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Just after the grain merchants in the Central Plains region were worried that the harvest of the Dachun grain would greatly affect the windfall profits obtained from such a high grain price at this time, the price of grain in the empire began to fall slightly, and the price of grain fell from the highest time of eighteen gold coins per quintal to twelve gold coins, and the rest of the miscellaneous grains even slipped below eight gold coins, but soon adjusted, the main grain stabilized at about fourteen gold coins, and the miscellaneous grains also hovered around ten gold coins per quintal. Although the price www.biquge.info of grain in the Central Plains has risen a lot, it has finally alleviated the food crisis of the entire empire, and even the Heshuo region has benefited from not being cut off from the interior of the empire, but this is not the case in some places.

As the defender of the Anyuan Taiping Defense Army, Zhang Zhentian is a believer in the Holy Religion with strong beliefs, and the Holy King is undoubtedly a god who can never be blasphemed and disobeyed in his heart for the son of a hired farmer.

He had always believed that he would be able to return the Anyuan Mansion to the Holy King who would return to Anyuan in the future, and that his 70,000 elite soldiers and countless faithful followers were the strongest support in his heart, and he believed that he could rely on them to resist the invasion from either side, even after Yulin and Pinglu and even Qinghe had fallen.

The betrayal of the Kaman people was not unexpected by him, in his mind, those guys originally wanted to use the Holy Sect to have a plan, but at this critical moment, they stabbed the Holy Kingdom in the back, this wound can be described as deep and painful, and Li Wufeng was originally the most vicious enemy of the Holy Country, and the Northwest Army under his command was even more ferocious and threatening to the Holy Sect than the Kamans.

The Kaman people are just a wild dog, although they seem to be fierce, but they are just a bite, but they still need to spend a lot of energy to digest that mouthful of food slowly, and Li Wufeng is different, his appetite is not only extremely big, but what makes Zhang Zhentian most chilling is the amazing digestion shown by the other party. Pinglu and Longdong Tianshui, these were originally the areas with the strongest foundation of the Taiping Holy Sect, but after falling into the hands of Li Wufeng, in just one or two years, the power of the Holy Sect was uprooted one after another, and countless elite children and loyal believers of the Holy Sect fell under Li Wufeng's butcher's knife, and now whether it is Lu Long or Tianshui Longdong, if they want to find someone who dares to dedicate themselves to the cause of the Holy Sect, it cannot be said that there is no, but it is a few, this is the news brought back by the messenger sent by Zhang Zhentian to contact the believers of the sect in the surrounding areas.

The bloody wind is enough to intimidate too many people whose beliefs are not strong enough, and the corrosion of Huairou can make many people and forces who were originally loyal to the Holy Sect turn to the enemy side one after another, and they have become the most vicious enemies of the Holy Sect, under their guidance, the Holy Sect has little hidden power to hide, Zhang Zhentian sadly found that there is no supporter around Anyuan Mansion who can help him.

With the fall of Pinglu, Yulin, and Qinghe, plus Lulong, which had long fallen into the hands of the Northwest Army, Anyuan was the only remaining base of the Holy Sect in the entire Northern Plains Five Prefectures, and it was also the strongest fortress of the Holy Sect. In addition to inspecting and patrolling defense affairs without sleeping or eating, and giving speeches in the countryside to motivate the morale of the people, Zhang Zhentian intensified his efforts to find excuses for the gentry with a little assets in Anyuan City to throw them into prison, squeeze out all the gold and silver goods, and then find a reason to put them on a crime and behead them even from home.

Zhang Zhentian did not collect the goods he obtained, except for a small part of the reward to his subordinates, he spent most of the funds on building defensive weapons and strengthening the city's defense capabilities.

In a few months, he not only increased the height and reinforcement of the entire city wall, but also rebuilt a low wall a few meters shorter than the city wall on the perimeter of the city wall, and added a large number of arrow forts and hiding rooms to the low wall. All the ironsmith workshops in the city were forcibly requisitioned, and their only job was to craft various weapons and arrowheads. Although the catapults were very simple due to technical reasons, under Zhang Zhentian's heavy bounty and high-pressure coercion, six were still installed at each city gate, and the cauldron erected on the city wall to boil boiling oil was one every one or two dozen meters, and rolling wood, stones, and lime were piled up all over the city. Under the slope of the high wall in the west of the city, Zhang Zhentian also imitated the ancients to build dozens of iron pulleys with suspension cables, lined up, if there are enemy troops from this side, just facing these dozens of iron luggers will bring them infinite deterrence.

Zhang Zhentian, who had been on patrol, was a little tired, and he had hardly been able to survive a single day in the past few months, and the pressure from the Northwest Army was too great, so he had to keep a close eye on the threats from the north and the east all night. And now the biggest headache for Zhang Zhentian is not the military threat from the Northwest Army, but the food shortage that occurs in his own territory. Anyuan was not a big grain-producing mansion in the first place, and the grain was self-sufficient, and when the Holy King left Anyuan, they successively transported a lot of grain that was originally stored here, and originally hoped that after the harvest of Xiaochun, a batch of grain could be transferred from the neighboring Pinglu to replenish the reserves, but they did not expect that not only Pinglu was lost, but also the disaster throughout the entire Eastern Continent made all hopes in vain. The locust plague that followed the spring drought caused 80 percent of Anyuan Prefecture to lose its harvest, and the people of Anyuan Prefecture were already poor and did not have much surplus grain at all, so the food problem immediately became the first problem that people could not avoid.

Although he tried all means, An Yuan's family background had basically been scraped away by himself, but Li Wufeng's guy adopted an extremely strict method of clearing the wilderness, so that even if he had money, he could not buy food from all over the surrounding area. Seeing that the grain in the warehouse could not survive until July, and the people outside the city were flocking to the city in an attempt to find a bite to eat, although he had strictly ordered that the peasants outside the city were not allowed to enter the city, so as to avoid more pressure on the city, but the soldiers who were all born in the local area still secretly let many people into the city, after all, they were all villagers, blood is thicker than water, and not many people could really make a decision.

Today, a rare banquet was held in the Fuzun Mansion, and the Fuzun Lord personally invited the grain merchant who was said to be from the north, and it has been a long time since I saw the Fuzun Lord's smile so happily, and the long-term pressure has made the Fuzun Lord much older than a year ago, but today, the Fuzun Lord, who has changed into a long robe, personally accompanies the Fuzun and entertains the big grain merchants from the northern Gerlok Principality, and even the guards in the mansion can clearly feel the joy that fills the mansion.

Zhang Zhentian was indeed a little happy, although he felt that it was a little inappropriate for his general, who was responsible for defending the main roads in the north, to throw away his important tasks and run back to Fucheng, but thinking about it, such a large batch of grain had to be transported from the north, and now the situation in the countryside outside Fucheng was a little out of control, and the other party was forced to do so. Thinking about it again, my henchman has not returned to Fucheng for half a year, and it is indeed too bitter for the other party to stay on the remote pass in the north, and it is not a big deal to let the other party come back and relax.

Seeing the other party's eyes lit up with excitement when he checked the grain, Pi Hongkui could know that the other party really needed this batch of food. Stroking bags of grain and smelling the fragrance of grain, a dignified Taiping Sect in the base area of Beiyuan County was so out of shape, Pi Hongkui couldn't help but sigh in his heart. All the way from Nanjieluo, the entire Anyuan Mansion is already thousands of miles away, and there is no harvest in many places, if it weren't for the Taiping army with two thousand swords and guns out of the sheath, I am afraid that those hungry people with green eyes would have swooped up, it seems that Lord Li's blockade policy has made Anyuan Mansion already on the verge of despair.

While smiling and raising his glass, he was carefully looking at the surrounding environment, it seems that the important generals under Zhang Zhentian should come to this banquet as long as they are in the city, of course, except for the generals on duty, after a rough count, there are seven important generals to six, and there is probably one who is on duty in the big battalion.

Looking at the guards outside the banquet hall, there are four soldiers on duty at the small door on the right, although they look very energetic, they can also be seen that they are not specially trained characters, and the two of them should be able to kill each other without alarming the soldiers outside the courtyard. And the four people outside the banquet hall are a little tricky, one by one, they are full of spirit, it can be seen that they are practicing the family, I am afraid that it will take some effort, but Pi Hongkui is not afraid, and he is not doing this kind of thing once or twice, if he can't even solve these few people, then he and his subordinates really don't have to eat this bowl of rice.

There seem to be two swimming posts on the corner tower of the courtyard wall, Zhang Zhentian This guy is very bold in the eye, but in fact, he is very cautious, by the way, there seem to be people in the wing next door, I don't know what they do, they should be the guards on duty, and these guys have to be counted. Just thinking about it, the owner on the opposite side was already holding a wine glass to toast again: "Come, come, Mr. Ouyang, Zhang will toast you again, Mr. Ouyang can take such a big risk to transport grain into Anyuan at such a time, Zhang has to admire, isn't Mr. Ouyang afraid of Li Wufeng's ban?"

Zhang Zhentian picked up the wine glass and looked at the other party in brocade clothes with a complicated expression through the candlelight, no matter what, he could transport such a large batch of grain in, although the price was compared to the price of grain in the empire, but now in this situation, let alone one roll, even if he turned over another roll, he had to swallow it, as many as he wanted, as long as he could survive until September, everything could be started again. But is this grain merchant really that simple?

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