Chapter 1388 Food Crisis

The influx of a large number of armored war elephants brought a change to the whole situation.

For some orc soldiers of relatively normal size, the threat of war elephants is still not small.

However, the orc army is not vegetarian, especially in terms of the number of large arms units, they are really not afraid of anyone!

Looking at the armored war elephants rushing all the way into the main battlefield, the elephant artillerymen on the side of the orc army also turned into melee combat at this moment and began to cut into the battlefield.

The battle spread out by hundreds of Elephants was terrifying, and the sense of oppression emanating from it instantly swept the audience, and easily completely overwhelmed the opponent in the competition of large arms units.

There is no doubt that Raymond Sosi's orc army is absolutely stronger than the opposing cannibal players in terms of offensive power.

If there is only such a big cannibal player on the opposite side, then he is estimated to be able to fight back in minutes.

However, what made him very annoyed by the current situation was that there was a Daqin man further north of this battlefield.

At the same time, the armies of Fulangji and Fusang were gradually approaching this battlefield, so that he did not dare to leave his territory with his troops.

The number of people is inferior, which causes Raymond Souci to play passively in many cases.

When the troops are concentrated on this side, the other three sides can only madly lay mines to intercept the army of other players.

Fortunately, other foreign players did not have the means to effectively remove the mines, and they could be considered to have successfully intercepted their offensive. Facing such a dense minefield, it would probably take a long time to clear them.

Now turn to Robert Smith's side.

The situation on his side is similar. As a defender, they have an advantage. For example, the transportation of troops and materials will be much faster than that of the attacker.

Compared with the army of the offensive side, which requires a long journey and takes a long time to mobilize every time, the advantage of the defending side lies in the high efficiency within its own territory.

However, for the current situation, Robert Smith can't be optimistic.

"Great Emperor, now that the empire is able to collect food, we have already collected all of it. However, according to this situation, it will last until June this year at most. I am afraid that there will be a famine in the empire..."

Speaking of this, the official standing below couldn't help but look bitter, and then spoke again...

"And this time, the scale is probably not small. Before the autumn harvest, millions of people may starve to death."

Hearing this, Robert Smith's facial muscles twitched violently.

The empire, which was originally not optimistic about its grain production, was even more affected by the war in the past two years, which made grain production decrease year by year.

At the same time, his move of recruiting a large number of young and middle-aged people to join the army has caused the productivity of some industries within his empire to decline.

This bad situation made Robert Smith have to control all the food in the territory into his own hands.

This approach, on the one hand, is naturally to provide stable food resources for its own army, and on the other hand, it is to control famine.

Don't be surprised, if the people are allowed to buy their own food, then considering various factors, some people may be able to buy a lot, while some people can't even buy it.

This situation is undoubtedly not conducive to the internal stability of the empire.

Therefore, under this situation, Robert Smith also made a ruthless move, and directly collected all the food that could be harvested, and then distributed it uniformly by their empire every week, everyone had a bowl of water, so that To the greatest extent, we can ensure that every people can get a bite to eat more or less.

It will not happen that kind of situation of "holding up to death, starving to death".

I have to say that although this method of Robert Smith is troublesome, according to the current situation, he really has no choice.

However, even in this state, according to the detailed calculations of several departments under his command, there is still not enough food for this year. According to this situation, there are probably a large number of them who will not be able to support this year's autumn harvest.

"Worse, how far?"

When he asked this, Robert Smith's tone was extremely difficult.

In this regard, the minister below has obviously confirmed the result long ago, so when faced with this problem, he just listened to him slowly...

"Reporting to the Great Emperor, in order to maintain the minimum daily food intake of every ordinary person as the standard, if we want to last until the autumn harvest, we need at least about 500,000 tons of grain."

The heavy number hit him hard in his heart, and Robert Smith bluffed a few times, but in the end he couldn't say a word.

Need at least 500,000 tons of grain? Not to mention 500,000 tons, according to the current situation of the empire, he couldn't even squeeze out 10,000 tons of grain.

After a long silence, his slightly hoarse voice rang out slowly.

"You go back first."

"Yes, Wei Chen retire."

The minister quickly left the palace. Outside, his own car was already waiting there.

As soon as the driver saw him coming out, he got out of the car and stretched out his hand to take the briefcase in the hand of the minister.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, the minister's hand suddenly stopped.

"You are?"

"Master, my name is Kevin. I'm Hank's cousin. My cousin is sick today, so I'll drive for him for the time being."

"Kevin..."

He muttered the name softly in his mouth. The Minister did have some impression of this name. His driver Hank seemed to have a cousin named Kevin.

However, after thinking about it, the minister finally did not give the briefcase in his hand to Kevin.

After getting in the car, the car started slowly, and drove towards the minister's mansion in an orderly manner.

Along the way, it can be said to be peaceful.

Back at the mansion, looking at the old housekeeper who came out to greet him, the minister asked casually as he walked towards the house...

"Hank, is he sick today?"

"Yes sir, Hank had a high fever last night, so he asked his cousin Kevin to drive for him temporarily."

"yes."

The minister who got a clear answer nodded casually, quickly forgot about this little episode, and then walked all the way to his study, and motioned to the old housekeeper to help him make a pot of coffee and bring it in.

Next, he was obviously busy.

At the same time, on the other side, Kevin, who had parked the car unhurriedly, had a meaningful smile on his face. Of course, this hidden smile quickly disappeared the moment he got out of the car. In an instant, he regained his honest and honest appearance...

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