Cthulhu descends

In the face of absolute strength, Li Xie took control of the entire Chrysanthemum City with almost no obstacles. At the same time, he also accepted a total of [-] civilian guards. Li Xie let Jack; Rothschild Germany is solely responsible, and his method is very simple, kill, and then burn the corpses!

Therefore, at noon, you can see the raging fire and black smoke in the north of the city rushing straight to a height of 30 meters!

Next, a team of guards paraded the corpses of Larry, Brown and others in the car to the public. On the one hand, they read Larry; wait.

As a result, the common people in the city were agitated. On the one hand, they threw garbage at the dead, and on the other hand, they sang praises to Li Xie.

Li Xie, who has never met the common people, seems to have become the most holy city lord in the common people's mind!

These things are still going on.

But as Li Xie himself, he almost scratched his bald head!It is easy to win a city, but to manage a city, you will face many problems!

The various government positions in Chrysanthemum City are held by the nobles in the city, and they were basically cleaned up by Li Xie, making Chrysanthemum City temporarily anarchic. However, this did not have much impact on the common people, although most of the nobles The shops are all closed, but those are only the markets belonging to the upper class, and the markets belonging to the common people are still open. The common people have food and shelter, and they can control the changes of the officials above him!

However, this matter needs to be resolved sooner or later. If there are no personnel to hold government positions, order will be lost in the long run. The common people will be self-sufficient according to their own survival needs, and Chrysanthemum City will never be able to develop, let alone prosper!In addition, the civilians do not produce much, and there is no commercial trade, and the supply will soon exceed the demand, especially the [-] guards in Chrysanthemum City, who are afraid that they will have no food!

Fortunately, Li Xie listened to Jack's suggestion and left some nobles in charge of agriculture and fortifications. They will survive and build for a while!

But what needs to be solved now are several major problems in Chrysanthemum City!

The first problem: Larry Brown opened the city without restrictions in order to rob more slaves, so that many refugees and poor people came to Chrysanthemum City. Chrysanthemum City can accommodate a million people, and the noble class has about 1 people. , about 20 civilians, but 30 refugees!Most of these 30 refugees are not engaged in production, just begging, wandering, picking up some leftovers, doing some part-time labor, etc. Usually they will be sold as slaves, or forced to work as coolies, but they have something to eat , But now, they can eat Chrysanthemum City to death, if they don't feed them, they will starve to death again!What to do with them?

Second problem: Larry Brown left fifty thousand slaves in the slave market!These people also do not engage in production and face the same problems as refugees, but refugees can move away, but they cannot!This is also a huge mouth, how much of the stored grain in Chrysanthemum City has to be eaten?

The third problem: there is not much arable land in Chrysanthemum City!It should be said that the arable land was abandoned by the nobles!Chrysanthemum City's economic sources are mainly slave market, luxury goods market, black market, smuggling and other trades, but the most fundamental agriculture has been stagnant, and food must be purchased from Sunflower City every year as a subsidy!This is the worst!Because it's the Mid-Autumn Festival now, the food reserves are not much, and the status quo can only be maintained for two months. After two months, even Li Xie, the city lord, may have no food to eat!And if the slaves and refugees were given civilian-level food, the food that Chrysanthemum City currently has and will harvest can only last for one month!

"Damn, after all, it's all about eating!"

Li Xie was sitting in the lobby of the hotel, Zennard and Fan Di; Searle was sitting on the left and right, Jack's sister Xiao An was sitting on the side, and there were two other people in front of him, one was Till, a nobleman in charge of the Chrysanthemum City's agriculture; One named Van der Sar, in charge of fortifications.

"Tyl, you are responsible for the food problem, what do you say now?"

Today, the remaining nobles in Chrysanthemum City are terrified of Li Xie, and they don't even dare to breathe in front of Li Xie!They all knew how lucky they were to survive, and last night, at least nearly ten thousand people died in the city!This evil duke would never mind adding a trivial life or two to a trivial matter!

"My lord..." Tire replied tremblingly: "According to the past, now we will send two horse convoys, one to the Sunflower City to purchase grain and grass, and the other to go to the west to the Plum Blossom City to purchase grain, grass and daily necessities. The round trip will take about two months , just to solve the food problem in Chrysanthemum City."

"Go to Plum Blossom City to buy food, how much can you buy at most?" Li Xie didn't think that the matter of Chrysanthemum City could be hidden from the outside world. The right minister must have planted some eyeliners in the city, and what happened here will soon spread.

As for the Sunflower City under the control of the Cheetah Legion, I am afraid that they will not sell food to the Chrysanthemum City. Even Li Xie has to consider whether the Sunflower City will plot against the Chrysanthemum City!

Therefore, the only thing that can solve the urgent need is Plum Blossom City!Plum Blossom City belongs to Li Xie's territory. At present, Li Xie has not appointed a acting city lord. The highest official of Plum Blossom City is still an official appointed by Mercedes VII. As for the faction that he belongs to Mercedes VII, it is still Li Xie didn't know about the forces belonging to the right minister.

"My lord, Plum Blossom City doesn't produce much food. It can only purchase about one-tenth of Sun Flower City's, and it can only last for about fifteen days."

"One-tenth is one-tenth, that's the only way!" Li Xie nodded, and said: "Aside from purchasing food, is there any other way to relieve the pressure on food?"

Till quickly said: "Now we can only sell the slaves, drive the refugees out, and then try our best to reclaim the arable land. If we only maintain the residents of this city, we can last the next year. When the spring harvest is ready, the food crisis will be over. Lifted."

"No, refugees can't be chased away, and slaves can't be sold!" These are people, they can be said to be the most honest and obedient, and they are also the group of people who are most willing to work hard and only need to pay a small salary. It's a pity that Li Xie didn't support him emotionally when he was driven out. He never had a sense of belonging in the aristocratic circle, but he had a special kindness towards refugees: "What else can I do?"

Tire timidly shook his head, there was nothing he could do if he didn't sell slaves or drive out refugees, and Tire didn't dare to say that what Li Xie did would starve countless people to death in Chrysanthemum City!

"My lord, do you want to buy food from His Majesty?" Fan Di Sel said.

"It's too far!" Li Xie shook his head, he had thought of this way early in the morning.Now Chrysanthemum City is Li Xie's private territory. Except for paying taxes to the dynasty, everything else is self-financed, and the food can only be solved by itself. Mercedes VII will not allocate food. Des VII will buy it, and Mercedes VII will certainly be able to provide sufficient food, but the problem is that the imperial capital is too far away from Chrysanthemum City!

A total of more than 300 kilometers!

Unlike Li Xie's horse convoy, which transports food, it can travel 60 kilometers a day, at most [-] kilometers a day, and the distance alone takes more than [-] days!Moreover, if there is wind and rain on the road, there will be delays. Some mountain roads are difficult to walk, and you may not be able to walk ten kilometers a day!Counting it down, not counting the time it took for Li Xie to go to the imperial capital, it would take about [-] days to go to Guangdi's capital to release the grain!

And Chrysanthemum City can only last for a month!

Another point is that the Tudor city is located in a "back" structure. The surrounding cities are not far from each other, while the north-south cities are very far apart. This is to prevent foreign enemies from invading.However, the three cities adjacent to Chrysanthemum City are about [-] kilometers away from Plum Blossom City in the west and Sun Flower City in the east, and about [-] kilometers away from Peach Blossom City in the north!

Based on the calculation that it takes two months to go to Plum Blossom City to purchase food back and forth, it will take about four months to go to Peach Blossom City to purchase food, because it is not as convenient to purchase food in other cities as it is with Mercedes VII.Mercedes VII will directly reduce the horse fleet to transport food, and there are also a lot of food reserves, which greatly saves time.And to buy food from other cities, you have to send your own convoy to transport it. In addition, it takes a certain amount of time to buy food. The distance is reduced, but the time required is not reduced much!

"Hey..." Li Xie sighed heavily: "I regret it now, I regret being a shit city lord! This is the first day of being a city lord, troubles come, and it's the first step to clean up the mess! No, turn around I let Lao Qi take back the territory, and I will go back to the imperial capital and be my Duke to be refreshed and free!"

"Hehe..." Xiao An couldn't help laughing out loud.

Li Xiezheng is depressed!He gave the chick a hard look: "What are you laughing at? Are you bothered!"

Xiao An was not afraid of Li Xie staring at her, covered her mouth and said, "Brother Xie calls His Majesty Lao Qi, Xiao An thinks it's funny."

"Go and play." Normally, Li Xie would definitely have to tease this little beauty, but now, Li Xie has only one word in his mind, and he doesn't have that leisurely elegance at all!

"Do you really want me to go?" Xiao An stood up, smiled slyly, and said to himself: "Xiao An is still thinking of making a plan, if you want me to go, just go, go back to the room and see how the chicken is injured!"

Chicken is Xiaoan's name for Jinling Zhanji. This beast is now under the care of Xiaoan. Although Jinling Zhanji is alive, the injury has to recover slowly. A pharmacist is just right to take care of such a flawed monster.

The so-called pharmacist is a completely different profession from priests. Priests use divine light or some magic to treat injuries and diseases, with quick results and better recovery effects. They are the mainstream healing professions.Pharmacists, on the other hand, use herbal medicines to cure diseases, the effect is slow, and the recovery is average. However, there are some diseases that priests cannot cure but pharmacists can heal. Therefore, pharmacists cannot be said to be inferior to priests in healing ability, but A pharmacist usually treats diseases for common people, so it is a low-level profession in the continent of the gods, and is not recognized by the nobles.

"Suggestions?" Li Xie glanced at Xiaoan's cute face, and said, "Then tell me, if you can help Brother Xie solve this food problem, Brother Xie will grant you one wish, as long as Brother Xie can do it!"

"really?"

"Have I lied to you?"

"Okay! You said it! Huh, what's the difficulty in solving this problem!"