Chapter 175: Snow Disaster
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However, less than a month before the grain was ripe, a heavy snowfall that covered almost all areas of Qi Country came very suddenly......
Seeing this sudden heavy snowfall, all the grain growing in the fields froze to death overnight, and seeing this scene, countless civilians of the Qi Kingdom couldn't help but cry in despair when they looked at the grain covered by snow......
"Let's go, we must leave our hometown and go to a place that has not been affected by the heavy snow to survive......" Looking at the crops buried under the snow, some people couldn't help but leave their hometown and flee......
These people's idea is very simple, now the crops in their hometown are frozen to death, in this cold weather, if there is not enough food, their fate can only be frozen to death, now they can only flee to the place that has not been affected by the heavy snow to seek survival, even if those places that have not been affected do not have enough food, but at least it will not be as cold as their hometown, plus the food will be ripe in a month, no matter how they are, they will not starve to death......
This idea was approved by the majority of the people, so countless civilians packed up their belongings, carried the young children, mixed with the old people, formed a mighty escape team, and migrated to the rest of the Qi country......
These people's ideas are good, but they don't know that this heavy snow has covered almost all areas of Qi Country, and unless they escape from Qi Country, there is no place in Qi Country that they want to find......
But these civilians don't know this, they only know that staying in their hometown is a dead end, and if they want to live, they have to leave......
However, due to the lack of enough food, the elderly who were in poor health were the first to have problems, and they did not have enough strength to leave their hometowns and find a way to survive elsewhere......
"Kid...... Let's go...... Just let me leave this old bone in my hometown...... "Countless old people have made the decision to stay behind after their physical strength is exhausted, with their physical strength, even if they leave, there is not much chance of survival, it is better to stay here, at least they can return to their roots......
The children of the old people were naturally reluctant to meet the demands of the old people, so how could they watch their parents stay in their hometowns and wait for death? However, under the pressure of the old people to die, they could only bid farewell to the old man with tears in their eyes, and continued to embark on this road of escape from the famine with their young children in their arms......
The old people stayed in their hometown to wait for death, but fortunately, the heavy snowfall only fell once, and then the weather returned to the temperature of midsummer, and as the snow melted, these old people did not freeze to death......
But what if the snow melted? They still had no food on hand, and the hungry old people finally went to the fields and boiled the crops that had been frozen to death by the snow to satisfy their hunger......
With these crops, these old people will not starve to death, but this thing itself is not food, even if the young people eat too much, they may not be able to bear it, let alone these frail old people, so many old people die in the ordeal......
The young and middle-aged people who left their hometowns did not have a good time, and the food they could satisfy their hunger along the way was also the crops that were frozen to death, but unlike the old people in their hometowns, there were so many people who fled the famine that many people could not even eat the crops that were frozen to death......
Fortunately, these young adults are strong and can still support them to move forward, while those who can't adapt to it will stay on the road to escape forever......
The distribution of civilians in Qi is based on counties, and if the civilians in a county want to leave the city and rush to other counties, they must pass through the county seat, so that countless refugees converge towards the county seat of Qi......
When countless refugees came to the county seat, they discovered a serious problem, that is, from the perspective of refugees from other directions, it seems that other places have also been affected by the snowstorm......
At this time, the countless refugees gathered in the county were dumbfounded, they didn't know what to do next, it was not as good as outside the city from being in the county, at least they could find a little food to satisfy their hunger, but there were very few things to eat outside, and they couldn't last too long, so these refugees didn't know where to go for a while, so they stopped in the major county towns......
As more and more refugees grew, these refugees found some problems, that is, the grain merchants in the county town had a lot of food in stock, but they raised the price of food so high that these refugees could not afford it......
And I don't know where the news came from, when the military rations were levied, the king clearly asked for enough rations for them, but the result was that the local officials and grain merchants colluded and forcibly requisitioned all the grain......
As soon as this news came out, countless refugees became angry, and they attacked the government and grain merchants, and they wanted to get back their own food......
Although the number of refugees is large, after these refugees have come to the county seat after a long journey, they have been tortured and only have half their lives......
However, the situation of the refugees is that they are starving to death without food, so despite the heavy punishment imposed by the government on the rioters, the riots continue to ......
In the face of the disaster, the government not only did not help them, but they did not take out a grain to relieve them, knowing that most of the food was collected from them......
They don't know what it means to be the people of a country like this, to take their food, but to turn a blind eye to them when they suffer, that such a country is not what they want......
All of a sudden, because of the famine caused by this heavy snowfall, most of the people's hearts of the Qi country were destroyed, and at this moment, the people's hearts of the Qi country fell to the freezing point......
In Dingyuan City, Feng Yi looked at the rapid reduction of luck in the mountains and rivers, but he didn't have any way, this snow disaster came too timely, and now he was dragged in Dingyuan City, and he couldn't take any time to deal with these affairs......
"Is it really the heavens that are going to kill me?" Feng Yi looked up at the sky and muttered unwillingly......