After the immortal disappeared

Fan Shuang had met the lessee of one of the warehouses. His surname was Lin, and he was a businessman. He contracted the forest farm and mine development in the back mountain from the Yangshan Chamber of Commerce, and it was in full swing in the early stage. The previous owner of these assets was the brother-in-law of the former county magistrate of Miancheng, so the quality was excellent, but the development was not good.

When Fan Shuang met Lin Dongjia, he was sitting in the restaurant eating noodles. It was just a bowl of plain noodles with a lot of pickles.

Fan Shuang greeted: "Mr. Lin, why are you here?"

He had settled accounts with the other party on behalf of the county government and had met him several times.

"If not here, where else can I go?" Lin Dongjia grumbled again, "The warehouse was requisitioned by the county government to accommodate refugees."

"I thought you had left Mian City a long time ago." When the news of Bai Tan's uprising reached Tianshui City, officials, gentry and wealthy businessmen from all over Yao Kingdom fled in a hurry and did not stay in the chaotic place for long.

"All my money is invested in the industry here. If I leave, it will be gone." Lin Dongjia sighed, "I stayed here. At least the mine and forest farm are still mining and paying the bills. County Magistrate Huang said that the money will be paid back after the war."

During the war, the county has to mobilize all resources, so let’s not talk about money for now and keep track of the accounts.

"Yes, we have been stepping up the production of weapons and arrows recently, and you are the source of materials." So Lin Dong's business not only did not stop, but it got even better.

The county government had limited staff and could not manage everything on its own, so it did not requisition the properties of merchants including Lin Dongjia, but instead asked them to organize mining and production and work overtime.

To win this battle, everyone must use their talents to the fullest, and all walks of life must play their part.

"We can each do our own thing and jointly prevent Guo the thief. How hard is that? It's not like I'm risking my life to go to the battlefield." Lin Dongjia sighed, "I just hope the war will end soon, so I'll have made the right bet."

"Okay, I have to hurry back to the forest farm." After finishing his noodles, he nodded to Fan Shuang, stood up and left in a hurry.

The waiter came over, threw down the towel on his shoulder and wiped the table, and asked Fan Shuang: "Mr. Fan, what does Mr. Lin mean by a gamble?"

"The surrounding counties and towns were conquered by Guo Baiyu. Do you know how many industries there have become ownerless?" Fan Shuang corrected himself, "Oh, no, I should say that once Guo Baiyu is defeated, those industries will become ownerless."

The clerk thought, "Oh, there must be a lot of them. After Guo Baiyu entered the city, he burned, killed, looted, and occupied all those places."

"The original owners of those properties were either killed or fled far away. Not many of them can come back. As long as we finally repel or defeat Guo Baiyu, these ownerless properties will be sold by the county." Fan Shuang now understands very well, "Mr. Lin bought a mine and forest farm in Miancheng. After reaping the benefits once, he probably wants to take a gamble on this. Fortune and wealth are sought in danger."

The clerk said, "That is to say, as long as we can hold out until the end of the war, the Lin family will become rich."

"There's nothing wrong with that." But the premise is that Guo Baiyu is defeated or repelled.

Merchants like Lin Dongjia are really risking their lives, because the current situation in Miancheng is very bad.

There were too many people from other places crowding in, and prices were soaring. Even though Lin Dongjia only ordered a bowl of plain noodles, not everyone could afford it now.

Fan Shuang had read the official statistics and found that the current population of Miancheng exceeded 280,000 and was growing every day. In terms of population, it was already a big city.

Just arranging their accommodation, food and living facilities is a huge project.

The Fan family also heard bits and pieces of information from the government that local tyrants had attacked the Dragon God's new territory, burning, killing and looting everywhere. Some of the Dragon God's territories were lost again, and the local military and civilians were massacred.

In other words, Miancheng's situation is not special.

The local forces in the Golden Plains are fighting back.

However, resistance was also going on in the Dragon God's territory, and Fan Shuang had heard of several beautiful clearing and resistance battles. These would become positive examples in the market notices, and the county would use them to boost the morale of the people.

In short, after the Dragon God Army swept through Shanjin with great force, the accumulated contradictions in this land erupted like the ignition of a city gate cannon.

Currently, there are only two cities standing in the way of Guo Baiyu:

Miancheng and Haoxian.

The two places supported each other and watched each other, barely preventing Guo Baiyu's attack, but every day was like a year.

Too many people poured into Mian City, and people became unstable. Rumors began to spread. Some witnesses described Guo Baiyu as having three heads and six arms. Some people asserted that Mian City would definitely be breached, so everyone should escape quickly.

Some people also complained that the Black Armor Army had abandoned Mian City and mocked the Dragon God for being just a showpiece...

County Magistrate Huang Chengqi sent people to arrest the spies while posting notices to appease the people and mobilize their morale:

"The Dragon God has arrived in Liaocheng!"

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"The Dragon God has arrived in Jingzhou!"

"The Black Armor Army just crossed the Baiqu River and is getting closer and closer to us!"

"Everyone, hold on a little longer. The Black Armor Army is attacking Sanping Township and will rush to support Miancheng in half a month!"

Fan Shuang didn't know whether the information provided by County Magistrate Huang was true or false, but he had to encourage the people because the supply of materials to Miancheng was beginning to run out.

The consumption of nearly 300,000 people is a heavy burden for this small city.

There was not enough food, and the quota was getting smaller and smaller every day. Adults could only get a fist-sized amount of grain every day, while they had to cope with high-intensity activities.

The battle was unprecedentedly brutal, and weapons, arrows and medicines were no longer sufficient.

Fan and his son could not see the real storage list, but they knew that the supplies distributed every day were making the city's financial resources thinner and thinner.

Guo Baiyu's army was powerful. Mian Cheng tried several times but found that he could not defeat them at all. Instead, many people lost their lives. He had no choice but to close the door and not go out.

With the presence of the city guardian beasts, the city was barely safe. But Guo Baiyu sent out bird demons to dive and attack from the air, indiscriminately injuring people on the streets and in houses, especially children, who were caught and flown into the air, and then thrown down from a height to kill them, in order to create chaos and panic.

Tu Shanfang was extremely busy. Fan Shuang met him five times in one month, but neither of them had a chance to chat.

Afterwards, General Tu Shanfang and other generals led a team out of the city to attack at night. They were successful twice, and on one occasion they even intercepted the food and fodder being transported to Guo Baiyu.

This move greatly boosted the morale in the city and diluted the depressed atmosphere.

But other officers told Fan Shuang that two of Tu Shanfang's comrades had died in the operation.

Two days later, Emperor Liujiang erupted!

To everyone's surprise, this time the divine rain lasted for seventeen nights, and its duration and rainfall were the longest in the past 150 years.