Just as grain merchants in the Central Plains were worried that the harvest of Dachun would greatly affect the huge profits obtained by such high grain prices, the imperial grain prices began to fall slightly, and the grain prices fell from the highest 18 gold coins to twelve gold coins, and the remaining grains even fell below eight gold coins. However, it was adjusted soon, and the staple food was stable at about fourteen gold coins, and the grains also hovered around ten gold coins. Although the price of grain in the Central Plains rose a lot, it finally alleviated the food crisis of the entire empire. Even the Heshuo area benefited from not cutting off circulation from the mainland of the empire, but in some places it was not like this. Not only did the grain prices rise wildly, it was even more expensive and had developed into a social crisis.

As the garrison of the Anyuan Taiping Defense Force, Zhang Zhentian, is a believer in the Holy Church with strong beliefs. The Holy King is undoubtedly a god in his heart who will never despise or violate the children of a peasant. When the Holy King handed over the trust of Anyuan Mansion to him to advance eastward, he had already made up his mind to die in the mansion.

He has always believed that he could hand over the Anyuan Mansion intact and return to the Holy King who will retake Anyuan in the future. The 70,000 elite soldiers and countless loyal believers under his command are the strongest support in his mind. He believes that he can withstand invasion from any side with them. Even after Yulin Peace Lu and even Qinghe have fallen, he still believes this.

The betrayal of the Kamans was not beyond his expectations. In his mind, those guys wanted to use the Holy Church and make some plans. They just stabbed the back of the Holy Kingdom at this critical moment. The wound was both deep and painful. Li Wufeng was originally the most vicious enemy of the Holy Kingdom. The Northwest Army under his command was even much more brutal and threatening to the Holy Church than the Kamans.

The Kaman is just a wild dog. Although it seems fierce, it only takes a bite and takes a lot of energy to slowly digest the food. Li Wufeng is different. His appetite is not only extremely amazing, but what makes Zhang Zhentian the most frightened is the amazing digestive power shown by the other party. After so long, Lu Long, Pinglu and Longdong Tianshui were originally the areas with the strongest foundation of Taiping Holy Church, but after falling into Li Wufeng's hands, in just one or two years, the power of the Holy Church was uprooted one after another. Countless elite children and loyal believers of the Holy Church fell under Li Wufeng's butcher knife. Now, whether it is Lu Long or Tianshui, it cannot be said that there are no ones who dare to sacrifice for the cause of the Holy Church, but there are only a few. This is the news brought back by Zhang Zhentian who sent out to contact the believers of the church in the surrounding areas.

The bloody storm is enough to scare too many people who are not strong enough in beliefs, and the corruption of softness can make many people and forces who are originally loyal to the Holy Church turn to the enemy one after another. They transform into the most vicious enemies of the Holy Church. Under their guidance, the Holy Church has almost no hidden power to hide. Zhang Zhentian sadly discovered that there were no supporters around Anyuan Mansion who could provide help to him.

The fall of the three prefectures of Pinglu Yulin and Qinghe, coupled with the Lu Long who had already fallen into the hands of the Northwest Army, Anyuan was the only base for the Holy Sect in the five prefectures of Beiyuan, and it was also the most solid fortress of the Holy Sect. In addition to inspecting patrols and defenses everywhere and sending speeches in the countryside to inspire the morale of the people, Zhang Zhentian became even more aggressive and searching for excuses to throw them into prison one by one, squeezing out all the gold, silver and wealth, and then searching for a reason to put a charge on the Lian family.

Zhang Zhentian did not take the money he obtained into his own pocket. Except for giving a small portion to his subordinates, he spent most of the money on building defensive weapons and strengthening urban defense capabilities.

In the past few months, he not only raised the entire city wall and reinforced it a lot, but also rebuilt a short wall several meters shorter than the city wall, and built a large number of arrow castles and military chambers on the low wall. All ironwork workshops in the city were forcibly requisitioned, and their only job was to build various weapons and arrowheads. Although the stone casting tools were very simple due to technical reasons, under Zhang Zhentian's heavy rewards and high-pressure threats, six were installed on each city gate. A large pot for boiling oil was built on the city wall for boiling oil every 10 or 20 meters, rolling wood, rocks, and lime piled up the entire city. Under the slope of the high walls in the west of the city, Zhang Zhentian also built dozens of iron trolleys imitated the ancients to hang tightly with suspension cables, lined up in a row. If an enemy came from this side, facing these dozens of iron trolleys alone would bring them endless shock.

Zhang Zhentian was a little tired after inspecting it. He had almost never been able to live in the past few months. The pressure from the Northwest Army was too great, which forced him to pay close attention to the threats from the north and the east day and night. Now the problem that made Zhang Zhentian the most headache was no longer from the military threat from the Northwest Army, but the food shortage that occurred in his territory. An was originally not a grain-producing mansion, and the grain was barely self-sufficiency, and the Saint King and the others were transported away one after another when they left Anyuan.

A lot of the grain that was originally stored here was originally expected to transfer a batch of grain from the neighboring Pinglu after the harvest in Xiaochun, but unexpectedly, not only did Pinglu fall, but the disasters throughout the Eastern Continent also left all hopes empty. The locust plague that followed the spring drought made 80% of the Anyuan Prefecture harvest, and the people of Anyuan Prefecture were originally poor and had little surplus grain. In this way, the food problem immediately became the first problem that people could not avoid.

Although he tried all his best, the family of Anyuan Qianqian Gentleman had basically been taken away by himself. However, Li Wufeng, a guy, adopted an extremely strict method of strengthening the walls and clearing the wilderness, so that even if he had money, he could not buy food from all over the surrounding area. Seeing that the grain in the warehouse could not last until July, the people outside the city flocked to the city to find a bite of food. Although he had already ordered farmers outside the city not to enter the city to avoid greater pressure from the city, soldiers from all the locals still secretly let many people into the city. After all, they were all fellow villagers in the village, with blood thicker than water, and not many people could truly achieve the determination to break up.

Today, a rare banquet was held in the Mansion. Lord Fu Zun personally invited the food merchants from the north. It was said that they were grain merchants from the north. It has been a long time since I saw Lord Fu Zun laugh so happily. The long-term pressure has made Lord Fu Zun much older than a year ago. But today, Lord Fu Zun, who had a long gown, personally accompanied him to entertain the big grain merchants from the Principality of the Deluoke in the north. Even the guards in the mansion could clearly feel the joy in the mansion.

Zhang Zhentian was indeed a little happy. Although he felt something was wrong with his general who was responsible for defending the important road in the north and ran back to Fucheng, he thought that such a large batch of grain would be transported from the north. Now the situation outside the Fucheng was a little out of control. The other party had to do so. He was really forced to do this. He was really hungry and crazy to find that one or two soldiers could not protect this grain transport convoy. Think about it again, his confidant general had not returned to Fucheng for half a year. It was really too hard to guard the remote pass in the north all day. It was not a big deal to make the other party come back and relax.

Seeing the other party's eyes shining with excitement when checking the food, Pi Hongkui could know that the other party really needed this batch of food too much. He stroked bags of food and smelled the fragrance of food. The Taiping Sect's prefecture in Beiyuan County basement was so disobedient. Pi Hongkui couldn't help but sigh in his heart. He came from Nanjieluoke all the way, and the entire Anyuan Prefecture was already barren, with no grains in many places. If it weren't for the Taiping Army's escort formation with two thousand swords and guns, he would have been afraid that the hungry people with green eyes would have pounced on it long ago. It seemed that Lord Li's blockade policy had put Anyuan Prefecture on the verge of despair.

While smiling and raising his glass, he was carefully looking at the surrounding environment. It seemed that all the important generals under Zhang Zhentian should come to attend the banquet this time. Of course, except for the generals on duty, he briefly pointed out the number of seven important generals. Perhaps one of them was on duty.

Let’s look at the guard soldiers outside the banquet hall. There are four soldiers on duty at the small door on the right. Although they look very energetic, they can also see that they are not specially trained figures. The two of them on their side should be able to kill each other without disturbing the soldiers outside the academy. However, the four people outside the banquet hall are a bit tricky, and they all show their energy. It can be seen that they are training children, which is probably going to take some trouble. However, Pi Hongkui is not afraid, and he has not done such things once or twice. If even these people can’t solve them, then he and his men really don’t have to make a living.

There seemed to be two whistles on the corner of the courtyard. Zhang Zhentian was very generous in the morning, but in fact he was very cautious. By the way, there seemed to be someone in the next room. I don’t know what he was doing. He should be the guard on duty on duty. He had to calculate these guys. Just as he was just thinking, the owner on the opposite side had already picked up the wine glass to toast: "Come on, come on, Mr. Ouyang, Zhang would like to toast you again. Mr. Ouyang could take such a great risk to transport grain into Anyuan at this time. Zhang had to admire him. Isn’t Mr. Ouyang afraid of Li Wufeng’s ban?"
Chapter completed!