Li Changsheng nodded with satisfaction, and took a small boat to the next dynasty along the Taojiang River.
At the same time, more than a month later, the news of the abolition of the Wu Dynasty finally reached the Qi Dynasty. The court and the country were immediately shocked. The emperor ordered a thorough inspection of the granaries, and countless officials were confiscated and executed.
If any granary was short of food, there would be no need for any investigation. If the local official did not replenish the food, he would be executed on the spot by the imperial commissioner.
The Emperor of Qi Dynasty seemed to be crazy. He issued one imperial edict after another, and the army across the country ran around everywhere.
As long as they were involved in the embezzlement of grain, no matter if they were royal relatives or noble families, they would be killed without mercy, and the grain would be replenished even if their skins were peeled off. If it were the ministers in the court in the past, they would not allow the emperor to do such a thing, and the local noble families were not soft persimmons.
The emperor's actions would only anger the entire country's scholar class, leading to violent unrest or even assassination. The emperor could not act recklessly, and there were very few emperors who could truly be supreme.
But it’s different now. It’s a matter of national foundation, and the emperor must get the grain back even if it means death.
Because the Wu Dynasty had set an example for him, if the grain was not recovered, Daqi would also have to change the dynasty.
Later Wu Dynasty.
Hou Wu is close to Taojiang River, which was the richest place in Kyushu during times of peace. Now it has turned into a vast ocean.
The farmlands were washed away, leaving only barren beaches.
It was drizzling, and Li Changsheng was walking on the muddy road wearing a bamboo hat. Most of the villages along the way were ghost villages, with empty houses and only a few hungry rats left.
Large tracts of land are deserted and there are no longer the endless wheat fields of the past.
He could not help but quicken his pace and finally met a group of people on the road. There were dozens of them in total, each of them was ragged and skinny.
Li Changsheng distributed all the dry food he had with them. When they didn't have enough to eat, he turned around and traveled thousands of miles to catch a wild boar. This was probably the last boar in the thousand-mile area.
The flood not only affected humans, but also other creatures, and even destroyed them. For example, the East China Sea was already a hot pot, and ordinary creatures could hardly survive.
After everyone had eaten their fill and regained some strength, Li Changsheng asked, "Where are the people here?"
“They all ran away.”
The answerer's eyes lit up with brilliance due to being full, but the next moment they were shrouded in endless numbness.
There is a kind of suffering called numbness.
"The floods came and went, flooding hundreds of miles of land for three years. We also ran hundreds of miles, barely surviving on the grain distributed by the court. We then found a place to continue farming and reclaiming wasteland, thinking that we would be able to have something to eat next year. Unexpectedly, the water receded again, and most of the fields had no water to irrigate."
Hou Wu was not in a place where the changes in the heaven and earth were most drastic, so the rainfall was relatively normal, and it would not last for three years at a time. However, the Tao River, on which they depended for survival, ran through the entire Kyushu. Heavy rains occurred in the upper reaches, and floods occurred in the lower reaches.
The Taojiang River is like a monster that swallows everything. It expands by hundreds of miles after three years of heavy rain, and then retreats after three years of drought.
Li Changsheng was silent for a while, then asked: "Where did you escape to?"
"Escape to the imperial capital, where there is food to eat. If you can escape, you will live, but if you can't, you will die."
Li Changsheng sent them to the capital of Hou Wu, an extremely huge city, half of which was submerged in water and the other half was crowded with refugees.
The city was filled with an aura of death, and countless corpses were carried out and burned every day.
plague.
Li Changsheng stood in the air, and his gentle breath like a spring breeze enveloped the entire city. He waved his hand gently, and a spring breeze blew away all the pains.
He did not save people slowly as he did in the past. Instead, he used his great magical powers to directly penetrate the human body and drive away the illness.
After counting with his fingers, he found the Emperor of Later Wu in an instant.
I saw an old man with gray hair and wearing coarse linen clothes kneeling in the mud, carefully rubbing a rice plant. The emperor looked like an old farmer in the country, with dark skin, messy hair and covered in mud.
Li Changsheng turned his attention to the rice held in the other person's hands. The rice grains were full and the roots contained a trace of spiritual energy, but the rice grains had no spirituality at all.
Spiritual rice is not uncommon, and it is basically spiritual rice cultivated by the sects. It can be eaten, used as a supplementary medicine for elixirs, or even used to set up formations.
Rice contains the energy of water and soil, which can harmonize the yin and yang and the five elements.
But this plant of rice is different. It simply uses spiritual energy as nutrition, and the rice it produces has no spiritual energy at all.
"Where did this rice come from?" Li Changsheng asked.
It was only at this moment that Emperor Wu realized what was happening. He looked up and saw an ordinary face. He was puzzled and wary at first, and then his eyes widened slightly.
"Immortal?"
The portraits of immortals in the world were basically kept by the mortal emperors. Some emperors with perseverance and ability even attended the Guanghan Banquet of the cultivation world. Although they basically sat at the last seat, they could see Li Changsheng's appearance through the projection magic of the Moon Palace.
The Emperor of Later Wu came to his senses, turned around and knelt in the mud, saying: "Emperor of Later Wu, I pay my respects to the immortal, and ask the immortal to save the people of Great Wu!"
"I will save you, you just get up first." Li Changsheng pointed at the rice in the soil, "Did you grow this rice?"
"I discovered it by accident," replied the Emperor of Later Wu.
"It only needs a little spiritual energy to produce full grains of rice. And its roots are very long and can penetrate deep into the ground, so they won't be washed away by heavy rain."
Li Changsheng picked up the rice and pulled it up slightly, only to find that the roots of the rice were more than ten meters long.
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