As the defending side, they have an advantage, far faster than the attacking side in terms of troop and material transportation.

Compared to the attacker's army, which takes a long time to travel for every troop movement, the defender's advantage lies in the efficiency of its own territory.

But now, the situation within his empire is not happy for Arken Jingo.

"Emperor, now in the empire, we have collected all the grain that can be harvested. However, under this circumstance, at most this winter, there will be another famine within the empire. Moreover, the scale should also be larger than before. I'm afraid that after the winter, millions of people will starve to death. ”

The minister, who was reporting to Alken Kingo, had a bitter look on his face.

When Arken Jingo heard this, he sighed a little helplessly.

After a pause, he continued: "I know, you go down first, I will solve this matter." ”

Alken Kingo interrupted the official with a direct wave of his hand.

"Yes."

The empire's food production itself is not optimistic, and now because of the war, food production is decreasing year by year.

At the same time, he recruited a large number of young and middle-aged people to join the army, which caused the productivity of some industries within his empire to decline.

This terrible situation forced Arken Jingo to control all the food in his own hands.

This was done in order to provide a stable food resource for their own army on the one hand, and to control the famine on the other.

This is actually a very normal thing, in special periods, if people are allowed to buy food by themselves, then taking into account various factors, many people will choose to buy a lot.

Anyway, it is better to be able to store food for a long time without going bad than to be really hungry at that time.

But it is precisely because of this practice of these people that other people will not be able to buy food.

In this way, it is bound to be detrimental to the internal stability of the empire.

Therefore, in the face of the current situation, Arken Jingo directly took a ruthless hand and collected all the grain that could be harvested, and then distributed it uniformly by the empire.

Everyone has a bowl of water, so as to ensure that everyone can get a bite to eat to the greatest extent, and there will not be a situation where some people have a village association at home, and some people have been out of food for several days.

Although this method is a bit troublesome, but in the current situation, he has no choice.

But even in this state, according to the detailed calculations of several departments under his command, the food hoarded within the empire this year is still not enough.

Helpless, Alken Jingo could only find the players he had bought food, urging them to do more faster, and then said that he needed to buy another batch of food.

Eventually, after some haggling, Arken Kingo was bleeding again and bought a new batch of grain from the guys.

The minister left the palace quickly, and outside, his car was already waiting there.

As soon as the driver saw him come out, he also hurriedly got out of the car, and stretched out his hand to take the briefcase in the minister's hand.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, the minister's hand suddenly moved.

"You are?"

"Sir, my name is Cage, and I'm Hank's cousin, and my cousin is sick today, so I'll drive for him for the time being."

"Cage......

He whispered the name in his mouth, and the minister didn't actually have any impression of it.

After all, how could he, a minister of state, care about a driver's family situation.

Out of caution, the minister did not hand Cage the briefcase in his hand, but bent down and got into the car.

After he got into the car and sat down, the sedan slowly started and drove towards the minister's residence.

Along the way, there was nothing to do.

Looking at the old butler who came out to greet him, the minister asked him as he walked towards the house, "Hank, is he sick today?" ”

"Yes, sir, Hank had a high fever last night, so he asked his cousin Cage to drive for him temporarily."

"Hmm."

The minister, who had received a definite answer, nodded casually, quickly put the little episode behind him, and then walked all the way to his study, and motioned for the old butler to make him a pot of coffee and bring it in.

Next, he was obviously busy.

On the other side, after Cage parked the car, a smile of unknown meaning appeared on his face.

Of course, this faint smile disappeared the moment he got out of the car, and once again regained his honest and honest appearance.

In the middle of the night, the lights in the minister's mansion gradually went out, and a figure in a black tights quickly took advantage of the night.

He moved lightly, his feet on the aisle, but he barely made a sound.

The man in black moved extremely quickly, and soon approached the minister's study.

After quickly confirming the surrounding situation, the figure carefully put his hand on the handle of the door lock in the study, and slowly exerted force, so that the handle of the door lock began to rotate slowly.

Let's try it soon, everyone. 】

But the ensuing sense of barrier made him realize that the door was locked.

But this was to be expected, and the man in black was not surprised.

He took out a small prop and stabbed it into the keyhole, and after a few breaths, the lock of the door was easily opened.

Then, he quickly slipped through the crack in the door, closed it again, and even locked it again.

The man in black didn't turn on the light, and the small flashlight in his hand was his light source.

His gaze was locked directly on the desk, and after neatly opening the small locks of several desk drawers, he quickly found the document he was looking for.

The document was opened, but it was written in dense Nordic language, but this did not bother the man in black.

He read the contents of the document quickly, memorizing it all in his head.

At this moment, a sound of footsteps suddenly came from a distance, which made his hand move, and his first reaction was to turn off the flashlight, and then quickly put the file in its place.

The pitch-black environment did not affect his movements.

Footsteps from the hallway outside the door were getting closer, and a few seconds later, with the sound of a key inserting into the lock, the closed door was opened from the outside.

Smack.

As the switch was pressed, the electric light in the room instantly illuminated the entire study.

The minister glanced around the study, then walked to the desk.

Maybe it's because the pressure on his body has been too much recently, so he has often lost sleep recently, and tonight is also because of an inexplicable uneasiness, so he can't help but come to the study.

He tried to pull the drawer, but he didn't, which meant that the lock of the drawer was still intact, and the same was true of the door lock in the study, which made the minister visibly relieved, and felt that he had been a little too sensitive lately.

After some inspection and confirmation that there was nothing unusual, the minister couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief and left the study again.

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Daxia City.

On this day, Xia Qi was trying on the latest research results of the Ordnance Research Department, that is, the armor made from the outer armor of the giant rhinoceros beast.

But to be honest, this thing is so hard that even the dwarven craftsmen with the racial talent bonus have spent years researching and using the power of a lot of bulls and tigers to finally adjust and forge the outer armor of this giant rhinoceros to a certain extent.

Now the armor that Xia Qi wears on his body is the result.

Truth be told, this thing looks like a stall from the outside, and it can't compare to the armor he wore before.

Although it is at least ten times better in craftsmanship than the armor of the orc race, if it is calculated according to the standards and requirements of their armor in Great Xia, it can only be described as "rough" and "simple".

However, even the dwarven craftsmen can't change the skin into any shape at will.

Therefore, Xia Qi, who was wearing this armor, could clearly feel a sense of stagnation in some parts when he was carrying out activities.

At the same time, there are some structures that will poke him, and the comfort of wearing is basically zero.

But even so, they can't deny the greatest advantage of this armor, which is its strong defensive capabilities.

As long as you wear this armor, you can basically ignore the bullets flying around the battlefield to a large extent, and you can resist the attacks of grenades.

This point, although green iron and green steel can also do, it is undeniable that this thing is much lighter than bulletproof alloy.

As for the fact that the cannonballs can withstand this matter, it is still the same sentence, even if the armor is fine, but the powerful impact caused by the cannonballs at that moment is enough to kill the armor wearer.

This is true even for the stronger orcs.

"Is this the only way to do it at the moment?"

Asking Yuan Ye and Luo Xiaohei on the side to help him remove the armor on his body, Xia Qi couldn't help but rub the joints everywhere.

As the supreme person in charge of this project, Gondor said helplessly: "Yes, Your Majesty, this is already the limit at present, and there may be a better way on the enemy orc's side, but we don't know." ”

Obviously, as a dwarf who was extremely demanding in forging, Gondor wasn't very happy about this, but there was no other way around it.

In this regard, Xia Qi thought for a moment and said: "Then let's do this for the time being, according to this, start the manufacture of a new type of armor, and I will ask someone to send you the rest of the giant rhinoceros outer armor." You go back and count how many sets of armor you can make, and then write a report. ”

"Weichen takes the order!"

The outer armor of the giant rhinoceros beast, Xia Qi actually had a lot of it in his hand, a large part of it was taken from those orc captives and corpses, and the other part was from the corpses of the three giant rhinoceros beasts that they had killed.

Although the outer armor was severely damaged by the dragon's breath attack of Phantom, there are still a lot of intact parts, and there are still a lot of things that can be used when you deal with them.

After receiving Xia Qi's order, all departments instantly began to react quickly, and Gondor's side also submitted a report three days later.

Xia Qi looked at this report, and nodded his head from time to time, looking quite satisfied.

At this moment, a figure walked quickly into the hall.

"Your Majesty, this is the latest news from the spy we have planted in the enemy country."

Mao Xiang, who had just stabilized the situation in the Southern Empire a few months ago and had just returned to Great Xia City, was once again engaged in busy intelligence work.

Luo Xiaohei, who was on duty today, quickly took the report from Mao Xiao's hand with his own pair of short legs, and then presented it to Xia Qi.

Xia Qi looked at the contents of the report, and then a gloating smile suddenly appeared on his face.

"Food crisis? That's terrible......"

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