Chapter 257, There is no shortage of food, but famine
Flux City.
Mountain Dew City has not been very peaceful recently.
It is hard to imagine that at such a dangerous time, the city's rights actually started to be turbulent again, because of the failure of the attempt and the unexpected and huge reaction of the Rat Man.
Many of the real nobles in the city were frightened, frightened by the manic rat man.
Mountain Dew City is not as indestructible as they thought, and the dangers displayed by the Ratmen gathered outside the city are far beyond their imagination.
At the same time, there is also dissatisfaction with the Star Gazing Pope. In their eyes, the Star Gazing Pope is obviously a guy picking peaches. When the gods have not left, this naturally does not matter. After all, the former The Governor also relied on the Star Gazing Church to secure his position.
But now the Star Observation Church’s vitality is greatly weakened.
The priests of the Star Gazing Church can no longer guide divine magic. Except for some artifacts given by the gods that can still be used normally, the only ones the Star Gazing Church can rely on now are the Holy See Knights.
Still huge, but not powerful enough.
Especially after the Stargazing Pope began to recruit supplies and came up with the idea of mobilizing the personal guards of various nobles to fill the war with the rat people.
The situation began to change.
The private guard is called a guard, but in fact it is called a private army, a private army, which is completely appropriate.
It is not the standard of ten or twenty people. The personal guards of these scattered guys can form an elite and powerful army. Naturally, such a large-scale guard cannot be hidden. and hidden.
And in the past, they would not be allowed to be stationed in the city. They were stationed in private estates outside the city. In fact, even though the size of these guards was not small, they were a huge force and controlled the situation. The Stargazing Pope suppressed these great nobles and took the command of the Guards into his own hands. It would not be a troublesome matter.
It's just that the opportunity was missed, which has something to do with the rat war.
The Rat War suddenly and unexpectedly sent away the former governor. This tough guy defeated the allied forces of the Mountain Dew City nobles who met each other for the first time in the field battle, which directly led to the defeat of Mountain Dew City. The city was in chaos. In the chaos, some guys who felt they had the ability to place bets started to think about it. These large-scale guards were mobilized near Mountain Dew City.
This kind of behavior should have been stopped, and it can be stopped. It was stopped by the Star Gazing Church. However, the distance of God was another major blow to the Star Gazing Church. With its faith shaken, how could the Star Gazing Church still be able to survive? Don't worry about the situation in Mountain Dew.
It wasn’t until the Stargazer Pope used thunderous means to execute the wavering priests while abandoning his promise to the Holy See Knights, and the church’s situation stabilized, that it freed up its hands again.
He suppressed the turmoil in the city and allowed the descendant of the former saint of the Star Gazing Church to take the position of heir, while he interfered in everything in the city as the heir's teacher.
It was just a little slower, but a guard was still transferred into the city in the chaos. Even on the night when the heir was decided, the guard was waiting for orders outside the castle. If it weren't for the stargazing Pope and the Vatican Knights, Show up and you can imagine what will happen that night.
The rat tide broke out, and the land outside the city was falling at an extremely fast speed. The nobles gathered outside Mountain Dew City with their guards. The Stargazer Pope could have gathered all these guards. At this moment, just the guard and the noble private army that existed in the city still became a big problem.
After the nobles outside the city learned that a guard had entered the city, they used this as a reason to forcefully reject the Stargazing Pope's recruitment of their guards.
The nobles who were loyal to the guard in the city wanted to prevent all the guards of other nobles from being called up. They became the target of public criticism and united their troops to press close to the city gate. Both sides were very tough at that moment, and they were at war with each other.
The knights of the Holy See and the city defenders faced off against the private armies of the nobles.
In the end, the Stargazing Pope gave in. Obviously, compared to these nobles, he cherished this city and the mortal believers in this city who believed in the God of Stargazing.
The nobles entered Mountain Dew City with their private armies.
This has become a huge trouble, but there is no good way to solve it.
The confrontation in front of the city gate was staged again at this moment. The nobles were not fools. Everyone knew that no matter what, another civil war could never break out in Mountain Dew City, but they wanted to put on such a show. They came up with a posture to force the opponent to make concessions. This time, the attitude of the nobles became even tougher because the Stargazer Pope failed in his attempt.
In the end, the Star-gazing Pope once again took a step back and gave up the recruitment of the nobles' private guards. However, the Star-gazing Pope did not completely give in. He used retreat to advance. He put forward many conditions to the nobles. .
Several merchants who provided inferior weapons to the city's defenders were hanged in the square.
A large amount of supplies were mobilized from the nobles' chambers of commerce and the nobles' own treasury.
Weapons, armor, kerosene, fuel, medicine, magic materials, money.
A large number of these various things were mobilized and supplied to the garrison on the city wall. At the same time, a new round of recruitment also began. The residents in the city were not useless. At the critical moment Time can also be mobilized as soldiers and logistics.
The current situation in Mountain Dew City is not stable. The sharp increase in food prices has made many city residents overwhelmed.
There is no shortage of food in Mountain Dew City, at least at this time of harvest, there will be no shortage of food anyway.
The first thing Stargazing Pope did after stabilizing the situation in the city was to gather all the food from the villages and towns around the city into the city.
With the siege of the Ratmen, the price of food began to soar. The afterglow of the richness of the world has not dissipated. Fresh and tender grass blades are climbing randomly in the golden wheat fields after harvesting. , even the most humble slave rat can have a full meal during this period.
But at this time, the residents in Mountain Dew City began to worry about food.
It’s not the fresh vegetables, hard-to-preserve fruits, or meat that are going up in price. In fact, it’s all the food that’s going up in price. Vegetables, meat, fruits, bread, beer, candies, and things that shouldn’t be happening these days. Scarce flour.
In a very short period of time, all of this has doubled.
The Stargazing Pope did not intervene in the increase in food prices.
When the city guards announced their recruitment, many city residents were excited. The conditions offered were not generous, but they could get food supplies if they joined.
(End of this chapter)