It has been more than half a month since it was broken. Who would have thought that the relatively independent Yangchuan economy would be fully taken over by Jingge in this way? Originally, the main business roads between the six major cities needed to rely on the military pavilion to guard them. They themselves could take some unusual paths. Anyway, the sand bandits in the Sunset Desert dared not attack the industry of the Five Snakes. But the terrain of the entire Yangchuan has become extremely complex. There are dangerous dark slits everywhere in the desert. It looks flat from afar. When you step on it, you immediately turn into quicksand and sink. There are monsters hiding in it and staring at it.

After the Imperial Guard was disbanded by Emperor Tianzun, the disaster relief here was the military pavilion. At present, only a few main trade routes have been repaired, and only the exclusive caravans of Jing Pavilion transport materials.

As a result, the five snake industry scattered all over the country was hit hard all of a sudden. In addition, the incident happened to the old man, the third master and Zhao Ya one after another. Liu Hu, who was always cautious, had long noticed that something was abnormal. The disaster relief supplies on the streets have not been delayed in recent days. Even Liucheng is a food capital, the reserve grain that can be supported is almost exhausted. The most difficult thing is the water source. The only water channel, Wuanjiang, is still buried deep under the yellow sand. I don’t know when water supply will be restored. Jingge will distribute water sources in the city every day, but it is getting less and less, which is completely inadequate for daily drinking.

"Oh..." Liu Hu closed his eyes again, shook his rocking chair, and no one could tell his annoyance. Is this because of the difficulty in trade routes that caused the delay in supplies, or is it because Yang Chuan offended the Master of Jing Pavilion for so long and was subjected to malicious revenge?

The current head of Jing Pavilion is Gongsun Yan, whose ancestral home is Dongming Wanyou City. That guy was originally a profitable businessman who was both black and white. Naturally, he had long been jealous of Yangchuan's huge profits. Fortunately, the Five Snakes have been entrenched in Yangchuan for many years and have Governor Gao. Captain Gao secretly supports him. He is confident that he has always been competing with Jing Pavilion. He only needs to pay a small part of the profit and tax every year. He does not have to rack his mind to please and flatter like merchants in other places. This kind of gray transaction cannot be put on the table. Even if the leader of Jing Pavilion is dissatisfied, he cannot openly express anything.

Gongsun Yan and the Luo family of Wanyoucheng Tianlu Trading Company have a good personal relationship, and Tianlu Trading Company is one of the few foreign merchants who can get along well in Yangchuan. Although they are not threatening the Five Snakes industry, the person behind them is Jingge, which makes people have to defend and suppress.

Liu Hu's sound of knocking on the handrail was getting faster and faster, which seemed to confirm that his inner anxiety was getting heavier and heavier. Gongsun Yan was clearly reported by someone not long ago that the amount of corruption and bribery was amazing. He thought he could take this opportunity to overthrow him, but who thought that the person who fell first was Governor Gao! The emperor changed the world overnight, and the young crown prince ascended the throne and became emperor. The Master of Jing Pavilion was one of the biggest heroes around him. He was naturally restored to his post and regained the economic power of Feiyuan.

From that day on, he had a hidden premonition that a stable and peaceful life might end.

He was not optimistic about Gao Zhanping's inciting the second prince's coup from the beginning, and as expected, he was defeated. Even the plan to provoke the people and cause public grievances was not fulfilled. If there were any gains, it would probably be just framed Lin Qingyang, which made the already infamous military cabinet even worse.

Liu Hu sighed deeply, sighing, what's the use of cursing without pain? The business road for disaster relief also needs to rely on the power of the military pavilion to transport materials normally. If you really have the backbone and don't want to accept other people's goodness, you will only starve to death and thirst!

People think so much about it. The most important thing now is to survive. Even if you have to scold, you have to eat enough to have the strength to scold.

Liu Hu sighed again, turned his head and looked at the rich dishes on the table. He felt dry mouth and tongue, and had no appetite at all. He wanted to pour a cup of herbal tea to quench his thirst, but found that there was a pot of sake placed. Liu Hu frowned and said to the butler: "Change a pot of tea, water is fine."

"Second Master..." The housekeeper rubbed his hands in embarrassment and muttered, "The water sent from Jingge in the past three days is not enough to drink. Now the city is dripping with water. Fortunately, there is still a lot of wine in our food warehouse. You will only give it some and drink some sake first..."

"No one has it, but I just don't give it to me?" Liu Hu's eyebrows were unhappy. When the housekeeper heard this, he didn't dare to hide it. He replied in a cold sweat, "Now, you have to register to get water. Although every household has it, the buckets we brought back were not full, and some were less than half. Moreover, there have been golden crow birds patrolling in the city. The number in the past two days is quite large. We want to 'borrow' some from ordinary people, and it is difficult to start. If we are discovered or sued, it will cause a big deal."

Liu Hu pursed his mouth. How could he not guess the reason for such obvious targeting him? But now the Five Snakes themselves are unable to protect themselves. Of course, he could not offend Jing Pavilion again at this time. Seeing that his face was unhappy, the housekeeper quickly stepped forward and poured him a glass of sake and handed it over. He sucked his throat. His already dry throat was even more sad. Liu Hu waved his hand in annoyedly and looked at the dishes on the table. There was indeed no soup. He could only pick some green vegetables and chew them. He didn't even look at the other meat. The housekeeper frowned and reminded him after a while: "Second Master, eat some other dishes, we don't have much ingredients."

Liu Hu threw the chopsticks in his hand "crackling". The housekeeper was so scared that he trembled and hurriedly replied: "The second master had ordered that the Sword Hall would not allow the food to be purchased by tourists. Now the supplies are in short supply and they are deliberately deducted by Jingge. I only went to the food warehouse to take stock of the ingredients this afternoon. There are about 200 people in our house. If there is no new inventory to be replenished, it will only last for three days at most."

"Let the servants get out and find food for themselves!" Liu Hu was so angry that he was the richest man in Liucheng. He ran the famous Eight Immortals Village, and even the servants in his family could not afford it! The housekeeper nodded and laughed, and complained in his heart. The servants of the Liu Mansion basically bought it at a price and had to work until they could not work. Now Jing Pavilion strictly controls disaster relief supplies. In order to prevent people from taking more false registrations, they must go to the portal in detail. If they drive everyone out, they will become homeless people and starve to death on the streets!

But at this critical moment, the butler dared not say anything more. Liu Hu's eyes were full of fatigue, and he signaled the butler to take the inventory, then calculated the inventory with his fingers. Finally, he waved his hand helplessly, thought for a long time, and whispered: "Tomorrow, buy a batch of 'food' from the tourists to help."

"Yes, yes." The housekeeper breathed inexplicably and did not notice that Liu Hu's expression was uneasy. The brothers had special contact methods. Now the old man, the third master and Zhao Ya were completely lost. The fourth master of Jiucheng also acted as low-key as him. During such natural disasters and man-made disasters, he wanted to avoid the limelight and hide at home for a while. After the disaster eased, if the superiors did not deliberately target him, he would find a chance to escape. However, the Liu Chu Mountain next to him was razed to the ground overnight, which made Yangchuan and Yu magically appear a path. Opposite the road was where he often went when he was young, one of the seven forbidden areas, deep in the mountain of demons, and where foreign people lived.

He has been rooted in Liucheng for many years and has trained many excellent tourists in private, and has been providing him with rare "food ingredients". Unfortunately, the reckless man is a reckless man after all. He has brute force and cannot see the situation clearly. It is time for him to fly away in such a disaster. They can't even feel the oppression from the top leaders at all. Instead, they run into the forbidden area in groups, trying to capture a few more rare alien races to show his loyalty to him, and even attracted two forbidden area gods to personally guard the destroyed passage.

It is true that loyalty is true, and it is also true that there is no brain. Feiyuan has changed the world long ago. Whether it is Liucheng attracting tourists, it will sooner or later be rectified by the new imperial power. It will make money by natural disasters. This is to force him into a dead end!

Liu Hu rubbed his eyes and felt a headache, but there was no better way at the moment. Jingge deliberately suppressed himself. Living people can't really starve to death, right?

While Liu Hu was lamenting and shook his head, Xiao Qianye and Ange had already returned to the private house with concealed eyes. Aning sat alone in the living room waiting for the two of them. He drank only a small cup of hot tea and was placed aside, which was already cold again.

"What a waste." Ange muttered, rushed over and drank three cups in a row, and said to Xiao Qianye, "You drink more too. The water resources in the city are so tight now that we can only get a little bit every day, so don't waste it."

"Ange..." Aning suddenly jumped up when he heard this, as if he had remembered something incredible. He grabbed his arm and said, "I went to get water and food this morning. They first gave me a little bit as usual. I was still worried that the three of them would not be enough. But when I got home and looked at the backyard, I didn't know where to send a big bucket of water! Not to mention drinking water, you'll have enough baths now! There is also food. It would be nice to have a few leaves in the past few days. I actually gave meat today. It's so strange. Is the trade route open and I've given more?"

"There is this good thing?" Ang ran to the back with a skeptical look and saw that his eyes almost fell off. There was really a bucket of clear water on the ground for no reason!

He turned his head stiffly, looked at Xiao Qianye in confusion, and suddenly blinked his eyes and asked, "Can your whereabouts be exposed? You used to be their boss, and your relationship with Kunhong should be good, right? Could it be that he discovered that you are here and brought you water and food after thinking about your old love?"

Xiao Qianye looked cold and glanced at the next room inexplicably. Mingxi seemed to have fallen asleep, but Xiao Yibai seemed to have no idea where he went. He found a reason and replied casually: "It should be just a business road. I am now a fugitive pursued by the military cabinet. If Kunhong knew that I was here, he should bring people to arrest me instead of giving me food and water."

Ange nodded. After being busy all day, his eyelids were a little unopened. He yawned and stretched, took another deep breath, and smiled and said, "Sleep, sleep, and when I wake up, I will twist Liu Hu's head tomorrow!"

Xiao Qianye also rested in the room next to him. The moment he closed his eyes, another palpitation forced him to sit up and breathe.
Chapter completed!