Chapter 45: The Shield of Food

The door to the small dining room was pushed open.

"Report to the Bishop—"

The herald at the door and the soldiers behind carried several bundles of notices, and it seemed that there was only so much to collect. If it weren't out of reach, the youngster would even want to take the share of Baccarat on his head.

Now the castle is in chaos and has become the Elta Ministry of the Church of the Two Moons. The proclamation vividly announced that Doniva was unwilling to come to the imperial capital to ascend to the throne - or rather, it was a silent declaration of war by Elta of Doniva against Elta of the Church of the Two Moons.

Several bishops, priests and mages, were already anxious like ants on hot soup. Naturally, Wataf was more anxious, and was so anxious that he ordered a group of defeated soldiers who had changed their doors to collect the notices. Garcia City is so big, how can it be collected in a while? Doesn't the person who handed over the notice mean that they have read it? The soldiers below are just trying to pick up garbage along the roads. These truths are understood by the high-ranking people at the table now. They are now merely in the presence of staunch ostriches, burying their heads in the sea of notices that have been thrown around the Empire.

In the middle of the night, the whole gorgeous restaurant was filled with smoke, and the coffee was served cup after cup, and the silver cups were changed several times, and the discussants with dark circles listened from time to time to hear the sad news that they had also received notices. Originally, it was thought that Doniva had sent an iron bird from another world to send a big gift to the imperial capital Garcia, but now it seems that it is not. This gift is still non-discriminatory, and it is for all sentient beings, which is really a slot.

What can be the result? If this continues, will the banner of the Elta Empire be broken and stand on its own hill to fight against it, or will it simply carry out the expansion and occupation of the Bilunar Church, or will it retreat and advance and cede the central region led by Garcia? None of them can be feasible, and neither of them can really solve a series of contradictions such as the Bilunar Church and the Shield City, food supply, etc.

In the end, it is better not to discuss it. Vataf waved his hand tiredly and maintained the status quo! I don't know! I don't see it! Originally, the military solution to the Elta problem was gone, and next year's supply of magic powder was the top priority, and the control of the entire territory of Elta, which had been sought, not only failed completely in the closing strategy, but also suffocated to death by a grain-producing area that no one looked down on because of the season and war. It's really annoying.

The good news now is that the grain delivered by merchants from the west is still selling well, and it has become almost the only lifeline for the Garcia region. If the Bilunar Church goes to war and the east will not be able to get food in the short term, the merchants' fortune and Vataf's livelihood will be broken together, and this is the reason why the Bilunar Church suddenly changed its perspective and did not seek a military solution. In the same way, the fundamental reason why the little prince was hung with street lamps was that he couldn't afford to get food and tossed it. Now that the United Shield City of the New District has come up with a petition for war, it is obvious that it can fight and have food behind it, and the Bi-Moon Church, which is not yet capable of raising a transoceanic army, has to stare at Lancas and be out of reach, so what about the Garcia Bi-Moon Church in front? I have no choice but to bow your head and admit it.

But even if the Bimoon Church buries its head as an ostrich, that won't solve the problem. You still have to survive the cold winter. Livestock began to be slaughtered, digging plants and wild vegetables, digging into burrows, and even finding burrows to kill hibernating animals...... Such scenes began to play out throughout the central and eastern parts of the empire. The price of fish caught in the east and south has also been rising, and traders who have been exporting north to meet local demand have been robbed and killed on the way. The army in charge of policing was long gone, leaving only corpses and empty wagons - scenes like this began to take place on the west-to-east highway. In less than a week, the wagons that carried grain from west to east had all but disappeared.

Although the Church of the Two Moons even sent magicians to perform inefficient ground inspections, it was still ineffective. Bandits who grabbed the sweetness began to appear in the villages of central China to deal with women and children who had no combat effectiveness. The security problem soon spread from the line to the surface, and the lord's private army was still able to control the situation, and Garcia, who had been stripped off his right arm and had no nutritional supply, was soon dying.

Most of the major lords are also in a state of riding on the wall, and they will definitely not give any assistance to Garcia, who is not recognized-all they can do is the constant endorsement of the guarantee of the supply of magic powder, and naturally they will not open their mouths about food. In terms of food, everyone knows each other, but it is still up to Doniva to give alms with the help of the new district.

Wataf was speechless in the face of a stack of reports without a single word of kindness. If this continues, not only will it be impossible for Doniva to enter his urn, but even the east and south will lose control. He had wanted to put Doniva in power "temporarily", and now the southeastern districts could also "temporarily" accept the leadership of Doniva as a precondition for food alms. And at this time, the end of the Lancas Ministry of the Bilunar Church was the most unacceptable. After learning from the pain, he decided to gamble his last weight to fight with the new district.

The retreat of the merchants in front of him over the past week has also caught Doniva's attention. Not to mention all of this, at least half of them were businessmen from the new districts who were acting at the front, and all of them were selling reserve grain -- just to renew the reserve stocks for the country. But after the robbery, Doniva was worried, and the people involved in the new district were ecstatic, and Dr. Wei was one of them.

He has already made the "starve Garcia" rhetoric more than once. "A man can be destroyed, but not defeated, this sentence is empty words, because Hemingway never starved!" This is his classic quote - and of course it will not be recorded in posterity. It now seemed to him that the hungry people of Elta had been completely defeated in front of the flour, and although they were still alive, their personalities had collapsed. So at first he was asked to brainstorm a plan to help Garcia, but he refused. You can't let the hungry people have food to eat, and the hungry people will immediately have bread to gnaw, and the anger and stunt like "duang" will disappear, and soon, very gently, because there is no such obedient people.

Most people, like him, refuse to provide any assistance outside the controlled areas. Indeed, the shield city side and the new district are now very tough. Almost all of the cultivated land in the Noi region, radiated by the new town, was concentrated for experimental planting of winter wheat - which may have been slower to be planted, but which was surprisingly good and expected to replace the Elta spring wheat dominance. Outside the radiation area of the new city, farmers who have no worries can quietly wait for spring planting and the support of agricultural technicians. The aid may seem like a huge amount, but soon the Doniva region will be able to harvest in late spring, so what assistance will be needed by then? Don't have to worry a lot, the new district is already winning.