Aspirations for Nation and Beauty: Section 18 Signs

Seeing Situ Yuan disappearing outside the hall, Situ Lang's face became more and more gloomy. This emperor brother's purpose seems not so simple. Milanese, does he really think he doesn't mind himself? Relationship with the Milanese? If the Milanese entered the East China Sea and Jiangnan, would he be able to control these two places in the future? Eldest brother occupies the East China Sea. As long as Jinling can be stabilized now, even if Jinling is lost, it doesn't matter. As long as Jiangnan is firmly guarded, with the economic strength of the land under the control of elder brother, without the support of the central financial support of the empire, his army will not be able to survive. It won't last long, even if he intercepts Donghai and Yanyun's tax payment, he will naturally have to spit it out obediently at that time, but it's easy to ask God to send God away if Milanese enter the East China Sea and Jiangnan, but it's rare to send them away. Help the plague god.

After all, it's still this **** Li Wufeng who didn't fulfill his promise when he got the benefits. He had a tacit understanding with Li Wufeng, and even let Li Wufeng's Northwest Army flaunt their power in Pinglu Mansion but turned a blind eye to it. If he hadn't known that Li Wufeng's Northwest Army had wiped out the 30,000 Kaman army in the north of Pinglu, Situ Lang would have believed it. Li Wufeng already had some kind of conspiracy agreement with the Kaman people.

Thinking of this, Situ Lang became a little envious of Li Wufeng again. The Northwest Army in this guy's hands is really powerful. Even the Kaman army was defeated by him. Look at the City Guard Army, which is usually domineering. They were also defeated in front of the Kamans, but the Northwest Army was able to defeat the opponent. Regardless of whether there were other objective external reasons for this, it was enough to be proud of.

When will the legions in my hands reach this level? Situ Lang sighed with some regret, his confused eyes became a little erratic, he was really tired, it seemed that he never had a peaceful sleep after sitting in this seat, no wonder the kings of all dynasties could not live long, the mental pressure alone was enough Yes, it seems that I have to bear all this if I choose this position, Situ Lang stared blankly outside the hall.

The application for the establishment of the Western Frontier Protectorate seems to have been put on hold by the central government without any restrictions, and it seems to have become a powerful weapon for the central government to deal with the northwest. Many things have been reported, and it only needs to be put on hold It can be delayed for a year and a half, making you hate it to the core but you can't do anything about it. But Wufeng doesn't intend to just let it go, he has his trump card, and at that time, he will naturally have a way to make the central government of the empire submit.

All the preparatory work is still being carried out in an orderly manner. The location of the Xijiang Duhufu is still located in Qingyang. Originally, some officials tended to locate it in Hanzhong, thinking that Hanzhong was once the capital of the king and had the potential to absorb the heroic spirit of the world. Like, it is really a treasure land, but after consideration, Wufeng still rejects this suggestion. First, he doesn’t want to make people have unnecessary associations. After all, it used to be the imperial capital of the previous two dynasties. If it is too eastward, the psychological influence on Tengger, the Western Regions, and Northern Luzon in the west will be weakened. Thirdly, the economy of the Northwest is in a period of healthy and rapid development, and the change of the location of the Protectorate will affect the The economy of the Northwest has a certain impact, and Wufeng doesn't want to see this.

But recently, Wufeng spent more time in Kansai. He also took the time to inspect the situation in Pinglu Mansion, and even went to the border areas between Pinglu and Qinghe, Tianshui and Hejian for field inspections. , This made the Kamanians and Taipingjiao people feel a little nervous after obtaining information through spies, and they paid more attention to every move of the Northwest Army.

There was almost no rain in the entire Eastern Continent in March. The drought was so fierce that everyone immediately felt what the harvest in Xiaochun would be. In summer, in the words of the old man, it has been a long time since I felt the heat of summer so early. It almost directly crossed the spring and entered the early summer. There was a hint of worry and fear. The poor harvest in Xiaochun is a foregone conclusion, and the old people know better that this kind of weather is the best climate for breeding locusts. The drought is very likely to be the plague of locusts. Every day people wake up with a kind of begging mentality, hoping that the weather will be cloudy , the temperature can drop, but to their disappointment, it seems that God really doesn't care about the feelings of his people. Every morning, the Golden Crow will show its head excitedly, and then it will be generally hot.

Grain prices have been erratic since the first ten days of March, sometimes falling and sometimes rising, but the price fluctuations are not large, and the Northwest, which has completed the grain purchase plan, has not stopped, and is still absorbing grain on a small scale. However, this kind of action is unreasonable compared with the big action in the previous month, and the overall food price is still on the rise. After entering the second ten days of March, seeing that the general trend of the drought was certain, the price of grain rocketed from four and a half gold coins to seven gold coins per load, which had already surpassed the highest price when Northwest China carried out the grain price purchase plan in February. Let the grain merchants lament the good luck of the northwest side, of course they will not believe that anyone can predict the movement of God, and they also think that Xiaochun is not the highlight of the year's grain, even if there is a drought, there will still be the main force Spring can be relied on, not to mention that they did not expect that the entire Eastern Continent would encounter such an extent and such an area of ​​drought and the ensuing locust plague.

With the increasingly serious drought, the news from all over the world is worse than the last. The rivers are cut off and the lakes are bottomed out. Everywhere the people found that the drought was unusually ferocious. People spontaneously organized and began to burn incense and worship the Buddha, praying for God to fulfill their vows, and begging for God's eyes and mercy, but it seemed to have no effect.

Under such circumstances, some vigilant grain merchants have begun to hoard grain to prepare for speculation, but most merchants have an ambivalence, because the price of grain at this time has exceeded ten gold coins , and in view of the astronomical amount of grain hoarded in the Northwest, the grain speculators are also secretly drumming in their hearts. If they buy a large amount of grain at this price, and once the Northwest sells it, they are afraid that the losses they will bear will also become astronomical. Ambivalence scorched the fragile minds of grain merchants from all over the empire and even around the empire every day. They didn't know what the Northwest was buying such a large amount of grain at the beginning of the year. speculation? Or is it really a strategic reserve as they themselves said?

Grain merchants have always expressed doubts about the purpose of strategic reserves that Northwest claims. Behavior, that can only show that Northwest is preparing to speculate. However, no one dares to bear the risk of such unsure large-scale speculation. Even if there is no harvest in the small spring, only four months later, there will be a big spring harvest that accounts for the main grain harvest of the year. Can predict the face of God, even if you happen to bet on Xiaochun's treasure, can you still bet on Dachun's treasure? Moreover, food production is not limited to one county and one place. Well-developed water and land transportation can adjust and make up for the imbalance caused by such disasters, unless that lunatic thinks that a large area will continue to be destroyed by natural disasters for no reason. The ability to adjust, but this probability seems to be smaller than the probability of winning the jackpot in the gambling game that became popular in the Western Continent, but the price paid is amazing.

Grain prices skyrocketed under the worried eyes of people throughout the Eastern Continent, and broke through the psychological price of 15 gold coins per load on April 12, 698 in the Gregorian calendar of the mainland. After the quotation broke through 15 gold coins per load, the first category of miscellaneous grains (corn and sorghum) suddenly jumped from 9 gold coins per load to 12 gold coins per load~IndoMTL.com~ Even the second type of miscellaneous grains (sweet potato) , barley and yam) also jumped to the price of 10 gold coins per load, and even at this price, the three largest grain trading markets in the empire (Zhongzhou Grain Trading Market, Jinling Grain Trading Market, Yueyang Grain Trading Market) However, the supply of goods in China is still tight, and most of the time there are still prices and no goods, and neighboring countries and regions, such as the Yuejing grain market, are surging, and the supply of goods is even tighter. New highs in grain quotes.

Affected by this, the prices of various important materials related to people's livelihood in the entire empire began to skyrocket. Affected by the sharp rise in food prices, the price has doubled several times compared to the original price, but the wine merchants are still unwilling to ship because they are worried that the price of raw materials will further increase, making the price of wine in the empire unprecedented for decades. high position.

With the skyrocketing prices of various materials, the situation in the entire Eastern Continent began to show a kind of pathological turmoil. From the Liberian countries in the north to Maqihan and Milan in the south, there was a kind of turmoil. Looking at all this with a complicated mentality, the foundation of the mud-footed giant of the Tanghe Empire has been shaken. If there is another big storm, maybe this giant will collapse in the wind and rain. This is certainly a good thing, but when will it fall? The parties have different expectations. What worries them the most is that this storm seems to not only be aimed at the Tanghe Empire family, but covers the entire Eastern Continent. Although the Tanghe Empire is the center, the storm around the center is not Little by little, they found that their own country could not get rid of it, and there were even signs of getting deeper and deeper.