In the fourth year of King Zheng of Qin, October.

Si Yuan, who was already seventeen years old, stood on the ninth floor of a nine-story attic in the center of Wei'an Hou Mansion, quietly watching the changes in the outside world.

Frown, silent.

On the left side of his body, he was holding the sixteen-year-old Princess Ji Wuyou intimately around his waist.

On the right side of her body, she was holding the tender and tender hand of her 10-year-old girl, Yaoji.

The three of them snuggled together quietly, looking at the dark sky outside through the narrow gaps in the window, feeling very bad.

The dark celestial phenomena outside are not caused by the night environment.

Because it's still noon during the day.

It's caused by locusts!

The number is so large that it is uncountable. I don’t know how many trillions of locusts are raging across the vast land, whaling and eroding every country’s grain production areas and natural vegetation.

all the time.

The number and scale of locust natural disasters are rising wildly.

The overwhelming swarm of locusts broke out from the east and spread all the way to the west. Wherever they passed, no grass was born and dead bodies were everywhere.

The doomsday scene like a dead desert.

Its power is so fierce that it can truly cover the sky and the sun.

Many countries are shrouded in locust scourges. Even if they are at noon during the day, they will not see the sun. Everything they see is dark and blurred.

The dense sounds of flapping wings gathered together.

But it is even more terrifying than thunder.

"I have been listening to such a voice for two days and two nights, but there is no sign of weakness." Si Yuan sighed helplessly.

The expression on his face was sad and helpless.

Even though we have begun to breed poultry such as chickens and ducks on a large scale in recent years, in order to deal with the locust plague, we are still a little short of it when it comes to this day.

There is not even much obvious effect.

The number of locusts that chickens and ducks prey on are not as large as the number of locusts that die naturally every day, and it is even less than the number of locusts that are born naturally every day.

"I don't know if the food I secretly stored before is enough to support it?"

Si Yuan was unsure of this.

Some concerns.

His current private army and subordinates of the Six Ji Hall, as well as slaves, maids, dancers, singers, guards, doctors, chefs, etc.

The total number of people has exceeded 130,000.

This has not yet been considered the common people, civilians, craftsmen and others in their private fiefdoms.

The huge consumption of livestock raising has not yet been counted...

In addition to the multiple harvest storage of potatoes, sweet potatoes and corn, he also spent a huge amount of money to purchase imported food and medicinal materials from other countries in the Central Plains.

Then store it secretly and hide it.

In name, the purchase is required to train the private army of Wei'anhou and will not be too eye-catching.

But the development time is too short.

The severe drought that ravaged the Central Plains is not only this year, but also last year's drought.

only……!

This year's drought is a bit particularly serious.

It has been going on for several months, but there is still no sign of ending.

The most important thing is!

This year, not only large-scale severe drought outbreaks, but also super-large locust natural disasters caused by drought.

besides.

Due to the raging scourge of locusts, natural ecosystems are destroyed everywhere, resulting in a small-scale collapse of the food chain and food network.

There are countless dead animals and dead humans.

This has once again triggered a large-scale plague and natural disaster.

Thousands of miles of naked earth, full of bones.

Even a living bird cannot be seen.

"First was the drought last year, then the more serious drought this year, followed by the locust plague, and finally there were a variety of mixed plague disasters...!"

Si Yuan sighed helplessly, and at present he could only leave the will of fate.

I kept thinking silently in my mind.

"This year's three-match of natural disasters really will destroy everything!"

"I have been working hard for many years, and I don't know how much money I can still have after these three consecutive natural disasters this year?"

In fact, it was not just his own private fiefdom.

The problems of other Central Plains countries will only become more serious and terrifying. He also made a lot of targeted preparations because he knew in advance that things would happen.

But others are not so lucky.

All families, towns, princes, kings, and countries all suffered heavy casualties.

There is an urgent shortage of food and medicinal materials.

But looking around, there are only endless swarms of locusts.

There are also cracked fields, withered and dried seedlings, and a large number of poisonous corpses that died of plague.

The bodies were burned day and night, but they were not dead at a fast speed.

Take a breath of air.

They are filled with all kinds of rotten corpses and the huge risk of plague transmission. They are like breathing at risk of their lives.

"Fortunately, practicing martial arts can strengthen the body and greatly improve the body's immunity."

"The private army under my command, the vast majority of the members of the Liuji Palace, and those around me who value them, can withstand the rampant plague with their strong bodies or internal strength."

Constant thoughts in my heart.

Si Yuan hugged the two closest women beside him with both hands in his arms.

"Fortunately, I climbed up fast enough to become Wei Anhou of Wei."

"Even if you are in a year of disaster, it is enough to give them a peaceful, stable and comfortable life with no worries about food and clothing."

The little sister, Mei Ji, who had just grown up, felt her brother's arm movements.

I felt a little sweet and a little relieved.

No more fear.

"Brother, when will the locust disasters outside end?"

"They look so scary, eat everything!"

"Five days, there will be another five days at most!" Si Yuan secretly estimated.

At most five days later, the locust swarm will have to migrate again to the road because of eating all the food that can be eaten here.

Transfer to places that have not been affected by locust swarms.

"Husband, you have to believe that the preparations you made before will be enough to save the vast majority of people." In your arms, Princess Suiyang leaned gently on Si Yuan's chest and spoke out to comfort him.

"When there were no potatoes, no sweet potatoes, no corn, and drought years, we survived."

"It's just whether the final loss is serious or not."

"Wuyou, you are right, I think too much about my husband." Si Yuan lowered his head and kissed Ji Wuyou and Jingji on the foreheads of each other, saying, "As long as you are all fine, as long as we have a large number of soldiers under our command."

"As long as there are still most people in the Liuji Palace under my name, it will not be a loss."

"Come on, you guys have a meal with me."

Si Yuan smiled gently.

But because of his fierce look, his gentle smile seemed a little malicious.

"Come here, go and send Zhuzhao to come and have dinner with Youying."

“Middle meal!”

"yes!"
Chapter completed!