"System prompt: Due to the prolonged drought and no rain, the influx of locust plagues, and the ineffective response measures, the crop yield in Yanzhou has been reduced by 8%! The duration is 120 production cycles (i.e. 480 days of game time and 40 days of real time), please take countermeasures to avoid losses......

(The newly created territory has a 4-week food production protection period and is not affected by disasters!) Special areas, special territories, and special crops may not be affected by disasters! ）”

Soon, Yanzhou, where Yang Rui is located, also saw a decrease in grain production! Fortunately, Yang Rui was prepared, after completing the first phase of Taiping Dao's [Grain and Grass First] task, Chizhong has not stopped buying grain from the high-end market, and has saved more than 200,000 units of grain inventory in the past few days!

In addition, Yang Rui can be regarded as having a long calculation! In the process of upgrading the town in Dashan Village, the system also comes with a reward for upgrading a building, and Yang Rui naturally chose to continue upgrading the market without hesitation! After consuming most of Yang Rui's inventory of 7-grade wood and a large number of 8-grade wood, the current market in Dashan Town is already a premium market!

"Premium Trading Market: Premium buildings, the tax rate is 1% within the Three Kingdoms Civilization Area, and the tax rate is 50% within the bordering civilization area, and you can conduct remote transactions within the Three Kingdoms Civilization Zone and all the surrounding civilization areas, and you can upgrade to a super trading market ......"

The completion of the premium trading market means that the food crisis that has swept the entire civilization region of the Three Kingdoms may become an opportunity for Yang Rui! Although the premium trading market did not allow for global trading as Yang Rui had expected, it was already commendable to trade with the surrounding civilization regions!

However, the tax rate on the transaction has reached 50%, which is ridiculously high! And the system can't give players too many loopholes, I believe that the plots like the food crisis should be almost synchronized with each civilization area! Don't let players do too much speculative stuff!

Even so, there are still huge business opportunities in the ultra-long trading range of the premium trading market! Especially when only Yang Rui owns one at present, he can still get a certain amount of wealth if he grasps it well!

The announcement of the grain production reduction system in the Three Kingdoms Civilization Zone has not ended, and the system prompt sound has not stopped, not only Yanzhou, Jizhou, and Yangzhou, until all the thirteen states of Dahan are covered, and the system can be regarded as a stop!

Among them, the smallest grain production reduction is also 6 percent, or Liangzhou and Bingzhou, where grain output is already low, and the grain production reduction in the rest of the states and counties is hovering around seven or eight percent! And the duration has reached the game time for more than a year, which is definitely the corner of the system to pry the Han Dynasty!

The grain production in the whole world has been strictly reduced! Food prices are definitely going to rise soon! Most importantly, it's definitely a sign that turmoil is about to begin!

Sure enough, within two days, the average price of grain in the premium market had almost doubled, reaching more than 9 copper per unit! And the price rise is still very strong!

Fortunately, according to the observations of the past two days, the grain production in Dashan Town and Xiamo Village has not been affected by the systematic reduction in grain production! Still maintain a 100% increase in production using Territory Attribute Scrolls! This should be the special case mentioned in the system prompt!

The existing cultivated land in Dashan Town exceeds 5,000 mu, although it is all "barren" Cheng dù land, but the yield of planting sweet potatoes has reached 15 catties/mu (4 game days for a cycle), so the daily output of sweet potatoes in Dashan Town has been close to 20,000 catties!

Coupled with the output of more than 5,000 acres of land in Xiamo Village, Yang Rui gets nearly 30,000 catties of grain every day! There is a lot of cultivated land in Xiamo Village, and all of them are "fertile" plots of Cheng dù, but there is a lack of sunshine in the gourd valley, and after Yang Rui introduced sweet potatoes, its yield is still not high, only about half of the yield of Dashan Town!

Yang Rui has decided to plant all the cultivated land in Xiamo Village with crops that require less sunlight, which is why he chose Ganoderma lucidum as a reward for upgrading his town.

As a fungal drug, Ganoderma lucidum itself does not like too much sunlight, and it is a moisture-loving plant, so it is very suitable for the environment of the land of Xiamo Village. Yang Rui has planted all the 5,000 young Ganoderma lucidum plants rewarded by the system on the cultivated land of Xiamo Village, but only occupies 50 acres of cultivated land.

The growth cycle of Ganoderma lucidum in the current period is 40 game days, which is a long time! After the Ganoderma lucidum is reproduced, Yang Rui will decide whether to continue to expand the species according to its output effect.

In fact, the resources in the gourd valley are still very rich, and Yang Rui has found a 9-poinsettia pine forest in a corner of the valley, which extends to the hillside. After Yang Rui built an intermediate lumber yard nearby, he is now able to mass-produce 9 poinsettia pine timber!

In addition, there is also an iron mine of "average" richness in the Hulu Valley, which has been the source of various iron products made in Xiamo Village, maintaining the operation of the high-end blacksmith shop in Xiamo Village.

After Xiamo Village was annexed to Yang Rui, this high-grade blacksmith shop could be said to be one of the most valuable buildings that Yang Rui had acquired! It's just that there is only one junior blacksmith in the blacksmith shop, and you can only make some basic tools, and if you want to make full use of the performance of the blacksmith shop, you can only find high-level blacksmiths or find corresponding blueprints! For example, the special arrows commonly used by Merlin are created using drawings, and of course, this kind of arrow drawings are now used by Yang Rui!

In addition to architecture, the talents of Xiamo Village also played a great role in the development of Yang Rui's territory. Taking the little shepherd boy as an example, since he was attached to Yang Rui's subordinates, the Xiliang bad horses that Dashan Town had purchased from the market were finally able to take care of them and make them grow and reproduce.

Moreover, the little shepherd boy also led people to catch bison around Dashan Town, and domesticated a small part for Yang Rui's territory for agricultural use. At the speed of a little shepherd boy, although it takes four or five days to completely reprimand a bison, when the population reaches a certain number, it can reproduce on its own! At that time, a large number of ploughing cattle will be invested in agricultural production, which will inevitably save a lot of labor and greatly promote the development of planting in the territory!

Talking about buying horses from the market, Yang Rui has bought back three Xiliang inferior horses from remote trading, a total of 28 horses, all of which have grown up vigorously under the careful care of the little shepherd boy, and 3 of the mares are also pregnant with foals!

After upgrading to the premium trading market, remote trading has been extended to the civilization range around the Three Kingdoms Civilization Zone, and Yang Rui naturally has to search for shopping items in the market! And a batch of Qianghu horses were found, a total of 20, the price was 1000 silver/horse, the tax was 500 silver/horse, the total transportation cost was 200 silver, and the total cost was 302 gold! Spent all the inventory in Yang Rui's hands at once!

Before buying this horse pending order, Yang Rui harvested more than 30,000 catties of grain from the special grade, and the price of these grains was at the price of 5 copper and 6 copper per catty, plus a 50% tax rate, and the price of these grains purchased by Yang Rui was almost eight or nine copper!

Although this price is lower than that of the Three Kingdoms Zone, it has risen by about 1 times compared to the previous same civilization region! Obviously, the surrounding civilization areas have also suffered the same reduction in grain production as the civilization areas of the Three Kingdoms, thus raising the price of grain!

And the timing is exactly the same! This made Yang Rui's idea of pouring food and making a lot of money directly fell through! The progress of the current civilization region is not much different, and there are really not many valuable things in the premium market except for some things with civilization characteristics!

"System announcement: Due to the strict reduction of grain production in various places, the ineffective handling of the Han family, many people in various places have been displaced, famine is rampant, and the people's hearts are unstable, and the system time has been advanced to February of the 6th year of Guanghe (183...... The number of players in the game remains the same! ”

Ten game days after the food production was reduced, another system announcement sounded in the Three Kingdoms region, pushing the plot forward for nearly two years!