Someone once said that the rain in Luozhou is like a little daughter-in-law who has just passed the door, and generally does not express love to Lang Jun, but once you let go of the reserve, the love over there will be endless, and people can't resist it.

When Mu Linyi and the others left the broken temple, Li Yi and the others stayed in the broken temple for two more days before the rain outside stopped.

Li Yi, Jing Zizheng and others couldn't help but sigh how good it would be if this rain could rain in the south.

It's a pity that this can only be a luxury.

According to Xu Yan's words, this is the Dragon King's partiality and sincerity not to leave a way for the southerners to live, so according to custom, it should be said that the Dragon King in the Dragon King Temple pulled it out and whipped it with a whip to let him know the anger of the people.

It's a pity that what he didn't know was that the dragon king statues in the southern arid areas of Dayu had been whipped with whips, and most of the dragon king statues had already been smashed by the hopeless people.

Even many Taoist temples were also affected, and the angry people rushed directly into the Taoist temples and pulled out the Taoist priests inside, forcing him to raise the altar and ask for rain.

It's a pity that these Taoist priests all ended up in failure, and their ending was not much better than those dragon king statues.

Many people who boasted that they were profound Taoists were eventually beaten with blue noses and swollen faces, and even more were directly sent to see the Taishang Dao Ancestor by the angry people.

Therefore, now the Taoist priests in the south can not go out without going out, and even if they go out, they will change out the Taoist robe that used to look as beautiful as it used to be.

However, Li Yi, Jing Zizheng and Mu Junhe knew that it would not rain on this day, whether it was whipping the statue of the dragon king or raising the altar, it would not work.

Because according to their master, Tai Jizi, this extreme climate that lasts for several years is actually a natural law.

This natural law erupts every few hundred years, and this extreme climate is accompanied by natural and man-made disasters.

At the same time, in the next few years after this drought in the south and the increase in rainfall in the north, the climate in the north will drop sharply, and the white plague in the north will become more severe.

At the same time, the Dayu Dynasty in the south will also face an even more severe reduction in food production, followed by a large-scale famine.

As a result, in the foreseeable years, the pressure on the back of the entire imperial dynasty will become even greater, and a large number of steppe tribes will collectively move south in order to survive, and large-scale peasant uprisings will break out in the south because of famine.

Under the situation of the north-south dilemma, the turmoil of the Dayu Dynasty will also intensify, if the Dayu Dynasty can survive the climate change period of more than ten years, the national glory of the Dayu Dynasty will be continued.

And this regular climate change is called the Xiaoice Age by the Thai pole.

For this reason, Li Yi also specially asked Tai Jizi if the Dayu Dynasty had a chance to survive this Xiaoice River this time, but Tai Jizi clearly told him that this time the Dayu Dynasty would not be able to survive no matter what.

As for the reason, Taijizi did not explain it on the grounds of heavenly chance.

During the two days of living in the broken temple, Li Yi and the others gradually became familiar with Mu Junhe and the nine people led by Xu Yan.

Under the leadership of An Su, Xu Yan and others as well as An Le also began to change their words to call Li Yi his son.

When everyone woke up on the morning of the third day, the sun that had not been seen for a long time finally showed its head.

When everyone walked out of the main hall, they felt that the air in the whole mountain became extraordinarily clear, and the fragrance of the earth mixed with the moisture moistened by the lungs of the people was refreshed.

The original cold and dry feeling disappeared, and the whole of Luozhou seemed to have suddenly entered early spring.

But Li Yi knew that in two or three days, the entire temperature would quickly drop to the point of dripping into ice, so they had to hurry up, otherwise the feeling of rushing in the cold wind was not something ordinary people could bear.

Although this heavy rain has raised the temperature in Luozhou and even most areas centered on Luozhou, it has also made the road of Li Yi and others more difficult.

Horses always get a deep foot when they step on dirt roads, and sometimes they even slip on the road.

As a result, they don't travel much faster than they can in the snow and ice.

When they reached the place where Los Angeles and Anju met, their speed was forced to slow down again.

It wasn't because of the weather, but because they had already moved out of the plains of Los Angeles and into the mountainous area.

Now he only needs to travel to the east to enter Anju.

Compared to Nakju, which is a flat river, most of the entire state of Anju is surrounded by mountains.

Therefore, Anzhou has rarely been a place of war since ancient times, and relatively speaking, the character of the people here is not as fierce and rude as that of other places in the north.

But everything has advantages and disadvantages, and the mountains on all sides of Anzhou have protected the people of Anzhou very well, but they have also become a barrier to prevent Anzhou from communicating with the outside world.

Therefore, the business of Anju is not very developed, and the number of merchants who come and go in Anju is relatively small.

It is for this reason that although Anju is mountainous, there are far fewer bandits here than in other places.

However, due to the war in the north and the famine in the south, a large number of people from both the north and the south poured into the relatively safe state of Anju.

As a result, Anju, which was relatively stable, began to become a little turbulent.

Especially during this period in the state capital of Anzhou, the displaced deserters who fled from the north and the rich families of the disaster victims in the south made the state city of Anzhou become a mixed and chaotic city.

This made the city lord of Anzhou Prefecture so worried that he couldn't sleep well all night, and even his newly married seventh concubine was not in the mood to make love.

He also had the same experience as the Anzhou Festival Envoy, and the reason why he had trouble sleeping was not because of the problems of the displaced people and the disaster victims.

The problem he faced was because the Dayu Dynasty gave him a difficult task.

Because Anzhou is surrounded by mountains on all sides, and these mountains produce a large amount of high-quality iron ore, Anzhou has also become the largest concentration of weapons in the Dayu Dynasty.

Since ancient times, Anzhou has provided a large number of high-quality weapons for various dynasties, so Anzhou is also known as "Artisan State".

Therefore, Anzhou has also become the place with the most craftsmen in the entire Dayu Dynasty, and at the same time, the craftsmen in Anzhou are also the most skilled in the Dayu Dynasty.

It can be said that it was these craftsmen in Anzhou who fed the whole Anzhou, and it is said that every year the Dayu Dynasty would transfer a large amount of grain, grass and property to Anzhou, just to ensure that Anzhou could produce a large number of weapons.

Originally, at the beginning of the year, the Dayu Dynasty had arranged for Anzhou to produce a large number of weapons in order to deal with the invasion of the northern grassland tribes, which made the craftsmen of Anzhou very busy, and they worked overtime day and night to complete their tasks at a fixed time.

Unexpectedly, some time ago, the grassland tribes in the northern border area broke through three city passes in a row, resulting in a large number of Dayu soldiers being killed, and the loss of weapons was also extremely serious.

Therefore, in order to deal with the next large-scale raid of the grassland tribes, the military department issued an order to provide a large number of weapons from Anzhou.

Among them, there were not only swords and weapons used by the soldiers, but also large ballistae and return cannons used to defend the city.

And the deadline given by the Ministry of War is also very anxious.

In fact, according to the division of rank and authority, Shi Fangzheng is the envoy of a state, and he can completely ignore the order of the Ministry of War.

And according to the rank, he and the military department Shangshu are both positive and second-grade, and there is no subordinate relationship between them.

However, he was completely different from the other knots, and he had a much smaller army than the other knots.

And the reason why his army is small is not because he has no money to support the army, nor is it because Anzhou does not have a source of soldiers for him to choose from.

The small number of his troops was entirely due to the fact that it was time to set up the Jiedu envoy in Anzhou, and the Dayu Dynasty strictly regulated the number of troops in Anzhou.

After all, no matter which emperor he is, he will not be assured that he has a well-armed and numerous military envoys.

What is even more crucial is that the entire Anju army has the advantage of weapons, and it has a geographical advantage.

Once the Anzhou Jiedu envoy had other ideas, it would be difficult to take it down even if the Dayu Dynasty sent a large army.

Therefore, reducing the number of troops in Anzhou has become the best means to curb the ambitions of Anzhou Jiedu envoys.

In addition, the backwardness of Anzhou's commerce is actually deliberately done by the Dayu Dynasty, after all, if there is one more means to control Anzhou, the Dayu Dynasty will not give up using it.

In addition to the number of troops and commerce, because Anzhou was mountainous, they also had to rely on other means of transportation, which also became the third means of the Dayu Dynasty to control Anzhou.

Therefore, Anzhou was put in these three shackles by the Dayu Dynasty, and Shi Fangzheng had to obediently obey the orders of the Dayu Dynasty.

It is precisely because of this that he Shi Fangzheng has become the most cowardly of all the festival envoys of Dayu, and is even privately called "the festival degree makes it shameful" by other festival envoys.

In the face of the emergency order issued by the Ministry of War, Shi Fangzheng has been busy recently, but so far they have only completed about half of the number required in the order.

But now that the grassland tribe is about to plunder in the south, the military department has sent several letters to urge Shi Fangzheng, which also keeps Shi Fangzheng awake every night.

Once he can't complete the task before the grassland tribe goes south to raid, no matter whether the Dayu Dynasty can resist the attack of the grassland tribe in the future, he will become a scapegoat.

And it is a trivial matter for me to become a scapegoat, and it is a big deal to lose my official position and resign, but the entire people of Anzhou will definitely be sanctioned by the Dayu Dynasty.

Anju, which has already become somewhat unstable due to the influx of a large number of displaced people from the north and south and the victims of the disaster, will add fuel to the fire.

At that time, the people of Anzhou will also fall into dire straits, which is unacceptable to him, the envoy of Anzhou.

After all, the duty of the Jiedu envoy is to shepherd one side, and if he is supported by the people of Anzhou, he must be worthy of the fathers and villagers of Anzhou.

Li Yi and his entourage originally planned to take advantage of Anzhou to repair for a day or two before going to the next state: Muzhou.

However, Yang Ping discussed with Li Yi that he needed to stay in Anzhou Prefecture for a few days, because he needed to visit some relatives and friends and take care of some personal matters.

In the face of Yang Ping's request, Li Yi readily agreed, after all, they are not in a hurry now, and it is not an interesting thing for them to be able to appreciate the customs and customs of Anzhou.

Li Yi and his entourage entered the territory of Anzhou, and the first thing they came into contact with was not the cities of Anzhou.

As they walked through the mountains and forests of Anju, they could see cottages in the mountains from time to time.

When he saw these cottages for the first time, Ansu immediately asked everyone to be careful and take precautions.

After all, for Ansu, cottages are associated with bandits.

But in this regard, Yang Ping said with a smile.

"Anjun, you are too worried, most of the cottages you see in Anzhou are not occupied by bandits, they are all built by the Anzhou government."

"The government builds cottages? Could it be that all the officers and soldiers live in the cottages? ”

Yang Ping's words surprised An Su and the others.

Because they had never heard of the government building a cottage for officers and soldiers to be stationed in.

"No, these cottages are not inhabited by Anzhou officers and soldiers, after all, the number of officers and soldiers in Anzhou is very small, and it is impossible to be stationed here."

Yang Ping's chubby face showed a smug look, after all, it was a very rare thing to be able to put on a dress in front of Li Yi, a great talent who knew astronomy and geography.

"So what is the government building these cottages for? Could it be that it is used to attract bandits? ”

An Su couldn't help but guess.

"An Jun is not joking, where will the government take the initiative to build a cottage for bandits? Isn't this unpleasant to find yourself! ”

Yang Ping couldn't help but be amused by An Su's thoughts.

"Actually, these cottages are for craftsmen to live in."

Yang Ping continued to explain.

"Why did Anzhou build such a cottage and let the stonemasons be stationed here? Does Anju need a lot of stones? ”

Li Yi observed for a while and asked, and after listening carefully, he could hear the sound of chisels hitting stones in the cottage, so he judged that these cottages should be all stonemasons.

"Actually, it's not, in fact, the stone mined here by these stonemasons is the best refined iron ore."

"So, these cottages are used to start iron ore?"

At this time, Ansu understood why the government of Anzhou had built so many cottages.

"All this iron ore was shipped back to be made into weapons, right?"

Jing Zizheng suddenly asked, he had originally read the statement that there were many craftsmen in Anzhou, but he didn't expect that there were so many craftsmen in Anzhou.

According to the number of cottages they saw and the size of the cottages, there were probably thousands of stonemasons among the cottages they saw alone.

In this way, the amount of iron ore mined by these craftsmen in a day can be imagined.

"Since these cottages are inhabited by stonemasons, I wonder if we can go in and have a look?"

It was also the first time that Hae-in had the opportunity to learn about the process of making weapons by Anju's craftsmen, and he was eager to learn how these craftsmen crushed hard iron ore into finely crushed ore powder that could be calcined.

You must know that it is very difficult to make iron tools in their Xianbei clan, and most of their iron tools are stolen from the Dayu Dynasty.

This is not to say that they don't have high-quality iron ore on the grassland, on the contrary, there are a lot of good iron ore buried under the grassland, but for the grassland tribes with backward productivity, it is difficult to mine this iron ore and then make it into iron materials that can be used to make weapons.

It is said that the grassland tribe has no shortage of blacksmiths, but these blacksmiths are not very proficient in how to make iron ore into iron on a large scale.