Chapter 1427 Face that Must Not Be Sold!
Li Yao was slightly taken aback. It was actually a very simple reason. However, after a natural disaster occurred in the Xingyao Federation, it would be dealt with quickly. He had never seen a disaster caused by refugees, so he didn't expect it for a while.
"Although there are a lot of hundreds of thousands of refugees right now, if you don't save them and watch them turn into an army of vicious ghosts, it will be troublesome to some extent, but it is still within the limit that Hu Xiaotang can solve."
Dan Fengzi continued, "I really listened to the words of Master Zhengyi, and opened a warehouse to release grain, attracting millions of victims within a radius of thousands of miles. By then, the food will still not be enough, and countless victims will still starve to death. , the more corpses, the denser the population, the possibility of the plague rampant is dozens of times higher, and more people will die under the Tiger Roaring City, horribly dead, and the grievances will linger!
In this way, what might have been an army composed of tens of thousands of ominous ghosts has been upgraded to an army of hundreds of thousands, or even millions of ominous ghosts, entrenched on the Tiger Roaring City, and the Tiger Roaring Hall may not be able to resist it. It was razed to the ground, and the whole family was slaughtered!
Elder Vulture is talking about it, the lives of the whole family are on their shoulders, how can Duan and his son show the face of being a real person?
For Huxiaotang, the only correct way is to make all the victims clearly realize that Huxiaotang really has no food, and if they continue to stay here, they must die. If they want to survive, Just go to Dongning Mansion!
In this way, the safety of Huxiaotang can be kept safe by leading this disaster to Dongning Mansion! "
Li Yao let out a long sigh of relief: "So that's the case, it's really unpredictable!"
"Unpredictable, of course unpredictable, the most unpredictable thing in this world is the human heart!"
Dan Fengzi sighed, "Zhengyi Daoist wants Huxiaotang to open a warehouse to release grain, is it what he himself said, 'supporting the righteous way, helping the people'? He just wants to pay the price of Huxiaotang. To reduce the pressure on Dongning Mansion, try to lure all the disaster victims who wander around Dongning Mansion to Xijiang Prefecture and Huxiao City, so that the old mother of Bailian can't recruit enough Yin soldiers and ghosts to completely eradicate the White Lotus Sect !
Hehe, Master Zhengyi is bullying Duan Yuanwu, who has just formed a Nascent Soul and lacks experience in the cultivation world, but he doesn't know that his father, Duan Tiande, is a piece of old ginger who has been in the cultivation world for a hundred years, how can he be so easy to be fooled!
Just look, Duan Tiande must be dormant in the dark, if Master Zhengyi really dares to charge, Duan and his son will bite two pieces of flesh off him if they die! "
Li Yao was startled when he heard this, he pondered for a moment, and frowned, "No, since the major sects including Ziji Sword Sect have shipped a large amount of food, and it will arrive within three or two days, then Huxiaotang only needs to provide One or two days of food can tide over the difficulties, isn't it everyone's happy? Why is there such a quarrel, we are so ugly to each other!"
"Hey Hey Hey!"
Dan Fengzi let out a slightly embarrassed laugh, did not answer Li Yao's question, and changed the subject very bluntly, "Even if Huxiaotang really has enough food for millions of disaster victims to last for ten days and a half months It is impossible to send out half of them!"
Li Yao asked: "Why?"
"It's very simple."
Dan Fengzi counted with his fingers, "This spring's catastrophe, floods and foehn winds have destroyed countless fertile soil and fertile fields in the southeast, so when autumn is green and yellow, there will be a shortage of food in the cultivation world!
Not only will there be a serious shortage of spiritual rice and spiritual wheat such as 'Yujingzi' that cultivators eat daily, but also when the spiritual rice and spiritual wheat stored by the major sects are exhausted, cultivators have to eat ordinary rice and wheat to feed themselves. The demand will increase exponentially!
At that time, the price of food will definitely soar, even five times, ten times the current price!
Whoever holds a lot of food in his hands is the absolute resource and strength!
Taking out a basket of grain to help the victims now is tantamount to reducing the strength of one's own family in the autumn when the crops are lean. Who wants to do such a stupid thing?
After the natural disaster, Huxiaotang will definitely have to expand its territory, and it will have to use knives and guns. The food in its own reserves is to be exchanged for various war resources. How can it be wasted on these victims? "
"Using knives and guns?"
The more Li Yao heard it, the more curious he became, "What kind of swords and guns are used, what kind of battles are fought?"
"After every natural disaster, it is a time for the Central Plains cultivation world to reorganize its structure, and the major sects will continue to conquer the war."
Dan Fengzi patiently explained to Li Yao, "The Central Plains is no worse than Wunan. It has less land and more people, and conflicts are sharp. The spiritual fields of various sects, the plantations of Tiancai and Dibao, and the mountains and forests where spirit beasts are raised, etc. Crowded together, the needle cannot be inserted, and it is within reach, and friction will occur every now and then!
Originally, above the boundaries, there were bans and banners of various sects, and they could live in peace, and the well water did not violate the river water, but when a flood or Foehn came down, most of the bans were destroyed, and all the banners were lost. As for Fei, who can prove where the boundaries of each other's spheres of influence lie?
Everyone wants to take more and occupy more. Isn't it right to fight for the sphere of influence of one or two miles? "
"oh……"
Li Yao let out a long breath, and recalled the anecdote he had heard during his investigations along the Wujiang River, where two golden elixirs fell into sectarian fights for a single poop.
"If it's just friction in the sphere of influence, it's still a trivial matter."
Dan Fengzi laughed again, "The more chaotic situation is that the mountain gate of a certain sect happened to be hit by a natural disaster and completely destroyed. The masters in the sect fell one after another, and they no longer have the strength to keep their original sphere of influence.
Even some unlucky small and medium-sized sects were uprooted by natural disasters, most of the disciples died, and a large area of unowned spiritual fields and forests appeared!
Elder Vulture, do you think it's worth using swords and guns for such a large unclaimed land? "
Li Yao nodded, and squeezed out two words between his teeth: "It's worth it!"
"So, after every natural disaster, it is a great opportunity for these cultivation sects to use their own methods to show off their magical powers and kill and annex them!"
Dan Fengzi smiled and said, "For a tycoon like Hu Xiaotang, it doesn't matter whether the weather is good or natural disasters occur frequently. On the balance of the two, it may be better to have natural disasters!
Elder Vulture, you think about this truth. Huxiaotang originally sat on half of the fertile land of spiritual fields in Xijiang Prefecture, and its tentacles extended to the nearby state capitals, establishing a large number of forts, strongholds, and farms.
If the weather is good, their family will harvest the most grain, so that's great!
In case of natural disasters, Hu Xiao Tang is the most powerful sect within a thousand miles, and naturally has the strongest ability to resist disasters. Other small and medium sects are all injured and dying, but Hu Xiao Tang is only a skin trauma. It hurts the root!
As long as the natural disaster is overcome, Huxiaotang will naturally take the opportunity to annex the sphere of influence and various resource interests of nearby sects. Isn't that a more cost-effective deal than harvesting grain when the weather is good?
If this is not the case, how could Huxiaotang develop to where it is today in just a hundred years? Just relying on hard work in farming, but can't grow ten golden elixir and two nascent souls!
To grab the wharf and compete for territory will consume a lot of resources. As the saying goes, the food and grass go first before the three armies move!
The scale of this natural disaster is so large, there must be many sects that have been greatly weakened or even completely collapsed. It is a good time for the Tiger Howling Hall to make a big splash. How can it be possible to use the precious war resources to help the victims first? "
"I see!"
Li Yao's heart was complicated, and he didn't know what it was like, "Huxiaotang is ambitious, so it's no wonder!"
"Even if you're not ambitious and just want to keep your money, it's impossible to produce food."
Dan Fengzi smiled and said, "It's a trade-off. If Huxiaotang really took out a lot of food to help the victims and emptied its own granary, even if they could survive the ghost army Invasion will be coveted by other sects with sufficient soldiers and food in all directions!
In this world, people don't hurt the tiger's mind, but the tiger hurts the mind. If you don't eat me, I will eat you! How could Hu Xiaotang put himself on the chopping board and let him be mermaid?
This has nothing to do with the xinxing of Duan's father and son, but involves the life and death of tens of thousands of disciples in Huxiaotang, as well as hundreds of thousands of servants, retainers, and tenants who are attached to them. Lord, can the hundreds of thousands of deaths in Tiger Roaring City be exchanged for the glimmer of life for the millions of disaster victims outside? "
This sentence was like a slap in the face, making Li Yao's mind "buzz".
Looking up at Master Kuchan, he saw that Master Kuchan was still saving the undead in the dark clouds and ghosts in the distance.
His eyes were slightly closed, he was muttering something, and he didn't even look at the confrontation between Zhongdao and Duan Yuanwu.
Does the monk not want to look at it, can't bear to look at it, or dare not look at it?
If the monks were to choose, would he storm Tiger Roaring City and forcibly open warehouses to release food?
"It seems that this face really cannot be sold!"
Li Yao pondered for a long time, then shook his head with a wry smile.
"Of course you can't sell it. You can't sell it even when the emperor comes. You can't sell it even when the king of heaven comes. You can't sell it even when all the gods and demons come down to earth to threaten and lure you!"
Dan Fengzi was resolute, and then smiled strangely, "What's more, Master Zhengyi doesn't have such a big face in the first place. His face has long been slapped away!"
"What's the meaning?"
Li Yao was puzzled, "The majestic 'head of the great monks', who dares to slap him in the face?"
"Aren't you Elder Vulture?"
Dan Fengzi looked at Li Yao solemnly, "Have you forgotten, at the Longquan Conference three months ago, how he sang with Junior Brother Yan and trampled Zhengyi's real face into the mud? Reminisce memory?"
Li Yao: "..."
"No. 1 in the world and No. 2 in the world, the difference is not even a little bit."
Dan Fengzi shook his head and said, "In the past, everyone was frightened by the power of 'Fan Tian Yin', and they always had to think twice before rejecting the request of Master Zhengyi, but now, since 'Fan Tian Yin' has been proved to be legal But, Zheng Yi is not invincible in the world, so Nascent Souls like Duan and his son will naturally become more courageous!" (To be continued.)
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