At the beginning, the boss doesn't want to be a social animal even if he saves the world
Chapter 48 Food Shortage
As a result, neither of them made it.
Liu Yaer was taken back by the teacher to study.
Looking at Liu Yaer who was taken away, Luo Chen remembered that a few days ago a minister suggested that Liu Yaer go to school and he agreed directly.
At that time, Luo Chen thought that his daughter would not accompany him to court anyway, and Liu Yaer was indeed old enough to go to school.
then……
Without Liu Yaer's knowledge, she had a teacher who was in charge of her studies.
If the Master hadn’t come to arrest the person, Luo Chen would have almost forgotten about it.
That's great, I can ask her while my daughter is away...
"My Lord, I have something to report, and it concerns the livelihood of the people!"
Luochen: ...
I always have a feeling that I can't go today.
"What's the matter?"
"All the seedlings trained this year have wilted!"
"What! There's nothing a wood element can do?"
"My Lord, this is another matter I want to report. Why is it that the effect of wood-type spiritual power on the seedlings is becoming less and less effective, and now it is useless!"
"what!!!"
Now Luochen no longer cared about the Holy Lord and hurried to the Agricultural Department.
The Agricultural Department is a central government institution that cultivates plant seedlings. Every year, it cultivates a large number of plant seedlings and sells them to the Agricultural Department Pavilion.
Of course, other people can also sell their own seedlings, but most of them are cultivated by agricultural companies.
It’s not that Luochen wants to monopolize the seedling cultivation market, and cultivating seedlings is not an easy task.
It takes a thousand seeds to produce one seedling, and the seeds themselves must be obtained from mature plants.
Some plants don't even have seeds.
It is difficult to cultivate and plant, and it dies easily, so there are very few mature plants.
This also results in fewer seeds, fewer seeds means fewer seedlings, and fewer seedlings mean even fewer mature plants.
Vicious circle.
In fact, it was not like this a long time ago. There was lush green everywhere. Even if there were no plants in winter, it was only temporary.
But since when, it has become increasingly difficult to grow plants everywhere.
Luo Chen even asked someone to go to other countries to inquire about this issue. As a result, he found out that many people were competing for talents with wood spiritual roots.
Although people with pure and powerful spiritual roots basically go to the world of immortal cultivation, there are still many people with poor spiritual roots in the human world, so it is still possible to recruit some people with wood spiritual roots to grow vegetables for yourself.
Luochen also chose the right time to find a few people. The main reason was that something was really wrong. It was just a matter of supporting a few people, which was not a difficult task.
But as time went on, the situation became more and more serious.
Crops cannot be grown in the fields, and vegetables cannot be grown in the vegetable fields.
The seeds didn't germinate.
As a result, everyone started to panic, worried that they would starve to death in the future.
More and more people are rushing to recruit people with wood spiritual roots, and accept them regardless of their qualifications.
Common people scrambled for it, and even the rich and powerful joined in.
The final result can be imagined.
A large number of people with wood spiritual roots depend on those powerful and wealthy officials, and pure natural food is becoming more and more expensive.
Ordinary people gradually could not afford to eat and became pale and emaciated due to hunger.
Ordinary people in many places were forced to starve to death.
Fortunately, Luochen issued an imperial edict at the first opportunity to recruit people with wood-type spiritual roots in the Central Kingdom into the court, and tried his best to absorb all people with wood-type spiritual roots in the Central Kingdom into the court.
Unlike other countries, Luochen did this not to turn them into the imperial court's granaries or money-making pots, but to organize them to grow food for everyone in the Central Kingdom.
It turns out this trick is very effective.
In other countries, people with wood spiritual roots either attached themselves to high-ranking officials or surrendered to the imperial court. When they had exclusive grain production machines and golden basins, Luochen had already organized those people to establish the Central State's Agricultural Bureau and integrated all the existing agricultural talents into the Agricultural Bureau.
When as many as 40% of the people in other countries starved to death, Luochen's agricultural department had already cultivated a large number of easy-to-grow plant seedlings.
When high-ranking officials and court ministers exploited people with wood spiritual roots to squeeze money from the common people, Luochen led the Agricultural Bureau to distribute the first batch of seedlings free of charge to common people with good character and rich planting experience.
Gradually, everyone got used to this change.
The difference is that in other countries, more and more people died, and finally research discovered a kind of edible soil.
As a result, their people finally did not starve to death so much, but they were still severely malnourished.
Although the situation in Central State was not as serious due to Luochen and some measures taken by the court, it was only slightly better, and the pressure on the Agricultural Department to cultivate seedlings was increasing.
The staple food of the people in the Central Kingdom is usually edible soil. Pure natural food is only prepared during festivals and holidays, which can be regarded as a celebration.
Who could have imagined that there would be a day in the future when we wouldn’t be able to eat proper food?
That's why Luochen reacted so strongly when he heard about Nongsi's situation.
If something goes wrong with the Agricultural Department, the Central Government will be in trouble.
As soon as they arrived at the door of the Agricultural Department, Luo Chen and the accompanying ministers met an unexpected guest.
The other party was obviously in a panic. The person who came was none other than Mr. Jin from Lin State who had spoken on behalf of Yang State during the last sacrificial ceremony.
His surname is Jin and his given name is Ye.
What a strange name!
In order to make his son look impressive whenever he goes out, his father gave him this name, so that whoever calls him son would feel like his younger brother or grandson.
I want to ask why Mr. Jin’s father has such strange ideas.
Simply put, Jin Ye's father is a gangster who has been hanging around for many years.
Commonly known as "wanku", it is called "hunhun" in modern times.
When the uninvited Mr. Jin saw Luochen, he immediately knelt down and kowtowed devoutly, regardless of whether he was from the same country as him.
Luo Chen felt that few of his subordinates kowtowed to him so devoutly, so he quickly asked him to stand up and asked why he came to Yang State.
After all, no matter how honestly one kowtows, coming uninvited is disrespectful to the Central Kingdom.
Mr. Jin naturally knew that this was not the right thing to do, and he also understood why the other party was unhappy, so he hurried to explain.
"Lord of the Central State, I understand the traditional rules for visiting the Central State, but this incident happened suddenly and there is really no time. This is related to the Central State and the plight of all countries. It is extremely urgent!"
Although Luo Chen heard what he said, he still interrupted, "I'm not satisfied with what you said. I also have important things to do at the Agricultural Department right now."
"But is it because of the plants?"
After hearing this, Luo Chen had some vague guesses in his heart, so he called Jin Ye to join him.
Wait for a few people to arrive at the scene.
The situation at the scene was even more serious than what the minister had described. Not only were the seedlings wilting, but some were even shrinking visibly to the naked eye. Even the plants that had been cultivated early on specifically for the court were not spared.
The person who reacted most strongly to this scene was not the Central Kingdom's monarch Luochen, but Mr. Jin.
Mr. Jin collapsed to the ground and began to mutter to himself like a madman, "How could this happen? It's over, it's all over..."
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