Chapter 516: Crisis Handling

After forcing Genorio to get a good night's sleep, Lorist got up, bathed and filled, and then began to deal with the shortage of food in good spirits. As for www.biquge.info lack of food in the city of Morente, he had long expected this conclusion, which can be drawn from the fact that more than half of the more than 800 ships in the transport fleet organized by the commercial alliance transported grain.

With a population of more than one million people in the city of Moronte, plus more than 200,000 laborers and poor people outside the city, and more than 400,000 merchant alliance troops on the front line of the Plains of Falli, the daily consumption of food for more than 1.7 million people must be an astronomical figure. The Plains of Mana Mound was the famous granary of the Galinthia continent in the past, but now it is in ruins, and there has been no harvest in the past two years. Most of the city's coarse grain and meat supplies could only rely on the barren Cristo hills, and the food supply of the commercial alliance was under great pressure.

Tagger was ordered to come and report the bad news to Lorlist. Originally, the neighboring fortress city of Thomas City was the military food reserve base of more than 400,000 commercial alliance forces on the front line, but after it was taken, it was discovered that Thomas City had just sent most of the military food reserves to the front line ten days ago, which was enough for the commercial alliance forces on the front line to consume for about a month.

The plan of the Business Alliance was to wait for the convoy to arrive, just in time for the arrival of the convoy to fill the gap in the reserves, but they did not expect that the Armada would be wiped out and the convoy would become the trophy of the Norton family. Although Lorist was prepared for the lack of food in the city of Moriente, he did not expect it to be so serious, and the whole city only had fifteen days of grain reserves, and most of them were coarse grains, that is, potatoes and oats, and very little fine grains.

After the convoy surrendered, part of the food was unloaded to Cape Romani for Schward's daily consumption of the 100,000 recruits and captives to fill the reef area. The surplus grain was transported to the island of Hiloas by private boats. Lorist took the empty ships that had been carrying the 100,000 recruits recruited by the Commercial Alliance to the port of Temenia, where they landed in the city of Moriente after embarking the Rock Legion and the Guard.

The problem now is that there is a shortage of food in the city of Morente, there are no ships in Lorist, and there are no ships on the island of Hilowas, so there is no way to transport food to the city of Morente. The private ships that originally transported the grain, after transporting the grain to the island of Hilowas, happily purchased a large number of goods and goods from the Norton family's domain, and are now sailing to the southern seas of the mainland, and it is too late to hire them to transport the grain.

The North Sea Lightning Strike Fleet under Commander Sambarwood is also heading to the Zangjin Bay, and they are here to escort the families of the crew and sailors of the surrendered Armada to the island of Hilowas, so that they can be reunited with their families...... All the actions were carried out strictly according to the plan that had been made, but the lack of food in the city of Moriente could make all the efforts of the Lorist and Norton families to be armed go to naught.

After the lightning strike fleet led by Sambarwood to the Zangjin Bay, he transported the families of the captives to the island of Hilowas, and by the way, brought the transport team and brought back the grain stored on the island, which came and went, and spent at least fifteen or sixteen days on sea transportation alone, and this time was the most important key to the success of the whole project for Lorlist.

In another two or three days, Lorist estimated that the commercial alliance forces on the front line would be able to react and get the news of the fall of the city of Morente. If the commanders of the more than 400,000 commercial alliance forces were decisive, they would probably be able to land under the city of Morente in ten days. Although Lorist had already arranged for the Flying Tiger Legion and the Cavalry Hunting Legion to contain the Commercial Alliance forces, after all, the Commercial Alliance had more than 400,000 armed forces, and if half of them were divided, with the perfect defense facilities on the Mana Hill Plain, it was enough to resist the onslaught of the Flying Tiger Legion and the Hunting Cavalry Legion in a short period of time.

Lorist's original plan was to resist the counterattack of the commercial alliance forces under the city of Morente, as long as it was delayed for seven or eight days, and when the Flying Tiger Legion and the Chaser Legion arrived, there were tigers in front and wolves in the back, and there was no way to prevent the commercial alliance forces from collapsing? As long as they survived this hurdle, the next thing would be a good day for the Norton family to have a bumper harvest.

But now that the city of Moriente was short of food, it was almost like pinning Lorist to the crater of an erupting volcano. In the 24 districts of the outer city, there are more than 100,000 residents, and only two corps of nearly 24,000 men and horses are maintaining order. But if a large-scale rebellion breaks out due to lack of food, coupled with the presence of an enemy from outside, it is very likely that the city of Moriente will fall back into the hands of the commercial alliance, and there is nothing to say at that time.

"Targer, how did you solve the food supply in the twenty-four districts of the outer city?" asked Lorlist.

"Your Highness, the business alliance basically provides a batch of grain to the grain shops in the twenty-four districts of the outer city every half a month, most of which are coarse grains, and then every household can use the registered household register to go to the grain shops to buy these grains at a parity price, and each household has a ration, and if it exceeds the quota, it needs to pay more additional money.

Not only these grains, but also meat, wine, fabrics, leather, and some livelihood products have been purchased in quantities, as long as the price is very low within this quantity, but if you exceed this order, you need to pay several times the money. There are still some dealers in the city of Moronte who specialize in reselling these orders, and they are said to have earned several Kingfords a month......" Tagger reported as he flipped through a folder.

Wait, Lorist is a little dizzy, why does this thing sound so familiar, this seems to be the planned distribution during the implementation of the planned economy in the previous life, right? I remember when I was a child, my grandfather and grandmother had to bring a lot of cloth stamps, food stamps, meat stamps or something when they went shopping, once I was greedy and took a cloth ticket for wheat candy to eat, and my grandfather found out and was beaten hard, I remember that grandpa said that he wanted to eat candy grandpa is not to blame, and he beat you because you didn't tell him, that is a stealing behavior must be taught!

The businessmen of these business alliances really don't know what they think, and they actually put together a distribution system of a planned economy. Lorist asked curiously, "Didn't the residents of Moldant City protest about this, and how are the grain shops that distribute these supplies managed?"

Tagar shook his head: "Your Highness, the inhabitants of the city of Moriente are easily instigated, the slogan of the business alliance is all for the front, they think that as long as they defeat the invaders of the Kingdom of Antinac, they can restore everything to the way it was, and now they have to suffer a little in order to live a happier life in the future, not to mention that although the grain on the ration list is coarse grain, it is better than the price." There are also fine grains, but the price is a little more expensive, and many families would rather eat coarse grains and sell the fine grain ration list to earn some extra money.

In the past few days, I have sent people into the twenty-four districts of the outer city to investigate, and I have found nothing else, but these fragmentary things have been investigated very clearly. According to the investigators, the cheapest food in the city of Morent is now potatoes and dried salted fish, which come from the Cristo hills, and dried salted fish, which the fishermen of the city of Morent caught in the Zangjin Bay a few years ago, and which no one had eaten before, but now it has become the main dish of the inhabitants of the twenty-fourth district of the outer city.

Our family has taken over the city of Morente, and now there is no supply of potatoes and meat from the Cristo Hills. After Lord Bérunek led a Rock Corps to occupy the storage base outside the East Gate, he found that the number of potatoes and coarse grains in the reserve was not large, and after statistics, it could only supply the residents of the twenty-four districts of the outer city for ten days, unless the orders of each household were cut to maintain fourteen or five days. There are a lot of salted dried fish, but this thing can't fill your stomach.

All quantities of material purchases are the responsibility of the chambers of commerce of the business alliance. For example, coarse grains and meat are under the responsibility of the Fude Chamber of Commerce, cloth and leather are the old business of the Peterson Chamber of Commerce, luxury condiments such as honey and spices belong to the Mayflower Chamber of Commerce, the Liward Chamber of Commerce is responsible for the distribution of other living materials, the Chicked Chamber of Commerce is seafood, and the Two-Headed Dragon Chamber of Commerce is a variety of rare ingredients, which are exclusively purchased by the rich and nobles.

In short, the current city of Morent is very divided between the rich and the poor, the rich and powerful can buy whatever they want to eat as usual, and the rich and powerful can only rely on the order distribution and purchase of these things to barely support their families. Not to mention anything else, even the beef and mutton that everyone in our family territory can afford to eat are sold here at a sky-high price, at least ten times higher than our price. I heard that there are people in the 24 districts of the outer city who have organized a rat trapping team to catch rats and sell meat to eat......

It is worth noting, Your Highness, after we captured the city of Morente, the shops of the various chambers of commerce in the twenty-four districts of the outer city are now closed. In the past, residents of the 24 districts outside the city used to purchase the necessary food and daily necessities in one go a few days after the distribution order. It is now less than three or four days before the next order is allocated, and the shops are still closed, so the residents of the 24th district of the outer city are now faintly in a commotion, and they are worried that they will not be able to buy food and daily necessities in the future......"

Lorist touched his chin and walked around, after listening to Tager's report, the situation was a little grim, the top priority was to pacify the residents of the twenty-four districts of the outer city, now the maintenance of stability is the most important, and the rebellion in the city of Moriente must not be allowed at the critical moment of the battle, then the previous efforts will be lost.

"Let Torrin and Bérunek, and Jeders come to me at once, and send someone to order El and Ovicis to withdraw all the supplies from Thomas City and Gypsis City to the city of Moriente as soon as possible. Lorist gave two orders, and several of the guards hurried away.

"Tagger, send a message eagle summons, and ask Baron Schreed and Director Speer of the family territory to organize a transport fleet as soon as possible, and transfer the nearly one million pieces of Warcraft skins and all the inventory of daily necessities and commodities in the family territory to the island of Hilowas, waiting for my next order, and at the same time, let Baron Schreed and Director Speer bring a group of capable civilian officials to Morent City as soon as possible. ”

"Yes, Your Highness, I'll do it right away. Tugger replied.

"Wait, Tagger, send someone to inform the community organizations in the city of Morent that are in charge of the twenty-four districts of the outer city, and invite them to a symposium in my name, which will be set for nine o'clock tomorrow morning. Lorist stopped Targer.

Torin was the father of Tork, the deputy commander of the North Sea Fleet, and was only responsible for the logistics of the North Sea Fleet because of his age. This time, Lorist asked him to lead a dozen large armed warships equipped with bronze guns to block the mouth of the Zangjin Bay, and he did a great job.

Torrin was the first to arrive, followed by Jeders, and the last to be Berunek from the storage base outside the East Gate. Seeing them coming, Lorist also introduced to them the difficulties and the current situation faced by the family armed forces very straightforwardly, and then began to order.

"Uncle Tollin, you go to the fleet area, let Pachko cooperate with you, recruit a group of the remaining transport ships to Shiloas Island among the crews and sailors of those who surrendered, and let Pachko send a battalion to escort them, and take as many transport ships as they can, and they must leave by tomorrow afternoon. I give you twelve days to bring the grain from the island of Hilowas.

In addition, I will write you a warrant, if you meet Sambarwood's North Sea Fleet on the way, let him not come to the Golden Bay, and turn around and return to Shilois Island to complete this grain transportation mission, do you understand?"

This time, Lorist regretted that he had sent the surrendered crew and sailors of the Fourth Fleet and their relatives to the island of Hilowass the day before yesterday, and knew that he would set sail again today. The remaining crews and sailors in the fleet area now have either no family or relatives in their families who have died under the attack of the North Sea Fleet, and they are labeled as unreliable. It was risky to let Torin lead the convoy on this trip.

"Yes, Your Highness, rest assured, I will come back with food. Tollin said that time was precious, and he retired and immediately went to the fleet area.

"Jedus, you immediately seal off the trade area, start to search all the chamber of commerce's material warehouses, all the found goods are transported to the inner city, and the remaining materials are sealed and handed in, waiting for my next order. ”

"Yes, Your Highness," Jeders saluted.

"Berunette, you take a battalion to the Cristo Hills, not to collect grain, but to procure, whether potatoes or other coarse grains, all at half the market price. If the farmers there brought their own grain to the city of Morente, we would buy it at double the price, and we would also buy the cattle, sheep and livestock at double the market price. Also, I'm only giving you three days, you don't need to go deep into the Cristo Hills, you just need to spread the word about our purchases, understand?"

"Yes, my lord, I will do it immediately. Belunik said.

The next day, in a large conference room, Lorist met with the leaders of the Societies who had been invited, including Ledos, whom he knew, the former brother of Eldos. It's just that they haven't seen each other for more than ten years, and Ledos has a strange look in his eyes, and he doesn't greet Lorlist. After all, the fortunes of the two sides have been very different, and after El insists on following Lorliste, Ledos becomes the leader of the society. More than ten years have passed, Ledos is still the leader of the society, but Lorist has changed from a black iron mercenary to a famous sword saint in the continent, the Grand Duke of the Northland of the Kingdom of Antinac.

"Gentlemen, we of the Norton family have occupied the city of Morent for peace, not to plunder the wealth. Lorist cheekily said, regardless of whether these people here believe it or not. After a long time of saying the reason for forcing the business alliance to sign a peace agreement to occupy the city of Moriente in order to reach a permanent peace between the two countries, Lorist stated his purpose.

"We, the Norton family, pledge not to take all the inhabitants of the Outer Wards 24 captive, as long as they do not engage in any act of rebellion or rebellion. As I said earlier, we are only against the Chambers of Commerce that are involved innocent residents of Moldant City in this bloody war for their own ambitions, so even if we want to confiscate only the supplies of those Chambers of Commerce, it will not affect the residents of the 24th Ward of the Outer City.

Please be quiet, I know what you want to say, indeed, all the living materials and food distribution of the residents of the twenty-four districts of the outer city are in the hands of the various chambers of commerce, and if the materials of the various chambers of commerce are confiscated, millions of residents of Moldant City will be in a difficult situation and unable to survive. However, in order to show our sincerity in pursuing peace, we will not ignore these millions of residents, and all the materials of the Chamber of Commerce must be confiscated, but the confiscated living materials and grain and grass will be sold at a low price or distributed free of charge to all the residents of the 24 districts of the outer city......

Ladies and gentlemen, in the past, you were only responsible for the security, sanitation, taxation and other chores of the various communities, while the trade of daily necessities and food was in the hands of the major chambers of commerce. Now that there is no Chamber of Commerce, I hope that you can take on the heavy responsibility of solving the problems of the residents of the 24 districts of the outer city, and assist us in distributing or selling these daily necessities and food to the residents of the communities in charge of them, so as to maintain peace and stability in the 24 districts of the outer city......"

The corners of Lorist's mouth hooked an arc: "There is also good news, in three days, we will distribute a batch of grain free of charge to all residents in the twenty-four districts of the outer city, and each household can get ten catties of potatoes and one catty of salted dried fish per person according to the ration list of the household book, whether it is an adult or a child." At the same time, we will also take out the daily necessities confiscated by the various chambers of commerce and sell them to all the residents at a very low price, and the sale of these materials will be left to you. ”

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