Chapter 3: Shangyun Town
The spawn point is exactly the same as in the game, near Shangyun Town, Nanyang Prefecture, under the rule of Ansan County of the Great Hong Empire.
Shangyun Town is a small town in the southeastern part of the empire with a population of only a few thousand people, and it is a poor and remote town. Officials are corrupt, tyrannical and expropriating, and local tyrants and inferior gentry are rampant and domineering. As a result, civilians live in hardship, even displaced, and people are struggling to make a living, and bandits are numerous.
Due to the ongoing famine and grain harvest, there are now homeless people with yellow faces and thin skins and ragged clothes sitting on both sides and corners of the streets, and there are many people who sell their children and daughters.
The situation of Ansan County was not so bad originally, it was located in the plain area, and there were Longshan canal facilities built a hundred years ago, irrigating fertile fields for thousands of miles, and it was one of the important grain producing areas of the empire. However, the water conservancy facilities are not maintained and repaired all year round, and some people have gone to the Ministry of Imperial Court to tell the importance of the Longshan Water Canal, and have won a small amount of funding.
The appropriations go through layers of kickbacks, and in the end, there is very little money left for the actual repair of the facilities. Five years ago, an unexpected flood destroyed the facilities of the Longshan Water Canal, and the flood was so monstrous that it flooded thousands of miles of fertile land and people's houses.
After a year, in the fourth year, the flood receded, and the facilities of the Longshan water canal were finally repaired, and the crops were about to be harvested, and a locust plague that swept the whole county destroyed everything and the grain was lost. Successive natural and man-made disasters have brought heavy burdens and pressures to Ansan.
Although the empire opened a warehouse and tried its best to help the people, coupled with the many years of grain reserves in Ansan County and the surplus grain of the people, Ansan County has always been rich, but it can barely survive.
What is unexpected is that there has been a severe drought for three consecutive years, thousands of miles of red land, not a drop of water, no crops have been harvested, and reserves have been depleted. They could only scavenge grass roots and bark to eat, and after these things were eaten up, they reached the point of cannibalism among themselves, and people began to flee the disaster area in large numbers and become homeless.
There are historical records of the tragic situation in the arid area, "gnawing grass and soil, starving and dying, the people eat Guanyin powder, and there are many dead people", "the bark is eaten up, and people cannibalize".
Shangyun Town, Nanyang Prefecture, where Yang Qi is located, has a relatively light drought situation, thanks to the proximity of Nanyang Mansion to a large canal, the dense water network, and the developed water transportation, and countless resources are concentrated in Nanyang Mansion through water transportation, so the natural situation will be much better.
Displaced people from other areas poured into Nanyang Province in droves, starving to death on the roadside every day, and skinny children and begging elderly people could be seen everywhere.
In the game, this highly realistic world has seen many of these miserable, or worse, scenes.
In the face of these poor people, Yang Qi has been able to do the point of indifference, or he is powerless, he can't protect himself, how to help others.
Don't think that Xiucai started the game well, except for the slightly better Chilean attributes, the other attributes are weak. At present, you can't call the system interface, so you can't view your own attributes.
According to the urine nature of the game planning, Xiucai's family has been broken, his parents have died of illness, the family is surrounded by walls, and the food is at the bottom. Whether you can survive the famine is not certain, and this outfit is already the best and cleanest start. The other characters at the beginning are dressed in tattered clothes like beggars.
When Yang Qi returned home, sure enough, the entire yard was overgrown with weeds, thick leaves fell on the ground, and there was a thick layer of dust on the door, which looked like no one had cleaned it for a long time.
"At the very least, there's a place to live."
Yang Qi comforted himself, walked into the kitchen, uncovered the gap in the grain tank, there was still some grain in it, roughly calculated, it could last about a month, and then go out to hunt some game, at most for a month.
First of all, we have to solve the problem of food, after the player's summary, there are some tips for making money in the early days of the novice, maybe you can help yourself, and the most important thing is to survive first.
Yang Qi took some time to familiarize himself with the situation in Shangyun Town, and began to make simple attempts, and found that the task that required dealing with people was almost impossible to find anyone, and even if he found it, he couldn't get the task after communication. The two worlds are exactly the same, but many of the game tricks don't work here at all.
Accidentally discovered that the treasure quest can be obtained, relying on the memory of digging treasure, and indeed dug up some copper wires at the designated location. But I only remember two or three locations, and I got hundreds of copper coins.
Before you know it, the grain in the grain tank is almost at the end.
"With my experience as a top player and my intimate knowledge of the history of the empire ten years later, can't I do something big? Even survival is a big problem now! ”
Yang Qi was racking his brains, thinking about how to go in the future. At this time, the stomach growled, obviously hungry.
Damn crossing!
Damn drought!
Damn plotting!
Before the crossing, he was a top player, commanding 100,000 headquarters troops, and was following the hundreds of thousands of troops of the super guild [Sword of Daybreak] to fight the expeditionary force of the fanatical followers of the Templar Dynasty.
Taking a step back, without the three-year drought, with the richness of Nanyang Mansion, he can receive two buckets of grain and one pound of meat from the government every month, although his life is not rich, at least he will not starve. Plagiarism again