"Kill the remnants of King Li." Zhou Bai's voice was solemn, and the long knife in his hand pointed at the ground, and the blood on the blade silently seeped into the ground.
Such a scene makes it difficult for people to disobey his orders.
"Kill!" other lieutenants also ordered.
Then the civil strife among the coalition forces began, and the soldiers on the city wall were a little stunned for a moment. This change in the battle situation was something they never expected.
Mu Qianyu returned to the city wall and nodded to Ji Lin. Ji Lin returned the greeting, but there was no verbal communication between the two.
The battle below lasted all afternoon, and King Li's 200,000-strong army was killed and surrendered.
At the same time, the coalition forces retreated like a tide. First, they had no food and grass to sustain them, and because Mu Qianyu held the imperial seal, they had no reason to attack.
On that day, the people and soldiers in the four prefectures of Jiangning breathed a sigh of relief after a long absence. Mu Qianyu even more generously invited the soldiers to a feast of meat and wine and caroused all night long.
That night, Mu Qianyu also had a peaceful sleep. Next, she had to organize a counterattack. She had no time to rest, so she cherished this night.
Nannan covered her with a quilt, kissed her on the face, and said quietly: "Mother, sleep well, Xiaobao will protect you."
The war on this side has come to an end, but Beichen Ye's rear layout is far from over. He wants Mu Qianyu's army to capture any city easily.
Before the coalition forces retreated, the prices of Spirit Gathering Pills in various cities rose again. They originally dropped to a level of one Spirit Stone per piece, but retail investors began to purchase them from merchants and ordinary people.
It’s not that the merchants didn’t know that prices would rise. As a necessary resource for monks, Spirit Gathering Pills would always rise over time, but they really couldn’t afford it. They spent all their money to buy the pills.
Nowadays, creditors are calling for debts, and the family is short of food and it is difficult to survive. It is impossible to keep the elixir in your hands for a long time, so you can only sell it to make ends meet.
And they feel that officials have realized the seriousness of the matter and have begun to catch the culprits of price manipulation. There will be no major fluctuations this time.
And this time, because Beichen Ye no longer had to buy time for Mu Qianyu, the pace also slowed down.
Therefore, the price increase of Juling Pill was very slow this time, and it was very close to price recovery. At first, it did not attract the attention of officials and merchants.
But something went wrong after half a month. The Spirit Gathering Pills in the hands of ordinary people gradually disappeared. The large merchants and the Dan Pavilions of big families that were still operating found that they could no longer collect the pills.
After refining it, I found that after the last uncontrolled squandering, the Juling grass began to be out of stock, and new grass had not been cultivated, causing the price to remain high.
The price of medicinal herbs was high but the price of elixirs was low, and refining them would only result in loss of money, so Dan Pavilion no longer produced Spirit Gathering Pills and raised the price of elixirs.
When the monks went to buy the Spirit Gathering Pill again, they found that the price fluctuated day by day, and in half a month it had risen to thirty yuan per spirit stone, which was three times the original market price.
This time no one dared to expect to make money. Having lost too many times before, they already knew that this game was not for the poor, but this did not prevent them from hoarding some for their future use.
They still vividly remember the time when the price increased to three to five hundred spirit stones per piece. If they don't buy it now, they may have to spend hundreds of spirit stones to buy it in the future.
So everyone started gritting their teeth and stocking up.
Not only monks, but also large and small academies and families also needed a large amount of Spirit Gathering Pills as development resources, so they also began to stock up.
Even though people only dared to stockpile enough for their own use for a short period of time this time, there were many people hoarding, and the major alchemy pavilions no longer produced elixirs, and the number of spirit-gathering elixirs on the market dropped sharply, causing prices to start to skyrocket again.
Because the recovery was slow in the first half of the month, officials did not find anything wrong. Now that prices have risen suddenly, they have begun to be extremely vigilant to find the culprit.
The patrolmen and the soldiers patrolling the yamen went to the streets to arrest a large number of people who were hoarding goods. However, they were all the monks and families in the city who knew the details. Moreover, most of these people had lost a lot of money in the previous crises, and they were still
Some people still borrow money to buy elixirs.
The officials were angry. They later realized that they had acted too late. The black hand behind the scenes had hidden themselves again and had purchased a large number of Spirit Gathering Pills in the city at low prices.
The Spirit Gathering Pill is gone, and the cheapest and most basic pill is now hard to find on the market.
For the first time, the price fluctuated, and the inventory of the Spirit Gathering Pills in each Dan Pavilion was gone.
The second time the price fluctuated, the number of pills on the market was reduced by half, and the Julingcao was consumed uncontrollably, and there was almost no more.
For the third time, the Spirit-Gathering Pill has now increased to 500 spirit stones each, but it cannot be bought. In the first two times, some people sold it when the price was high, but now I don't even have enough.
The supply chain of Juling Pill is broken, and the cultivation time of Juling Grass is one year, although various fairy grass shops still have some Juling Grass that can mature in one or two months or even half a month.
But this is only a small amount, which cannot supply the market that is in large quantities and lacks elixirs.
The absence of the Spirit-Gathering Pill means that the monks' cultivation speed will be many times slower. The monks compete with the sky for their fate, and time is particularly important to them. Without the Spirit-Gathering Pill, their way forward will be cut off.
The vast majority of people in a dynasty are monks, and monks are the foundation of a dynasty. Seeing such a phenomenon, the princes of various countries also panicked.
Now there is only one way to appease the people, which is to obtain a large amount of spirit-gathering pills. Some wealthy princes will send their men to neighboring countries to buy them.
Daxuan is bordered by two dynasties, one is the Daxia Dynasty adjacent to Hanzhou City, and the other is the Dayu Dynasty that invaded the imperial city a while ago and fought against Emperor Daxuan.
The Great Xia Dynasty was too far away. After the Emperor of the Dayu Dynasty was beheaded by Emperor Daxuan, the prince could not convince the people. The various princes rebelled and the territory was in chaos.
In comparison, Daewoo is a place where it is relatively easy to buy a large amount of supplies.
So they sent envoys to Dayu one after another. Dayu failed to take precautions against the split, so they bought a large amount of pills at market prices.
But the envoys were robbed on their way back and forth. The envoys they sent were very secretive, and the people who robbed them were even more secretive, and no trace could be found at all.
So the money was gone, and a lot of pills were gone.
And the difficulties faced by the princes are not limited to these. The coalition forces have returned from the front line but there is no fairy food to supply the soldiers.
You must know that it is winter, the inventory is almost empty, and new food cannot be brought in. We previously recruited hundreds of thousands of new soldiers for rapid expansion, but now we simply cannot afford them.
Not to mention further development, the massive loss of iron and copper meant that they could not even make up for the gaps in the armor and weapons lost in the war, and it was even more impossible to build new ones.
The princes finally lost their temper. Mu Qianyu had bullied others too much. Now the city's tax revenue has not been raised and all kinds of resources are in short supply. There is no way to relax for another three to five years. How can this be fun?