Volume 1 Burning Chapter 217 The Situation in the Empire

At the end of 292 in the continental calendar, any leaves, bark, grass roots, and even dry straw were eaten by the hungry people, if they didn't want to be starved to death, they could only eat "soil", a kind of fine soil called Guanyin soil, which was more delicate than ordinary soil, and the hungry people ate the soil in order to survive, and the hungry people ate Guanyin soil, which could not be excreted at all, and was suffocated to death.

If the hungry people want to escape the disaster and survive, they will flee the disaster area and go out to seek food, which will cause a large-scale displacement, if the displaced people are instigated, it is easy to rebel.

However, in the second half of 293, the disaster areas in the entire northwest region continued to expand, and the scope involved was quite large! Mozhou, Shazhou, and Xiliang had already become the hardest-hit areas, and even Jiangbei District was affected to some extent.

I don't know where the news came from, but the first refugees in the northeast fled to the south and survived unharmed.

Just this year, some of the displaced people who fled to the south did not know why, and they traveled thousands of miles back to their hometowns, and I heard them say that the abundance of food and clothing in the south is like a heavenly mansion, especially in the urban area of Nanyang, under the control of the king of Zhennan, the tax rate of the peasants is still the same as a few years ago, and it has not risen at all.

This spread of ten, ten, hundred, thousand, thousand, has gradually deteriorated the original situation of the matter, and in the end it has become a slogan of "The king of Zhennan takes in the victims of disasters in the world and will never give more!".

A spark can start a prairie fire, a large number of refugees began to flee to the south, especially the victims trapped by the army in the northwest region, Mozhou, Shazhou, Xiliang, the three severely affected areas were strictly guarded, if the hundreds of thousands of displaced people in these three regions were really released, the consequences can be imagined, so there were several repressions. The imperial court issued three disaster relief tokens in succession, and also ordered the prefectures to open warehouses and release grain to relieve the victims, but the results were minimal.

Wealthy local businessmen took the opportunity to monopolize grain, sat in the granary of the government, and made a lot of money with hatred, and countless businessmen also took advantage of this to make a lot of disaster money, while more victims died in this disaster, and countless families were displaced and their wives were separated.

Thousands of miles of red land, corpses are everywhere on the ground, and it is unbearable to see.

In the end, what happened to the imperial court to prevent happened, and the momentum of rebellion in various places sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, blooming everywhere.

Among them, Mozhou, Shazhou, and Xiliang were the main forces, playing the slogan of "Welcoming the King's Order! Collecting the Disaster Victims, Not Giving Money!" and scurrying southward like locusts, specifically looking for weak county towns to attack, and breaking through a county town would slaughter the rich households in the city indiscriminately, in order to retaliate against these rich households who were rich and unkind.

The rich daughters became the playthings of the homeless, the county government was destroyed, and the ruffians and hooligans in the city were rampant, turning into the embodiment of justice, using the high-sounding excuse of "killing profiteers and sharing money and grain", and committing crimes on the streets in an open and honest manner.

Countless innocent people were affected, and in the blink of an eye, their families were ruined, and these innocent people who could not survive became new refugees and joined the ranks of the refugees, and in this way, the entire rebellious refugees snowballed bigger and bigger, and gradually the situation became difficult to control.

Li Xiangfeng's face gradually turned blue, and his breathing began to become short.

"This, doesn't this make the prince fall into the whirlpool?" Li Xiangfeng exclaimed.

"It's hard to escape!" Duke Yu sighed.

Yu Yuanzheng has always admired the character of King Zhennan, and his family is far-sighted and far-sighted, and has survived the conflict between the empire and the feudal domain.

"Duke Yu, how will the imperial court deal with this matter?" Li Xiangfeng knew that he shouldn't have asked this kind of question, but he couldn't help but say it in a hurry.

Yu Yuanzheng did not answer Li Xiangfeng's question directly, but immediately said: "There is a particularly important matter for calling the two of you here tonight!"

At this time, Duke Yu pointed his hand to the north-central part of the map continent, the north coast of the Trona Empire.

"There has been a war here, and according to the documents sent by the Trona Empire to various countries asking for help, alien races from the distant Gala Continent have attacked here!"

Sure enough, Li Xiangfeng's heart gradually became gloomy, but he didn't expect that what Chimatsu said was true.

"In the face of powerful alien races, the situation of the Trona Empire is not optimistic, and it has sent envoys to all the forces in the entire continent to ask for support!" Yu Yuanzheng continued to speak methodically.

"The imperial court doesn't know the plan for dealing with this matter for the time being, but that's what I'm worried about!" Yu Yuanzheng pointed to the northern ice field.

This made Li Xiangfeng's heart suddenly nervous.

"The Snow Wolf Legion will send soldiers to quell the rebellion according to the instructions of the Imperial Military Department, if the Empire sends an expeditionary force to the Trona Empire to support now, if something happens to the Northern Ice Field, the entire Empire will be in danger!"

After Yu Yuanzheng finished speaking, his eyes shot out a burst of fine light and stared at Li Xiangfeng and Yu Yan, and said: "Xiang Feng, there is no way to affect the development of Qin Jingshan's matter with your strength, but I can guarantee that the lives of their family will be saved! As long as the army of displaced people is held hostage, it will not be difficult to save Qin Jingshan's life!"

"I need you two to make a trip to the Northern Ice Fields!"

Rumble!

When Li Xiangfeng heard this, his head turned pale as if it had exploded.

Things seemed to be a drama, and in Li Xiangfeng's mind, a correlation began to appear.

Qin Tianxin's life is tied to Qin Jingshan, Qin Jingshan's life is tied to whether the rebellion of the displaced people can be quelled, and whether the displaced people can be suppressed is tied to whether there will be abnormalities in the northern ice field.

If the northern ice field takes advantage of the chaos of the empire and wantonly attacks the Great Wall of Ice, and the empty Snow Wolf Legion can resist it? After the Great Wall of Ice is breached, the entire empire will fall into a two-front battle, and then the pressure of the displaced people will drop sharply, maybe it can really become the climate, and then Qin Jingshan will suffer an unwarranted disaster.

If the Empire sent an expeditionary force to the Trona Empire, it would have exacerbated the situation. No wonder Duke Yu scolded the Imperial War Department and the Cabinet at the beginning for making the decision to let the Snow Wolf Legion go south to quell the rebellion.

"Will the imperial court really believe the slogans of those displaced people?" asked Li Xiangfeng puzzled.

"There has to be an explanation!" After Yu Yuanzheng said this, Li Xiangfeng was relieved.

No one would be stupid enough to bear such a serious crime as rebellion, and those homeless people would want to overthrow the imperial court with such an unbeatable excuse as "the king of Zhennan loves the people" and "no taxes", which gave the officials who should have been responsible for the matter an excuse.

Therefore, after careful investigation, the king of Zhennan did indeed do such a thing, and the merchant who was innocently imposed by the king of Zhennan found a place to vent and slandered the king of Zhennan.

Statements such as wanting to restore the feudal domain, as if they were taking the city of Nanyang as their own territory, wantonly fornication, and how many innocent bankruptcies caused the imperial treasury to be empty, were played by those officials who investigated.

And what made the emperor angry was one of the twists and turns, only to see that it was written "The people of Nanyang don't know who the imperial surname is, only His Royal Highness the King of Qin!" and the King of Qin refers to Qin Jingshan, the king of Zhennan.

"When are we leaving?" Li Xiangfeng's heart was still surging, the reason why Duke Yu would give orders to himself in his private capacity was also because he trusted himself, and besides, in the eyes of the duke, he was already tied to Qin Jingshan, but to save himself from another direction.

Li Xiangfeng was recommended by the king of Zhennan, and there are archives in the empire to find it, and Qin Jingshan wants to restore the feudal domain, or really wants to rebel! Li Xiangfeng will bear the brunt of this storm.

At that time, let alone protect Qin Tianxin, it is really hard to say whether he can keep it, and the entire mercenary group will also be dragged into the abyss.

"You guys should prepare in the next few days! Don't leak this matter!" Yu Yuanzheng saw that Li Xiangfeng and Yu Yan had already understood their situation, so he motioned for the two to retreat and rest, and he stared at the map again.

"Heavy rain, it's really going to fall!" Li Xiangfeng lay on the bed and thought about it, only then did he feel that he was incomparably small, and he couldn't stop it at all, so he could only let this rainstorm slowly hit him.

"Do your best to obey the destiny of heaven!" Li Xiangfeng muttered to himself.

The next day, Li Xiangfeng was woken up by Qingyang Lanruo, and saw Qingyang Lanruo standing in front of Li Xiangfeng's bed with a happy face, humming a ballad that Li Xiangfeng couldn't understand, but the melody was still very good.

"Little girl, pay attention to proportions in the future, what do you say when a little girl runs to a big man's bed?" Li Xiangfeng muttered sleepily.

"I don't want to be like that!" Qingyang Lanruo pouted and said to Li Xiangfeng.

"The painting is about to be hung on the wall! Hmph!" Qingyang Lan Ruo saw that her goal had been achieved, and turned around and walked briskly outside the house.

"Brother Li, remember to take me to see Xiaolong!" When she walked to the door of the room, Qingyang Lanruo still didn't forget to remind Li Xiangfeng of what she promised herself yesterday, and only after sticking out her tongue at Li Xiangfeng and making a grimace did she close the door.

Li Xiangfeng found Alberta, Lei Tian, and Yu Yan.

"Is this okay?" Yu Yan wondered.

"Okay, don't worry!" Alberta agreed with Li Xiangfeng's proposal.

"The two of them say okay, I feel okay!" Lei Tian has always thought that the smartest people in the world are Li Xiangfeng and Alberta, and he agrees very much with this matter.

"Yan! It's hard for you to take Ai Er and Lei Tian to Zhongjing City!" Yu Yan knew that if Li Xiangfeng called himself like this, there would definitely be nothing good, but seeing Li Xiangfeng and Erberta's sly smiles, he agreed to this matter.

"What about you?" Yu Yan seemed to find that after Li Xiangfeng had arranged things, he himself had not been arranged for anything.

"I'm going to take Sister Lan Ruo to find Xiaolong! This guy has never made any effort since I found out, and he knows that he has been sleeping and sleeping, and now I'm going to see how Ouyang's old man is doing with it!"

After Li Xiangfeng finished speaking, he took Qingyang Lanruo out of the door "bouncing".