Chapter 187: Food Crisis
On the second day after the grain delivery team left Great Xia City, Great Xia once again ushered in a player invasion.
It is worth mentioning that both invading and being invaded have cooldowns, but they are different. In other words, players can invade other players immediately after being hacked.
In the face of the new invading players, Xia Qi suddenly felt quite bad, deliberately ignoring the war-free token, letting other players crash in, and increasing his civilization points and treasure chests.
Looking at this snowstorm, Xia Qi didn't have to think about it to know how collapsed the hearts of the players on the other side should be at this moment.
But this kind of weather advantage should be taken advantage of.
This snowstorm is blowing more and more fiercely, so that Daxia can't develop, and the losses in it have to be made up for from other places.
With this in mind, before the cooldown of invading other players was about to pass, Xia Qi began to think about who to invade next.
At this time, relying on the snowstorm, Xia Qi, who had no pressure to defend the city, simply did whatever he wanted.
As soon as the cooldown of the invasion battle passed, Xia Qi casually selected a player, and then clicked on the invasion.
In terms of troop allocation, it is still the same as the previous one.
Of course, this configuration will not change, but people do have to change the batch.
Inexplicably, Xia Qi's invasion battles actually played a role in training. At the same time, it is also to avoid continuous fighting, so that the soldiers accumulate a sense of war weariness.
Today's Xia Qi, in the same rank, as long as he doesn't meet some ruthless characters, it is difficult for most players to resist him.
For the next period of time, Xia Qi kept invading other players and plundering supplies.
Each time, the players who were invaded by him were breached two or three cities in a row in a very short period of time, and the support in the city was half empty, and the city defenders and city lords were kidnapped.
As for the reinforcements, Xia Qi didn't fight them at all.
While plundering a wave of supplies, he was also able to bargain for a wave of ransom on the other side.
Xia Qi's approach made those players who were invaded by him helpless.
As long as you are not a player of a special civilization, you can't beat him at all.
How is this going to work?
On the other side, it is clear that they are coming for supplies.
The materials were robbed, which really made them hate their teeth, but Xia Qi had room after all.
Of course, the most important thing is that the strength of the one named Xia Qi is too fierce, they can't beat it!
If you think about it, it's better to admit it.
However, not everyone can keep their senses, and among those who have been invaded by Xia Qi, there will definitely be a few who can't swallow that breath.
But even if a very small number of players are angry and gather their soldiers and horses to carry out a counter-invasion of Xia Qi, it is just to give him another civilization point and treasure chest.
For this reason, a group of players hated him so much, and it was the first time they had seen such a dog!
There are a lot of players in the Bronze Rank, so things like this are constantly happening, so Xia Qi can win all the way and make a lot of money.
The more civilization points on his body are fighting, the richer he becomes, and at the end of the fight, he has even accumulated millions of civilization points.
Looking at the millions of civilization points on his body, Xia Qi became more and more unsteady, and finally decided that it was better to spend some.
The money came too quickly, so it didn't hurt to spend it.
Hundreds of thousands of civilized things, Xia Qihua didn't even blink his eyes.
So much so that even players in other ranks know that there is a big dog in the bronze rank.
However, when they learned about Xia Qi's achievements, they dispelled the thoughts in their hearts.
High-rank players can't invade low-rank players, but Bronze rank players, except for the big guys in front, no one really dares to say that they are foolproof against Xia Qi.
In this way, Xia Qi spent a period of time very peacefully.
Time flies, and the blizzard finally stops.
This winter is much earlier than in previous years, but looking at the posture, it doesn't look like it's going early.
And because the sun is out, the melting of the ice and snow absorbs a lot of heat energy, so that the current temperature is still decreasing.
Fortunately, after the snowstorm stopped, most of the posts in Daxia could resume operation.
For example, the first thing to do is to clear the snow.
Of course, this is just a matter of clearing the snow inside the castle and the roads that connect the castles.
As for other places, Xia Qi will not clean them up.
After personnel exploration, the snow in some places in the field has even reached more than one person's height, so why should it be cleaned up with such a perfect natural barrier?
At present, the losses of each city have been summarized, and Xia Qi has a headache.
The snowstorm had been falling for so long that the snow on the roofs had not had time to clear, and some of the buildings could not hold up, so they collapsed.
Many people were stoned to death on the spot before they had time to escape, and some people who were not stoned to death were also frozen to death and frostbitten.
Although the city lord's mansion resettled these people, it still suffered heavy losses. Property is trivial, but those collapsed buildings need to be rebuilt.
At present, there are a total of 28 cities in Great Xia, except for Great Xia City, other cities have collapsed houses, and when summed together, it is also a very large amount of work.
The only good news is that there are no construction plans in Daxia at the moment, and the engineering team is on vacation.
When the warrant for Xia Qi to build new houses and to build sanatoriums in every city was handed to the Minister of Works, the minister, who was only thirty years old but looked nearly fifty, once again had the idea of running away with a bucket.
Since he became the head of the engineering department of Daxia, he has not rested for a day!
It's only been a few days, and then he has been assigned such a big project?
But complaining is complaining, but the work still has to go on......
The so-called sanatorium is to agree to the placement of sick people, and there are special personnel to take care of them, so as to have a better environment for recuperation. Of course, the most important thing is to isolate them so that they don't get the disease and infect more people.
As the secretary general, Zhang Liang flipped through the report in his hand, and while writing down the handling plan ordered by Xia Qi, he was also continuing his report.
"Your Majesty, according to statistics, in the fields of each city, those crops are basically frozen to death. But because the weather is very cold now, the soil is frozen hard, and even if you want to replant, you have to wait until spring. In the short term, it may be difficult for agriculture to recover. ”
Moreover, this winter is so cold that if there is another snowfall, the situation will only get worse.
"At the same time, many people have no surplus food at home, and the stocks of grain stores in various cities have also been snapped up."
Leaning on the office chair, Xia Qi, who was listening to the report, nodded slightly, which was obviously what he expected.
"Open the granary, replenish the stock of the grain store, and then build a porridge shed at the door of the restaurants in each city, distribute hot porridge, and then call someone to calculate how long the grain hoarded in the granary of each city can last."
"Yes, Wechen will do it."
Zhang Liang's work efficiency is very high, and it didn't take long for a calculation result to be delivered to Xia Qi's eyes.
One month, the current hoarding of grain in Great Xia can only last another month.
He did emptieth the granaries of many players some time ago, but he also had a large population in Great Xia!
Originally, Xia Qi thought that Great Xia had bid farewell to the food crisis, but he didn't expect a snowstorm to knock him back to his original form.
The only fortunate thing is that Xia Qi still has Mingzhu, a big grain merchant.
However, he has no plans to trade with him at the moment, and he can handle the current situation.
The self-sufficiency of a civilization is the greatest guarantee.
After careful consideration, Xia Qi decided to take advantage of the fact that this natural barrier was still there, and then invade another wave of players.
Otherwise, when the snow outside the territory melts in the spring of the next year, he will have to consider the problem of defending the city.
After the garrison troops of the border cities are arranged, how can there be any extra troops for him to take out to wave?
With such an idea, Xia Qi decisively ordered the men and horses to go out again.
And during his absence, Great Xia was going to continue to run.
For example, the two cities located in the north of Qingyan City, which are used for grazing, are located on the prairie, and they are even farther away from Daxia City. By the time their urgent report came, Xia Qidu had already been with the other players for several days.
After reading the content of the emergency report, Zhang Liang's two eyebrows were directly twisted into a ball.
These two cities were used for grazing, and because of their remoteness, they were far less developed than those in the south.
Xia Qi took this aspect into account, and specially asked people to pull a lot of grain and grass over. As a result, the convoy transporting grain and grass was also targeted by horse thieves, causing a lot of losses.
Now another bad news has come, the previous snowstorm has caused heavy losses to the livestock of the two cities on the grassland.
It stands to reason that there will be no shortage of food for a short period of time in these two cities, but the problem is that the two cities are located further north, so they face more wind and snow.
The warehouse was crushed by snow, and the food inside was even blown outside the castle by the snowstorm.
It is also by eating the flesh of dead animals that they have survived until now.
Not only the rations of these two cities, but also the fodder for horses, cattle and sheep were also seriously insufficient.
These questions directly made Zhang Liang's head grow again.
After leaving Qingyan City, it was across the border of Great Xia, and Zhang Liang couldn't imagine what the snow over there looked like.
Transporting grain and grass between the northern cities, and relying on mammoths and yaks to make a few more trips.
But the grassland city is different, the road is too far, the efficiency is too slow, and the amount of food needed is also extremely large.
All of a sudden, Zhang Liang was embarrassed.
At this time, unless a convoy of grain is directly dispatched to pull a large amount of grain at one time, otherwise, the grain will not be enough at all.
It is too far to reach the two grassland cities from Great Xia City.
After thinking about it, Zhang Liang could only use some of his own methods, such as transporting grain to the grassland city one by one.
However, the grain was first transported to Qingyan City, the closest to the two grassland cities, and after hoarding a large amount of grain, it was transported to the two grassland cities respectively.
In this way, you can also save some time.
At the same time, the urgent report sent this time also mentioned the matter of sending additional guards to prevent the grain convoy from being plundered by horse thieves on the way.
Zhang Liang is not worried about the problem of horse thieves, he uses mammoths and yaks to transport grain!
The force value of this grain transport team itself is quite strong, and the average horse thief is estimated to be unable to help them.
However, just in case, Zhang Liang decided to send a cavalry team.
After a day of preparation, early the next morning, the grain convoy began to set off.
Dozens of yaks, all pulling a huge climbing plow behind them, and in such a cold and snowy environment, the climbing plow is much better than a car.
There was a vast white snow everywhere in sight, and where the cavalry team passed, a snow wave was directly set off.
It's also a shame that after the integration of orc civilizations, the physique of the war horses has been enhanced, otherwise, it is really unbearable.