Chapter 851: The Dire Current Situation (2)

"The officials who destroyed the warehouse materials due to negligence have been arrested, and the lord can declare the official punishment at any time. However, some of them are purely due to irresistible factors, and the general should be aware of them!"

With that said, Xun sent a list, which recorded the name of the warehouse where the accident occurred, the specific amount of damage, the cause of the damage, and the corresponding responsible person.

Shang Ji glanced at it, nodded and said, "Naturally, accidents caused by irresistible factors are no longer within the scope of punishment!"

"The general is wise!"

Xun Xiaoxiao offered a flattery.

"The subordinates have jointly formulated new warehouse management regulations with Feng Xiao, and made necessary modifications to the existing warehouses to minimize the risk. I believe that the probability of accidents in the warehouse will be greatly reduced in the next period of time!"

"Well, very good, Wen Ruo and Feng Xiao have worked hard."

Shang Ji nodded, signaling to Xi Zhi, the narrator, to continue the introduction.

Xi Zhicai was interested and continued: "In addition to the loss of personnel and supplies, the death storm has a far-reaching impact on our army!"

"The most obvious and most urgent problem is the limited use of space equipment. In the future, our army must take logistics support into consideration. Large-scale long-distance expeditions will become a luxury in the continent of death!"

Shang Ji was silent for a while, then nodded slowly.

The space ring is limited and can only be withdrawn but not stored, which has dealt a fatal blow to the Pingzhou Army's long-distance raiding ability.

At the beginning, because he was worried that he would have an accident, Shang Ji deliberately limited the amount of material reserves in Qiankunjie to avoid repeating the mistakes of Helian. This decision makes Shang Ji regret it now. He took a careful inventory before, and the supplies in the Qiankun Ring are probably only enough for a million troops to fight for two months.

Shang Ji has already decided that he will not easily use the materials stored in the Qiankun Ring until the critical moment. These materials will become the last straw of the Pingzhou Army!

"In addition to the surge in logistical pressure, there is one more thing to pay attention to! The treasure bag that held the war puppets before is also a variant of space equipment. The subordinates have confirmed that once the war puppets leave the treasure bag, they cannot go back. In other words, our big killer war puppet has also lost its raiding function!"

This bad news made Shang Ji's eyelids twitch again!

War puppets are huge in size, and consume a lot of energy to drive them. Before, it could be carried in a treasure bag, which perfectly solved the problem of insufficient mobility.

But now thinking of the size of the war puppet and the terrifying consumption of spirit stones, Shang Ji felt like breaking down!

Let the war puppets run to the battlefield by themselves, Shang Ji must go bankrupt!

As if seeing through Shang Ji's troubles, Xi Zhicai continued: "However, Master Gongshu and Master Hephaestus jointly designed a cart specially used to transport war puppets, which solved the problem of war puppets' mobility to a certain extent. Insufficient problem."

"Of course, this kind of big car is expensive and has many restrictions."

Shang Ji nodded with a wry smile, and then added: "Mr. Gongshu and Hephaestus, let them design some cheap and easy-to-use small and medium-sized vehicles. In the future, our combat mode will be changed, and the logistical guarantee will become more important." The most important thing is that although the vehicles for transporting materials are inconspicuous, they are also key equipment!"

"The subordinates understand that they will cooperate with Mr. Gongshu to do a good job in related work!"

"The limited use of space equipment only limits the display of our army's military power.

But if this problem is not resolved in the future, then we may be in danger of being destroyed! "

"Oh? What's the problem?"

After hearing Xi Zhicai's words, everyone was shocked, even Shang Ji sat up straight and asked aloud.

"food!"

Xi Zhicai slowly spit out two words.

"food?"

"That's right, it's food!"

Seeing that Shang Ji was a bit puzzled, Xi Zhicai continued to explain: "My lord, according to the observations in the past few days and the information sent from various places, my subordinates infer that the future grain production will fall into a cliff-like plunge. If the problem of grain production reduction cannot be solved , I'm afraid our army will be in big trouble!"

"Details!"

"My lord, everyone!"

Xi Zhicai got up, and said in a concentrated voice: "As we all know, the grain production efficiency of the Death Continent was three times that of the Dahan before. The grain supply has always been in a state of oversupply, and there has never been a shortage of food everywhere. But when the death storm came, the grain production efficiency returned to normal. Regardless of the level, extreme disasters such as floods, droughts, and locust plagues have occurred in different regions one after another. It is inevitable that food production will decrease or even fail.

If things go on like this, the entire Dead Continent will fall into a food shortage. And the food shortage will inevitably lead to the intensification of war and the prevalence of diseases. Even our army may accidentally drown in the tide of the times! "

"What is the specific disaster situation of farmland in various places? Can increasing infrastructure investment, controlling locusts, gently taxing, digging irrigation facilities such as canals, and expanding the cultivated area can avoid this situation?"

"The situation is not optimistic. This is a summary of the damage reported by various places recently. Please read it, my lord."

With that said, Xi Zhicai put a thick booklet on the ground.

While flipping through the pages, Shang Ji continued to listen to Xi Zhicai's introduction: "The disaster situation is quite serious. Natural disasters that endanger agricultural production have occurred in almost all the places under our army's rule, but there are slight differences in the degree of disasters in different places.

Of course, the several methods mentioned by the lord can alleviate the disaster, but according to the estimates of the subordinates, they are not enough to completely solve the problem. In addition, whether it is locust control or water control, a large amount of capital investment is required.”

"It doesn't matter! Wait for the military division, Wen Ruo, and Feng Xiao to jointly make a budget. Just report how much money you need! If necessary, you can even mobilize the local garrison to assist in the construction of various infrastructures."

Shang Ji waved his hand, interrupting Xi Zhicai's words very proudly.

Shang Ji can now proudly say, "If you are poor, you will have money left!"

In previous wars, successive battles and victories, a large number of countries and regions were destroyed in the hands of Shang Ji, and the funds harvested were naturally astronomical.

Although a large amount of income was spent on the crazy military expansion and successive wars, the sum of money in the pockets of the merchants is still 1.6 billion!

"By the way, send a message to Mr. Nong. I would like to trouble Mr. Nong to work hard. According to the current characteristics of frequent extreme conditions, we can see if we can breed some high-resistant crop seeds. We don't want high yield and taste, just want tenacious vitality. Can withstand extreme natural disasters."

After finishing speaking, Shang Ji turned his head to look at Xun again, and asked, "Wen Ruo, how much food does our army have in reserve?"

"Return to General, according to statistics, there are currently 670 million shi of food stored in the official warehouses of our army, and 13.2 billion copies of finished military rations at all levels."

As soon as Xun finished speaking, there was booing in the hall!

After listening to Xi Zhicai's words just now, everyone was so nervous that they seemed to be out of food tomorrow, but after hearing Xun's report, they realized that we had so much food in reserve!

Leaving aside the 670 million shi of grain, the more than 1.3 billion rations alone are enough to feed all the soldiers of the Pingzhou Army for more than two years!

Facing the boos of the crowd, Xi Zhicai, Xun and the others did not change their faces, and continued: "Although there is a lot of food in reserve, we are not optimistic in the face of the unprecedented severe situation. I request my lord to immediately order to freeze all foreign food trade. Not a single grain of food in the Pingzhou military area is allowed to flow out!"

After a little thought, Shang Ji resolutely agreed with Xi Zhicai's proposal, and ordered: "Pass down this general's order. From now on, the foreign grain trade in the Pingzhou military area is temporarily frozen. The grain can only enter and not out, and those who violate the order will be executed!"