Traveling to Ancient Times: My Space Contains Weapons

Chapter 214 Returning to the Great Xia to Relieve Disaster Victims

Five days later, outside the city wall leading to the Great Xia Cloud Peak City.

A black armored vehicle sped toward the city gate.

Chen Qingxuan, sitting in the car, fiddled with the two jade stones in his hand and took a deep drag on his cigarette.

He said to Chu Chen in an annoyed tone, "You tell me, we went through all that trouble, and all we got was a few dozen yuan for this thing?"

"So, aren't you happy with the explosion?"

Chu Chen threw away his cigarette butt and turned to say something.

"It's alright. I still prefer the romantic days of red to frying this stuff."

"roll............."

Inside the Ganpo Palace at this moment, everyone was in a hurry and in a flurry of activity.

The national treasury vanished overnight, as did the largest granary in Ganpu, west of the city.

And it was accompanied by the arrival of heavenly lightning, which many people had witnessed during the Great Xia War.

The Ganpu Emperor lay on his bed, his face haggard: "It must be the Great Xia, it must be the Great Xia who did it."

"Issue the order to gather all forces and attack Great Xia."

At this moment, a minister standing nearby quickly intervened and said something.

"Your Majesty, this is absolutely not the case! If we send troops now, we will be short of money and food, and the entire Ganpu region will be unable to afford the losses."

"Moreover, we have no evidence to prove that it was the people of Great Xia who did it."

Just as the group was arguing, a man walked in from outside, looking at the emperor as if he wanted to say something but hesitated.

"Just say it. Is there anything more unacceptable than the theft of the national treasury?"

The emperor turned his head to look at the person who had entered and said weakly.

"Your Majesty, the granaries in the border city also vanished last night..."

"what......."

Upon hearing this, the emperor coughed up a mouthful of blood, his eyes rolled back, and he fainted again.

Immediately afterwards, another cry and scream came from inside the palace.

At this moment, Chu Chen and Chen Qingxuan arrived directly at the city gate.

The two arrived at Cloud Peak City, greeted by the city's garrison soldiers.

Siwei, who was inside the house with a worried expression, heard a servant report this.

He immediately jumped up from the chair.

"Quickly, prepare the car and stop Young Master Chu's car."

Chu Chen and Chen Qingxuan had just entered the jade mine.

Si Wei followed right after him.

Upon seeing Chu Chen arrive, Zhao Tianlong hurriedly went to greet him.

"Young master, what brings you to the mine?"

"Let's go inside first, then we'll talk."

Just as they were walking toward the villa on the mountain, they heard shouts from behind.

"Young Master Chu, how have you been? I've missed you so much!"

Chu Chen turned around and saw Si Wei hurriedly leading a group of followers toward them.

"Oh dear, Lord Si, I haven't even paid you a visit yet, what brings you here?"

After speaking, Chu Chen ushered the group into the house.

"Young Master Chu, please don't blame me for following you. It's just that the people of Yundian need you."

"Oh, what do you mean?"

Before Si Wei could even take a sip of water, she began to recount the grievances she had been experiencing lately.

Due to the continuous snow and flood disasters, there is currently not a single grain of food left in the city lord's mansion.

The common people were also suffering terribly, as they had been frequently plundered by the Ganpu people and had no food reserves.

Although Chu Chen later defeated the Ganpu barbarians and built city walls.

But in just one year, everyone has barely recovered.

Unexpectedly, another natural disaster struck, and all the pressure fell on the city lord's mansion.

Si Wei had no choice but to suffer in silence. He petitioned the capital for disaster relief grain, but all he received was a drop in the ocean.

This time it was even worse; they went to the capital and didn't get a single grain of rice.

Moreover, Zhou Shixun also asked him to carry out work relief in lieu of relief to appease the people.

Incidentally, they also gave him some seeds that looked rather ugly.

It is said to be called sweet potato, and can yield fifty shi per mu.

Zhou Shixun was unaware of the situation in Cloud Peak City.

Everyone is hungry, who has the mind to clear land and farm?

After listening to Si Wei's rambling, Chu Chen truly felt that setting up the Ganpu granary was the right decision.

Otherwise, if faced with such a situation, one could only watch helplessly as the people starved to death.

So he reassured Siwei, saying, "Just focus on implementing the work-for-relief policy. I'll try to get you some grain."

Only by reassuring the disaster victims can we prevent unrest.

This was the era of cold weapons. If ordinary people really couldn't survive, then peasant uprisings were very likely to occur.

Why should kings, nobles, and high-ranking officials eat meat and drink soup while ordinary people go hungry?

Upon hearing Chu Chen's words, Si Wei's eyes instantly lit up.

Since this young master Chu claims he can get grain, then he definitely can.

After seeing Si Wei off, Chu Chen looked at Zhao Tianlong.

"What's the situation inside the mine?"

"Young master, there are no problems at the mine at present, and there is still some food stored. It was thanks to your advance reminder that no one in the mine went hungry."

"Your subordinate thanks you..."

"Alright, stop with the nonsense. Just make sure you survive. If anything happens, send someone to Qingyun to find me."

After saying that, he didn't stay there any longer. After inspecting the granary, he took Chen Qingxuan and drove towards the inner city of Yundian.

He walked into the warehouse that Siwei had arranged for him before.

With a wave of his hand, Chu Chen filled the entire warehouse with grain.

Then they spent money to rent the house next door and filled it up with more.

They gave Chen Qingxuan a few more bottles of wine and told him to be the monitor on the roof.

After finishing all that, he drove towards the city lord's mansion.

Inside the city lord's mansion, Si Wei was munching on pickled vegetables and steamed buns.

Upon seeing Chu Chen's arrival, he almost jumped for joy.

"Young Master Chu, is there any progress on the matter of the grain?"

"Haha, Lord Si, the matter is urgent, how can I not take it seriously?"

Looking at the steamed buns and pickled vegetables on the table, Chu Chen was indeed happy that Cloud Peak City had such a good city lord.

So he took out a few packets of instant noodles from his backpack and ordered his servant to boil a pot of water.

"Alright, stop eating this. It's almost spoiled. You're old, you'll get sick if you eat this."

A short while later, Chu Chen prepared a large bowl of instant noodles, picked up a bowl, and served one to Si Wei.

Then he also put a bowl on the plate for the servants behind him who were swallowing their saliva.

Si Wei smelled the instant noodles, then looked up and stared intently at Chu Chen.

His eyes were filled with emotion and gratitude.

Then he turned to the servant behind him and whispered, "Quickly, call the young lady back."

Chu Chen was still focused on dividing the instant noodles.

Suddenly looking up, she saw Si Wei staring intently at her, and a wave of panic washed over her.

That's exactly the look a father-in-law gives his son-in-law.

Could it be that even now, that girl Si Liyu still hasn't given up?

"Um, Lord Si, eat quickly, it'll get cold if you don't eat it soon."

"And you guys too, serving your master noodles."

Si Wei then realized that he had been somewhat rude.

So he quickly picked up the bowl and started eating heartily.

Soon after, the sound of slurping noodles could be heard from inside the house.