Others are fleeing famine, but I am a salted fish

The few of them did not stroll in vain, and they also took the animals in the shed to the foot of the mountain for a walk and let them find some food for themselves.

Of course, they didn’t give them any leashes, so they just let the animals run around freely without worrying about them running away.

Anyway, Lin Laosan's mule was very alert. Whenever they saw other animals running away, they would rush over immediately and drive the animals back.

Better than a hound.

Lin Xiaoyue's tools were not ready, and she didn't plan to go deep into the mountains today. However, it was still possible to walk around the mountain, familiarize herself with the environment, and set a trap to catch small animals.

I just don’t know what the situation is like in the mountains here.

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While the Lin family was living in peace and tranquility at the farm, the condition of the infected patients on Black Wind Ridge was also gradually improving.

The governor, who had been holding out at the periphery and was unwilling to leave due to being stopped by the crowd, finally received the best news in more than a month. His eyes were red, his knees softened, and he knelt down in the direction of the imperial city, choking with sobs, "Your Majesty, I have lived up to your expectations. The people of Yongzhou City are saved, they are saved."

However, under the same sky.

At the original location of Linjia Village, a team of people dressed in strange clothes, carrying spears and swords, broke into the village with murderous intent.

After finding Linjia Village in ruins, with long walls and broken walls and no one around, the leader spat on the ground with a bandit look on his face and cursed in a strange dialect, "Damn it, there's not a single person alive in the nearby villages. It's really a ghost."

"Boss, where should we go next?"

"Boss, should we go to the town to have a look? We have been wandering around the village below and haven't seen a single ghost. Maybe there are still people in the town."

"Yes, boss. If we can't find food, the dry food we brought with us will not be enough."

The leader, who was surrounded by a group of people, was wearing strange clothes. His face was full of flesh, and his eyes were gloomy. After thinking for a moment, he nodded and said, "Let's go to the town to have a look." He didn't believe it. The people of the Dayuan Dynasty could hide underground.

Yes, this person is a spy sent by the neighboring dynasty. Their dynasty has also been eroded by natural disasters and man-made disasters. The people are living in poverty and corpses are everywhere. The superiors sent a team of them to sneak into the Dayuan Dynasty through a secret route that has not been exposed yet, bypass the border line quietly, sneak into the Dayuan Dynasty to investigate the situation, and rob some food and grass by the way...

Therefore, their team did not dare to openly take the official road into the county town, but only groped their way along the surrounding villages to spy on the situation.

As a result, we visited dozens of villages, large and small, along the way, and all of them were empty and lifeless.

What do you think this is all about?

God is so weird. This natural disaster was so large and widespread that the three major dynasties all suffered varying degrees of damage.

Not to mention the smoke of war that spread thousands of miles away and the corpses everywhere.

The war hasn't even started yet, but people have already died one after another, all because of the famine.

Besides, the wars between countries must at least be profitable, either to seize territory, food, money, or people.

However, when natural disasters occur, people in all countries suffer.

According to information sent back by spies stationed in the heart of Dayuan, during the Dayuan Dynasty, drought hit the west and floods hit the east. The emperor opened the treasury to provide relief to the east and west, but before the natural disasters were suppressed, banditry broke out in various places.

In theory, it would be absolutely profitable to send troops to attack the Dayuan Dynasty at this time.

But the Jin Kingdom also became chaotic. There was a locust plague, and then there was a sandstorm, and it kept coming one after another. When it was severe, even people and houses were blown up into the sky, which was really fatal.

I heard that the situation in the neighboring Tiansheng Dynasty was not much better. Not only was there a famine, but the emperor's several sons were also fighting each other, seizing the opportunity to seize the throne of the East Palace, causing the old emperor to have a heart attack, and he wanted to drag out all the princes and grandsons and chop them all off. At this time, Tiansheng was in a state of internal turmoil, and by the way, the spies they had planted there could stir up trouble and make the chaos even more thorough.

Anyway, if God is not happy, the three major dynasties and small countries below can't fight even if they want to cause trouble.

Before you can resist foreign aggression, you must first stabilize the internal situation. Don't try to seize other people's territory, otherwise your own lair will be dug up by others.

When this group of people left Linjia Village angrily, fighting, swearing, a few pairs of eyes hidden in the woods behind them exchanged glances and followed them from a distance.

At night, the routes of the rats that sneaked in from other countries were reported to the border town commanders.

Several deputy generals and military advisors were almost laughing out of anger.

What is going on? They don't fight properly, but have to sneak in through the back door. They have to waste our manpower at this critical moment and send people to monitor the team that sneaked in.

It’s not that we don’t want to just strangle this small group of people, but our people have also gone there.

As for spying on each other, it’s not something that’s out in the open, but both sides know it.

If you want to kill all the spies at once, it's not impossible, but first you have to have a plausible excuse so that you can have a legitimate reason when the fight starts.

Otherwise, let alone when the two countries are at loggerheads, the logic will not hold water. Moreover, if a war really breaks out, the civil servants in your own dynasty, who enjoy a life of luxury and luxury, will not tolerate it. They will exaggerate the slightest mistake you make, label you as a warmongerer, and attack you to death.

Well, never mind that you have soldiers. If you defeat the enemy, you can expand your territory. At that time, you will be able to gain new territory, be honored, and be promoted to a noble or prime minister in the near future.

However, the premise of all this is that while you lead your troops to fight in the front, food and supplies from the rear must be delivered continuously.

Can those civil officials, who only care about their lives and enjoy themselves, agree with the military generals to raise troops and start a war?

They are just a bunch of cowards who can only bully others at home.

So, there are a lot of headaches, and they all have to be taken into consideration.

Toads lie on people's feet, they don't bite, but they are disgusting.

"General, General, there is news from Yongzhou City that two miracle doctors brought a material called alcohol into Black Wind Ridge a few days ago. The condition of the infected patients in Black Wind Ridge is currently improving, and the alcohol brought by the miracle doctors is very useful for disinfection and sterilization. The commander would like to ask whether we need to include alcohol in our military procurement supplies?"

You know, when wars broke out in this dynasty, did all the generals and soldiers who unfortunately died die at the hands of the enemy?

Not entirely.

Most of the generals and soldiers died after being stabbed by swords. They did not receive effective and timely treatment, and the wounds became festered or even rotted. In the end, there was no cure and they died from the pain.

Therefore, when the commander used a flying eagle to deliver the message to the army as quickly as possible, the general and the deputy general immediately gave the military doctors a small bottle of alcohol tied to the eagle's claws by the commander, asking them to confirm whether it was really effective.