Tales of the Reincarnated Lord Chapter 516: Crisis handling

Chapter 516 Crisis Management

After forcing Gennario to take a good rest and sleep well, Lorist got up, took a bath and filled his stomach, and then began to deal with the food shortage problem with a refreshed spirit. Regarding the issue of Morante City food shortage, he had already expected that this conclusion could be reached from the fact that more than half of the more than 800 ships in the Trade Union transport fleet transported food.

Morante City has a population of more than one million, plus more than 200,000 labor and poor people outside the city, and more than 400,000 Trade Union armed forces on the front line of Falik Plains. The daily consumption of more than 1.7 million people must be an astronomical one. Numbers. Falik Plains is a well-known granary of Grindia Continent in the past, but it is now in ruins and has not been harvested in the past two years. The supply of coarse grains and meat for most of the Morante City can only rely on the barren Callisto Hills, and the food supply pressure of the Trade Union has been very high.

Tarkel was ordered to come and report another bad news to Lorist. Originally, the nearby fortress city Thomas City was a military food reserve base of more than 400,000 Trade Union armed forces on the front line, but it was discovered after being taken down that ten days ago, Thomas City had just delivered most of the military food reserve to the front line, enough for the front line Trade Union armed forces to consume one month Right now, there is not much leftover military food already in the Thomas City warehouse, and all the Morante City residents with a population of more than one million will be consumed for a day or two.

Trade Union's plan is to wait for the transport fleet to make up for the vacancies in the reserve, but they did not expect the entire fleet of the invincible fleet to be overwhelmed, and the transport fleet also became a Norton Family loot. Although Lorist is prepared for the lack of food for Morante City, it was not expected to be so serious. There are only 15 days of food reserves in the entire city, and most of them are coarse grains, that is, potatoes and oats. .

After the surrender of the transport fleet, part of the grain was unloaded to the cape Romani, as Schwartz managed the daily food consumption of the 100,000 recruits captive labor to landfill the reef area. The remaining grain was delivered to Silowas Islands by those private ships. Lorist took those empty ships that originally carried 100,000 recruits recruited by Trade Union to the port of Temenia, where Legion and guard Legion got on board and landing and Morante City.

The problem now is that Morante City is short of food, Lorist has ships and no people, Silowas Islands has food and no ships, and there is no way to deliver food to Morante City. The original private ships that transported grains, after shipping the grains to Silowas Islands, purchased a large amount of goods and goods produced by Norton Family Territory. They are now sailing to the southern waters of the mainland. already is one step behind to hire them to transport grain.

The Simba Wood commander ’s Beihai Lightning Strike Fleet is also heading to Hidegold Bay. They are here to **** the surviving invincible fleet members of the crew and sailors to Silowas Islands, and reunite them with their family ... The formulated plan is being implemented. The problem of Morante City food shortage can make all the efforts of Lorist and Norton Family armed forces to nothing.

Simba Wood led the Lightning Strike Fleet to Hidegold Bay, and transported the captives' families to Silowas Islands. By the way, the transport team was also taken over and the food stored on the island was transported back. The time spent on sea transportation will also be at least fifteen or sixty days, and this time is the most important key to the success of the entire plan for Lorist.

In two or three days, Lorist estimates that Trade Union armed forces on the front line will be able to react and get the news that Morante City is missing. If the commander-in-chief of the more than 400,000 Trade Union armed forces commander is decisive, it will probably be able to serve Morante City in ten days. Although Lorist has arrangements for Feihu Legion and Hunting Cavalry Legion to contain Trade Union armed forces, after all, there are more than 400,000 people in Trade Union armed forces. If you split half of it, relying on the perfect defense facilities on Falik Plains, it will be enough to resist the short-term Legion and Hunting Cavalry Legion. onslaught.

The original plan of Lorist was to resist the counterattack of Trade Union armed forces under Morante City. As long as it was delayed for seven or eight days, until the arrival of Flying Tigers Legion and Hunting Cavalry Legion, there were wolves in front of the tiger, and Trade Union armed forces in the middle without the rear Is there a reason not to collapse? As long as we get through this level, the next is a good day for Norton Family.

But now Morante City is short of food. This is almost the same as putting Lorist in the crater that is about to erupt. In the twenty-four districts of the outer city, there are more than one million residents. Only two regiments and nearly 24,000 troops are maintaining order. The suppression of several small riots now can be regarded as a little deterrent to these residents. Status. However, if there is a large-scale resistance to riots due to lack of food, and if there are external enemies, Morante City is likely to fall back into the hands of Trade Union, and nothing needs to be said at that time.

"Tarkel, how was the food supply in the 24th District of Waicheng originally solved?" Lorist asked.

"His Highness, Trade Union basically provides a batch of grain to the grain shops in the twenty-fourth district of the city, most of which are coarse grains, and then every household can use the registered book to go to the grain. Shops use parity to buy these grains, and each household has a certain amount. If it exceeds the amount, it will need to pay extra money.

Not only these grains, but also meat, wine, cloth, leather, and some people's livelihood products have been quantitatively purchased. As long as the price is low within this quantitative amount, if you exceed this order, you will need to pay several times the money. Now Morante City also has some dealers who resell these quantitative orders. It is said that they have several gold fordes in their monthly income ... "Tarkel opened a folder and reported.

Wait, Lorist is a little dizzy. Why does this sound so familiar? This seems to be the plan allocation during the period when the planned economy was implemented in the previous life, right? I remember when I was a kid, my grandpa and grandma had to bring a lot of cloth tickets, food tickets, meat tickets, etc. I once took a cloth ticket and exchanged it for maltose. I remember that Grandpa said that it ’s not strange that grandpa wants to eat sugar. Grandma is because you did n’t sue. It ’s a stealing behavior that must be learned!

These Trade Union merchants really don't know what they think, and they have even established a planned economy distribution system. Lorist asked curiously: "Did the residents of Morante City have no protest against this? And how are the grain shops that manage to allocate these materials managed?"

Tarkel shook his head: "His Highness, the residents of Morante City are easily provoked. The slogan of Trade Union is everything for the front line. They think that as long as they defeat the invaders of Andinak Kingdom, they can restore everything to its original state. Now I ’m suffering. It is for a happier life in the future, not to mention that although the grain on the ration list is coarse grains, it is better than cheap. Fine grains are also available, but they are more expensive. Many families would rather eat coarse grains and sell the fine rations sheets. Earn extra money.

I sent someone to investigate in the twenty-fourth district of the outer city these days. Nothing else was found, but these piecemeal things were clearly investigated. According to those investigators, the cheapest food for Morante City is potatoes and dried salted fish. Potatoes come from Callisto Hills. Salted dried fish were captured by Morante City fishermen in Hidegold Bay in the past few years. No one used to eat them. The main dishes for the residents of the 14th district.

Our family armed forces occupied Morante City, and potatoes and meat from Callisto Hills are no longer available. After Belnick Lord(s) led a Rock Corps to occupy the storage base outside the East Gate, it was found that the number of potatoes and coarse grains in reserve was not large. After statistics, it can only normally supply the residents of the 24th district of Waicheng for a dozen days, unless it is reduced. Orders per household can last for fourteen to five days. There are a lot of salted fish dried, but this stuff can't fill your stomach.

All quantitative material purchases and sales are attributable to each Chamber of Commerce of Trade Union. For example, coarse grains, fine grains, and meat are under the responsibility of Forde Chamber of Commerce. The cloth and leather are the oldest of Peterson Chamber of Commerce. Luxury condiments such as honey and spices belong to May Flower Chamber of Commerce. Leeward Chamber of Commerce covers the distribution of other living materials. Chickadee Chamber of Commerce is seafood and Twinhead Dragon Chamber of Commerce It is a variety of rare ingredients, exclusively for rich people and Aristocrat(s) purchase.

In short, the current Morante City is very rich and poor. If you have money and power, you can buy whatever you want. If you have no money or power, you can only rely on order to distribute these things to support your family. Not to mention, even the beef and mutton that our family Territory can afford to sell here is sky-high, at least ten times higher than our price. I heard that some people in the 24th district of the outer city organized a mousetrap to catch mice and sell meat ...

It is worth noting that Your Highness, we have captured all the Chamber of Commerce shops in the 24th district of the outer city after Morante City, and all the shops are now closed. In the past, the residents of the 24th district of the outer city used to buy all the necessary food and living supplies at one time a few days after the order was distributed. It is now less than three or four days before the next order allocation, and those shops are still closed, so the residents in the 24th district of the outer city are now a little turbulent, and they worry that they will not be able to buy food and living supplies in the future. Supplies ... "

Lorist walked around touching his chin. After listening to the Tarkel report, the situation was a bit grim. The most urgent thing is to calm down the residents of the 24th district of the outer city. Now stability is the most important thing. The critical moment of the Morante City rebellion broke out.

"Let Torin and Belnick, and Jeddes come to see me right away and send someone to order Els and Orville Keith to withdraw all the supplies from Thomas City and Gypsy City to Morante City as soon as possible." Lorist dropped two Commanded, several Imperial Guards hurried away.

"Tarkel, send a letter to the eagle, let Charade Baron and Speer supervisors of the family Territory organize a transport fleet as soon as possible, and transfer nearly one million magical beast fur and Territory backlogs of all stocks of household goods to the family Territory. Silowas Islands, waiting for my next order, and let Charade Baron and Speer supervisors bring a group of effective civilian officials to Morante City as soon as possible. "

"Yes, Your Highness, I'll do it right away." Tarkel replied.

"Wait, Tarkel, you send someone to notify Morante City to manage those community organizations in the 24th district of the outer city, and invite them to a symposium in my name. The time is set at 9 am tomorrow." Lorist stopped Tarkel.

Tolin is the father of Toke, the deputy commander of the North Sea Fleet, because he is only responsible for the logistics of the North Sea Fleet because he is older. This time Lorist let him lead a dozen large armed forces battleships equipped with Bronze artillery to block the Hidegold Bay's estuary, which he accomplished very well.

Thorin arrived first, followed by Jeddes, and the last was Belnick from the storage base outside Dongmen. Seeing them coming, Lorist introduced the difficulties and current situation faced by the family armed forces to them straightforwardly, and then started to admit it.

"Uncle Torin, you go to the fleet area and let Pachko cooperate with you, recruiting a group of the surviving invaders' crew and sailors to send the remaining transport ships to Silowas Islands, let Pachko deploy a battalion Responsible for escort, take as many transport ships as you can, and leave tomorrow afternoon. I will give you twelve days to transport the food on Silowas Islands.

In addition, I will write a warrant to you. If you encounter the North Sea Fleet of Simba Wood on the road, let him not come to Hidegold Bay, and then turn back to Silowas Islands to complete the food transportation task. Do you understand? "The first point of Lorist is Torin, and you can feel relieved as soon as you bring the food on Silowas Islands.

This time, Lorist regrets that the crew and sailors who surrendered to the Fourth Fleet and their relatives were sent to Silowas Islands the day before yesterday. I knew I would stay here today and set sail again. Now the remaining crew and sailors in the fleet area have either no family members or relatives at home who died under the attack of the North Sea Fleet. Their tags are all unreliable elements. Letting Torin lead the transport fleet this way can be said to be very risky.

"Yes, Your Highness, please rest assured that I will bring back the food." Torin said, time was precious and he retired and immediately went to the fleet area.

"Jades, you immediately blocked the business district and started to search all Chamber of Commerce material warehouses. All the found properties were shipped to the inner city. The remaining materials were sealed and submitted to the list, waiting for my next order."

"Yes, Your Highness," Jeddall saluted.

"Berunet, you take a camp to Callisto Hills, not to collect grain, but to purchase, whether it is potatoes or other coarse grains, all of them are purchased at half the market price. If the farmers there transport the grain by themselves When it comes to Morante City, we will buy it at double the price, and we also buy the cattle and sheep and livestock at double the market price. Also, I only give you three days, you do n’t need to go deep into the Callisto Hills area, you just need to buy us Just spread the news, understand? "

"Understand, Lord(s), I will do it right away." Belnick said.

The next day, Lorist met the leaders of the invited organizations in a large conference room. Among them, he knew Ledos, a former Els brother. It's just that they haven't seen each other for more than a decade. Ledos's eyes are strange and he doesn't say hello to Lorist. After all, there was a big difference between the two parties' already. After Els insisted on following Lorist, Ledos became the leader of the society. More than a decade later, Ledos was still the leader of the community, but Lorist has changed from a Black Iron Mercenary to a well-known mainland Sword Saint, Andinak Kingdom Northern Land Grand Duke(s).

"Gentlemen, we occupied Morante City in Norton Family for peace, not for plundering wealth." Lorist said cheekily, regardless of whether these people here believe or not. Lorist only stated his purpose after saying that for a long time to reach a permanent peace between the two countries, Trade Union signed a peace agreement before occupying Morante City.

"We Norton Family pledge not to plunder all residents of the twenty-fourth district of the outer city, as long as they do not conduct any acts of resistance and rebellion. I said earlier on already that we are only against those who treat innocent people for their own ambition The residents of Morante City are involved in the Chamber of Commerce of this **** war, so even if we are going to confiscate only the materials of Chamber of Commerce, it will not affect the residents of the 24th district of the outer city.

Please be quiet, I know what you want to say. Indeed, all the living materials and food distribution of residents in the 24th district of the outer city are in the hands of each Chamber of Commerce. If the materials of each Chamber of Commerce are confiscated, it will make 100 Wan Morante City's residents are struggling to earn a living. However, in order to express our sincerity in pursuing peace, we will not ignore this million residents. All Chamber of Commerce materials must be confiscated, but the confiscated living materials and grains will be sold at low prices or distributed to all outer cities for free Residents of District 24 ...

Mr. You, before, you were only responsible for general affairs such as public order, health, taxation and other chores, and the transactions of living materials and food were in the hands of the major Chamber of Commerce. Now that Chamber of Commerce is gone, I hope you can take on the heavy responsibility of solving the problems for the residents of Waicheng 24 District, assist us in distributing or selling these living materials and food to the residents in their respective communities, and maintain the Peace and stability ... "

The corner of Lorist's mouth evokes an arc: "There is also good news. Three days later, we will distribute a batch of food for free to all residents in the 24th district of Chengcheng. Each person can get ten pounds of potatoes and one pound of salted dried fish, whether it is Lord(s) or children. At the same time, we will also take out the living materials confiscated by each Chamber of Commerce and sell them to all residents at a very low price. And the sales of these materials are left to you. "

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