Chapter 1283: The First Light of the Cold Wave, the Expansion of the Island
In the east of the world, the golden crow rises, and the light spreads across the world. A new day begins in the world.
The cold wave moves southward, and the wind and snow are mixed, and the clouds are gloomy all day long. Compared with previous years, the sunshine on this day is not warm. Not to mention melting the ice and snow, the snowflakes flying in the sky have never stopped.
However, compared with the clouds for many days, this weak sunlight seems so bright. It is the first ray of sunshine after the winter cold wave, which is of great significance.
Everyone looks up, as if they see a new life, and they have more hope for the future. The young children are playing outside. They are innocent and can't wait to enjoy the sunshine, forgetting all the previous sufferings.
Outside the tent of Prince Jiang Qi, the guards took this as a good omen and also talked about it. Facing the chaotic voices outside, they did not stop it.
The noisy sounds from the outside world entered the tent, and Prince Jiang Qi slowly woke up, feeling dizzy. Sleep is a time to cultivate the spirit, but who would have expected that a Lord of the West Sea who came from nowhere would suddenly appear and open his mouth to make a new agreement with him.
Seeing his momentum, it doesn't seem fake. In order to protect the interests of the Great Ji Dynasty and to win over the Lord of the West Sea, Prince Jiang Qi was thinking about how to talk all night. The loss of mental energy is beyond description. It would be strange if he was not tired.
But the hard work of this night is also meaningful. At least Prince Jiang Qi successfully established an alliance with Wu Yi. Prince Jiang Qi promised to preach, and Wu Yi promised to help Prince Jiang Qi promote his reputation and help him get to the top.
In view of the fact that Prince Jiang Qi had no food and there were countless disaster victims, Wu Yi sent Prince Jiang Qi several shallow sea islands. These islands were rich in products, with fish and shrimps, and could feed hundreds of thousands of people. Although it did not change the overall situation, it could effectively alleviate the difficulties faced by Prince Jiang Qi.
Prince Jiang Qi understood that if he sent the disaster victims to these islands, he would have to convert to the Lord of the West Sea and become his believers in the future.
But if he did not send them, he would die. If he sent them, he could still survive, and it would also be a great achievement for himself. Therefore, after weighing the pros and cons, he did not refuse and agreed to send the advance troops to land before making a decision.
In short, the alliance between Wu Yi and Prince Jiang Qi was not just based on words, but also on personal interests. A verbal alliance would never be as good as an alliance of interests.
Wu Yi naturally looked down on the tens of millions of disaster victims who migrated to the islands. His real purpose was to bring all the people of the entire Daji Dynasty into his reincarnation system.
Of course, this is almost impossible to achieve. The city god system that has been running for tens of thousands of years is not so easy to defeat. However, this cold wave has given Wu Yi the greatest opportunity to take a big step forward.
Wu Yi can threaten Prince Jiang Qi with the life and death of the island disaster victims. If he succeeds, it will be a great achievement, but if he fails, it will be a great fault. But in the same way, if Wu Yi wants to preach on the mainland, he also needs the support of Prince Jiang Qi. A mutually beneficial alliance was built in this way.
A month later, after the preliminary exploration and preparation, as well as the mid-term wrangling, the first batch of disaster victims went through untold hardships and came to the deserted island. They survived by eating wild fruits and fishing and hunting. There was nothing on the deserted island. People drilled wood to make fire and built wood as nests. They lived like savages, but at least they survived.
Moreover, far away from the mainland, the cold outside the Great Wall had weakened a lot when it reached the deserted island. Compared with his hometown, the climate was mild and humid, which was simply a paradise on earth. Of course, there was also the power of Wu Yi's blessing behind this.
This cold wave was originally a disaster for the Daji Dynasty, and had little to do with his West Sea. If it was blocked, it would be blocked, and there was no need to worry about the backlash of heaven and earth. However, as the connection between the West Sea and the Daji Dynasty became increasingly close, it was afraid that it would not be able to escape the disaster in the future.
In the cold winter, everything withered, and only such an overseas deserted island could have wild fruits. On the mainland, not to mention wild fruits, even the bark had been eaten by the victims. As a last resort, they began to eat Guanyin soil.
In fact, if the situation had not allowed Prince Jiang Qi to hesitate, he might have suppressed it and negotiated a better condition with Wu Yi, but he had to succumb to reality because of the internal and external troubles on his shoulders.
For Wu Yi, it was to receive the souls of the dead victims openly. During this period of time, it can be said that Wu Yi was working hard for this matter.
Wu Yi personally trained and cultivated a lot of necromancers. Their duties are the same as those of the Ox-Headed and Horse-Faced Demons in folk mythology. They are responsible for converting the dead souls. They are not of high status and belong to the lowest level, but they are the deepest level of tentacles and are an indispensable part of the reincarnation system.
No one knows the exact number of people who died of the cold wave. In fact, compared with the number of people who died of freezing, the famine caused by the cold wave and the subsequent looting and killing are the biggest causes of casualties.
If the victims died in the local area, no matter what the reason, the local city god would collect the dead souls, and Wu Yi could not intervene; if they died in other places, they would be lonely ghosts and could not be reincarnated.
If Wu Yi did not come forward to collect these dead souls, it can be expected that after the cold wave ended, many supernatural events would occur, which were related to these lonely ghosts, and they might not be completely suppressed for hundreds of years.
Wu Yi's action was meritorious for the Daji Dynasty. When Wu Yi was guiding the dead souls into reincarnation, he was surrounded by golden light of merit. In the past, he had sought the golden light of merit but failed to obtain it, but now he could do whatever he wanted and merit would come to him naturally. It was quite ironic.
And in fact, Wu Yi didn't particularly care about this golden light of merit. The key was to improve the reincarnation system.
A few months later, this cold wave started early and ended late, lasting nearly half a year, throughout winter and spring. Even in the summer of previous years, the ice and snow did not melt completely.
What does this mean? Friends who have not experienced farm work may not understand. The cold wave that lasted for such a long time means that normal sowing and spring plowing cannot continue this year. In other words, this year is destined to be a famine year, a visible food crisis.
Corresponding to this, Prince Jiang Qi must rely more on Wu Yi. He repeatedly begged Wu Yi to point out more overseas deserted islands, otherwise, I don't know how many people in the Daji Dynasty would starve to death.
Wu Yi naturally asked him to increase the stakes step by step. Now the Sea God Temple is all over the Daji Dynasty, and the Daji Dynasty has also set off a wave of overseas expansion.
It has to expand. If it doesn't expand, there is only one way to die, whether to fight the waves or eat Guanyin soil to death. Many people didn't have a choice before, but now they are naturally willing to live.