The snow lasted for four days, enveloping everything in a silvery white, thick enough to touch a person's calf. The sky is still covered by dark clouds, and the goose feathers and heavy snow do not seem to stop at all.

The rare heavy snow covered most of the territory of the Qitian Empire, and the heavy snow brought great inconvenience, and the transportation of the entire Qitian Empire was blocked by the heavy snow, and all the caravan transportation, the movement of soldiers and horses, and the flow of personnel were broken. The Prayer Heaven Empire was frozen by this rare snow.

With the heavy snowfall being catastrophic, as transportation was disrupted and many medium-sized cities had to rely on food reserves to survive, it was going to be a very difficult winter.

This will be a very difficult time for the Qitian Empire in the midst of the storm.

For Huang Yuanwu, who now occupies the imperial capital, this is even more so.

Since Huang Yuanwu entered the imperial capital, he completely abolished the decree issued by Yang Qin at that time, resulting in a new look for the entire imperial capital, and the caravans of the surrounding provinces also resumed their passage, after several months of turmoil and fear, the people of the imperial capital seemed to finally see the dawn.

Because of the lockdown of the city in the previous few months, the food in the imperial capital has been exhausted, and after Huang Yuanwu took over the imperial capital, he immediately opened a warehouse to release grain, and at the same time required all merchants to open for business, and issued bereavement benefits to all the people in the imperial capital. In order to maintain the integrity of the Qitian Empire, Huang Yuanwu almost used up the inner treasury of the Qitian Emperor's clan, and in a few days, the imperial capital finally recovered some vitality.

At the same time, he still respected the new emperor and did not do anything to infringe on the emperor, which also made the people feel at ease, and the people began to slowly accept the fact that the Eastern Wangfu was stationed in the imperial capital.

But all this is not a long-term solution.

For Huang Yuanwu, he has almost done everything he wants to do, but after doing it, he finds that it is completely different from what he imagined.

When Huang Yuanwu led the army to the expedition, all he wanted was to avenge his father, praying for the Heavenly Empire and the imperial capital, which was not in his primary consideration at all. But after entering the imperial capital and capturing Yang Qin, Huang Yuanwu inspected the entire imperial capital, and saw the mess in the imperial capital and the deep pain of the people, and his thoughts changed greatly.

Yang Qin, the enemy who killed his father with his own hands, was pressed in the dungeon by Huang Yuanwu all the time, and he didn't look at it again until now.

In the face of the danger of the whole country, this hatred of oneself does not seem to be very important.

The moment he saw Yang Qin again, Huang Yuanwu didn't feel the anger of his departure, nor did he have the urge to rush up and kill him immediately, all this seemed to have become very natural, when the life and death of the enemy was caught in his hands, there was no anger like before.

Yang Qin, for the current Huang Yuanwu, is already a thing of the past.

The future of the Heavenly Empire is the most important thing now.

Although there are still many mysteries that have not been clarified, and although there are still many things that are confusing Huang Yuanwu, he can't take care of so much now.

The officialdom of the imperial capital, unsurprisingly, has been baptized by Yang Qin's blood, and many people with lofty ideals have been brutalized by Yang Qin, and now most of these remaining officials are people who succumb to Yang Qin's deterrence and dare not resist in the slightest. If you want to rely on their formation empire, it is simply a fool's dream.

However, now that everything is in ruins, Huang Yuanwu still reinstated these surviving officials and completely restored the operation of the imperial capital.

Just when he was trying his best to reverse the situation in the imperial capital, bad news came.

Huang Yuchen was taken away by the Red Rainbow Sect and entered the Red Rainbow Sect. Four Venerable Ones descended

Linping Jincheng, Xiao Yibo and Huang Yuchen were taken away together, and now in the entire high-level of Dongwangfu, only one of the remaining lives remains in the territory of Dongwangfu, and the four city lords have gone to the second.

Hearing the news, Huang Yuanwu did not show irritability or anger, on the contrary, he was very calm and responded quickly.

First of all, he immediately sent someone to send an order to recall Liu Yi, who was now inspecting the province outside, this person has a certain degree of internal affairs ability, and he is his right and left hand, and can assist him in many things out of the imperial capital. Secondly, Liu Yuan's guards immediately returned to the Dongwang Mansion, handed over to Yu Sheng, and transferred Yu Sheng to the imperial capital, and the internal management of the Dongwang Mansion was handed over to the newly appointed internal affairs official Jin Jingshan, and Liu Yuan was responsible for deployment and supervision.

Then, the army gathered near Pingjin City was immediately mobilized and returned to the original defense area, and now the situation in the imperial capital has become clear, and there is no need for a large number of troops to be assembled near Pingjin City, and at the same time, the construction of the city wall near Pingjin City was suspended, leaving it to resume work after the beginning of spring of the next year.

After Huang Yuanwu's several orders were issued, the system of the entire Dongwang Mansion immediately began to operate, and the instructions came out as soon as possible. Under the operation of Huang Yuanwu, within a few days, the imperial capital also slowly began to recover, the people began to go out one after another, the business resumed business, various industries resumed production, the trade road resumed, and all items began to circulate again.

After all this was done, this rare heavy snowfall fell on the sixth day.

Because the imperial capital was not in the geographical core of the Qitian Empire, the heavy snow in the east was more severe, and the snow disaster near the imperial capital was much smaller, but it still blocked the traffic and greatly hindered the caravan's movement.

In this way, the problem of maintaining a full stomach for millions of people in the imperial capital has become the most worrying thing for Huang Yuanwu at present.

In addition to the millions of people in the imperial capital, there are still more than 100,000 troops to be raised in the Dongwangfu, if you don't support the people, with the current inventory of the Dongwangfu, it is not a problem to survive this severe snowstorm winter, at least there will be no large-scale starvation to death, but now that the imperial capital is occupied, things will be different.

Neiku, because Huang Yuanwu wants to restore the hearts of the people, has been used seven-seven-eighty-eight. The only thing that the royal family can use now is the granary dedicated to the royal family, but even if the entire granary is opened, I am afraid it will not be enough for so many people to use it for a few days.

Previously, because of Yang Qin's reasons, the entire imperial capital was closed, and a few months had passed, and the grain and herbs stored in the city had been exhausted. Huang Yuanwu's previous measures were to open up trade routes to raise grain and grass to stabilize the people's hearts, but now the sudden heavy snowstorm has made Huang Yuanwu's previous plan almost fail.

No one will go through all the hardships and desperately to reach the imperial capital, and they will sell grain at the original price. The more times like this happen, the more people take risks, and it is not surprising that in the near future, the price of food will skyrocket, and if left unchecked, the catastrophe will intensify and eventually become uncontrollable, potentially leading to the collapse of the entire imperial apparatus.

The heavy snow is still falling, the imperial capital is on the edge of the snow disaster, and the snow has exceeded the calves of people, and the war horse cannot run long distances in such an environment, Huang Yuanwu thought of many ways to deal with it in his mind, but in the end he was vetoed by himself.

The snow covered everything underneath, and no conventional means could solve it.

It has only been a few days since Huang Yuanwu's order was issued, and now Yu Sheng and Liu Yi should not have received their own orders, and the first batch of caravans ordered to come to the imperial capital have not yet arrived, and the imperial capital of Qitian has been forced to close again.

Because of the previous measures of Huang Yuanwu, the current imperial capital, there has not been a riot, but there has been a hoarding of grain, and each business that sells grain has a limited supply of grain every day

The price has inevitably risen.

Although Huang Yuanwu ordered that the price of grain and other necessary materials should not be increased, otherwise he would be severely punished, but it was still impossible to guarantee the price of grain in the entire imperial capital. Anyone can see that the food in the imperial capital is running out of food, and at some stage in the future, there may be a situation of starvation, and at that time, riots will inevitably occur.

Even if there are still hundreds of thousands of troops in the hands of Huang Yuanwu, even if the soldiers of the Eastern Prince's Mansion are very loyal, in the face of such a disaster, human nature may be the most unreliable thing.

Huang Yuanwu had never encountered such a thing before, let alone dealt with it personally. This snow disaster is rare in decades, and it is even more difficult to catch up with the wind and rain of praying for the sky.

The supply of the army of Dongwangfu is enough for the entire army to use for more than half a month, and if there is no supply after half a month, the troops will fall into a situation of starvation, and if there is no solution at that time, the mutiny of the troops is almost inevitable.

According to Huang Yuanwu's estimate, if no solution could be found, the imperial capital would fall into famine within ten days, and possibly in panic and rebellion after ten days. However, after starving and losing his mind, he can no longer be called a human being. This kind of situation was seen more than once when Huang Yuanwu was fighting.

But now, there are not many choices in front of him, and in the current situation, he has no other way.

If you want to secure the imperial capital, there are two bloody roads to choose from.

First, slaughter the people, in order to reduce the population, prolong the life of the remaining people, if the population of the imperial capital is reduced by half, the remaining food is evenly distributed, enough to support another month, within this month, open up the left and right roads, the rest of the people will have a long time. But this path is something that Huang Yuanwu is absolutely unwilling to choose.

Second, conquest. Now immediately order tens of thousands of soldiers to go out on the march, attack the nearest provinces, plunder their food, and before they go out, the ratio of food and grass to the minimum for these soldiers. In other words, if this strategy is chosen, the sergeants of the Eastern Palace's mansion will turn into a dead army, and no people or animals will be left behind. But if this is done, the East Wangfu will lose its meaning of existence.

There is another way not to plunder the people of your own country, and that is to immediately gather a large number of troops, attack the enclave again, and plunder the resources of the enclave. Although this will save his own people and army, he is afraid that it will be too late in time.

In front of Huang Yuanwu, there are only a few roads.

Unless...... The snow on the road will melt on its own.

But, is this possible?

Huang Yuanwu stood in front of the palace hall, looking at the snowy sky in front of him, although he looked calm on the surface, he was extremely irritable in his heart.

These choices did not leave him any way back, and if he did, there was no way out.

He just thought that he had quelled the civil strife in Qitian, and in the blink of an eye, this civil strife was likely to be provoked by himself. If you do this, you will pray that there will be chaos in the sky and countless people will die. If you don't, famine will come, and countless people will die. No matter how Huang Yuanwu chooses, the current situation seems to be a dead end, and it seems that it will no longer work by relying on conventional methods.

The snowflakes kept falling, and there was no sign that it was going to end, and Huang Yuanwu let out a long breath, no matter what, now is the time to make a decision.

And at this time, a figure fell lightly on Huang Yuanwu's side.

"Don't take your decision lightly. A familiar voice came, and Huang Yuanwu suddenly turned his head and saw a familiar face.

Xu Xiuping.