Chapter 22 Fighting monsters and exploding equipment
On the distant plains of the Orcs, winter has already entered, and the Empire of Wind has encountered a heavy snowfall that has never happened in a century. From north to south, it is covered with white snow, making it a silver world.
This kind of scenery is beautiful, but it is undoubtedly a big bad thing for the ordinary people of the Wind Empire whose life is not easy to begin with.
The Wind Empire's Eastern Expedition this summer resulted in a total loss of more than 1.8 million troops, and they were all strong and strong. I don't know how many families lost their labor force.
In addition, the slave rebellion in the east became more and more fierce, and gradually spread to the central and western regions. The Tuoba family, together with several nobles, rebelled against the Wind Emperor Yelu Batian, causing serious internal problems.
There is also the Snow Empire in the north, which is eyeing the annexation of the border and may move south at any time, and the southern countries are also ready to make a move.
In the Imperial City of the Wind Empire, a fire broke out in the inner city, and most of the slaves in the outer city fled. The vitality of the imperial city was severely damaged, and the people continued to repair it.
Yelu Batian faced many crises and continuously imposed military corvee, forcing civilians who should have been working on farmland to enlist in the army or do hard labor. However, domestic food production was greatly reduced.
However, Yelu Batian emptied the treasury and increased taxes massively due to repeated wars and repairs to the imperial city. This caused widespread dissatisfaction in the Wind Empire, and many people could no longer survive.
Some people in the Imperial City have to sell their sons and daughters to survive. People in other towns and villages are even more miserable. In many places, people are starving. A heavy snowfall has made the people of the Empire of Wind even more miserable.
Difficult.
In just one night, in the snowy night, hundreds of thousands of people in the Empire of Wind starved to death and froze to death. The people were so miserable.
Not to mention other places, even the streets of the Empire of Wind were full of frozen corpses, many of them beggars, and some people froze to death in their homes. After cleaning up, the number was over a thousand.<
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At this moment, Phoenix Yelu Batian was having fun in the warm palace of the palace.
More than a dozen thick pillars in the Warm Palace are inlaid with the crystal nuclei of fire beasts and even monsters. These crystal nuclei always exude a faint heat, making the entire palace warm, and the cold air from outside cannot enter at all.
Come, it feels like summer inside.
It was obviously a very cold day, but the Wind Emperor Yelu Batian was in the warm palace, wearing only single clothes. He was holding a stunning concubine in his arms, drinking wine, and watching a group of enchanting dancers singing and dancing in front of him. It was so happy.
The original Yelu Batian also had great ambitions. He wanted to complete the great cause that all the previous emperors wanted to accomplish, which was to defeat the Orcs, the Elves, and even the Feathers, unify the Orcs Great Plains, and make the entire Orcs Great Plains
, all became the territory of the Empire of Wind.
He once thought he could do it, and even saw hope for a time.
It is a pity that just a few months ago, the famous general Yeluqi commanded the entire country's troops to march eastward, but was defeated by Liu Mang. Immediately afterwards, civil strife continued in the Wind Empire. The east and west were in chaos, the imperial city was almost destroyed, and the south and north were strong.
The enemy is staring at him with eager eyes, so he can't care about his eternal hegemony.
He has forgotten all his ambitions and ambitions, and has put them all aside. Now he only thinks about having fun, drinking, eating, drinking and beauties every day, and just thinking about being intoxicated in a gentle land.
As for government affairs, after killing the left prime minister, he has handed them over to the right prime minister to take care of everything.
After a few glasses of wine, Yelu Batian saw a particularly seductive girl among a group of dancers. He pushed away the beauty in his arms and got up and rushed over. He pulled the dancer over and performed obscenities in front of so many people in the Nuan Palace.
When you have fun, that is called happiness.
Not long after, when Yelu Batian was done with his work, someone sent news and asked for an audience.
Yelu Batian saw the right minister come to Nuan Palace.
The right prime minister of the Empire of Wind is named Huyan Xinglong. When the commander of the Empire of Wind, Yelu Qi, was killed in battle, his family was annihilated, the left prime minister was beheaded, the entire clan was destroyed, and Yelu Batian surrendered, he was definitely the leader of the Empire of Wind.
The most popular person.
He was so arrogant and arrogant in front of others that when he came to Nuan Palace, he put on a humble appearance and respectfully came to Yelu Batian to prostrate himself, "Wei Chen"
See my Majesty the Emperor, may my Emperor live long live!”
Yelu Batian held the dancer who had just been favored by him in his arms, and waved his hand at Huyan Xinglong in a very unhappy manner, "Long live long live, I don't know how many times the emperors in the past have heard it, but not one of them has even lived to be a hundred.
Long live that bullshit. Don’t talk about that. Why did you come to me for nothing? What’s the matter? Was it because of the heavy snowfall last night and serious disasters everywhere? Official documents requesting disaster relief came to the imperial city like a snowflake?"
Huyan Xinglong said with a smile: "Your Majesty, it snowed heavily last night, which is a sign of a good harvest in the coming year. This is auspicious snow that heralds a good harvest, which is a good thing. There are absolutely no official documents requesting disaster relief from various places, but it is in the imperial city.
, three or five beggars froze to death on the roadside, and Wei Chen has ordered the Ministry of Household Affairs to deal with it properly."
"It snowed so heavily that three or five people froze to death. This is a good thing. It seems that I don't have to worry about anything anymore. Then why are you here? I said it's not a big deal.
Don't come here to hinder my rest. Have you forgotten?"
"How dare we forget that something big happened this time? Weichen just received the news that some extraordinary people have appeared in Jinglong and Anyang. Those guys are very powerful.
It is powerful and has a large number of people. It is like a big army. Now it has marched towards Jinglong and Anyang, and will soon reach the two important towns."
"Is there such a thing?" You must know that Jinglong and Anyang City are the acropolis that protect the imperial city. They are not far from the imperial city, only a hundred or two hundred miles away. But such a thing happened, Yelu Batian
Unable to sit still, he quickly said: "Have you found out the exact number of people and who they are?"
Huyan Xinglong waved: "The specific number of people is not clear. I only know that there are many, at least tens of thousands of people. They seem to appear out of thin air. Each one of them looks like a legendary demon clan, like an army of demon clan.
Appeared again in my Empire of Wind."
"Absurd!" Yelu Batian looked angry, "What kind of demons? The demons have disappeared for thousands of years. Today, there are only a few descendants of the demons on the Orc Plains. How can there be tens of thousands of them?"
An army of demons appeared. You bastard Huyan Xinglong, you heard some random rumors among the people, and you came to my palace to disturb me for such a thing. It’s really abominable!”
Huyan Xinglong was so frightened that he broke into a cold sweat and quickly knelt down on the ground to apologize again and again.
Yelu Batian kicked him and said, "Get out!"
After sending Huyan Xinglong away, Yelu Batian took a bottle of top-quality aphrodisiac, drank it with a tilt of his neck, and started having fun with the group of charming dancers. He didn't care about the life and death of the people in the ice and snow outside, "Beauty
Chapter completed!