Chapter 257, There Is No Shortage of Food, but There Is Famine

Mountain Dew.

It hasn't been quiet in Mountain Dew lately.

It is hard to imagine that at such a dangerous time, the city's rights have started to be turbulent again, because of the failure of the attempt and the unexpected and huge reaction of the Rat Man.

Many of the real nobles in the city were frightened, frightened by the manic rat man.

Mountain Dew City is not as indestructible as they thought, and the danger displayed by the Ratmen gathered outside the city is far beyond their imagination.

At the same time, there is also dissatisfaction with the Star Gazing Pope. In their eyes, the Star Gazing Pope is obviously a guy picking peaches. As long as the gods have not left, this naturally does not matter. After all, the former governor also relied on the Star Gazing Church. Only then can you sit firmly in that position.

But now the Star Observation Church’s vitality is greatly weakened.

The priests of the Star Gazing Church can no longer guide divine magic. Except for some artifacts given by the gods that can still be used normally, the only ones the Star Gazing Church can rely on now are the Holy See Knights.

Still huge, but not powerful enough.

Especially after the Stargazing Pope began to recruit supplies and came up with the idea of ​​​​mobilizing the personal guards of various nobles to fill the war with the rat people.

Things started to change.

The private guard is called a guard, but it is actually called a private army, a private army, which is completely appropriate.

It is not the standard of ten or twenty people. The personal guards of these scattered guys can form an elite and powerful army together. Naturally, such a large-scale guard cannot be hidden and concealed.

And in the past, they would not be allowed to be stationed in the city, stationed in private estates outside the city. In fact, even though the size of these guards is not small, they are a huge force, suppressed by the Stargazer Pope who has mastered the situation. It would not be a troublesome thing for these great nobles to take the command of the guards into their own hands.

It's just that the opportunity was missed, which has something to do with the rat war.

The Rat War suddenly and unexpectedly sent away the former governor. This tough guy defeated the allied forces of the nobles of Mountain Dew City who met each other for the first time in the field battle, which directly led to chaos in Mountain Dew City. In the chaos, Some guys who felt they had the ability to place bets took action, and these large-scale guards were mobilized near Mountain Dew City.

This kind of behavior should have been stopped, and it can be stopped. It was stopped by the Star Gazing Church. However, God's distance was another major blow to the Star Gazing Church. With its faith shaken, how could the Star Gazing Church still care about going to Mountain Dew City? Case.

It wasn't until Pope Stargazing used thunderous means to execute the wavering priests while abandoning his promise to the Holy See Knights that the church's situation stabilized and it was freed up again.

He suppressed the turmoil in the city and allowed the descendant of the former saint of the Star Gazing Church to take the position of heir, while he interfered in everything in the city as the heir's teacher.

It was just a little slower, but a guard was still transferred into the city in the chaos. Even on the night when the heir was decided, the guard was waiting for orders outside the castle. If it weren't for the stargazing Pope and the Vatican Knights, Show up and you can imagine what will happen that night.

The rat tide broke out, and the land outside the city was falling at an extremely fast speed. The nobles gathered with their guards outside Mountain Dew City. The Stargazer Pope could have gathered these guards. At this moment, it was just the city. The guard and the noble private army that existed in the army still became a big problem.

After the nobles outside the city learned that a guard had entered the city, they used this as a reason to forcefully reject the Stargazing Pope's recruitment of their guards.

In order to prevent all other nobles' guards from being called up, the nobles who were loyal to the guard in the city became the target of public criticism and united their troops to close to the city gate.

Both sides were very tough at that moment, and they were at war with each other.

The knights of the Holy See and the city defenders faced off against the private armies of the nobles.

In the end, the Stargazing Pope gave in. Obviously, compared to these nobles, he cherished this city and the mortal believers in this city who believed in the God of Stargazing.

The nobles entered Mountain Dew City with their private armies.

This has become a huge problem, but there is no good way to solve it.

The confrontation in front of the city gate was staged again at this moment. The nobles were not fools. Everyone knew that no matter what, another civil war could never break out in Mountain Dew City, but they just wanted to put on such a posture and force the other side to Concession, this time, the attitude of the nobles was even tougher, because the Stargazer Pope failed in his attempt.

In the end, the Star-gazing Pope once again took a step back and gave up the recruitment of the nobles' private guards. However, the Star-gazing Pope did not completely give in. He used retreat to advance. He put forward many conditions to the nobles. .

Several merchants who supplied inferior weapons to the city's defenders were hanged in the square.

A large amount of supplies were mobilized from the nobles' chambers of commerce and the nobles' own treasury.

Weapons, armor, kerosene, fuel, medicine, magic materials, money.

A large number of these various things were mobilized and supplied to the garrison on the city wall. At the same time, a new round of recruitment also began. The residents in the city are not useless. They can also serve as soldiers and soldiers at critical moments. Logistics to mobilize.

The current situation in Mountain Dew City is not stable. The sharp increase in food prices has made many city residents overwhelmed.

There is no shortage of food in the city of Jilang, at least at this time of harvest, there will be no shortage of food anyway.

The first thing Pope Xingxing did after stabilizing the situation in the city was to collect all the food from the villages and towns around the city into the city.

With the siege of the ratmen, the price of food began to soar. The afterglow of the momentary abundance in the world has not yet dissipated. Fresh grass leaves climbed casually in the golden wheat fields after the harvest. Even the most humble slave rats could have a full meal during this period.

But at this time in Jilang City, the residents began to worry about food.

The price increase is not fresh vegetables, hard-to-preserve fruits, meat, these, in fact, are all foods are rising in price, vegetables, meat, fruit, bread, beer, candy and flour that should not be scarce now.

In a very short period of time, all of these have doubled in price.

Pope Xingxing did not intervene in the price increase of food.

When the city guard announced the recruitment, many city residents were tempted. The conditions offered were not generous, but joining would allow them to get food supplies.