As the defensive side, they have an advantage. Take the transportation of troops and materials, which is far faster than the offensive side.

Compared with the offensive army, which takes a long journey to travel for a long time every time each time, the advantage of the defensive party lies in the high efficiency within its territory.

However, now, the situation in his own empire makes Arken Jinge unable to be happy.

"Emperor, now we have collected all the food that can be collected in the empire. However, under this situation, at most, by winter this year, famine will break out again within the empire. Moreover, the scale will exceed the previous one. I am afraid that millions of people will starve to death after the entire winter."

The minister, who was reporting to Arken Jinge, had a bitter face at this moment.

Upon hearing this, Arken Jinge sighed helplessly.

After a pause, he continued, "I understand, you go down first, I will solve this matter."

Arken Jinge waved his hand directly and interrupted the official.

"yes."

The empire's food output is not optimistic in itself, and now it is due to war that the food output is decreasing year by year.

At the same time, he drew a large number of young and middle-aged people's actions to join the army, which made the productivity of some industries within his empire begin to decline.

This bad situation forced Arken Jinge to control all the food in his own hands.

On the one hand, this practice is naturally to provide stable food resources to its army, and on the other hand, to control famine.

This is actually a very normal thing. In special times, if people are allowed to buy food by themselves, then considering various factors, many people will choose to buy a lot.

Anyway, the food can be stored for a long time and cannot be damaged, which is better than being really hungry at that time.

But it is precisely because of these people's practice that other people cannot buy food.

In this way, it will inevitably be detrimental to the stability of the empire.

Therefore, facing the current situation, Arken Jinge directly took a ruthless move, collecting all the food that can be collected, and then the empire will distribute it uniformly.

Everyone can serve a bowl of water equally, so that to the greatest extent possible, each person can get a bite of food, and not have the situation where some people have village connections in their families, while some people have been out of bed for several days.

Although this method is a bit troublesome, he has no choice but to do so in the current situation.

But even in this state, according to the detailed calculations of several departments under his command, the food stored in the empire this year was still insufficient.

The helpless Arken Jinge could only find the players who bought food, urged them to do more quickly, and then said that he needed to buy another batch of food.

Finally, after some bargaining, Arken Jinge once again bleed and bought a new batch of food from the guys.

The minister quickly left the palace, and outside, his special car was already waiting there.

When the driver saw him coming out, he quickly got out of the car and reached out to take over the briefcase from the minister.

However, at this moment, the minister suddenly stopped.

"Who are you?"

"Master, my name is Cage, and I am Hank's cousin. My cousin is sick today, so I will drive for him for the time being."

"Cage..."

He muttered this name softly, and the minister actually had no impression of this name.

After all, how could he, a minister of the country, care about the family situation of a driver?

Out of caution, the minister did not hand over the briefcase to Cage, but he bent down and got into the car.

After he got in the car and sat firmly, the car slowly started and drove towards the minister's mansion.

Along the way, we were at peace.

Looking at the old housekeeper who walked out to greet him, the minister asked him as he walked into the house, "Hank, is he sick today?"

"Yes, Hank had a high fever last night, so he asked his cousin Cage to drive for him for the time being."

"Um."

The minister who got a clear answer nodded casually, quickly threw the small episode behind him, then walked all the way to his study, and signaled the old housekeeper to help him make a pot of coffee and deliver it in.

Next, he was obviously busy.

On the other side, after Cage parked the car, a smile of unknown significance appeared on his face.

Of course, this obscure smile disappeared the moment he got out of the car, and once again returned to his honest and honest appearance.

Late at night, the lights in the minister's mansion gradually went out, and a figure wearing a black tights quickly took advantage of the night to move.

He moved lightly, his feet stepped on the aisle, but he made almost no sound.

The man in black moved very quickly and soon approached the minister's study.

After quickly confirming the surrounding situation, the figure carefully placed his hand on the door lock handle of the study room, and slowly applied force to make the door lock handle begin to rotate slowly.

Everyone can try it soon.】

But the subsequent sense of barrier made him realize that the door was locked.

But this was expected, and the man in black was not surprised.

He took out a small prop and stabbed it into the lockhole. After a few breaths, the door lock of the door was easily opened.

Then, he quickly flashed through the gap in the door, closed it again, and even restored it to a locked state.

The man in black did not turn on the light, and the small flashlight in his hand was his light source.

His gaze was directly locked on the desk. After neatly opening the small locks of several desk drawers, he quickly found the document he wanted.

Turn on the document, but it contains dense Nordic Palestinian words, but this did not cause any trouble to the man in black.

He quickly read the contents in the file and memorized all of them in his mind.

At this moment, a sound of footsteps suddenly came from a distance, which made him pause his hand. Then his first reaction was to turn off the flashlight and quickly put the file in its original place.

The dark environment did not affect his movements.

The footsteps from the corridor outside the door were getting closer and closer. A few seconds later, with the sound of the key inserted into the door lock, the closed door was opened from outside.

Pick.

As the switch was pressed down, the electric lights in the room instantly illuminated the entire study room.

The minister glanced around the study room and then walked to the front of the desk.

Perhaps it was because the pressure on him was too great recently that he had often suffered from insomnia recently. Tonight, he couldn't help but come to the study.

He tried to pull the drawer, but did not pull it, which means that the drawer lock is still intact, and the same is true for the study door lock, which made the minister obviously relieved and felt that he had been a little too sensitive recently.

After some inspection and confirming that nothing was wrong, the minister couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief and left the study room again.

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Daxia City.

On this day, Xia Qi was trying on the latest research results of the Ordnance Research Department, which was the armor made of the outer armor of the giant rhinoceros beast.

But to be honest, this thing is really too hard. Even the dwarf craftsmen with racial talent bonus have spent several years of research and using the power of the ox and tigers to finally adjust and forge the outer armor of the giant rhinoceros beast to a certain extent.

The armor that Xia Qi wore on his body is the result.

To be honest, this thing looks like a street stall from the outside, and it is completely incomparable to the armor he wore before.

Although the craftsmanship is at least ten times better than the orcs' armor, if calculated according to their Daxia's standards and requirements for armor, it can only be described as "rough" and "simple".

However, even dwarf craftsmen cannot change the outer skin into any shape at will.

Therefore, when Xia Qi, who was wearing this armor, could clearly feel that some parts would feel astringent when they were performing activities.

At the same time, some structures will also hit him, and the comfort level of wear is basically zero.

But even so, they cannot deny the biggest advantage of this armor, that is its powerful defense ability.

As long as you wear this armor, you can basically ignore the bullets flying around the battlefield to a large extent, and can resist the attacks of grenades.

Although Qingtieng and Qingtieng can do this, it is undeniable that this thing is much lighter than bulletproof alloys.

As for shells that can withstand this, the same thing is true. Even if the armor is fine, the powerful impact caused by the shells at that moment is enough to kill the armor wearer.

This is the same even if it is placed on strong orcs.

"Are you only able to do this at this point at this moment?"

Asking Yuan Ye and Luo Xiaohei on the side to help him remove the armor on his body, Xia Qi couldn't help but rub the joints everywhere.

As the top leader of this project, Gondor said helplessly: "Yes, Your Majesty, this is the limit at the moment. There may be a better way for the enemy orcs, but we don't know."

It is obvious that as a dwarf who has extremely high demands in forging, Gondor was not very satisfied with this, but there was no other way.

In response to this, Xia Qi thought for a moment and said, "Then let's do it for now. Follow this, we will start the manufacturing of new armor. I will ask someone to send the remaining giant rhinoceros beast outer armor to you. You can count it back and calculate how many sets of armor you can make, and then write a report."

"I accept the order!"

Xia Qi actually has a lot of outer armor of the giant rhinoceros beast. One of them was taken off the orc prisoners and corpses, while the other part was from the three giant rhinoceros beasts that they killed.

Although the outer armor was seriously damaged by the dragon breath attack of the fantasy color, there are many intact parts, and there are still many that can be used to deal with them.

After receiving Xia Qi's order, the departments immediately began to react quickly, and Gondor also submitted a report three days later.

Xia Qi looked through the report and would illuminate his head from time to time, and he looked quite satisfied.

At this moment, a figure quickly walked into the hall.

"Your Majesty, this is the latest news from our spymen stationed in the enemy country."

Mao Xiang, who had just stabilized the situation of the southern empire just a few months ago, had just returned to Daxia City, once again devoted himself to busy intelligence work.

Luo Xiaohei, who was on duty today, walked his short legs and quickly took the report from Mao Xiang, and then presented it to Xia Qi.

Xia Qi looked at the contents of the report, and then a gloating smile appeared on his face.

"Food crisis? This is really bad..."
Chapter completed!