Chapter 264 The Great Famine and the Prelude to War [Two-in-One]

Author: Leader of Tofu Brain Salted Party

Chapter 264 The Great Famine and the Prelude to War [Two-in-One]

In September of the fourth year of the Asxia calendar, people were fed together.

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The sky was swallowed by the hot sun, and there was no cloud to cover its heat. The land was dry and cracked, and no grass grew.

Skinny people search for food everywhere, and bloodthirsty poisonous insects and wild animals have become their daily targets.

Men, women, young and old who were once very different from wealth, as long as they were not nobles, they all fought for each other for a little food to eat, and were deeply trapped in the quagmire of famine.

People were so hungry that some of them had to take up their farm tools and enter the dark forest to poach the lord's wealth;

Some evils start from their hearts and slash at the weaker ones, and start to rush around the countryside, doing everything they want to steal anything that can fill their stomachs;

Some of them were eroded by the hungry intestines of mad dogs and extended their hands to their similar ones...

Mountainous bodies in towns and in the wilderness gradually rotted in the drought and hot weather, emitting the stench of carrion tissue.

Plague is also brewing in this world that is like hell.

This is not a special case of one country and two countries, but a general tragic situation on the entire continent.

It’s not that Zhong Ming has such a skill in the trade war, but that the ice and snow goddess is eroded and polluted half of the “temperature” authority.

Even though Frostia is trying hard to restore distorted authority and adjust the temperature environment of the material world, the climate has remained very unstable in the past three years.

Even though Mother Earth and Goddess of Nature promised a good agricultural harvest environment on earth, the God of Sea controls the weather and rain. Without the "hot" links in the water and heat conditions, the agriculture on earth has not been very good for three years.

It can be said that overall it does not advance but retreats.

The Ice and Snow Goddess is in retreat recently to cleanse the pollution of authority and strive to solve the problem.

Losing the active temperature regulation of the Ice and Snow Goddess, affected by the remaining one-fifth of the pollution authority, Zoya World showed a large-scale climate anomalies in the second half of this year.

Those tenacious and strong races live in the underworld, hell, abyss... and a merely abnormal climate is not worth a joke.

But it is hard to say that the races in the material world, especially humans who mainly farm, are affected.

In severe drought and high temperature.

The central continent has always been rich, even if it is completely eliminated... Well, that can't be taken. However, with the help of the two emperors and eight kings in the central continent, the impact will not be considered a damaging force.

Trade in the western continent is booming, and the adjustment of marine climate is the most obvious. The 36 kingdoms led by the head can withstand the overall losses.

There are many water veins in the eastern continent, and there is also the "top of the gods" known as the ancestor of the water veins. In addition, the saving habits that the eastern continent has always had, although the disasters suffered by the three eastern empires are painful, they also hold on.

The southern continent has fertile soil, and technology has always been the first to be carried out in the mainland before Zhong Ming appeared, and water conservancy projects are also the most developed. The southern continent led by the five southern empires also survived this drought.

Even so, there are countless small countries with poor disaster resistance such as the Principality and Bo Kingdom, which have become unmanned forbidden zones. After all, the size and mobilization power cannot be compared with that of a strong country, and the ability to resist risks is not enough, and it is not surprising that the losses are heavy.

The Northern Mainland is in trouble.

Since the collapse of the "Vatican of Light", the foundation of the God of Light Aleji has naturally been "careful" by the winners.

All the human kingdoms that were closely linked to the "Empire of Light" before the disintegration disappeared without exception in the "unnamed" accident and were once again dismembered into a large number of small countries. The largest in the Northern Continent was the Kingdom of Winkrel.

Originally, according to the overall cold climate of the Northern Continent, this wave of temperature abnormality had the lowest impact on it.

But all of them are small countries, their ability to resist disasters is not strong and they don’t save enough. There is also a mysterious person who secretly relies on the productivity of industrial countries to dismantle their agricultural system.

The result is naturally disastrous.

The small and medium-sized nobles in the Principality can also ensure the food and clothing of the whole family, while the small nobles who were severely affected by the disaster in the Bo Kingdom will start to starve.

In order not to starve to death, or to watch the territory transform into a dead land on earth, six young Bo Kingdoms have taken the lead in taking the initiative to join and incorporate Yaxia.

The territory of Asia Xia once again increased by more than 500,000 square kilometers, reaching about 2.3 million square kilometers, and an additional 18 million hungry people.

This is still the number of people who have screened out a group of old and weak after the disaster situation...

The situation of other small countries can be seen.

The Duchy of Dimen believed in the goddess of Silver Moon, and obviously did not bring much help to her people. The reduction of agricultural land and the disconnection of smuggling trade in Asia and the countries have tightened their food exports, and the situation is not optimistic.

It is useless to believe in the sun god Alor. It is not very useful to let Alor consume huge amounts of divine power and reduce the light in Vized’s territory, right?

Before, Vized had been the most fiercer to imitate new Asian Xia weapons, and the most popular products were used to trade with Asia Xia. This was already a big deal. In the territory of the Grand Duchy of Vized, an uprising army rebelled under the slogan of "God's Wrath".

The disaster in the Principality of Mazerke is neither good nor bad.

In the past three years, with the results of Leqi's participation in the super crops research, Mazheke has obtained super crops and advanced farming technology in recent years, imported a large number of iron farm tools and fertilizers, and even bought a little agricultural machinery. He has reclaimed many terraces and built some water conservancy projects, turning it into a grain exporter.

When the natural disaster came and Mazerke completely stopped exporting food, the disaster was controllable.

The Kingdom of Winkrel, blessed by the sea god, often rains. Although it cannot completely offset the impact of high temperatures, the disaster situation in the human kingdom of the sea god who believes in the sea god is relatively small.

There were even many little kings who chose to fight with the domestic church power. Those who won the battle announced that they would fall into the embrace of the sea god's faith and lost...

The small countries near Winkrell have more than a dozen requests to join Winkrell... Of course, in the absence of sufficient food, Pope Will only agreed to join eight of the small countries, expanding land for nearly one million square kilometers.

For a time, the Sea God seemed to have become the only god who benefited from the drought. He did not use divine power to consume power and help believers without spending money, but also achieved a positive cycle of the more divine power it invests and the more new believers it produces, and it could also expand the strength of the Sea God Church under his command.

However, Winkrell was overbearing to raise tariffs and originally planned to target small countries, but the implementation of the following inevitably turned into taking a sip, which aroused great dissatisfaction among all the allies, and countries expressed serious protests to them.

The grain merchants in the Duchy of Dimen even had bloody conflicts with the tax officials of Winkrel... The trust, which was originally unreliable, is now even more rippled inside.

The Allies cannot be said to be in danger, they can only be said to be a mess.

The Asian Xia territory was considered to be extremely affected by minimal disasters, and the Asian Xia transportation losses that have built a large number of roads were already low.

In addition, through his relationship with the Ice and Snow Goddess, Zhong Ming got news early on, built a large number of water conservancy projects and prepared a large number of freight vehicles.

Asian summer also has super crops that have been harvesting year by year, and advanced grain reserve technology...

After the disaster in Asia Xia, even if the grain production is reduced in half, it will be considered a bumper harvest compared to other countries!

It can be said that there is basically no large-scale starvation to death.

As for whether the Alliance troops after the disaster will attack Yaxia again, Zhong Ming's judgment is more likely to be - Yes.

Not only will, but you will even take action in advance, and you will mobilize and take action in the past with unimaginable momentum!

Transferring contradictions to the outside world is a good strategy that rulers have tried and tested, not to mention that Asian Xia is relatively abundant, so grabbing means making money.

Zhong Ming could not wait for them to take action! The weapons, armor, food in the warehouse... were already waiting until they were about to get moldy!

The morality of anti-aggression, the revenge counterattack with blood debt and blood, and the famine is also convenient for winning people's hearts after the war.

However, on the prudent side, he is also doing the combat preparations he should do - verifying inventory, cleaning up big rats; making friends with allies, and dealing with strong enemies.

Now, Zhong Ming is taking Leqi to relax and inspect the warehouse everywhere.

As expected, there are no major problems, and there are many minor problems. If you replace the pillars with inferior products, you will use inferior products as good products, and the food will be deteriorated... There are already signs of it.

But the time is still short, the person who commits the incident is not brave enough, and the losses are still within the scope of being able to bear.

From arrest, verification, confession, trial, and final execution, all the way, the process was full of fire and light speed, in less than two months, more than 20 key warehouses have been inspected, not far from the inventory.

Zhong Ming estimated that the total loss should be between 1.5% and 20%.

Fortunately, international liquidity is not high now, and only a small number of corrupt officials can feel at ease to let their families go to other human kingdoms to transfer assets. What can be recovered is the assets and cash value of corrupt officials, which is not much different from the losses of warehousing materials.

But the whereabouts of materials have long been difficult to check.

"Ming," Leqi tightly pinched Zhong Ming's arm, "Isn't it too cruel to do this?"

In front of the gallows, the family members of the corrupt officials who heard Leqi's words seemed to have caught a life-saving straw and begged for forgiveness of their death sentence.

Zhong Ming thought deeply silently, as if he hadn't heard of it.

‘It’s only one or two years, but at most less than three years. These bureaucrats only have this little time to graduate from a civilian to the State Council.

Why, why dare you be so crazy?’

‘Remember to eat or not to beat? I can never catch it?’

‘Even if we are in the world where there are magic, fighting spirit, gods, and hell, the bureaucrats are still like this? Are they really fearless?’

‘Freedom, democracy, liberation, fairness…

Haha, universal values? Human liberation? No matter how glorious the slogan is, it is also full of profit.’

‘Is human greed really uncontrollable?’

‘Zhuo, don’t force me to use golem puppets to govern the country and build an era.’

Leqi saw Zhong Ming wandering outside the sky, and buzzing his feet slightly, pulling Zhong Ming's shoulders, shouting in his ear:

"Ming, are you listening? These corrupt officials are so guilty that they are not willing to die. Why do they involve so many innocent people?"

After returning to his senses, Zhong Mingqing cleared his throat and said:

"Innocent, they are not innocent.

Take Rick for example. A few years ago, he was an orphan and a homeless child. I gave him the opportunity to educate him and gave him a decent job that could support the family's salary to live a wealthy life.

However, how did he repay me?

Collude with administrative officials, resell storage supplies, lower the purchase price of grain and embezzle the price difference, destroy the grain protection price laws, and kill farmers who are prosecuting everywhere, known as the "King of Baili", tsk.
To be continued...