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Seeing Situ Yuan's figure disappearing outside the hall, Situ Lang's face became more and more gloomy, this imperial brother's purpose didn't seem to be so simple, Milanese, did he really think that he wouldn't mind his relationship with the Milanese? If the Milanese entered the East China Sea and Jiangnan, would he still be able to control these two places in the future? The eldest brother occupies the East China Sea, as long as he can stabilize Jinling now, even if he loses Jinling, it doesn't matter, as long as he firmly holds Jiangnan, with the economic strength of the land controlled by the eldest brother, without the support of the central financial department of the empire, his army will not last long, even if he intercepts the East China Sea and Yanyun's payment of taxes and taxes, at that time, he will naturally have to spit it out obediently, but let the Milanese enter the East China Sea and Jiangnan, it is easy to ask the gods to send the gods, and it is difficult to send these plague gods. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Speaking of which, it's still this damn Li Wufeng, who didn't fulfill his promise when he got the benefits, and played Tai Chi pushing hands with himself, spinning on the edge of Pinglu Mansion, but refusing to step into the Qinghe River for half a step, the Kaman people seemed to have a tacit understanding with Li Wufeng, and they actually listened to Li Wufeng's Northwest Army to show off their might in Pinglu Mansion but turned a blind eye, if he didn't know that Li Wufeng's Northwest Army annihilated the 30,000 Kaman army in the north of Pinglu, Situ Lang would really believe that Li Wufeng had some kind of conspiracy agreement with the Kamans.

Thinking of this, Situ Lang was a little envious of Li Wufeng again, the Northwest Army in the hands of this guy is really strong, even the army of the Kamans was deflated in his hands, look at the city guards who are usually the dominant and hegemonic are actually defeated in front of the Kamans, but the Northwest Army can defeat the other party, regardless of whether there are other objective external reasons in this, it is enough to be proud.

When will the several legions in his hands be able to reach this level? Situ Lang sighed with some regret, his confused gaze became a little wandering, he was really tired, he didn't seem to have a good night's sleep when he sat in this position, no wonder the kings of the past dynasties could not live long, this mental pressure alone was enough, and it seemed that he had to bear all this if he chose this position, Situ Lang looked out of the hall blankly.

The application for the establishment of the Western Xinjiang Protectorate seems to have been shelved by the Imperial Central Committee without restrictions, and it seems to have become a powerful weapon for the Imperial Central Committee to deal with the Northwest. However, Wu Feng does not intend to stop at this, he has his killer weapon, and at that time, he will naturally have a way to make the central political axe of the empire submit.

All the preparatory work is still carried out in an orderly manner, the location of the capital of the Western Xinjiang Protectorate is still located in Qingyang, originally some officials tend to be located in Hanzhong, thinking that Hanzhong was once the royal capital, there is a statue of absorbing the world's heroic spirit, it is actually based on the treasure, but Wufeng after consideration also vetoed this suggestion, first, he does not want to make people have some unnecessary associations, after all, it was the imperial capital of the first two dynasties, and secondly, Hanzhong is too easterly for the area under his current control, psychologically to the west of Tengger, The influence of the Western Regions and Northern Luzon will be weakened, and the economy of the Northwest is in a period of healthy and rapid development, and the change of the location of the Metropolitan Protectorate will have a certain impact on the economy of the Northwest.

However, in recent times, Wu Feng has spent more time in Kansai, and he has also taken the time to inspect the situation in Pinglu Prefecture, and even went to the border area between Pinglu and Qinghe, Tianshui and Hehe to conduct field investigations, which made the Kaman and Taiping people feel nervous after obtaining information through secret agents, and pay more attention to every move of the Northwest Army.

March in the entire Eastern Continent almost did not rain, this drought came so fiercely that everyone immediately keenly felt what the harvest of Xiaochun would be, into April, the weather seemed more and more, as if suddenly entering the summer, in the words of the old man, it has been a long time since I felt the heat of summer so early, almost directly over the spring directly into the early summer, the bright sunshine makes people feel the abnormal climate at the same time also have a trace of worry and fear in their hearts. The harvest is a foregone conclusion, and the old people know better, this kind of weather is the best climate for breeding locusts, accompanied by drought is likely to be locust plague, every day people get up with a begging psychology to hope that the weather can be cloudy, the temperature can be lowered, but to their disappointment, it seems that God does not care about the feelings of his people, every morning the golden crow will show its head in a hurry, and then it will be the general heat.

Grain prices have been unpredictable since the beginning of March, sometimes falling and sometimes rising, but the price fluctuations are not large, and the northwest, which has completed the grain purchase plan, has not died down, and is still absorbing grain on a small scale, but this kind of action is unreasonable compared with the big action in the previous month, and grain prices are still on the rise on the whole. After entering the second half of March, seeing that the general trend of drought was certain, the price of grain suddenly rose from four and a half gold coins to seven gold coins per quintal, which has exceeded the highest price in the northwest when the grain price purchase plan was carried out in February, which could not help but make the grain merchants sigh the good luck of the northwest side, of course they would not believe that anyone could predict God's movements, and they also believed that Xiaochun was not the main grain event of the year, and even if there was a drought, there was still a big spring season to rely on, not to mention that they did not expect that the entire eastern continent would suffer such a drought of such a magnitude and area and the locust plague that followed。

And with the drought is severe, the news from all over the country is worse than the other, the rivers are broken, the lakes have bottomed out, except for some upper sections of the rivers that rely on the meltwater of the snow-capped mountains and some large lakes, almost every place has found this drought to be unusually ferocious, people spontaneously organized to start burning incense and worshiping the Buddha, praying to God to repay the vows, begging for God's eyes and mercy, but it seems to have no effect.

In this case, some of the vigilant grain merchants have begun to hoard grain to prepare for speculation, but most of the merchants have a kind of ambivalence, because the price of grain at this time has exceeded ten gold coins, and in view of the astronomical amount of grain hoarded in the northwest, the grain speculators are also secretly beating the drum in their hearts, if a large amount of grain is purchased at this price, and once the northwest sells, they are afraid that the losses they bear will become astronomical, and this ambivalence scorches the fragile hearts of the grain merchants in all parts of the empire and even around the empire every day, and they do not know what the purpose of the northwest is to buy such a large amount of grain at the beginning of the yearSpeculation, or is it really a strategic reserve, as they themselves say?

Grain merchants have always expressed doubts about the purpose of the Northwest's self-proclaimed strategic reserves, and no one would choose to make strategic reserves in January and February instead of stockpiling them after the grain harvest in June and September. However, such an uncertain large-scale speculation is a risk that no one dares to bear, even if the small spring harvest fails, only four months later, there will be a season that accounts for the main spring harvest of the year's grain harvest, no one can predict God's face, even if you happen to bet on the treasure of the small spring, can you still bet on the treasure of the big spring? Moreover, food production is not confined to one county and one place, and the developed water and land transportation can adjust and compensate for the imbalance caused by such disasters, unless the madman thinks that the ability of this adjustment will be destroyed by successive natural disasters in an entire large area for no apparent reason, but this probability seems to be smaller than that of winning the lottery in the gambling game that has become popular in the Western Continent, and the price paid is staggering.

The price of grain soared in the worried eyes of the people in the entire eastern continent, and on April 12, 698 in the mainland Gregorian calendar, it broke through the psychological price of 15 gold coins per quintal, when the quotation of Yanjing, the three main grains (wheat, millet and millet) broke through 15 gold coins per quintal, and the first class of miscellaneous grains (corn and sorghum) jumped from 9 gold coins per quintal to 12 gold coins per quintal, and even the second type of miscellaneous grains (sweet potatoes, sweet potatoes, Barley and yam) also jumped up to the price of 10 gold coins per quintal in one go, and even at such a price, the empire's three largest grain trading markets (Zhongzhou Grain Trading Market, Jinling Grain Trading Market, Yueyang Grain Trading Market) are still in short supply, most of the time there is still no price, and neighboring countries and regions such as the Yuejing grain market are surging, and the supply is even tighter, and this has created a new high in the past twenty years in the imperial grain quotation and the grain quotation of the Eastern Continent.

Affected by this, the prices of various important materials related to people's livelihood in the entire empire began to rise wildly, and the prices of meat, medicinal materials, edible oil, cotton cloth, etc. began to rise sharply to varying degrees, especially for wine, which was affected by the sharp rise in food prices, the price was several times higher than the original, and the wine merchants still refused to ship because they were worried that the price of raw materials would rise further, making the price of wine in the empire appear at a high level that has not been seen for decades.

With the crazy rise in the prices of all kinds of materials, the situation in the entire Eastern Continent has begun to appear a kind of pathological turmoil, from the Liboa countries in the north to the Maqi Khan and Milan in the south, all of them are watching all this with a complicated mentality, the foundation of the Tang River Empire, a giant with feet of mud, has been shaken, if there is another big storm, maybe this giant will fall in the wind and rain, which is certainly a good thing, but when to fall all parties have different expectations. And what worries them the most is that this storm does not seem to be just for the Tang River Empire, but covers the entire Eastern Continent, although it is centered on the Tang River Empire, but the storm around the center is not small, and they find that their country cannot get rid of it, and there are even signs of sinking deeper and deeper.

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