Xuanbeizhou is already a lice on the bald man's head.
But with the joint efforts of all parties, at least I can still hold on.
And the food shortage in Xiliangzhou can no longer be covered and it is blown up!
From officials from Xiliangzhou to ordinary people, their eyes are now green, and everyone looks like they eat!
Those Xiliang travelers who had no plans to go out after entering Taiping Pass said that there were already a large number of people who could not survive in Xiliangzhou who had joined forces to become bandits. Except for the safe roads between the various palaces, the rest
All land and water routes are filled with sound horses and thieves.
Under this situation, Zhang Meng, who was in charge of this matter, had no confidence in bringing food security back to Taiping Pass from Xiliangzhou!
It’s not that the court did nothing.
The grain collected from Dongsheng Prefecture, Dongyun Prefecture, Nanshan Prefecture and other places has been continuously transported to northwest Yan.
However, Dali's productivity is low, grain yield per mu is low, and grain reserves have always been very weak.
Even in the harvest year, there are still a large number of poor people struggling around the food and clothing line and are weak.
Now the three states in northwestern Yan are sick at one time, especially in Xiliangzhou, which is as miserable as a bottomless pit.
Just the little food that the imperial court recruited from other states.
It is okay to support Yanbei Prefecture, which is the best among the three states.
It is simply a dream to save the three northwestern states of Yan!
As the saying goes, great disasters will lead to great chaos.
The disaster is approaching.
The chaos...is it still far away?
Two major events happened in the northwest of Yan in early August.
The first thing is that the second one is to win the heavens into Xuanbei, and the appointment with the top of Cangshan to fight against the Western Governor Ran Lin, which attracted thousands of people from the world to travel thousands of miles to Xiliangzhou to watch the battle.
On the third day after the second victory over Heaven set up a battle monument, Ran Lin appeared in Cangshan to take on the battle.
After dozens of matches between the two sides, Ran Lin lost without any suspense.
Second Shengtian, in front of the tens of thousands of Dali Jianghu's sons, blew a stick of incense from Ran Lin, and then hit him from the sky to the sky. He was seriously injured and vomited blood all over the floor!
Ran Lin was ranked second-rank last year with the power of the Northern Frontier victory.
The second and second old demon of the second victory in heaven have been famous for five or six years!
How could Ran Lin be the second opponent to win the world?
After the battle in Cangshan.
The court banned the Money Gang in the name of rebellion!
He also wanted the second Shengtian in Jiuzhou for attacking the imperial officials.
Pay attention to the key points: ban, wanted!
Anyone with a discerning eye can see that this wanted order is just a show.
If you really want to deal with a powerful second-grade master, it is the right thing to do to quietly set up a set of condoms.
It’s a hell to issue a wanted order with such a big fanfare, it’s a hell to get talents!
The Battle of Cangshan was very far-reaching because of the identities of the two protagonists.
First, the identity of the second Victory Heaven is not a secret in the circle of Feitian Grandmasters in Dali.
Does his public appointment to fight against the imperial chief officials mean that the hidden emperor behind him is finally about to come out of the fog?
Secondly, this is the first time in a century that the master of Feitian in the Jianghu has taken action against Feitian in the court.
It is also the first time that the imperial court has publicly arrested the Grandmaster of the Flying World in the World in a hundred years!
Does this mean that Dali and the court carefully maintained the rules of the game for two hundred years and were finally broken?
Is Dali Jianghu really strong enough to fight the imperial court head-on?
One stone stirs up a thousand layers of waves.
Not to mention the middle and lower-level children of the Qihai Realm and Lishi Realm are in panic.
Even the flying masters in various states feel that the road ahead is dangerous and confusing.
Many older generation of flying masters who had been hidden for a long time have come out of seclusion, setting up lights to search for old friends everywhere, hoping to get together to survive this catastrophe.
Mastering one's own destiny is the eternal pursuit of mankind.
But how strong you have to become in order to truly control your own destiny?
Obviously, in the eyes of the world, you can directly enter Qingming's third-grade and second-grade masters by raising your feet, but you are not qualified.
It’s not that they are not strong enough.
But there are people who are stronger...
The perverted kind of strength!
The second major event is actually the aftershock caused by the Battle of Cangshan.
Ran Lin was defeated in the Battle of Cangshan.
The court pushed the boat with his own way. On the basis of the governor of all directions, it set up the governor of all directions and sent 400,000 imperial guards to all directions and was under the command of the governor of all directions!
This is a major decision that has touched the structure of the three dukes and nine ministers of the Dali court!
Before the establishment of the Sifang Governor's Office, although the name of Sifang Governor sounded so great, it was actually an existence like worship and mascot.
It's not that the four governors have no power.
Instead, their rights are castles in the sky in terms of administrative structure.
A sound court institution should not only have high-ranking officials, but also a large group of subordinate officials and executive officials.
Now the court not only equipped the four uncles with a large group of subordinate officials, but also equipped them with an army of 100,000 to each of them!
The position of the Governor of the Four Directions has changed from virtual to real!
The Northern Governor's Office is located in Qingping Prefecture, Fenglang County.
Hundreds of thousands of imperial guards were also hoarded there.
It is only two or three days away from Taiping Pass.
Even Zhang Chu, who was still in seclusion, was alarmed by this incident.
He always felt that... the visitor was not good.
Chapter completed!