The heavy snow in the sky lasted for four days, wrapping everything in a piece of silver. The thick snow could touch people's calves. The sky was still filled with dark clouds, and the heavy snow did not stop at all.

The rare heavy snow covered most of the territory of Qitian Empire, and the heavy snow brought great inconvenience. The transportation of the entire Qitian Empire was blocked by heavy snow. All caravan transportation, army mobilization and personnel movement were broken and stopped. Qitian Empire was frozen by this rare heavy snow.

With heavy snow, things are disastrous, as traffic is interrupted, many medium-sized cities have to rely on reserved food to overcome difficulties, which will be a very difficult cold winter.

This will be a very difficult time for the Qitian Empire in the midst of storm.

This is even more true for Huang Yuanwu, who now occupy the imperial capital.

Since Huang Yuanwu entered the imperial capital, he completely abolished the previous decrees issued by Yang Qin at that time, resulting in a new look in the entire imperial capital, and caravans in surrounding provinces have also resumed access. After several months of storm and fear, the people of the imperial capital seemed to finally see the dawn.

Because the city was locked down a few months ago, the food in the imperial capital had been exhausted. After Huang Yuanwu took over the imperial capital, he immediately opened the warehouse and released grain. At the same time, he asked all merchants to open their doors and paid pensions to all the people who suffered in the imperial capital. In order to maintain the integrity of the Qitian Empire, Huang Yuanwu almost used up all the inner treasury of the Qitian Emperor. In a few days, the imperial capital finally restored some vitality.

At the same time, he still respected the new emperor and did not do anything to infringe on the emperor. Such measures also made the people calm and the people began to slowly accept the fact that the Eastern Palace entered the imperial capital.

But all this is not a long-term solution.

For Huang Yuanwu, he had almost done everything he wanted to do, but after doing it, he found that it was completely different from what he imagined.

When Huang Yuanwu led his army to war, he was only thinking about avenging his father. The Qitian Empire and the imperial capital were not within his primary consideration. However, after entering the imperial capital and capturing Yang Qin, Huang Yuanwu inspected the entire imperial capital. Seeing the mess of the imperial capital and the deep pain of the people, his ideas changed greatly.

Yang Qin, the enemy who killed his father himself, was kept in the dungeon by Emperor Yuanwu and has never looked at him again.

In the face of dangers in the entire country, this little hatred of oneself seems not very important.

The moment he saw Yang Qin again, Huang Yuanwu did not feel the anger of his escape, nor did he rush forward to slash him immediately. All this seemed to have become very natural. When the life and death enemy's life and death were captured by him, he did not have the anger he had before.

Yang Qin, for Huang Yuanwu now, it is a thing of the past.

The future of the Qitian Empire is the most important thing now.

Although there are still many mysteries that have not been clarified, and although there are still many things that are confusing Huang Yuanwu, he no longer cares about so many things now.

The officialdom of the imperial capital was unexpectedly washed by Yang Qin, and many aspiring people were harmed by Yang Qin. Most of the remaining officials succumbed to Yang Qin's intimidation and dared not resist at all. If you want to rely on their formation empire, it would be a fool.

However, now everything is in trouble, Huang Yuanwu still let these remaining officials restore their posts and completely restore the operation of the imperial capital.

Just when he tried his best to reverse the situation in the imperial capital, bad news came.

Huang Yuchen was taken away by Chihong Sect and entered Chihong Sect. The four venerables descended to Pingjin City, and Xiao Yibo and Huang Yuchen were taken away together. Now there is only one of the top leaders of the East Prince's Mansion who remains in the territory of the East Prince's Mansion for the rest of their lives. The four city lords have left two of them.

Upon hearing this news, Huang Yuanwu did not show any irritability or anger. On the contrary, he was very calm and responded quickly.

First, he immediately sent someone to pass an order to recall Liu Yi, who is now patrolling the province outside. This person has certain internal affairs capabilities and is his own right-hand man, and can help him leave the imperial capital. Secondly, the Liu Yuan Guard immediately returned to the Eastern Palace and handed over to Yu Sheng, and transferred Yu Sheng to the imperial capital. The internal management of the Eastern Palace was fully entrusted to the newly appointed internal affairs official Jin Jingshan, who was responsible for the allocation and supervision.

Then, the troops gathered near Pingjin City were immediately mobilized and returned to the original defense zone. The situation in the imperial capital is now clear, and a large number of troops are no longer needed to assemble near Pingjin City. At the same time, the construction of the city wall near Pingjin City was suspended and will be left to resume work after the spring of the following year.

After several orders from Huang Yuanwu were issued, the entire system of the Eastern Prince's Mansion immediately began to operate, and the instructions were immediately released. Under the operation of Huang Yuanwu, within a few days, the imperial capital also slowly began to recover its vitality. The people began to go out one after another, the business names resumed business, various industries resumed production, business roads resumed, and all items began to circulate again.

After all this, this rare heavy snow fell on the sixth day.

Because the imperial capital is not at the geographical core of the Qitian Empire, the heavy snow in the east is more serious, and the snow disasters near the imperial capital are much smaller than that, but they still blocked traffic and caused a great hindrance to the caravan's actions.

In this way, the issue of maintaining the fullness of millions of people in the imperial capital has become the most worrying thing about Huang Yuanwu at present.

In addition to the millions of people in the imperial capital, the Eastern Prince's Mansion still has more than 100,000 troops to support. If the people are not raised, it will not be a problem to survive this severe snow-torn winter with the current inventory of the Eastern Prince's Mansion. At least there will be no situation of starving people to death on a large scale, but now that the imperial capital is occupied, things will be different.

In the inner treasury, because Huang Yuanwu wants to restore the people's hearts, it has been used. The royal family can use only the granary dedicated to the royal family, but even if the entire granary is opened, it is afraid that so many people will not have enough to use it for a few days.

Because of Yang Qin, the entire imperial capital was closed. A few months have passed, and the food and grass stored in the city have been exhausted. Huang Yuanwu’s previous measures were to open up business channels to raise food and grass to stabilize the people’s hearts, but now the sudden heavy snow disaster has almost failed Huang Yuanwu’s previous plans.

No one will go through hardships and desperately reach the imperial capital, and will sell food at the original price. The more this happens, the more people will take risks. If unexpectedly, the price of food will soar in the near future. If not stopped, the disaster will become more and more serious and will eventually become out of control, which may lead to the collapse of the entire imperial machine.

The heavy snow was still falling. The imperial capital was on the edge of the snow disaster, and the snow had exceeded the human calves. The war horses could not run for a long distance in such an environment. Huang Yuanwu thought of many ways to deal with it in his mind, but in the end he rejected it himself.

The heavy snow covered everything underneath, and any conventional means could no longer be solved.

It was only a few days before Huang Yuanwu's instructions were issued. Now Yu Sheng and Liu Yi should have not received their instructions. Before the first caravans ordered to come to the imperial capital had arrived, Qitian Emperor Capital was forced to be closed again.

Because of the previous actions of Emperor Yuanwu, there has been no riots in the current imperial capital, but there have been cases of hoarding grain. Various stores selling grain supply are limited to supply every day, and the price of grain has inevitably increased.

Although Huang Yuanwu ordered that necessary materials such as food should not be raised, otherwise they would be severely punished, the price of food in the entire imperial capital could not be guaranteed. Anyone could see that the heavy snow was not over, and the food in the imperial capital was almost exhausted. At some stage in the future, people might starve to death. At that time, riots would inevitably occur.

Even though Huang Yuanwu still has more than 100,000 troops in his hands and even if the soldiers of the Eastern Prince's Mansion are very loyal, human nature may be the most unreliable thing in the face of such a disaster.

Huang Yuanwu had never encountered such a thing before, let alone deal with it personally. This snow disaster was rare in decades, and it was even more difficult to catch up with the storm of praying for the sky.

The supply of the Dongwang Mansion army is enough for the entire army to use for more than half a month. If there is no supply in half a month, the army will fall into a hungry situation. If there is no solution at that time, the mutiny of the army will be almost inevitable.

According to Huang Yuanwu's estimate, if no solution is found, the imperial capital will fall into famine within ten days, and may fall into panic and rebellion in more than ten days. However, after being hungry and losing his mind, he can no longer be called a human being. In this situation, Huang Yuanwu has seen it more than once during the war.

But now, there are not many choices before him. In the current situation, he has no other way.

If you want to ensure the imperial capital, there are two bloody roads to choose from.

First, massacre the people and extend the life time of the remaining people by reducing the population. If the population of millions of the imperial capital is reduced by half, the remaining food can be evenly distributed, and within this month, the left and right roads will be opened, and the remaining people will have a long time. But this road is definitely something that Huang Yuanwu would never choose.

Second, the war. Now immediately order tens of thousands of soldiers to go out to fight, attack the nearest provinces, plunder their food, and before going to fight, the food and grass ratio of these soldiers will be minimized. In other words, if this strategy is chosen, the soldiers of the East Prince's Mansion will be transformed into a dead army, and there will be no people or animals left wherever they pass. But if this is done, the East Prince's Mansion will lose its meaning of existence.

There is another way to not plunder the people of your own country, that is, to immediately assemble a large number of troops, attack the enclave again, and plunder the resources of the enclave. Although doing so will save your own people and army, it is probably too late to go in time.

There are only a few roads before Huang Yuanwu.

Unless... the snow on the road will melt on its own.

But, is this possible?

Huang Yuanwu stood in front of the palace hall and looked at the snowy area in front of him. Although he seemed calm on the surface, he was extremely irritated inside.

None of these choices left him any way out. Once he chose, there would be no way out.

He just thought that he had quelled Qitian's civil strife. In a blink of an eye, this civil strife may be provoked by himself. If he does this, Qitian's civil strife will die. If he does not do this, countless people will die if famine comes. No matter how Huang Yuanwu chooses, the current situation seems to be a dead end. It seems that it will be impossible to get through conventional methods.

The snowflakes kept falling, without any sign of ending. Huang Yuanwu let out a long sigh. In any case, it was time to make a decision.

And at this moment, a figure fell lightly beside Huang Yuanwu.

"Don't make a decision easily." A familiar voice came, and Huang Yuanwu suddenly turned around and saw a familiar face.

Xu Xiuping.
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