Chapter Eighty-Three: The City of Kree
In this way, in the midst of the conversation between several people, time passed quietly, and the whole team also walked out of Cecil City and came to the granary outside the city.
After some cross-examination, the granary guards saluted and let everyone pass.
The officials of the government department and a dozen or so officials were personally responsible for the acceptance, and finally, with the help of the granary guards, loaded onto the carriage that had been prepared long ago.
Yang Chen and Ciri couldn't help but be a little curious when they saw this scene, although they both knew that there was a warehouse outside Cecil City to store grain, but they really didn't know how much it was stored.
However, judging from the current situation, unless there are hundreds of millions of catties of grain outside the city, it will not be able to play a significant role in the food crisis in the Central and Western Plains.
Cecil consumed a lot of food, but the granary built by the mountains outside the city only had a reserve of 20 million catties, which was enough for millions of people in Cecil City to hold on to the rations for ten days.
These days, more than 100,000 catties of grain are transported to the central and western regions every day, but it is only a drop in the bucket for the vast central and western plains and the hundreds of millions of people living on them.
Although the main purpose of the crowd this time was not to transport grain, the government affairs department still approved a few space rings with huge storage capacity, and with a few empty carriages, it can also transport more than 100,000 catties of grain......
Soon, the grain was arranged, and thousands of catties of grain were stored on the empty wagon.
The carriage is only for outsiders to see, in fact, it is safer to use space equipment, and it will not affect the overall travel speed of the entire team.
After leaving the territory of Cecil City, the road became less walkable.
The city of Cecil was originally built on the mountain, and although the mountain roads have been widened by the efforts of generations over the past thousand years, they are limited to the towns and farms around Cecil City.
Further afield, such as the city of Kree, the traffic is not so convenient......
Although Kerry City is relatively close to Cecil City, it is also from a macro point of view, if it is implemented in reality, Yang Chen and his party have spent nearly two days!
Along the way, although Yang Chen and Xili were sitting in the carriage, they were also miserable.
In this era, horse-drawn carriages are extremely backward, there are no reasonable shock absorption measures, and there are no rubber tires, and when you walk, it is better if the ground is flat, and a little undulating will definitely shake your ass out of the way!
Yang Chen was accustomed to the cars and asphalt roads in his previous life, and it was difficult for him to adapt to the carriage that took a few steps and was bumpy for a while.
And Ciri is even more closed, he has been affected by military life since he was a child, and he has a soft spot for horseback riding, if it weren't for Glade stopping Ciri this time, I'm afraid Ciri would really abandon the carriage regardless of his manners and not sit!
After all, if Ciri is going to start riding horses, how will these officials who are still in the carriage deal with themselves?
You must know that these pampered officials in the government affairs department have not even ridden their horses a few times, and if they are not careful, they may be trampled to death......
Ciri had no choice but to compromise and stayed in the carriage with Yang Chen.
It's just that it really makes her a little depressed.
After all, riding a horse can go up and down with the ups and downs of the horse, and it doesn't bumble much, but the carriage is different......
However, in any case, the crowd still reached the city of Kerry smoothly after a bumpy journey.
Although the city of Kerry is small, it has more than 100,000 people, and of course this is counting the population of nearby towns and villages. Aside from the people living in rural towns and villages, there are as many as 50,000 or 60,000 permanent residents in Keri City.
Walking along the road, Yang Chen found that the farms he passed by along the way were obviously very lush, and they were not affected by the locust plague at all.
All kinds of food crops were planted in the fields, and the most enjoyable thing for Yang Chen was when he passed by the cornfield.
Two or three meters tall corn stalks stand tall and upright, densely packed in a large patch!
The corn cob is completely hidden in the corn stalks, and there is no shadow in sight.
Yang Chen already had a bottom in his heart for a while, although the locust plague was blown in the entire Nuonan, but except for the grain in the city that was inflated due to the malicious hoarding of nobles and merchants, in fact, the areas that were not affected by the locust plague were still the same as before.
The carriage continued to move, gradually passing a wheat field!
This season's wheat is already a little yellowish at the tip, although the whole body is still green, but who knows that it will not be long before this large wheat field will turn into a sea of gold!
Yang Chen and Ciri opened the curtains and looked at the thriving crops outside...... They had never seen what the Midwestern Plains were like, but they could have known how happy the people of Nonnan would have been without the locust plague......
Glade, who was also sitting in a carriage, glanced at Ciri, then turned his head slightly to look at Yang Chen, and finally looked at the wheat field outside......
He muttered, "The wheat fields around here are all the territory of the Solon family......
Hearing Glade's seemingly unconscious whispering, Yang Chen and Ciri couldn't help but feel a spirit.
Yes, the Solon family is mainly responsible for the production of beer, and this large wheat field, planted with vigorous wheat that is still growing wildly, will eventually turn into beer......
And beer...... How can we feed the victims......
"Damn it......" Thinking of this, Yang Chen and Xili invariably came up with this idea in their minds, wine, wine, which one doesn't need to consume a lot of grain to brew?
Thinking of this, Yang Chen understood why in ancient China, the imperial court would control alcohol!
There is no way, if there is no limit, it will really harm too much food......
The carriage was still advancing, but Ciri and Yang Chen had no idea of looking at the farmland anymore.
Sometimes, nobles are much more terrible than locusts......
After driving a little further, the group came to the city of Kree.
The Kree guards were just choking in front of the city gates, talking about a beautiful woman in the past, and then talking about the idea of the Solon family to expand the brewery.
A guard held a spear and knocked melon seeds, "Did you hear......?
"What?" the guard across from him became interested, "the group of long ears on the other side of the empire?"
"Didn't John say he had seen it in the Joy Tavern before......" said the guard as he knocked on the melon seeds.
"Che, do you believe his words, the elves are separated from us by an entire empire...... What did she come to us for? Just to be a tavern maid?"
"Hahaha......" The guards also laughed when they heard this.
It was better before, although it was far away, but because of the Warcraft Forest in the northwest and northwest of Nuonan, there would still be adventurers from the elite clan coming to Noonan from time to time, but as the empire found more and more other worlds, the Jingliang people were unwilling to spend time and energy to experience the Warcraft Forest.
Most of the elves have started their long journey to conquer the Atlas directly through the channels of the Empire......
Although John said that he had seen the elven maid in the Joy Tavern, most people were reluctant to believe it.
After all, elves are still very strong and powerful in the eyes of most Noonans, so how can such a character enter a small tavern as a maid?
After revealing this topic, many guards also felt a lot more relaxed, and even sat directly in front of the door wall, riding the shadow together......
Every now and then, bursts of laughter can be heard.
Although Kerry City is a city, in fact, the throughput of each is not very large, and although it is a little inappropriate for the guards to sit down and be lazy, it is understandable.
After all, although this direction is facing Cecil City, because of the road conditions, most people are still willing to take a detour to enter the city in other directions, after all, the mountain road is really difficult to walk......
Seeing the guards throwing their weapons aside to rest, the people who came in and out were not surprised, to put it mildly, in the western city closest to Cecil City, what bandits and robbers dared to attack the city of Kerry directly regardless of the deterrence of Cecil City?
Don't look at the fact that Ciri and the others arrived after walking for almost two days, but for the real cavalry team, with full support, it is only a matter of half a day......
Not far away, Xili Yang Chen followed the "grain protection team" and slowly approached.
More than 500 people are well-trained troops, and coupled with the run-in these days, they can be comparable to Noonan's elite troops in terms of temperament and quality.
More than 500 people were forced out of the momentum of thousands of people by them......
Although the guards at the gates of Kerry City did not seem very reliable, they were still very responsible, and after discovering such a large army, they reported it directly to the City Lord's Mansion.
A guard untied the reins from the bolt on the horse, turned over and got on the horse, patting the horse's ass and urging the horse to run, while reminding his compatriots to be careful.
The rest of the people, grabbing their weapons, stood up and lined up, and the guards on the city walls also ran down, evacuating the crowd and preparing to close the door.
After a while, when they saw the soldiers who were getting closer and closer in armor, they couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, fortunately, it was their own people.
However, this group of guards who seemed to be hanging out did not let down their vigilance, and even signaled for these people to stop.
Whether they are enemies or not, these 500 armored guards are very terrifying, and the guards at the city gate will never let them pass through the city gate.
Seeing this, Glade couldn't help but get out of the car and showed the general executive order issued by the government affairs department stamped.
But even so, the leading guards still stick to their principles, and an army of this size is absolutely not allowed to enter the city.
The city gate is at a stalemate, but the city lord's mansion is ushered in a panting city gate guard.
The guard briefly reported the current situation, and then ignored the rules, and directly grabbed the hand of the person in charge of reporting the order, hoping that the city lord could come forward to settle the matter!
In his opinion, it was not hundreds of people who were coming, but there were still thousands of people who were so powerful.
Whether these people are friends or foes, they are a great threat to the entire city of Kree!