Chapter 642 Borrowing Food

In the past, famine would only happen during natural disasters, so Chu people always believed that famine was a punishment from heaven on earth.

But this time, it was the first time that the Chu people discovered that the famine could be caused by thinking.

Ever since, all the spearheads were directed at King Chu.

However, the court ordered Yin to help Chu Kangwang speak, and transferred the conflict to Li Yi, the instigator.

Ling Yin said that Changping was a spy sent by the Lu State, and the purpose was to confuse the King of Chu, make looms, and cause food shortages.

His reason was that Changping was a weaver of koji, so there was no reason why he would know the art of carpentry.

In the carpenter industry, skills are always passed on from male to female, so how could Changping, a daughter of weaving koji, know carpentry?

So she must be a spy sent by the Lu State, the purpose is to induce this food shortage.

This reason was well-founded and immediately convinced everyone, even Li Yi himself couldn't argue with it.

The skills of this era are all passed down by the aristocratic family, and he is self-taught, which is the biggest doubt in itself.

King Chukang also agreed with this reason, and planned to kill Changping to outrage the common people.

Li Yi had a chance to escape, but he did not escape, but let the guards of King Chu bring him to King Chukang.

In the face of King Kang and the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, he defended himself.

He admitted his fault, but he never expected that just a few dozen looms could trigger a food shortage that swept across the country.

But he did not admit that he was a spy sent by the state of Lu, because the top carpenter in the state of Lu could not make the loom he designed.

Neither Ling Yin nor Kang Wang refuted his explanation.

However, now is no longer the time to argue about right and wrong. The problem now is the lack of food. Once there is a food shortage and the people of Chu starve to death everywhere, it will definitely cause turmoil.

Therefore, even if Changping is not really a spy, in order to appease public grievances, she has to be killed.

Li Yi also knew this truth, but he pointed out that the most important issue at the moment is not to appease public grievances, but to find a way to solve the food crisis.

But Kang Wang and the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty also knew that the most important thing now was to solve the food problem, but it took at least half a year for a season of food to grow from planting to maturity.

However, Chu State and several vassal states had food shortages due to switching to mulberry hemp. Even if they opened warehouses to release grain, there was no way to solve the problem of food shortage.

Li Yi immediately proposed that he was willing to go to Jin and other Marquis countries as a criminal to borrow food.

This proposal is absurd, because Chu State is at war with Jin State, why should it borrow grain from Chu State?

But King Chukang still agreed to the proposal.

He knew very well that killing Changping was just a helpless move to treat the symptoms but not the root cause. If Changping could really borrow food to solve the problem of food shortage, then he would still be willing to take a gamble.

Afterwards, King Chukang sent his personal guards to escort Ling Yin and Li Yi to Jin as envoys.

Li Yi also took the opportunity to meet King Jin and asked him to borrow food.

King Jin had also heard about what happened in Chu, but after confirming the news himself, he was also very surprised.

Hearing Li Yi talk about the machine that can weave cloth by itself, he was very moved, and immediately offered to use that machine in exchange for food.

Yin, the order of the state of Chu, flatly refused, but Li Yi agreed.

Human life is at stake, as long as food shortage can be avoided, looms can be exchanged.

This matter itself was caused by the loom, and it should be solved with the loom.

Chu State Lingyin couldn't bear to see such a sharp weapon fall into the hands of the enemy, but there was nothing he could do.

In the end, after negotiation, Chu State was willing to exchange five looms for 50,000 shi of grain.

Later, King Chukang sent someone to bring the loom, but King Jin refused to borrow food, and asked Changping, the daughter of the best weaving weaver in Chu, to weave a loom for him. Unprecedented brocade, to make royal clothes.

Li Yi knew that he was deliberately delaying time, and wanted to consume as much food as possible in Chu State.

But seeing the famine everywhere, he could only cope with it.

But just when he was about to start doing something, he suddenly returned to the space of the Eight-faced Monument.

Looking at the Eight-faced Monument in front of him, Li Yi felt a little complicated.

He didn't expect that he would stay in the eight-sided monument space for so long this time, and he didn't expect to cause so many waves in the space.

According to Chang Ping's memory, she wove an unprecedented five-color ginseng brocade with stars on it. It was extremely exquisite, but as thin as a cloud.

Unsurprisingly, the King of Jin still refused to borrow food, and at that time the state of Chu was already suffering from famine.

In grief and indignation, Changping set herself on fire, then rushed into the weaving room with the brocade in her arms, and turned into ashes together with the loom sent by the state of Chu.

Looking back on Chang Ping's memory, Li Yi was in a daze for a moment.

He didn't know whether these memories came from him or from Changping.

According to his previous experience, his actions in the dream space may have an impact on reality, so those who were affected by the appearance of the hydraulic loom, and then starved, or even became starving people, in history Does it really exist?

Thoughts were racing, he looked up at the slightly damaged monument in the center in front of him, struggling a little.

Suddenly, he seemed to have made up his mind.

Raising his hand and piercing his finger, he pressed his finger directly to the surface of the stele.

The next moment, his figure appeared in a wilderness.

The grass spreads under the feet, there are dead leaves in between, and the body is a dense forest.

Snapped!

The sound of whipping was faintly heard.

Hearing the sound, Li Yi quickly rushed towards the source of the sound, and after a while, he came to a small road.

A procession came from the end of the path, the first was a soldier on horseback, followed by a double carriage, followed by several ox carts.

Behind the bullock cart, there were more than one hundred women with pale faces walking.

Seeing this familiar scene, Li Yi's heart skipped a beat.

Isn't this the scene where he just possessed Changping?

He was located behind a bush, just hiding his figure.

After searching the back of the ox cart, he saw Changping's mother in the last ox cart.

She was kneeling beside the bullock cart, wiping her tears with her sleeves, and Changping was lying on her knees.

Suddenly, as if she had discovered something, Chang Ping's mother bent down, and then began to cry.

After crying for a while, a man's head poked out from the carriage in front of him, and he looked back.

Afterwards, he gave an order, and the carriage stopped.

Li Yi could see clearly that this man was Mr. Cheng Gongheng, the highest-ranking hostage in this batch.

After Gongheng got out of the car, he came to the rear of the ox cart, looked at Changping's mother who was crying, and then asked an old man behind him to go forward and look at her.

The old man stepped forward to check and shook his head. Changping's mother's crying suddenly became louder.

Gong Heng said something to the general of Chu State who was escorting him, and the general of Chu State arranged for two soldiers to lift Changping from the car and put it on the side of the road.

Afterwards, the convoy moved on, while the two soldiers dug a hole by the side of the road.

Changping's mother was crying miserably, but she could only follow the convoy forward, turning around every step of the way.

Seeing this scene, Li Yi was stunned.

Is Changping dead?

Then who was he possessed before?

Looking at Changping on the ground, Li Yi observed suspiciously.

Suddenly, he saw Chang Ping lying on the ground seemed to move.

Seeing this, Li Yi hurried out from behind the bushes and walked towards Changping.

When he walked in, the soldiers who were digging the pit noticed the movement, looked up and saw him, raised their weapons vigilantly, and asked, "Who are you?"

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