ocean-life Chapter 2968 The Arrival of the Famine Era
Chapter 2968 The Arrival of the Famine Era
Chapter 2968 The Arrival of the Famine Era
Soon, Wenren Sheng arrived in an alternate history world.
This brain-degrading aura is indeed effective.
As soon as he entered, he discovered that all his powers had vanished.
When asked about his identity, he simply identified himself as a teacher.
And so, they spent several dozen days in the city.
And this day.
He came to the countryside.
Because the city had run out of food, residents fled in droves.
Right now, this place is experiencing a famine.
Wen Rensheng looked up, glanced around, and immediately sighed.
In the past few days, he has also learned about the surrounding terrain.
This place is surrounded by mountains on all sides, with a large basin in the middle.
This is truly a huge and spacious enclosed place.
This enclosed space is the terrain most prone to implosion.
Because most people don't have the ability to run away.
This is a natural breeding ground for venomous insects.
Moreover, this place where poisonous insects are raised is even more terrifying than in history.
Because the basin is surrounded by desert, stretching for thousands of kilometers, with the basin in the middle.
This basin is high in the west and low in the east.
There is only a small gap on the east side, which faces the ocean.
Thanks to this gap, water vapor can travel from the sea surface, penetrate deep into the basin, and form precipitation.
The initial desert area resembled a coastal desert.
Although there is water vapor, it never encounters the hillside and does not meet the cold air currents, making it difficult to form precipitation.
We came to this basin and encountered a hillside.
It plunged into the basin, bringing ample rainfall to the basin due to the influence of the mountain terrain.
Thus, this basin became a land of plenty.
The rulers here, both past and present kings and emperors, are all very cunning.
There's an old saying.
"To conquer the world, we must first seize Dongguan Pass."
As long as you occupy the valley entrance, that's where the rainfall is most abundant and the farmland is the largest.
The water vapor from this place is closest to the sea surface.
After occupying this place, we can also trap everyone else inside.
Only they themselves could use camels to travel through the desert, crossing thousands of kilometers to reach the sea and then communicate with other places.
When Wen Rensheng arrived in the countryside from the city, he immediately discovered that the situation there was just as bad.
Many people here have already eaten everything that's on the mountain and in the fields.
It was March, and everything was bare.
It can be said that the natural environment has entered a state of deterioration.
It is carrying out environmental restoration in the most brutal way.
Those were famines and massacres.
These refugees will soon form a large group.
They will sweep out and destroy one seemingly stable place after another.
Everyone died together, until the destructive kinetic energy disappeared.
After losing eight-tenths of their population, they were finally able to settle down again.
And now, what Wenren Sheng sees is that they are preparing to seize food.
Several people were discussing it.
"We really can't survive, we have to go and grab food."
"But what if we steal grain? Will we get killed?"
"If the imperial court finds out, our whole family will be in trouble," someone worried.
"Hmph, now is now, the past is the past."
"Even if you stay at home obediently, you will starve to death."
"Besides, there's another summer tax to pay in a few months. How many of you will be able to afford it?"
“The officials in the imperial court are always aware of the famine; they can delay it.”
"Haha, you make it sound so easy. You can drag it out today, but you can't drag it out until next year."
Even so, only one or two out of ten people are willing to fight alongside him.
Moreover, they were usually young hooligans, the kind of guys who were pretty daring.
Guys like Liu Ji.
Others would rather stay at home and starve to death than go out.
Going out means facing other people's knives and guns.
In their view, the pain of starving to death, or hanging or drowning, was less than being killed by a knife.
In that case, one can be reincarnated after death.
Upon reading this, Wen Rensheng couldn't help but sigh.
He had seen too many tragedies like this.
Should we say these people are pitiful?
It's really pitiful.
Some might say that their understanding is worthy of suffering.
They certainly deserve it.
But who gave them this perception?
Is it the imperial court?
Where did the imperial court's understanding come from?
This is controlled by the geographical environment.
Matter determines consciousness.
Geographical environment is something that many people overlook.
Because it's always been there.
It makes people subconsciously unaware of its existence.
However, it can silently determine the entire level of understanding.
They simply said it was a deception by the upper class.
But where did the upper class come from?
Those in the upper echelons also rose up from the bottom.
In the beginning, everyone was a tribesman, and there was no distinction between superiors and inferiors.
With the emergence of the division of labor, some talented, socially adept, persuasive, and imaginative individuals became important figures such as military leaders, priests, and clan chiefs.
They had some control over the distribution of the fruits of labor.
This is all due to the influence of the geographical environment, which has shaped their way of thinking.
As long as you occupy the whole area, that's enough.
If you can't solve the problem, solve the people who caused it.
It takes several hundred years to resolve.
As for progress, it doesn't exist.
They're all just going around in circles.
That's their mode of rule; it keeps spinning back and forth.
This was true for every dynasty.
In the beginning, the population was sparse, and everyone was allocated land.
With abundant vegetation, life there is reasonably good.
In good years, people can still afford to eat meat.
This occurred before the formal dynasties.
No eccentric emperors like Yang Guang emerged.
Emperors who received posthumous titles like "Wen" or "Ren" were able to ensure that the common people could make do during their decades-long reigns.
Most importantly, even with flash floods, the nutrients still rotted in this large basin.
No one can escape.
The bottom of the basin is becoming increasingly fertile.
This has led people to continue to value agriculture.
They seized vast amounts of farmland, which was the most valuable source of wealth.
It can be said that the entire huge basin is a giant breeding farm.
Wen Rensheng then appeared before those people.
He didn't bother with any preamble and went straight up to the crowd, saying:
"Gentlemen, I am a teacher from the city."
"There's no food in the city either, so we have to go to the countryside to survive."
"Now, whether you seize grain or not, you will die."
"Since you're going to die anyway, why not eat your fill before you die?"
As soon as he said this, everyone immediately agreed.
If someone else had said the same thing, no one would have wanted to do anything about it.
However, at this moment, his aura of intellectual decline appeared.
Those people suddenly had the mental capacity of an 8-year-old.
One by one, they all became qualified passerby NPCs.
They thought to themselves, "That's right."
That's right, that's exactly it.
They need to eat; if they don't eat, they will die.
Eating it will only lead to death.
That's worse than eating and then dying. Even an 8-year-old could understand that.
So someone said, "Mr. Wen, then we'll listen to you."
"Yes, Mr. Wen, we'll listen to you."
When you go out, your identity is given by yourself.
Wen Rensheng was thus directly promoted to the leader of this group.
He told the others right away from the beginning.
He describes himself as a schoolteacher, similar to the character of Wu Yong, the scholar.
By diminishing his aura of wisdom, people naturally came to believe him and listen to him.
"Everyone, let's all chip in with everything we have."
"Those who have sticks, take sticks; those who have iron tools, take iron tools."
"Everyone, take out the last bit of food and eat it."
"Once we've eaten everything, let's go raid the rich households and steal their grain!"
"Attack the wealthy and seize their grain!"
"Attack the wealthy and seize their grain!"
The group shouted this, then went home together to get all the food and ate their last meal together.
Amidst the cries of his wife, children, and elderly relatives, the group set off.
Are there any wealthy families living nearby?
"The largest grain-producing households in the vicinity are probably the Chen family and the Wang family."
"The two largest households have the most grain."
"Several villages in our area farm the land belonging to those two families."
“Their two families have more grain than they can eat each year. They use it to brew wine, feed pigs, chickens and ducks, and even give it to people in the imperial court to win over the county magistrate and speak well of them to exempt them from various miscellaneous duties.”
"The consequences all fell on our shoulders."
Everyone who heard this started drooling.
Wenren Sheng then led his men to besiege the two wealthy families.
They headed straight for the nearest Chen family residence.
They marched in a grand and imposing manner.
He organized thousands of people in one go.
Of course, they all brought their families with them.
Many people are just trying to earn a living.
They walked for more than four hours, covering only two miles per hour.
That's how we arrived ten miles away.
Along this mere ten-mile stretch, at least a hundred people fell to the ground, never to rise again.
Wenren Sheng sighed upon seeing this.
Although he could save all of them with a simple gesture.
But it doesn't make any sense.
Because the whole world is like this, it is still in a constant cycle.
He came, but only to experience the cheat.
Once he's had a good experience, he'll send a savior over so that this place can be spared from such a famine forever.
Of course, if the savior falls, that's his business.
It has nothing to do with the great philanthropist, Wen.
And so, when they arrived at the gate of the Chen family's house...
They discovered that the Chen family mansion was completely empty, with no one inside.
After the group rushed in, they found only a small amount of food, a small amount of money, and very little cloth.
The furniture and pots and pans were left behind, though.
Many people were overjoyed and rushed to grab these items.
This left Wenren Sheng speechless.
The problem is our stomachs, not these pots and pans.
"That wealthy Chen ran away ahead of time; they're really clever."
"Go and see their granary."
"Sir, their granaries are also empty."
"Strange, how come their food is gone?" someone said.
“The Chen family must have foreseen the famine before it even began.” Wen Rensheng naturally understood that some people are indeed very shrewd.
You can see several years into the future at a glance.
This famine was not caused by a single year, but by three consecutive years of severe drought.
They must have taken advantage of these past few years to exchange all their grain for fine goods, and then raised them in the capital.
However, the other party's shrewdness can only go this far.
Their geographical environment prevented them from escaping.
In the end, he had to self-destruct.
Will we be safe once we reach the capital?
impossible.
That's precisely where the most dangerous place is.
They finally found a housekeeper to stay behind.
The steward who stayed behind was with a dozen servants. They were guarding a pond, where there was a spring with water and dozens of acres of fertile land with produce.
Normally, these dozen or so servants would act arrogantly and no one would dare to offend them.
Now, facing thousands of starving people, they quickly lost their domineering demeanor.
The butler had only said a few words before he confessed everything.
"The patriarch has already led his clansmen into the capital."
"They left us here to look after the fields."
"We all come from poor backgrounds, we're all poor."
"Please spare us."
Before Wen Rensheng could speak, the others said, "Kill them!"
"They're the ones who stole our grain!"
"They're the ones who stole our cow!"
"They're the ones who demolished our house!"
"They're the ones who took my family's best beams and burned them as firewood!"
Soon, the crowd swarmed forward and killed more than a dozen people.
And they beat him to death, then dismembered him on the spot...
Good heavens, even Wenren Sheng was speechless after seeing this.
This is the real famine, the real scene of implosion.
I'll eat anything that's edible.
Who cares about morality or ethics anymore?
Their eyes are all green.
These starving people are no longer human.
They have completely reverted to being tigers and wolves.
There are still wolves with wisdom, and tigers with wisdom.
It's easy to imagine how terrifying this is.
No wonder a group of refugees could sweep across the land.
The moment you fall, you'll be wiped out.
The hundreds of people who collapsed before were the same.
To be honest, without the hundreds of people who had fallen earlier, these thousands of people wouldn't have made it this far.
But just ten miles away lies another world.
Wenren Sheng said, "Now that the Chen family is gone, let's go to the Wang family."
Once he said that, the others agreed.
Several people were quite determined.
They looked at each other.
These people are all low-level leaders in ordinary times.
He belongs to the same category as Song Jiang.
Elite among ordinary people.
"I don't think it's right."
"How is this going?"
"They're all our own people, and we've even won over our allies. Why do they all listen to whatever this scholar says?"
"There's nothing we can do; that's just how reality is."
"Everyone listens to whatever he says, so we have no choice but to listen too."
"Let's talk about it later."
These prominent figures were dissatisfied, but dared not go against the prevailing trend.
Otherwise, with just one word from Wenren Sheng, they would become stewed meat.
And so, soon several thousand people went to the Wang family again.
This time, it took them more than six hours to walk.
Of course, we'll be traveling over two days.
That night, he slept in the Chen family's fields.
More than 100 people have fallen this time.
That evening, everyone enjoyed a bowl of meat soup.
After having a bowl of meat soup, they ate all the remaining food from the Chen family, including rats, ants, insects, wood, and insects in the furniture.
Everyone had a good meal again, which gave them some energy.
(End of this chapter)