In the past, famine would only occur between natural disasters, so the Chu people have always believed that famine is God's punishment for the world.

But this time, it was the first time that the people of Chu discovered that the famine could still be caused by thought.

As a result, all the spearheads were pointed at the king of Chu.

However, the court ordered Yin to help King Chu Kang speak, and transferred the contradiction to Li Yi, the initiator.

Ling Yin said that Changping was a spy sent by the Lu State, and the purpose was to bewitch the king of Chu and make a loom to cause a food shortage.

His reason was that Changping was a weaver, and there was no reason why he would know the art of carpentry.

In the carpenter's line, the skills have always been passed on to men but not women, Changping, a weaver's daughter, how can it be woodworking?

Therefore, she must be a spy sent by Lu State, the purpose of which is to induce this food shortage.

This reason is reasonable and well-founded, and it immediately convinced everyone, even Li Yi himself is difficult to argue.

The skills of this era are all inherited by the family, and he has no teacher, which is the biggest doubt in itself.

King Chu Kang also agreed with this reason, and planned to kill Changping to make the people angry.

Li Yi had a chance to escape, but he did not flee, but let the guards of the King of Chu bring him to the King of Chu Kang.

In the face of King Kang and the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, he defended himself.

He admitted his mistake, he really did not expect that a few dozen looms could trigger a food shortage that swept the entire country.

But he did not admit that he was a spy sent by the Lu State, because the top carpenter of the Lu State could not build the loom he designed.

Regarding his explanation, neither Ling Yin nor King Kang refuted it.

However, now is no longer the time to argue about right and wrong, the problem now is the lack of food, once the food shortage appears, the Chu people are starving everywhere, it will definitely cause turmoil, the enemy country is likely to take the opportunity to attack, and the Chu country is also at risk of overturning.

Therefore, even if Changping is really not a spy, she has to be killed in order to appease the people's grievances.

Li Yi also knows this truth, but he pointed out that the most important issue at the moment is not to quell public grievances, but to find a way to solve the food crisis.

However, King Kang and the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty also knew that the most important thing now was to solve the grain problem, but it would take half a year for a season of grain to go from planting to maturity.

However, Chu and several vassal states have caused a shortage of grain due to the conversion of mulberry hemp, and even if they open a warehouse to release grain, there is no way to solve the problem of food shortage.

Li Yi immediately proposed that he was willing to send envoys to the Jin State and other marquis states with a guilty body to borrow grain.

This proposal is ridiculous, because the state of Chu is at war with the state of Jin, why should it borrow grain from the state of Chu?

But King Chu Kang still agreed to this proposal.

He knew very well that killing Changping was just a helpless move to treat the symptoms but not the root cause, and if Changping could really borrow food to solve the problem of food shortage, then he was still willing to gamble.

Subsequently, King Chu Kang sent his own guards to escort Ling Yin and Li Yi to the Jin State as an envoy.

Li Yi also took the opportunity to meet the King of Jin and asked the King of Jin to borrow grain.

King Jin had also heard about what happened in the Chu State, but after personally confirming the news, he was also surprised.

Hearing Li Yi talk about the kind of machine that can weave cloth by himself, he was very moved, and immediately proposed to use that kind of machine to exchange for grain.

Chu Guo ordered Yin to refuse, but Li Yi agreed.

Human life is at stake, as long as food shortages can be avoided, the looms will be replaced.

The matter itself started because of the loom, and it should be solved with a loom.

Chu State Ling Yin couldn't bear to see such a sharp weapon fall into the hands of the enemy country, but he was helpless.

In the end, after negotiation, the state of Chu was willing to exchange five looms for 50,000 stone of grain.

Subsequently, King Chu Kang sent someone to send a loom, but the king of Jin rebelled and refused to borrow grain, and proposed to let Changping, the daughter of the best weaver in Chu State, weave a never-before-seen brocade for him to make royal clothes.

Li Yi knew that he was deliberately delaying time, just to consume as much food as possible from the Chu State.

But seeing the famine everywhere, he could only respond.

But just as he was about to start his move, he suddenly returned to the eight-sided tablet space.

Looking at the eight-sided monument in front of him, Li Yi was in a somewhat complicated mood.

He didn't expect that he would stay in the eight-sided monument space for so long this time, nor did he expect that it would cause so many waves in the space.

According to Changping's memory, she weaved an unprecedented five-color ginseng flower brocade silk, with Zhou Tian Xingshu on it, which was extremely exquisite, but light and thin as a cloud.

Unsurprisingly, the King of Jin still refused to borrow grain, and at that time the Chu State was already full of famines.

Grief and indignation, Chang Ping set himself on fire, then held the brocade silk, rushed into the weaving room, and turned into ashes along with the loom sent by the Chu State.

Looking back on Changping's memory, Li Yi was in a trance for a while.

He didn't know if these memories came from him or from Chang Ping.

According to the last experience, his actions in the dream space may have an impact on reality, so are those who were affected by the appearance of the water-powered loom, and then starved, or even starved, really existed in history?

With his thoughts flying, he looked up at the slightly damaged monument in the center in front of him, and his expression was a little struggling.

Suddenly, he seemed to have made up his mind.

Raising his hand to puncture his finger, he pressed his finger directly to the tablet.

The next moment, his figure appeared in a deserted countryside.

Under his feet is a barren grass spreading, with withered leaves, and there is a dense forest under him.

Syllable!

There was a faint sound of whipping.

Hearing the sound, Li Yi quickly rushed towards the source of the sound, and after a while, he came to a small road.

A procession approached the end of the trail, led by a soldier on horseback, followed by a two-horse carriage followed by several ox carts.

Behind the ox cart, there were more than 100 women with vegetables walking.

Seeing this familiar scene, Li Yi's heart moved.

Isn't this the scene where he just possessed Changping?

He was behind a bush, just hiding his figure.

After searching the back of the ox cart, he saw Chang Ping's mother on the last ox cart.

She was kneeling beside the ox cart, raising her hand to wipe her tears with her sleeve, and Changping was lying on her lap.

Suddenly, as if she had discovered something, Changping's mother leaned down, and then began to cry.

After crying for a while, a man's head poked out of the carriage in front of him and looked back.

Then he gave his command, and the carriage stopped.

Li Yi could see clearly that this man was Cheng Gonggong, the highest-ranking one among these hostages.

After Gongheng got out of the car, he came to the rear ox cart, looked at the crying Changping mother, and then asked an old man behind him to come forward and take a look.

The old man stepped forward to check it, shook his head, and Changping's mother's cry suddenly became louder.

Gong Heng Chong escorted the general of the Chu State said something, and the general of the Chu State arranged two soldiers, carried Changping off the car, and put him on the side of the road.

The convoy then moved on, while the two soldiers dug a hole on the side of the road.

Changping's mother cried miserably, but she could only continue to move forward with the convoy, turning back three times at a time.

Seeing this scene, Li Yi was stunned.

Is Chang Ping dead?

And who was he possessed before?

Looking at Changping on the ground, Li Yi observed suspiciously.

Suddenly, he saw Changping lying on the ground as if he had moved.

Seeing this, Li Yi hurriedly walked out from behind the bushes and walked towards Changping.

When he walked in, the soldier who was digging the pit noticed the movement, looked up and saw him, immediately raised his weapon vigilantly, and asked, "Who are you?" ”

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