The National Manga Alliance started from the Green Snake Tribulation

Chapter 144 Chaotic Yongzhou City
Compared with Chang'an, this small border town is indeed much more depressed.

Just like in the movie The Origin of the White Snake, the soldiers in the city are on the rampage, the beggars on the roadside are skinny, and the pedestrians are in a hurry. They don’t have the leisure and elegance of shopping at all. The small vendors are also shouting weakly. Anyway, even if they shout their throats, they will not come for a day. Several businesses.

Here, it is more in line with the decline of the late Tang Dynasty. Like Chang'an City, it should be the only remaining prosperity.

After entering the city, he didn't take a few steps until he saw a mouse running across the street. Many people were starving to death, but the mouse was quite fat.A beggar saw a strong light burst out from the deeply sunken eye sockets, and he stumbled to run to grab it, but he accidentally tripped over after walking a few steps, and half of the steamed buns that had rotted away in the broken bowl Immediately fell out.

The mouse rushed over quickly, grabbed the steamed bun with its two slender front paws, hugged it in its arms, and ran away.

After the beggar got up, he was very angry and cursed in the direction of the tallest tower in the city. However, when he saw a sergeant riding a horse coming from a distance, he quickly shut his mouth.

This is what is said in the legend...isn't stealing a chicken worth losing money?
Zhou Wu just watched it as a farce, and didn't have extra kindness to help the beggar.

But...there are so many mice in Yongzhou City!I didn't go far, and I ran into a few more...

Zhou Wu didn't know what to think of, suddenly his heart moved, he turned and walked back, and found the beggar just now.

It may be that he wants to replenish some energy for his body through the photosynthesis that only plants have... The beggar was closing his eyes, facing the sun, when he suddenly heard the sound of something falling into the bowl, he hurriedly opened his eyes excitedly. He opened his eyes and saw that there was a recently dead mouse in his bowl whose blood had not completely dried up.

Find a place to light a fire, and then roast it to eat. I guess I won't starve to death within two or three days... The beggar was very happy, and looked at the handsome young man in front of him.

Just now, it should be this young man who gave him a mouse to eat.

"Have you heard of Baoqingfang?" Zhou Wu asked.

The beggar shook his head blankly, and quickly hugged the broken bowl containing the mouse, as if worried that if he couldn't answer the question, the other party would take the mouse back.

Zhou Wu didn't speak again. He looked at the other's dirty arm. After struggling for a while, he finally stretched out his hand and grabbed it.

"The obsession copy is turned on."

The screen flashes in a hurry, and this is another sad story.

Since the imperial court promulgated the snake-catching order, farmers and hunters in many places across the country have been seriously affected, and Yongzhou, which has the largest number of snakes, is naturally the first to bear the brunt.

It is true that catching snakes can be tax deducted, but in addition to taxes, there is also corvee!

There is a special addition to the corvee in Yongzhou, that is, snake catching. If the task of catching snakes is not up to standard, the land will be confiscated.

This beggar's family was ruined like this.

There is no land, and there are more and more rats in the city. No matter how good the granary is, it will inevitably be plagued by rats. A pile of mice were secretly eaten.

It didn't take long for the beggar's wife and mother to starve to death one after another, leaving him alone, begging along the street.

So his obsession is to hope that the court can abolish the snake catching order.

My own conjecture is indeed no problem... Zhou Wu, who doesn't have much sympathy, secretly rejoiced. In Yongzhou City, it is estimated that many people's obsessions are similar. If I can copy all their obsessions, I will wait until the future. After Datang abolished the snake-catching order, wouldn't he want to gain a lot of experience and be able to reach the pinnacle of life soon?
This action plan is absolutely feasible!
In a good mood, Zhou Wu simply took out a piece of silver and gave it to the beggar.

Let's regard it as... a good start for each of them today.

The beggar quickly kowtowed in thanks... Zhou Wu frowned and resisted the urge to help him up.

After bidding farewell to the beggar, Zhou Wu was still thinking about his obsession.

After the snake-catching order was promulgated, the number of rats in Yongzhou increased, resulting in a reduction in food production and the destruction or missing of grain stores. In addition, the labor of catching snakes was already very heavy. If the task was not completed, the land would be confiscated. Even if it was not confiscated, the grain would be increased. The snakes handed over could not cover the taxes. Over time, most people in Yongzhou lived in dire straits.

This is the current situation in Yongzhou City.

There seems to be no connection between the snake hunting order and the increase of rats in Yongzhou, but to a modern person like Zhou Wu, it is obvious that the ecological balance of this place has been destroyed... This is a very basic content in biology textbooks.

Because snakes eat mice, when the number of snakes decreases, the number of mice will increase. After eating all over the mountains and forests, they enter the city.

Of course, the natural enemies of mice are not only snakes, but also owls and weasels, etc., but the mountains and forests around Yongzhou, in the world of white snake origin, can be called the country of snakes. There are so many snakes here that they have reached an extremely terrifying level.

As predators, they are very territorial. Ordinary small snakes may not be the opponents of owls or weasels, but they have many snake monsters as their backing... So in this country of snakes, Zhou Wu guessed that rats Other natural enemies, such as weasels and owls, have little room to survive.

As a result, the natural enemies of mice have become mainly snakes.

This is the ecological balance evolved by the nature of this place after hundreds or even thousands of years.

But without the participation of owls and weasels, this ecological balance is extremely fragile, so after the number of snakes decreases, the rats will turn upside down.

In Yongzhou City, the rat infestation has begun to show signs of being unstoppable.

Rats pass by in the street, and except for the weak beggar who wants to catch them, everyone else is used to it, and there will no longer be that kind of grand event where everyone shouts and beats the rat after seeing it.

After that, Zhou Wu wandered around the city and saw some suffering people, so he approached and approached... Of course, the target was not limited to beggars. After all, some people did not reach the stage of begging, but after being poisoned by the policies of the late Tang Dynasty, Their lives are not necessarily better than those of beggars. Most of them are filled with resentment against the snake-catching order.

Zhou Wu didn't pray that everyone's obsession was to abolish the snake-catching order, even if there were only half of them, he would definitely make a worthwhile trip.

Zhou Wu simply rented a house and lived in it. After wandering around the city for more than ten days, he had nearly [-] copies of his obsessions, of which about half were about praying for the abolition of the snake-catching order.

In fact, after the Anshi Rebellion, the national population of Datang dropped sharply, and the total population of Yongzhou was only tens of thousands. After the introduction of the Snake Hunting Order, it was further reduced. It is basically the limit of this place to be able to replicate the obsession of so many people.

The rest are either children or wealthy people. Even if they copy their obsession, it is probably of no use. In addition, there are some who are busy and are not at home, and some who refuse to shake hands with Zhou Wu.

This completes the first task.

As for the second mission... it was obviously for plot needs in the movie to let Xu Xuan know that there was a Baoqingfang near Yongzhou. In fact, Zhou Wu only learned from a monster passing by this place after asking many, many people. , knowing the location of Baoqingfang.

(End of this chapter)