"It seems that it doesn't feel right there!" Tang Lang thought for a while, and finally reacted: "It turns out that how the Tianqing Kingdom supports the materials of the imperial city, does it all depend on the royal family's money to provide it?"

"How is it possible! The original imperial city gathered the wealth of the entire kingdom, merchants gathered, and the daily income was gold, and the taxes alone could support the expenses of the royal family and the army, plus the annual offerings of the states, the treasury could be described as a pile of gold and jade, which was as empty as it is now!" Li Xinjue said in a heavy tone.

"Now that we have defeated Yokono and Li Feng, it is estimated that Dark Flame will not be able to mobilize other forces to attack Tianqing for the time being, can we restore the connection between the Imperial City and the states and let them supply the Imperial City?"

Tang Lang wanted to ask for help from various states, but was also vetoed by Li Xinjue: "It's not realistic! Wherever the Dark Flame soldiers passed before, they were eager to dig three feet into the ground and loot property everywhere, and the Tianqing country was in ruins, and there was no power to support us at all!"

"This doesn't work, that doesn't work! I can't get a lot of food to feed tens of thousands of people! The only way I can think of is to restore the operation of the Duobao Chamber of Commerce as soon as possible, and earn some spars from Tianlan as much as possible, and exchange them for food to save the emergency, but it is only able to save the emergency, not a long-term solution!"

The two thought about it, but there was no better way, so they could only give up and prepare to find more people to discuss countermeasures.

Tang Lang, who returned to the room, finally got his wish, ate a large pot of steamed buns and salted meat, and was burping contentedly, when he saw Zhao Feiyu coming downstairs, originally a little anxious, until a pair of beautiful eyes saw his figure.

"Tang Lang, I accidentally fell asleep again just now! I couldn't see you when I opened my eyes, but it frightened me, thinking that you were going to do something risky again!" Zhao Feiyu said as she wanted to shed tears again.

Tang Lang hurriedly hugged her on his lap and stroked his back: "Filipino, just now Mentor Ji and Xinjue have something to look for me, so I'll just leave! Don't worry, now that the two major corps of Dark Flame have been defeated by us, I won't go anywhere during this time, I will concentrate on accompanying you!"

Zhao Feiyu buried her head deep in his chest, and the two of them didn't speak for a long time, until a few "grunts" ruined the warm atmosphere.

Tang Lang quipped: "My Filipino stomach is hungry! It's all my fault, I just finished eating everything by myself, let's hurry up and find something to eat, otherwise I won't agree to starve you!"

Zhao Feiyu blushed and wrinkled his nose and said: "Now the food supply in the imperial city is tight, everyone is a quota supply, what you just ate is the quota for the two of us for a day, and you can only wait until tomorrow to receive it." It's okay, I'm not hungry!"

She said that she was not hungry, but her stomach screamed a few times uncooperatively, Tang Lang refused to let her starve, turned around and was about to go out to find food, but was stopped by Zhao Feiyu: "Tang Lang, this is an extraordinary time, I have to set an example, and I can't have any special treatment." ”

Tang Lang replied a little reluctantly: "After all, I grabbed all this grain back, can't I share a little more?"

"Tang Lang, don't embarrass me, okay!" Zhao Feiyu didn't want him to be angry, so he begged bitterly.

Her pitiful appearance made Tang Lang helpless, and she had an idea, and said with a smile: "You wait for me for a while, I'll go find something delicious for you to come back!"

Tang Lang flew out of the city, came directly to the mountains outside the imperial city, opened the system to scan, and soon found some traces of game, caught a pheasant and a roe deer without effort, raised a bonfire and used his own spiritual power to heat up the fire, and in a blink of an eye, the prey was roasted with fragrant oil, sprinkled with some spices, and the meat was full of fragrance.

Zhao Feiyu was waiting boredly upstairs, when he saw a small black dot in the air getting bigger and bigger, flying straight towards him, Tang Lang's figure appeared in front of him again, and he couldn't help but pounce on it, but his nose kept twitching: "It's so fragrant, it's so fragrant! Did you get a barbecue, hide it there, hurry up and give it to me!"

"Filipino, are you a puppy, your nose is so pointed, you can smell the meat through the ring!" Tang Lang stopped teasing her, and quickly took out a large piece of barbecue meat and put it in front of Zhao Feiyu.

"Ha, that's great! I haven't eaten the barbecue Tang Lang got for me for a long time!" Zhao Feiyu happily picked up a piece of barbecue meat and took a big gulp.

"It's delicious! These barbecues are still made with the seasonings I found from Minghai Restaurant, they taste good!"

Zhao Feiyu's face was shiny after eating, and when she heard Tang Lang talk about the origin of the seasoning, she seemed to remember something, and slowly stopped, and big tears fell on the barbecue.

Seeing this, Tang Lang comforted softly: "Little fool, what are you crying about! If you want to eat barbecue in the future, I will make it for you every day!"

"Uh-huh!" Zhao Fei choked back tears, nodded vigorously, and continued to eat meat, his face full of happiness......

After swallowing three pieces of barbecue in a row, Zhao Feiyu touched her bulging stomach and stopped, her eyes smiling like a crescent moon: "It's so full! Tang Lang, why didn't you remind me just now, let me eat so much at once, and kill me!"

"It's okay! you're a spell master, as long as you use a little spiritual power, these barbecued meats will be gone in an instant!" Tang Lang wiped the oil off the corners of her mouth for her.

Zhao Feiyu shook his head and said: "This is the barbecue you gave me, so I am reluctant to use spiritual power to refine it, I want to let the barbecue stay in my stomach for a long time, I haven't eaten meat so happily for a long time!"

"There is a lot of game in the mountains, and the food is so tight, why haven't people been arranged to hunt these days?" Tang Lang felt that something was wrong the more he listened, and hurriedly asked.

Zhao Feiyu still shook his head: "No! I was besieged by the Yokono army before, and I couldn't get out at all, and no one thought of this these days, so I'll arrange it now!"

When Li Xinjue discussed the issue of grain and grass with him just now, Tang Lang had always felt that something was wrong, and now his doubts were even deeper: "Filipino, don't worry, you first tell me how the materials are distributed in the city now? What is the basis for determining the daily quota you just mentioned, and how can it be guaranteed to be distributed to everyone!"

"Well, I don't really understand this, it is all led by Dean Zong and General Yang, which is probably that each person can receive a food quota at a designated place every day, and there is a special person to supervise, and it is not allowed to take it repeatedly, all officers and soldiers and civilians are treated equally, which is very fair!" Zhao Feiyu took it for granted.

"What's fair!" Tang Lang finally understood what went wrong, and jumped to his feet with anger: "If it is a catastrophe, for the sake of everyone's life, it is understandable to uniformly distribute food, but now that the war has subsided, you should do it yourself and be self-reliant, at least you should exchange your labor for food!"

Seeing that Zhao Feiyu still didn't understand, Tang Lang patiently explained: "If you think about it carefully, a soldier fighting on the battlefield, a craftsman working hard to repair the city wall, and a civilian hiding at home and only showing up when he was only receiving food, whose supply should we guarantee first?"

"But...... These people's belongings have been robbed by Dark Flame, it's really pitiful, if you leave them alone, it seems that something is wrong!" Zhao Fei was soft-hearted, and still wanted to help everyone as much as possible.

"Absolutely not! Let's not mention that our own materials are extremely scarce, even if we have enough food, we can't let people get it for nothing, otherwise who is willing to be a soldier to fight against the dark flame, who is willing to work hard, and in the end they all become rice worms that come to eat and stretch out their hands!" Tang Lang resolutely denied.

Without further ado, Tang Lang hurriedly found Zong Bo and others, told his thoughts again, and enforced them regardless of anyone's opposition:

1. Stop all food rations, assess salaries according to the division of labor of all the people in the Imperial City, and use the money to buy the necessaries of life;

2. In addition to the necessary patrols and drills, the defenders should arrange for manpower to hunt in the nearby mountains and forests, and reduce the consumption of food with meat;

3. Reclaim all the flat wasteland around the imperial city, cultivate crops, and solve the future food outlet;

In the end, he did not rush to exterminate them all, and set up four soup kitchens in the city to provide those who ate and drank with rice porridge a day, and starved to death.

But even if this adjustment is made, according to Li Xinjue's inference, that is, from more than a month to three months, it will still fall into a desperate situation of running out of food.

"What should I do? Do you want to rob the city of Dark Flame again?" Tang Lang secretly calculated in his heart, but he also understood the risks, and could only be used as a last resort.

When he and Zhao Feiyu returned to their residence, they found that Shen Zilan and Hang Xiaoyu were waiting for them, and they had not seen Hang Xiaoyu since Tang Lang returned to the city, and they were surprised and delighted at first sight: "Xiaoyu, where have you been these days?"

Hang Xiaoyu was unmoved: "Why do I think that some people don't want me at all, and they don't even care if I'm no longer in the city, and it's too late to be courteous!"

Tang Lang knew that she was this kind of pungent temperament, and she was not angry, and said with a smile: "Sister Xiaoyu, I am a life that is tired and tired, I didn't accompany you well, don't blame me, this time the Dark Flame army has been temporarily defeated, I won't go, it's not okay to accompany you well!"

Hang Xiaoyu glanced at him, and said hatefully: "Why did I like you in the first place, it's really self-inflicted!"

After she finished speaking, she threw out several storage rings on the table: "Before the siege of the Yokoye Army, I returned to Tianlan, but I didn't run away, but went to purchase supplies! For these things, I almost hollowed out the old bottom of the Hang family, let's see if I can help you!"

Tang Lang saw through the ring with his mind, and there were bags of neatly stacked rice noodles and large pieces of dried meat, and excitedly directly held Hang Xiaoyu in the air and turned around several times: "Good Xiaoyu, you are really amazing! These things are definitely a charcoal in the snow!"

Tang Lang kissed Hang Xiaoyu on the face several times happily like a child, and saw Shen Zilan and Zhao Feiyu on the side, hugged the three daughters tightly in his arms, and confessed affectionately: "With you in this life, everything is worth it!"