In the past, the New Year passed, and spring was not far away. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

But this year's Oro Continent, the harsh winter seems to have no end. The extremely cold air blew from the north, and everywhere it passed, everything was frozen, and the royal capital, which rarely snowed, became an ice city. And the southern border, which has never encountered ice, has become a hell on earth.

A large number of displaced people poured from the island to the south, and only above the warm sea, there was still a trace of warmth. Moreover, there is a direct trade route between the island and the western border, and the town of Black Iron transports cold supplies over in exchange for a large number of marine fish as food.

The inhabitants of the fifty-eight islands are grateful for this life-saving trade route, and even more so for bringing it all to Renault and Tina. So, with Renault's support and Tina's efforts, the 58 islands finally put aside their previous prejudices and formed the South China Sea Alliance, with Tina as the first president of the Supreme Council.

The first thing she did was to carve out a desolate island, build a huge dockyard, and begin to build huge ships suitable for sailing on the sea.

If the cold invades further, Renault hopes that she will be able to continue to the south, looking for a warm earth.

Compared to the royal capital and the south, the northern and western kingdoms were obviously much better.

Although the north is the mouth of the cold snap, the abundant coal resources allow them to survive well in such a harsh environment. Moreover, Yale had a long-term vision, and had quietly stored food many years ago, and his life was quite comfortable compared to the busy royal capital and the southern border.

Of course, the people of the Western Kingdom were the most comfortable, and Renault's large-scale hoarding of supplies soon came in handy. The climate made agriculture impossible at all, and farmers who had nothing to do were gathered to clear the roads of snow and ice every day to ensure the flow of traffic, and some were mobilized to build bridges over the Nibel River.

The water of the Nibel River could no longer flow, and it was all solid ice. Fortunately, Renault started ahead of schedule and built all the piers, otherwise the plan to build the bridge would have been postponed indefinitely.

Others felt that since the river was completely frozen, it would be possible to cross directly from the river to the other side, and the bridge would lose its meaning. However, Renault felt that such a winter would not last long, and that there would always be a day when it would come in handy in the future.

Time passed quickly, and it was the height of summer in a blink of an eye. In the past, the Oro continent was at its hottest at this time, but now it is in a land of ice and snow.

The pedestrians on the streets have been completely cut off, and the houses scattered in the fields have turned people who have froze and starved to death into stiff ice sculptures. Only the rich aristocrats hid in their castles or manors to survive, living in fear.

Not only do they have to worry about their grain storehouses, but they also have to worry about the people who will become vicious bandits in order to survive. Many nobles in the south have long fled to the southern islands with their property, but in the South China Sea Alliance, no one recognizes their noble status, on the contrary, because the people of the South China Sea Alliance have been enslaved by them before, the nobles have not had a good time there.

Unable to bear the occasion, some people traveled to the Western Kingdoms on tractors carrying supplies, hoping to exchange their gold coins for land and food.

This time, Renault did not give the green light, and the landlord's family had no surplus food. He only provided them with a house to live in, but food or clothing required them to work to obtain it. In order to survive, these nobles had no choice but to accept their fate, and there were also some nimble people who were unwilling to become "low" farmers, so they started a business with their savings and turned from nobles to merchants.

Therefore, in the South China Sea Alliance and the Western Kingdom, the special class of nobility has begun to slowly fade or even disappear, and the status of people has gradually begun to become equal. Although many people feel aggrieved and unjust, they can only learn to bear the threat of freezing to death and starving to death.

As for those who are unwilling to accept these facts, no one cares about their lives and deaths.

In the blink of an eye, it was winter again, and after a year of complete consumption, Renault's granary had been emptied for more than half, and a lot of various materials that had been piled up had also been consumed. At this time, the farms built by Mira and Hailei began to open warehouses and deliver a steady stream of grain to the towns, and then began to distribute it from person to person.

As a result, the interior of the Western Kingdom is very stable, and people are even able to talk and laugh and face this natural disaster with a positive and optimistic attitude.

But the situation in the royal capital and the southern border is too bad, and there are almost no people on the entire land. Those who should have run have run out, those who didn't run have frozen to death and starved to death, and even in the outer city of the royal capital, dry corpses can be seen everywhere. At such a time, it is not easy for the royal family to raise more than 200,000 troops, where can they still have the energy to take care of ordinary people.

Even in the north, after a year, the situation is not very rosy.

Although Yale had been prepared, it was not very sufficient, and he underestimated the total consumption of a year. There was no income, only expenses, and the grain he had stored underground had long since bottomed out.

In order to preserve his own strength, he had to send emissaries to the Western Kingdoms for help, willing to exchange ten carts of coal for one cart of grain. The final price was set at fifteen truckloads of coal for one cart of grain, not that Renault took the opportunity to knock the stick, and for the Western Kingdoms, food was also quite a tight matter, because no one knew when this long cold winter would end.

When Percia heard about this, she also sent a messenger, hoping to buy Renault's food with gold coins, but he refused.

In a special time like this, what are gold coins?

For this reason, Bothia was very angry and threatened to send troops to attack Hammer City, but it was like a gust of wind, and it was okay to blow it.

In the bitter cold wind that lasted for a whole year, the only good news was that the Western Kingdom welcomed more than 30,000 young lives this year, which is probably the highest fertility rate in history.

Children represent the future and hope, and as soon as these little beings come into this world, they enjoy meticulous care with their mothers.

This is Renault's new policy to stimulate fertility, and population is too important for the future of Oro Continent.

Before the war with the aliens began, millions of people died from the ice and cold, almost half of the entire continent. If the war starts again, I don't know how many more will die.

Renault's purpose is clear, he didn't have time to save those lives, but he has to find a way to make the world a little more lively in the future.

This year, the factory in Black Iron Town was not idle, the motorcycle workshop was converted into a snowmobile workshop, and the weapons reserve did not stop for a moment.

Moreover, under Renault's continuous experiments, the rocket engine produced by Heitie Town has also made initial progress, and it has been able to manufacture missiles with a range of more than 200 kilometers.

The 50,000 guards were all armed with rifles, and the number of tanks increased to 500, and they trained in the ice and snow every day, always ready for the arrival of aliens.