Chapter 389: Building a huge temple
Of course, just appeasing the group of rat warriors is of little significance.
The bigger problem is that after the war ended and the objects of plunder were lost, the output of the Rat Man Empire simply could not maintain the operation of this huge empire.
Blood mushrooms are not coins in the true sense.
It cannot be distributed randomly. Without sacrifices, there will be no blood mushrooms. Without blood mushrooms, everything will have problems.
It’s not that no one in the Rat Man Empire discovered this problem, and it’s not that no one tried to solve it.
The Skaven farmers are an attempt at this.
Just not enough.
Not enough.
Even if the temple guards use all the land on the main continent to raise goblins and completely turn this planet into a goblin planet, the sacrifices produced will not be enough for today's huge rat. For the human empire, it is far from enough.
No matter how much you tinker with those goblins, the rewards you bring will never be as good as destroying a group of heretics, overthrowing a city, destroying a country, and burning an empire. It can't compare to these, that's for sure.
Across the Ratman Empire, these guys have long been whetted by the endless war.
Where can I see these goblins?
I just have to admit that these greedy guys also have to admit it.
Now, the rat people look around, there is no war anymore, there may still be some guys scattered in a corner, hiding in that hidden place, but an opponent who is truly worthy of praise But it completely disappeared.
Even if he looked down upon these goblins, they were the only ones left at the moment.
Instinctively, these guys began to reduce their expenses.
The first ones to be hit were the gadget sales points in the rat-man city decorated with magic lamps of various colors.
Ornaments, ritual utensils, carved weapons, grooming services, wailing concerts, corpse soap.
These things that have been selling well for many years suddenly disappeared from the market.
This is a matter of urgency.
After all, these best-selling products can include almost all groups in the entire Skaven Empire.
The change in habits represented by these things is more meaningful and important than it seems. It is not that these guys are gone, but the rat people are missing some guys who are so colorful and covered with all kinds of accessories. Simple.
Decorations, sacrificial utensils.
These are the only pillars of those super-standard industrial zones besides weapons and siege equipment.
Without war, the production of weapons and siege equipment has stopped. If the demand for these things continues to lose, then these super industrial zones will have to face stagnation in operation.
Perhaps the black smoke that never stops rising in the barren mountains will finally stop?
As for other things, they are also somewhat involved in some things.
The price this brings is fatal.
It can even be said to involve the entire Ratman Empire.
Because they represent the only remaining pillars of the Skaven Empire after losing the war.
Not long after a reform swept through the Skaven Empire, each Skaven city was shattered by the intrusion of the rumbling steam trains, and their independent status was shattered.
Absorb resources more efficiently to carry out crazy expansion and transformation of those major cities.
But now, the war is over, blood mushrooms have become valuable, the production of weapons and siege equipment has begun to stagnate, and those fancy gadgets are no longer so attractive. The decline began.
Those super cities can still persist because they are huge enough.
But what about the others, the independent cities that were forcibly knocked out of autarky, what about them.
The steam trains roaring back and forth are gradually disappearing.
The various supplies that were brought are also gradually disappearing.
All kinds of resources are piled high in cities, but these things have become worthless after losing the steam trains that come and go.
These guys, who had just been beaten up by the righteous iron fist of the Skaven Council not long ago, suddenly found that they seemed to be abandoned.
They gave up the various workshops in their hands and humbly chose to use various resources in exchange for blood mushrooms. In the end, before the resources around the city are exhausted, do you even want the resources?
Huh?
The leaders of these resource cities, the rat priests who were big shots but not that big, were dumbfounded.
Then, then there was a wave of evacuation.
These guys abandoned the cities, land, and resources they managed, and began to swarm into those super cities.
Then, there was another wave of guys dumbfounded.
Those despicable free rat people, those abandoned slave rats.
They are the most vulnerable group of guys in the Skaven Empire.
Hunger, comes hunger.
After the rat priests changed their strategy, they were no longer qualified to negotiate with those big shots, and the steam trains were completely stopped.
A great famine occurred.
Of course, this process is not that fast. Even in many resource cities, the rat priests and rat lords make various choices.
Some people choose to leave, and of course there are people who choose to stay.
Start taking advantage of this opportunity to restore those rat-manufacturing workshops, cave mushroom growing rooms, and breeding rooms.
But when a few unlucky guys made the choice to abandon the city, things were destined to become chaotic.
In hunger, those abandoned guys, those left in empty cities, filed out and passed through the underground tunnels that were built.
Like a virus, like a plague, it began to run wildly through the intricate underground tunnel lines built by the Rat Man Empire.
Of course, you can’t blame them. After all, these guys have no other aspirations, they just want to live.
But things are getting more and more confusing here.
The sadistic Skaven guys once spread throughout the Skaven Empire.
Block tunnels, stop trains, sneak into rat cities that are still functioning normally, and rob and steal wantonly.
And this is a chain reaction.
Every time a city goes bankrupt, countless rat victims will pour into the underground tunnels.
Let the traffic in an area be paralyzed for a long time, and try to attack those cities that can still operate normally.
This will make it difficult for those rat cities that are still functioning normally, and eventually go bankrupt, and then release a larger group of rat victims again.
As chaos spread, even the Twin Fortresses began to frequently fail to contact the Underground Rat City.
More and more Skaven began to pour into those huge super cities.
They brought confusing news and fear about the future.
The circulation of blood mushrooms has dropped again.
Even the wealthy rat priests began to save.
In order to deal with this situation, the big figures in the Ratman Council frequently held various meetings during this period.
In the end, in the quarrels again and again.
The result is no result.
There is no doubt about the greed of these guys, and there is also no doubt about their lower limit. Is it really difficult to solve this mess?
It’s not that difficult. There is only one problem now, and that is the lack of blood mushrooms.
And why is there a lack of blood mushrooms?
Because after the war came to a halt, the Ratmen who owned the blood mushrooms began to tightly cover the blood mushrooms in their arms, unwilling to let them out at all.
Don’t say more, as long as these guys in the rat-man council are willing to let go of their hands covering the blood mushrooms, then this chaotic situation will not be like this. So bad that it got worse.
But who would want to do that? The blood mushrooms held in his arms belong to him, but the blood mushrooms released may become those of these guys.
As long as not all the guys relent at the same time, then the guy who relents first will completely become the victim.
With such precautions, this chaos was allowed to happen.
Everything is going wrong.
All kinds of problems since the war stopped.
The huge rat-man empire even showed signs of crumbling at a certain moment.
This is less than two years after that victory!
Of course, does anyone want to save this.
Of course.
What people didn’t expect was that it was Sheng Qi who took the lead to break the stalemate.
He was the first to be the loser.
That day, he slapped the table with a ferocious expression and roared loudly.
“If you want a civil war, then get out of here now and raise your troops. If you don’t want a meaningless fight to the death, then raise this fight together!”
Just for these guys on the field.
Sheng Qi’s roar was really nothing.
Sheng Qi’s face was covered with an indelible gloom.
When the second rat-man parliament was convened, Sheng Qi had already thrown all the blood mushrooms in his hands at the chaotic rat-man empire. Those various small objects and sacrificial supplies that had been extremely expensive in the past were all in the The long table where the meeting was held was piled high.
The bright magic lamp casts light. In this light, these things made of blood gold reflect different colors in the eyes of the rat councilors with different expressions.
In this meeting, Sheng Qi made a proposal and it was successfully passed.
The construction plan was launched by Shengqi and the loyalist rat priests, temple guards, rat lords, rat priests from other parties, and Big Claw priests.
They will build huge temples in each of the three rat-man super cities, huge temples dedicated to the great gods.
A super temple made entirely of blood gold.
That day, a large number of blood mushrooms were thrown into all sides of the Rat Empire.
Those crumbling resource cities once again welcomed steam trains.
This is an extremely ambitious plan.
The Skaven once again began to build huge temples. While offering sacrifices to the great gods, they also wanted to pull up the Skaven Empire that was about to collapse.
Those super industrial areas began to operate again, the silent blast furnaces were ignited again, and various ores were put into the blast furnaces.
In the wail of the slave rats and the roar of the Great Claw Priest.
It’s like going back to the past.
The super industrial zone begins its recovery.
Of course, it’s not just a super industrial zone.
Those steel trains that had been stagnant for a long time began to move again.
Although the construction of these temples has not yet begun, it does not matter, as long as you know that they will be unparalleledly huge temples.
In short, materials, ores and labor are needed.
Sheng Qi, Rat Councilors, Rat Council, they did not give all the resources to the city.
Instead, they selectively pulled up those cities with the resources to prepare blood gold veins. In addition, there were also those more important cities.
Cities that occupy important positions.
In this widespread chaos, almost two-thirds of the resource cities were directly abandoned by them.
This is a very cruel decision, but these Shengqi and the Rat Councilors are indifferent to making this decision.
In the chaos, those abandoned cities disappeared one by one. Countless ratmen chose to leave these abandoned cities out of hunger. It was not easy to move forward in the tunnels filled with toxic dust.
But they had little choice.
Before exhaustion in a highly toxic environment, the first thing to approach is hunger.
Moving forward in chaos, they were killed by ratmen from other cities. Now, these hungry guys with no other choice have completely become the source of disaster.
Every rat city that persists is resisting their invasion.
Sheng Qi’s decision saved many surviving rat cities, and the steam trains that traveled back and forth once again ran through the rat empire.
But no one cared about these hungry guys and they were abandoned directly.
This is an extremely large amount.
Millions, millions, no, ten million, tens of millions, or more.
No one can count clearly.
As the surviving Ratmen cities prepare for these hungry people, it becomes increasingly difficult to attack the city.
The food brought by intercepting and attacking the steam trains was obviously a drop in the bucket in their huge quantity.
In desperation, they began to leave the underground tunnels, trying to find food on the surface and survive.
Like locusts gnawing away at everything on the surface, leaving patches of bare land behind, and soon faced an attack.
Those rat lords and rat farmers, for the sake of the stability of the city and the safety of their pastures, began to hire large groups of rat mercenaries to clean up these hungry guys.
This has added a lot of errands to the huge rat mercenary group that has retreated from the main continent.
They began to attack these desperate guys in an organized manner.
After several huge hunts, these hungry rat people returned to the underground tunnel network again in fear.
In this complex underground tunnel.
Even the most ferocious rat mercenaries have to consider the possibility of being swarmed and killed when they cannot form a formation or use war equipment.
Here they were safe, but the problem arose again.
Hungry.
In that deep underground tunnel.
Pairs of red eyes stared at each other.
In that unbearable hunger, something bad happened.
It’s not clear how these guys survived that long period of hunger.
But not long after, a huge group of rat ghouls appeared in this underground tunnel. Along with these rat ghouls were the pale skeletons scattered everywhere.
(End of this chapter)