Chapter 177: Famine
"This day, it's going to change." Chen Xian Ling looked at the sky outside the house, the sun was like fire, he stretched out his tongue and licked his dry lips, "The people's grievances have reached their peak, if it doesn't rain again this day, sooner or later there will be chaos among the people!" β
"This is a natural disaster, all we can do is do our best and obey the destiny of God." General Li stabbed his sword at his waist and looked at the sky together, "I don't care about other counties, at least we in Nanwang County, we can't let a single citizen starve to death!" β
"Well, Brother Li is still as straightforward as ever!" Chen Xianling smiled, "Let's go, let's go and see how much grain we still have, I hope that the moths in the court can see the situation clearly and be less greedy for relief food!" β
ββNing'an Cityββ
"Your Majesty, droughts are frequent in various places, a large number of armor have died of drought across the country, and officials from all over the country are asking the imperial court to issue relief food and funds." An official walked out from among the hundred officials and said to the emperor.
"Where is the book of the household?" The emperor waved his hand, and saw a minister with gray temples walking out quickly.
"Your Majesty!" The minister bowed, "There are still 30,000 taels of silver, 10,000 gold bars, and 1 million stones of grain in the treasury. "Although the local officials are full of private pockets, the central government's grain reserves are still abundant, mainly thanks to the ability of the household department Shangshu, who is the largest corrupt official in the country, and all the corrupt officials can be greedy, so that the other party has nothing to be greedy for.
"Let's give 1 million stone of grain first, and in addition, send commissioners to carry disaster relief materials to various places." With a wave of the emperor's hand, the officials below were about to get busy.
"No!" The minister bowed and quickly returned to the ranks.
"If there is something to start, there is nothing to retreat!" The eunuch's shrill voice sounded from the main hall, and everyone was silent.
"Retreat!" After the eunuch screamed, the emperor got up from his seat and walked slowly towards the harem.
As he walked, he murmured, "Why do you always have no food, you know how delicious it is to eat rice and minced meat." β
Alas, another emperor who doesn't eat minced meat.
ββAccount Collectionββ
Liu Qi sat in the lord's office, clicked on the communication system in his hand, and sent a message to all the people in the same camp, asking about the grain storage in various places, and soon the data was counted, and the stock of grain was almost very small, at most it was 2 months of grain, and the least was only 2 days left.
"Everyone evens out the grain, except for those who have the ability to produce, and priority is given to those who have no income." The so-called one side is in difficulty, and all sides support, and the thousand-year-old tradition of China is still difficult to erase.
Even global saturation relief can be done, and if you are afraid of running out of food, everyone will help each other and always get through the difficulties.
After the final distribution, the food in each territory can last for 20 days, but the alien territory is not so lucky, they have no sense of unity, and they fight on their own, which eventually leads to a huge gap between the rich and the poor, and then fights against each other.
Liu Qi kept thinking in the office, the improved rice still has 10 days to learn the results, if it fails, then it will be over, so he can't hang himself on an old crooked neck tree, and he must find a way to open up another way.
Suddenly, Liu Qi set his sights on the junction of two large rivers on the territory map.
"These two rivers can make a fuss." Liu Qi thought that these two big rivers came from the snow-capped mountains of the plateau and continued all year round, which was also the reason why Comrade Liu Qi's territory could still maintain grain production, and a large number of rivers throughout the country had dried up, and the originally high-yield grain class areas had directly become proletarian areas, so grain would be in an emergency.
"Amazing, are you there?" Liu Qi began to call for his housekeeper.
"What's wrong?" inquiry, the shocking projection directly descended on Liu Qi's side, which is also a major feature of quantum life, no matter how far away, as long as you want to go, a direct wave of quantum comes, almost zero delay.
"Are there any fish in these two rivers?" Liu Qi asked.
"Yes!" "What's wrong?" You don't want to catch fish to make up for the food shortage, do you? β
"Those who know me are shocked!" Liu Qi smiled, "How about it, think of a way to kill him?" β
"Well, let me think about it." "If it is a reckless catch, the fish in the whole river will only be enough for two months, and there will be no more after two months, but if it is sustainably mined, then the daily collection is completely insufficient to maintain the daily consumption of the people, so this method is not sustainable at all." β
"But we can keep the territory alive in this way." Liu Qi said, "At least in the short term, there are no major problems. β
"Well, indeed, then I'll organize people to do it." Said in shock.
"Hurry up, we don't have much time, only 20 days at most, once there is no solution after 20 days, we are really going to starve to death!" Liu Qi said.
This is the assessment of new students in the Civilization Academy, proving whether the students have enough overall vision, it is not difficult to find that they have to hoard food in the food market and weather conditions, but some people do not care, for students born in civilization above III. level, this kind of natural disaster has hardly been experienced, after all, there is artificial rainfall or something, in addition, there is a large amount of hoarding grain, so these natural disasters basically do not affect them.
But it's antiquity! Don't say that a large amount of hoarded grain is sold at a fair price, and whether people sell it to you or not is a problem.
"I understand, the improved rice has 10 days to complete the experiment, and then we will be able to catch a little bit." Said in shock.
"That being said, I'm still a little worried." Liu Qi said, "Try your best, it's all life, and if you can help, you can help." β
You must know that the current territory has a 1 to 3 military-civilian ratio, thousands of mouths to eat, and it is absolutely terrible to encounter famine.
The time of the 10th passed quickly, the experimental field ushered in a bumper harvest, the yield per mu was nearly 1000 tons, a great success, in this way, the daily expenses of the territory can be completely solved, and there will even be a lot of abundance, rice seeds have been hoarded early in the morning, and they will be distributed soon, and they will start planting immediately, and now it is too late to care about the loss of soil fertility, people are dying of hunger, and what soil does it matter!
Although this is not good in the long run, there is no way to do it.
"In this way, we don't need to worry about food, but we must pay attention to the problem of soil fertility, bellflower and the like, burn it into plant ashes and bury it together." Liu Qi said that Quantum Sea is not a simple game, there are a lot of practical problems that need to be considered, which also makes the gameplay of the game very hardcore.
"Understood." Shocking nodded, and left the office.
"Qing Han, how is the number of displaced people recently?" Liu Qi summoned Mo Qinghan again, the problem of displaced people is also a headache, Liu Qi, who used to be crazy in need of population, now hopes that there will be fewer displaced people, the less the better.
Because the grain stock in the territory is not much, a large number of displaced people who have gathered have no food to eat, and they will begin to impact the territory, causing great inconvenience to the production and development of the territory.
On the other side, Zhao Rui's territory was established on a high mountain, and most of the hungry and powerless homeless people could not go up, but Liu Qi's territory was in the valley, and the entrance had been blocked by a large number of homeless, and the other party had begun to try to cross the pass, so Liu Qi had to arrange 150 heavy archers in the pass, otherwise in case of a large-scale incident, the hoplites could not be suppressed.
Heavy archers are a group of full-time combatants recently trained by Liu Qi, composed of hunters in the territory, with extremely strong accuracy and strategic value, the only drawback is that the cost is too high.
The equipment of one hoplite archer is enough for 10 hoplites.
But the effect is remarkable, the range reaches 150 steps (the credit of the future compound recurve mechanical bow), equipped with special goggles by scientific and technological means, which can analyze the trajectory of the arrow, and the system is blind to this behavior, but Liu Qi dared to teleport the electromagnetic rifle or something, hehe, and was decisively banned.
"I hope this group of homeless people don't do stupid things!" It's not that Liu Qi doesn't want to save them, but hundreds of thousands of displaced people can't accept another batch of people to live or die, and the territory does not have the ability to feed all of them.
"Liu Qi, a peasant uprising broke out in Lijun, and now it has fought with the official army." Mo Qinghan appeared by Liu Qi's side, and she could almost completely monitor the planet, which was the credit of Quantum.
"Damn, how's the battle going?" Liu Qi asked, "In this way, the disaster relief action of the imperial court will also be dragged down, hey, it is eventful, I hope that the troops of the imperial court will not mutiny, otherwise, heh, this world will be interesting." β
"The rebel army has now occupied a number of strategic points, and the supplies sent by the imperial court to this place have been intercepted by the rebel army, and a large number of soldiers and armor have been looted." Mo Qinghan said, "The logistics of the imperial army are already faintly dragging down. β
"At the same time, a large amount of military rations were embezzled by officials, and the current situation is completely dependent on the rebel army." Mo Qinghan added, "At the same time, the imperial court's troops have been defeated several times, the morale of the army has declined, and the imperial court has already transferred the military power to the locality. β
"Is it similar to the Yellow Turban Rebellion at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty?" Liu Qi lowered his head, not knowing what he was thinking, "This group of homeless people, it's really not good, let's kill them." β
Although he couldn't bear it, if the homeless people broke through the territory, it would not only be them who would be harmed, this was absolutely not allowed by Liu Qi, he didn't mind saving one or two lives, but at least he could do what he could, and now he couldn't protect himself, and to protect such a group of homeless, Liu Qi's brain was not broken.
"Hey! Your lord, let him come out and speak! "There was a man out of the homeless people, surrounded by a group of people, and there seemed to be a faint trend of boss.
"I am, what's the matter?" Liu Qi stood up from the city wall and asked loudly.
"Now open the gates of the city and let everyone in, we only need food, and we promise not to touch your finances!" The other party yelled.
"No way, you better leave as soon as possible, we don't have much food left!" Liu Qi refused without hesitation.
"As a lord, how can you have no surplus food, watching these hundreds of thousands of people starve to death, won't your conscience hurt?!" The other party yelled, and the people behind him echoed.
"Won't your heart hurt!"
"A hairy boy, how can He De be a lord, and he is still rich and unkind, shameful!"
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More and more voices of condemnation came, but Liu Qi was unmoved, his words were convincing, and he refused all requests to enter.
"Guys, there are so many of us, don't be afraid, rush over, I don't believe they dare to shoot civilians!" A man emerged from the crowd in an attempt to incite the 300,000 victims to storm the pass.
"Whew!" There was a sound of breaking the air, and the people on the side just wanted the call of the young man, and an arrow shot directly through the opponent's head, which was a full 400 meters away from the city wall!
Mo Qinghan stood on the city wall, slowly put down the longbow in his hand, and snorted coldly, "Incite the people's hearts, their hearts can be punished!" β
The body of the arrow is made of carbon fiber, and the arrow is made of diamond, and there is no means in this era to block this blow.
"Murder!"
"Murder!"
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The victims, who had not advanced for a few battles, took a few steps back, even further back than they had been in.
There are also many people who died at the feet of others in a panic, and stampedes have long been common.
"Heavy archers obey orders!" Liu Qi shouted, and the 150 archers on the city wall shouted in unison, "No! β
"Give you the right to cut first and then play, once you cross the arrow, you will be killed!" Liu Qi said, looking at Mo Qinghan on the side.
Mo Qinghan opened his bow again and shot an arrow, which landed 100 steps away from the city wall.
"No!" The voices of the people were very loud, but they were actually deliberately said to the group of victims to prevent them from jumping over the wall. There is still some dry food, so no one wants to touch the brows of the household leader, and they are all safe and disciplined.
On the second day, Liu Qi sent a team of heavily armed soldiers out of the city with 600,000 stone of grain, distributed it to the displaced people, and told them that this was the last grain and that they would leave after taking it, and there was no surplus grain in the city.
The homeless people practiced thanks, during which someone wanted to rob and died directly under the knife of the hoplites, these 300,000 people were not necessarily able to kill a hoplite, the armor was thick, and there was almost no way to disassemble, only special tools could be removed, so this group of soldiers had nothing to fear.
Soon, the mission was completed, and the soldiers returned to the city.
A small number of displaced people took the grain and left, Liu Qi this time, spent 1/2 of the grain stored in the territory, and the rest of the grain could only wait for the next month.
"When will this hellish drought pass?" Liu Qi looked at the scorching sun in the sky, and his heart was filled with sorrow, is it wrong for these 300,000 victims? No, after all, everyone wants to live, Cang Liao is honest and shameful, he can't eat enough, and he still expects to maintain that kind of style?
No one is born a saint.
In the final analysis, helping is love, not helping is duty, relying on others is never a long-term solution.
"There was a tragedy of cannibalism in Hexi County, and the local tyrants were wiped out by the mob for the sake of being rich and unkind, and then became the food of the robbers, and the grain in the house was piled up and moldy." Mo Qinghan stood beside Liu Qi and reported word by word the disaster situation in the surrounding areas.
"The rebel army broke through the county town of Lijun and found tens of millions of stones of grain from the grain depot in the city, and it is ridiculous that the local garrison yesterday advertised that there was no food in the county and killed a group of displaced people."
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Countless tragedies were exposed, and Liu Qi felt that his heart was filled with grief and indignation.
"Hundreds of billions of stones of food are protected, and the people of the world are happy." Liu Qi thought in his heart.