Chapter 922

The city lord of Jinyang City, named 'Fengji', is a strong cat clan with quasi-heaven-level strength.

If this strength is placed in other places besides Tianhuayu, it is estimated that the leader of the bandits will kill him instantly. But in dozens of nearby cities, his strength can be said to be among the top five candidates. In Tianhua Territory, the closer the city lords and country lords are to the formal battle zone, the stronger they are. The city lords in the second and third tiers outside who do not directly participate in the war are mostly below the sky rank, and very few are even at the sixth rank of the earth rank.

Feng Ji, he was not the city lord of Jinyang City.

He was an adventurer who came to Tianhuayu to practice. Because the former city lord of Jinyang City died in battle, the captain of the guard and the butler who succeeded him died in battle one after another. There was really no one who could take on the role of city lord, so he took the initiative to take over Jinyang City.

It is not uncommon for an adventurer like him to succeed the city lord in Tianhuayu.

Although the strength and qualifications of the city lords in the outer reaches of Tianhuayu are not high, there are still relatively few city lords who are vacant, and no one is willing to take over the mess. For example, there is a Yotei City not too far from Jinyang City. Due to the lack of minerals, poor land, and natural disasters, the civilians who were heavily taxed are all in a state of starvation, so no one wants to take over there. The manager of the country sent a small garrison to take charge, barely maintaining law and order. If it is a large-scale business group outside, sending a representative to be the city lord is more popular in Tianhuayu, and strength is not important, but it must complete the combat preparation tasks assigned by the above. Other than that, the upper level does not interfere with any actions of the city lord below.

It can be said that places like Jinyang City and Yangtei City, which are located on the periphery and lack special products and low income, have long been forgotten by the higher-ups.

"Where do you want me to produce so much food? I can't help it!" Fengji was angrily yelling at his housekeeper Shatong at the moment: "It's not that I don't want to care about those civilians, it's just that there is no way! The last seeds have been handed over to They went to plant, how do I know that those seeds were fried by profiteers, I don't know, I don't understand agriculture at all, and I don't know how to breed, I used to be just a mercenary who fed himself and the whole family...Come here to take over, I don't want to be a city lord, it's just that the chaos here is so overwhelming that people can't see it. I just want to contribute to her hometown of wormwood! Now you let me make food and seeds, do you think I'm a god? You know how much money I have in the treasury. The last funds have all been handed over to profiteers to buy those damned seeds. Now the seeds are cooked by profiteers and can’t germinate. Can you blame me for this? You can do whatever you like, I've had enough!"

"My lord, if there is no food, I dare say that within a month at the latest, half of the people in Jinyang City will starve to death!" The butler Shatong had a bitter face. what to do? After all, Fengji is the lord of the city, and he is the strongest person!

"I don't know what to do!" Feng Ji roared, "I am also saving money on food and clothing. I have been hungry for three months, and I haven't had a full meal in the past three months. There is nothing that such a useless city lord can do. Go on. Choose another city lord, whoever loves to do it, I really have no ability to feed hundreds of thousands of people!"

"This..." Butler Shatong sighed.

He knows the difficulty of Fengji, because he also has no ability to feed hundreds of thousands of people.

The shortage of food is not a problem of a single place in Jinyang City, but a problem of the entire Tianhua Region. Except for some rich places in Tianhuayu, other places are poor and empty.

In the war, too many hardworking men fell to their deaths on the battlefield, and now most of the people left in the peripheral areas are old, weak, women and children. In addition to the necessary garrison personnel and seriously injured and disabled persons, any adult, regardless of gender, regardless of race, as long as he has a certain combat effectiveness, will be transferred to the barracks in the warring area for intensive training, and then sent to the battlefield to fight that battle. The battle of the domain emperor that can end.

The food is almost gone, no seeds, no crops, which means that the next harvest will be zero.

After about a month, all the grass roots, bark and livestock will be eaten up. In the end, hundreds of thousands of hungry people with green eyes will enter the same tragedy as those in the hardest-hit areas of Yotei City.

Changing sons to eat... It was not the first time that Shatong saw such a tragic situation.

Could it be that Jinyang City will also become a dead place with many bones and thousands of miles of corpses?

"My lord, there is good news, there is good news!" Ouba, the poorest grain merchant in the world, rushed in with a blushing face, and directly knocked down the starving and emaciated butler Shatong to the ground.

"Ouba, are the merchants here? It's a miracle, there are still merchants willing to come to a poor area like ours?" Shatong asked, grabbing Ouba's legs before he got up in time.

"Where is the merchant?" Feng Ji was also very welcoming, but after asking this sentence, he showed a bitter face: "We have no money."

"No money, they don't want money!" Ouba shook his head and waved his hands excitedly.

"There are still businessmen in the world who don't need money?" Feng Ji couldn't believe it. If businessmen don't love money, then all the sows in the world will climb trees!

"Yes, that's right, they don't want a gold coin from us, no, they don't want magic crystals either, to be honest, our low-quality magic crystals are given to others for nothing, and they won't want them... You can't even imagine what it is like The merchant corps came to us with fifty grain ships, and ten ships full of fine wine. My God, if those goods can enter the war zone, I dare say, even the kings will fight Bleeding...I'm done talking, yes, right, let's talk about the deal, they don't need our money, they just want all kinds of weapons recovered from the battlefield!" Ouba was so happy that he spoke incoherently.

"Are you stupid? We are on the outskirts, not a war zone. Where are the weapons? Besides, they are contraband, and all traders will be beheaded!" Shatong denied the possibility of such a transaction.

"That's right, you're right, but what I want to say is, what do they want for weapons? It's impossible for them to look at ordinary weapons like Dianhua ore. We use Dianhua ore, In exchange for a large amount of food! The city lord, and the butler Sha, think about it, fifty boats, each with a length of 100 meters, as long as we take it down, it will be no problem to support the entire city to death!" Oppa Quickly explain clearly.

"I said Ouba, please keep your voice down, the Dianhua ore was banned by the Yuhuang himself..." Shatong felt that his heart was beating like a drum at this time, but he did not deny that his heart was beating.

Is there anything more terrible than starving to death in the world?

No!

Rather than grabbing the head and beheading it, it is better to fill the stomach first and be a full ghost!

Ouba saw that the loyalist Shatong was a little bit relieved, and hurriedly struck while the iron was hot: "We are not a deal, Santo, we are showing our hearts to the distinguished guests. As a testimony of friendship, we give each other a small gift, and the other party Then generously return the food we urgently need. Even if the higher-ups know the news, I believe they will not be severely punished. After all, there is a shortage of food everywhere, and the Lord is also a headache!"

Fengji thinks this idea is not bad.

I'm just worried about how much food can be exchanged for such a small amount of Dianhua ore in Jinyang City?

In any case, it is better to stabilize the other party first, if the other party leaves by boat, then everything will be over.

The three of them decided to take a risk, and they invited several other merchants in the city who were also as poor as skins to visit the head of the merchant group. Anyway, this transaction is a decapitation transaction. If you want to live, everyone will live together, if you want to die together, no one will be left behind!

When he saw the fifty grain boats, even Feng Ji, the city lord of Jinyang, couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva, grandma's, if it wasn't for the city lord.

If you are still a thief before, just grab a fat sheep.

No business.

Better than risking your head to trade.

When he saw that the other party's guards had five heavenly ranks, he was so frightened that his body went limp. Good guy, if you really try to rob, you won't even keep your cat's skin! Fifty grain ships, with few heavenly ranks, would not be able to enter the central battle area even with the protection of the domain emperor's order. However, where did this Titan Merchant Group come from? Five heaven-level powerhouses are the guards. Such a big deal is not inferior to the top ten business groups!

"You are the owner of the city? Let's not say anything extra, our request is very simple, as long as you take out the Dianhua ore, we can provide you with seeds in addition to food!" Bao Gu made his position clear, that is, as long as the Dianhua ore is needed, nothing else Do not care.

"Seeds?" Feng Ji heard it, and his heart beat faster. In Tianhua Domain, seeds are definitely the lifeblood, and there is nothing but seeds!

"The purity of our electric flower mine is not high, and every three months, the owner of the country collects it once, and the stock is insufficient." Sha Tong, the butler, lowered his head.

He had to bow his head.