Vegetable Skeleton's Exotic Land Reclamation - Chapter 262 Plane Warrant

Anthony has been in a state of desperation recently, so much that his hair is falling out, and he wants to let go and die. Being an undead creature is much more comfortable than being the pope.

Anthony has thousands of years of experience in politics, has a large number of followers and subordinates, and countless people who believe in him, but he can’t solve the current problem – famine, famine in the main plane.

“Actually, famine has been happening on the main plane, every year there is a famine, a small one every year, a big one every five years, and plagues also happen from time to time.” Anthony said with a bitter face: “Some landlords and nobles collect taxes very hard. There will be riots on a small scale.”

Under Anthony’s rule, these things actually happened relatively rarely, but they were very common in the western parish, so the population of the western parish has not been able to increase.

There will also be famines under Anthony’s rule, but he will deploy, transfer, redeem, reduce taxes, borrow, install, and even cheat, and transfer the food of the landlords and nobles to the victims of disasters or bankrupt farmers in a way that everyone does not dislike. hand.

I can’t afford it next year, pay it in installments, really can’t afford it, reduce taxes, still can’t afford it, policy preference, as long as people live, there is always a way to live.

However, all the maneuvers are based on one foundation, that is, there is food.

“Now even the landlords and nobles have no food left. Even if I ransack their homes, I can’t get much food, and…” Anthony said with a wry smile.

And there is a more troublesome thing that restricts him, preventing him from using some rough methods, such as looting…

The Eastern Diocese is independent, they are now called the Holy Church, and he is acting pope.

In order to win over the princes, nobles and landowners to follow him, Anthony secretly made many compromises and concessions. Otherwise, even with the hidden lines he laid out for thousands of years, those people would not be able to take the risk to follow him to the dark side.

In essence, what Anthony has done is equivalent to a rebellion. If he fails, he will probably be beheaded. If there is no great benefit, who will go with him?

However, most of the things he sold were the interests of theocracy, just generosity of the gods, but at the same time, he couldn’t use too rough methods, otherwise the entire eastern parish would be in chaos.

“As long as I dare to copy one family, the others will definitely rebel, and everyone will think: Do you, Anthony, want to liquidate and deny your account?”

“Not only can I not search the house, but I also have to close my eyes when I see someone hoarding. If I don’t see it, are you angry?”

Negris nodded: “It’s really annoying, especially when you say so much and the Lord doesn’t listen, it’s even more annoying.” After speaking, he pointed and pulled them into the space of consciousness, and then distracted himself from farming Ange.

Anthony sighed: “I’m used to it. It’s the same with you, God of Knowledge. Lord Ange respects your opinion.”

The flattering was just right, and Negris raised his little tail, but after it finished, it began to scratch its head: “But you want too much, one hundred thousand tons, two hundred million catties, save some food, enough for a few.” Millions ate it.”

“Yes, but the shortage of food is so big. This year, there was a drought first, then a hurricane, and then a plague of insects. The grain fields of the Principality of Montenegro were all destroyed, and their victims all flocked to our east. The harvest was good a few years ago. More people are giving birth, and the population in our east has been increasing year after year, and the burden is getting bigger and bigger.” Anthony said distressedly.

In an era of inconvenient transportation and low productivity, population is sometimes not wealth, but a burden.

To give an example, a place was hit by a disaster and there were more than 5,000 victims. It was easy to transport food for disaster relief. Even if there was no road, food for 5,000 people could be transported through the wilderness.

But if 50,000 people are affected by a disaster in this place, the difficulty of transporting food for disaster relief in the past will not be increased by ten times, but may be increased by fifty times, or one hundred times.

Because it is impossible for the wild land to bear the transportation of so many materials, roads need to be built, and the people who transport the materials need to eat, drink and scatter, and more than half of them will be consumed on the way.

Therefore, the management difficulty of a country with a population of one million and a country with a population of tens of millions is not tenfold, but tens or hundreds of times.

In the era of low productivity, too much population is often the beginning of the division of the empire. It is not until entering the industrial society that the advantage of the population can be transformed into productivity through education.

Anthony has already tasted the pain of overpopulation. For example, when he asks Ange for help, he asks for 100,000 tons. When he saved the Principality of Montenegro, he only asked for 1,000 tons.

But this is just a need, that is to say, in his calculation, 100,000 tons is just enough to survive this disaster year. If it works well, it may be able to suppress the price of grain, so that those noble landlords and hoarding profiteers Spit some out.

However, he also felt that it was impossible. He could probably figure out how many things Ang had in his hand, because Anthony belonged to the innermost circle, and Ang had nothing to hide from him.

The farm in the Palace of Rest, the two dungeons in the Abyss of Rest, plus two World Tree shelter forest farms, plus Hope Oasis and Falling Dragon Lake.

Among them, the grain output of Zhuilong Lake should be the highest, but at the same time, it also raises the most people, so it is hard to say how much grain can be spared.

It is impossible to scoop up 100,000 tons of grain from these places, and the people in these places will also eat it.

However, if you are saved without dying, you can’t watch so many people die. If the disaster is not under control, at least a few million people will die in the eastern parish. die within a month, and will inevitably cause unrest.

Anthony has actually seen this kind of thing many times in thousands of years. In the era of insufficient productivity, the population is adjusted in this way.

What is different from the past is that this time, Anthony found that he seemed to be able to struggle a bit, after all, he was surrounded by the immortal god.

Not 100,000 tons, 50,000 tons is fine, 30,000 tons is not impossible, even if there are only 10,000 tons, some people can be saved, right?

“Say it directly, don’t explain anything else, Anger is too lazy to listen, just say what to exchange for 100,000 tons of grain, and see how much he pays.” Negris gave Anthony a trick.

Anthony felt that this suggestion was reliable, and he did not forget to give Negris a thumbs up, then turned to Anger and said, “My lord, please support me with 100,000 tons of food. I am willing to exchange 100,000 people.”

Negris, who had just given Anthony a move, immediately exploded when he heard this: “Anthony, you are shameless. Not only do you want food, but you also want to dump the victims of the disaster as a burden to us? You are shameless if you eat both ends.”

Anthony said without changing his face: “Lord Naig, you misunderstood. How can the population be a burden? Among the 100,000 people are craftsmen, farmers, young and strong, women, etc., which just make up for the lack of population under the command of the Lord. , if you rely on natural reproduction, the Abyss of Rest will not be filled in another five hundred years.”

“Why do we fill the Abyss of Rest?” Negris asked in wonder.

“Someone has faith. If there are tens of millions of believers in the Temple of the Immortal, my lord can become an existence like His Majesty, and maybe he can unblock you.” Anthony said.

When talking about the previous part, Negris didn’t take it seriously, curled his lips in disdain, causing Anthony to temporarily change the last sentence.

“Unseal? My seal?” Negris asked sadly.

Anthony didn’t say anything, it almost forgot that it was still in a sealed state, and it was projected on the dragon embryo all day long, except that it didn’t feel pain, it didn’t seem to affect its life, and its relationship with Niairi was getting better and better.

The only problem is that Nealie is getting bigger and bigger, and it’s easy to break it when cuddling, which doesn’t hurt, but is still a nuisance.

“Yeah, don’t you yearn for freedom?” Anthony asked.

Negris took a deep breath, and snarled on Anthony’s face: “I yearn for you Bada, I’m already old and dead! Lift the seal, do you want me to die? If you’re dead, be free, bastard! If you want me to die, you will die early, and I will let my nephew come and strangle you!”

“No, no, Lord Naig, what I mean is, don’t you want to unseal the Brass Book? It’s not your seal, it’s the book’s seal. This is a book of gods. Don’t you want to take it away? Come out and hit people? Very powerful.”

Anthony covered his face to block Negris’ spittle. Although they were in Ange’s consciousness space, all the images were false, but they would still be disgusting.

I usually see some ingredients like ambergris in some potions, but Anthony doesn’t eat it. Isn’t ambergris the dragon’s saliva, how dirty it is.

“The seal of the book?” Negris was stunned.

“Yes, the seal of the book, the seal of the Book of Brass.”

“What can be done after unblocking?” Negris asked.

“Smashing people, I don’t know anything else, but if I can seal you, I should be able to seal gods who are weaker than you.” Anthony said.

Negris couldn’t help but frowned and thought hard: “Is there any god weaker than me?”

But soon, Negris came back to his senses: “Kangbada, I almost fell into the trap of your kobold. Now we are talking about you exchanging people for food. You got rid of your burden and exchanged food. Don’t do it, Ange’s food doesn’t grow in water!”

Anthony spread his hands: “Then I can only buy it with money, two hundred thousand magic crystals, how about it?”

“Pfft, it’s not as good as a population of 100,000. You bargained too hard, right?” Negris said.

“My lord, this is just food after all, how much do you want to sell?” Anthony was also speechless.

That’s right, although food is very important, but the price is not high. Back then, Ice City bought food from the main plane, and it was only one magic crystal and one ton. Anthony guessed that what he wanted to buy was the food from Falling Dragon Lake, not the cross-plane , to be able to produce two magic crystals is already very high, at least five times higher than the normal grain price.

Things that do not involve gods and magic, things that can be mass-produced, things that ordinary people need, the unit price must not be expensive.

But Negris obviously looked down on this kind of small business, and felt that it was not as good as a population of 100,000.

“How about 100,000 people plus 200,000 magic crystals? If you are not satisfied with this price, then you will kill me.” Anthony thought.

“Bah!” Negris could only protest against Anthony’s act of acting like a good boy after getting cheap, “I don’t care, you can ask Ange, I don’t know if he can produce 100,000 tons of grain.”

Anthony turned to Ange and said, “My lord, I hope to use 100,000 people and 200,000 magic crystals to buy 100,000 tons of grain, is that okay?”

Ange tilted his head and flew straight up, with a ring of scales emerging from his body, pointing to a piece of soilless magic rice in the waterway, and said, “Seven thousand tons.”

He flew to another area, pointed to this area, and said, “Fifteen thousand tons.”

Yi Yi Fei pointed all the way and added it, and it was added to 75,000 tons in no time.

Anthony was stunned. How long has Ange been in this plane? How did you grow so much food? And it still floats on the water? This is too amazing, right? You said it didn’t grow out of the water?

The figure of 75,000 tons has far exceeded his expectations. When Ange flew to an immature rice field, Anthony quickly said: “It’s almost there, a little less is fine, a little less is fine.” .”

Ange ignored him, and fell directly onto a plywood board, stepping on his footprints vigorously, and the rice field grew rapidly, blossomed, bore fruit, and matured.

After doing it a few times, Ange pointed to the last piece of embossed rubber and said, “One hundred thousand tons.”

Anthony’s desperation has turned into pain and happiness. Happiness is the most troublesome problem solved, but pain is, so much food, how to move it back?

A few days later, a team of paladins teleported to the Danhai plane and presented a document to the person in charge of Guangming Island, the slick priest.

“Transfer? Well done, why did you transfer us?” The priest couldn’t believe it.

Although he was transferred to a different plane and lacked entertainment in poor mountains and rivers, he was also far away from the center and power struggles. No one was in charge, and his life was very comfortable. Why was he transferred away for no reason?

“We don’t know, priest, execute the order. This is an order personally issued by the Holy Church on behalf of Pope Anthony.” The paladin said with a straight face.

The priest quickly held the paladin’s hand, and a little ‘heart’ slipped into the paladin’s sleeve.

Paladin’s expression softened a little, and he said in a low voice: “Some important person has taken a fancy to this plane, there is nothing lucrative, so hurry up, the important person revealed that he will arrange a good job for you when you go back.”

Big shot? ! The priest immediately thought of the big man who was sitting on the airship of the young woman adventurer four months ago, shaking the sea, could it be him?

A plane where the strength of the Bright Church is not dominant, if you give up, you will give up. The hundreds of people on the Bright Sandbar will soon be evacuated, leaving only those adventurers.

Immediately afterwards, two people in cloaks came here through the teleportation array, and ran directly to the sea without taking a boat. .

“Polke? Why are you here?” It was the two black warriors under Anthony’s command.

“Your Majesty asked us to give gifts to the Lord. The warrant of the plane, in the name of the Holy Church, recognizes that this plane belongs to Mr. Ange. As long as you don’t want to be an enemy of the Holy Church, don’t deny its ownership. But to avoid suspicion, His Majesty registered it under the name of mercenary Wang Caigu.”

Polk dropped to his knees, holding the contents above his head.

Thank you Wuyuan Dayang, cat fart ghost, for your reward.