Crown Prince of the Empire, I quit!

Yan Wanjun and Kong Jinwu looked at each other, both of their faces filled with surprise.

Yan Guangshou, who used to disdain such vicious means, actually made such a decision personally today.

However, they did not stop it. After all, even if Daqian was overthrown by war, it would not matter how many people died.

This is not their country after all.

"Yes!"

Soon, cartloads of corpses were dumped directly outside Changning Pass.

As soon as Liu Chuang and Chen Pi received the news and climbed up the city wall, they smelled a foul stench.

The means of war are often the cruelest and most unscrupulous.

When they saw this scene, Chen Pi and Liu Chuang covered their mouths and noses, both frowning.

"Have people pour water on these bodies to freeze them, and then take them to the mountains for burial."

Fortunately, the weather is cold now, and under such climatic conditions, some plagues are not easy to spread.

Chen Pi and Liu Chuang still have some time to breathe.

After thinking for a while, Chen Pi said to Liu Chuang:

"I'll write a letter to His Majesty. If there's a plague here, I'm afraid we'll need to mobilize allicin and penicillin and other drugs."

As the workshop's experiments progress.

Qin Ming now has not only penicillin, but also new products such as allicin, which can have anti-inflammatory effects.

If Yan Guangshou wants to fight a battle without any bottom line, these medicines must be prepared in advance.

"Row."

Liu Chuang also felt that Qin Ming needed to be informed of this matter.

So the news from Changning Pass and Bailong Pass was quickly delivered to Qin Ming.

A few hours later, Qin Ming had just finished his evening dinner and was about to leave Xishan.

A message was delivered to him.

"Your Majesty, Yan Guangshou is going crazy!"

"what happened?"

The messenger quickly described the situation to Qin Ming.

Qin Ming frowned slightly when he heard the news.

"Is that the only extent?"

"Have Song Dingsheng approve the penicillin and give Wan Shu 30% of the order."

"Northern Dynasty grain and grass... let her stir-fry it."

The Northern Dynasty spent a lot of resources to support the army's march south.

Now that the granary has been burned, there is no food left.

It can only be purchased from local markets.

However, the price of grain in the market began to rise due to the court's large-scale purchases.

This also caused Emperor Qian to gradually be unable to support the supply of the army.

And Wan Shu is another offensive launched by Qin Ming against the Northern Dynasty!

"understand!"

Following Qin Ming's order, Chen Shimao took personal action starting the next day, cutting off the entire Southern Dynasty's grain trade with the Northern Dynasty.

At the same time, Wan Shu led the major families to the Northern Dynasty for bulk purchases.

For a time, the price of grain in the Northern Dynasty skyrocketed, and the price increased dozens of times compared to before!

Many people from the Southern Dynasties and traveling merchants had to sell their own grain even if they crossed the border illegally.

Of course, this is just a drop in the bucket.

It cannot support the operation of the market, let alone the army.

A few days later, when huge problems arose in the market and it finally could not hold on any longer.

The news also reached Emperor Qian's ears.

In the imperial study, Emperor Qian looked at the table of information in front of him with a gloomy face.

The Yan army was weak, the imperial army was in a state of emergency, food supplies were in short supply, the treasury was empty, and there were debts incurred from the previous issuance of bills.

The entire Northern Dynasty had already been in turmoil.

Officials with a little foresight had already begun transferring their property and waiting for an opportunity to leave the capital.

They could all run away, but he, the emperor, could not give up the foundation laid by his ancestors.

"Your Majesty, we can't buy back the grain in the market. Why don't we ask the local governments to collect it from the people..."

Wang Bao suggested in a panic.

But when this is said, who doesn’t know what fundraising means?

This gave officials from all over the country an opening to levy heavy taxes on the people from their homes.

Since its launch, the court's tax revenue has increased to 70%.

Such high land taxes made the people suffer terribly.

Not to mention that there were many landlords and officials who exploited tenant farmers.

In fact, they can get 10% to 20% of the food from the land, which is enough to barely maintain their lives.

Where is the food for them?

"Send people to the major families to collect military rations, and give them a break in future commercial taxes."

Emperor Qian rubbed his temples in pain.

Under countless pressures, he even began to abandon the policy of emphasizing agriculture and suppressing commerce left by his ancestors.

Lowering business taxes and making concessions to major families is equivalent to opening a big hole.

In the future, the entire dynasty’s market may experience huge shocks.

The worst case scenario is that some wealthy people with huge sums of money will emerge and threaten the development of the entire court.

"Yes, Your Majesty..."

Although Wang Bao knew that doing so would be killing the goose that lays the golden eggs, things had already come to this point and there was no chance for them to hesitate.

Soon, the imperial army began to collect supplies.

With the implementation of Emperor Qian's policies, many large families with surplus grain around the capital participated and contributed a certain amount of strength.

But this only barely takes care of the troops' consumption.

At the same time, another piece of news also spread to the major military camps.

"Have you heard? The Southern Emperor seems to treat the prisoners well. They have good food and drink."

"They say they have a small, sweet cube that can keep you full for the whole day!"

"Your information is outdated. Let me tell you, that thing is in unlimited supply in the Southern Dynasty army!"

"What!?"

In the Northern Dynasty army, after discussing the food of Qin Ming's men, several soldiers looked down at the black paste in the bowl in front of them and found it even harder to swallow.

Just then, a few more soldiers came over and squatted with them to eat.

As luck would have it, he also mentioned that Qin Ming held a three-day banquet on the front line to replenish the troops' physical strength.

On this day, all the soldiers present began to complain about the food in the barracks.

A restless mood began to spread among the troops.

Qin Ming didn't know how effective his strategy was, but their troops did have strong logistics.

After returning to Jianfeng Pass, he stationed his troops there, completely cutting off all contact between Yan Guangshou and the Xishan troops.

It was when he came back that he saw Chen Shimao coming to him with a group of young people who looked a little green and had a bit of bookish air.

"Your Majesty, these are the talented people who have recently completed all courses at the Military Academy."

Seeing these people finally brought to him, Qin Ming nodded slowly and said:

"gather."

"Yes!"

Soon, all the students of the military school came to Qin Ming and stood in four rows.

They were excited and ready to go.

Everyone hopes that they can be given an official position as Qin Ming said at the beginning, and lead their subordinates to conquer the four directions.

Unfortunately, Qin Ming did not assign any military positions to anyone.

Instead, he said lightly:

"Everyone, congratulations on starting your battlefield training. From today on, you will be divided into different units, and each of you will lead a six-man team into battle."

"The deadline is until the end of the war. Those who are still alive will be ranked according to their merits and assigned official positions."

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone's expression suddenly changed!