The Golden Throne

Chapter 177: Miserable standards of food

“And just when I thought that this world is so modern, this happens. Who the hell allowed grain to be stored like this? Are they not afraid of a pest infestation?”, Liu Feng muttered.

“Hey, you new arrivals. What are you doing? Just standing there? Do you think that work just gets done here magically? Start working. Take a bag and fill it up like these people here. Get going, now!”, the senior officer barked.

Liu Feng and the others started getting to work, and started working. Liu Feng glanced at all the finished bags, and the remaining grains left. He looked at the person next to him. There was a middle aged man.

“Is this the only food supply in the city?”, Liu Feng asked.

“Are you kidding? There are over hundred thousand soldiers. If this was the only food supply, then we would have starved in a day. Much less a week. There are ten of these in total.”, the man scoffed.

“Why do I keep hearing chattering? Get to work!.”, the officer shouted.

Liu Feng hastily got back to work. They started filling the bags and putting them to the side. In Liu Feng’s, mind, however, another completely different line of thought was going on.

“If there are a total of ten of these, then we will have enough food to feed the army for about two months. This war will definitely take more than two months. Just the last war alone will take more a week I think. We need to make sure that the food supplies of the cities that we invade are not burnt down. Someone needs to stealthily go into the city and make sure that happens.”, Liu Feng thought to himself.

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The march was painful. After all the food was packaged properly, they were put on carts and the recruits had to guard the carts as they were slowly dragged along by bulls and horses. Liu Feng was so bored out of his mind that he even wanted to, for a moment, take out a few cars from Dilheim, and use them for this. But he knew that he couldn’t reveal his cards like that.

He was standing next to a cart that was going along a wide road. Since they were inside the kingdom now, all the roads were usable, to say the least. 

Liu Feng looked forward. For all he could see, there were people who were walking the entire way. This was a sharp contrast from Earth, where everybody had a car. It was truly a reminder that he was knocked off into a world where there was no technology.

As they were walking, Liu Feng asked the person next to him, “How much longer? We are going to the nearest city right?”, Liu Feng asked.

“You impatient boys. That is why they said that only men above the age of eighteen need to join the army. Well, it has only been two hours since we left. We are literally walking to the city, It will take two days to get there.”, the man said.

“Two days? That is way too long isn’t it.”, Liu Feng exclaimed.

“Two days is a good amount, boy. These cities are very close to each other, comparatively. If the king decided to concentrate all the economic expansion in one area, then everyone would riot. Even here, after this city, it will take another week to go to the next. War only brings problems. I do not know why the king allowed this to even happen in the first place.”, the man grumbled.

“Well, aren’t the demons going to be very dangerous? They will kill us all!.”, Liu Feng said with a forced smile. Inside, he was screaming. “What the hell you idiot! I am doing so much so that you can survive, and you are complaining?”

“Demons or no demons. Who cares. Why not just give them the entire kingdom and make peace with them? That will work better right?”, the man said.

“But they aren’t exactly the most hospitable bunch, are they?

“Who cares? Anyone would be more than satisfied if we give them the land. And in doing so, we can avoid so much more trouble.”, the man sighed.

“What about in the future? When they are no longer satisfied? What will you do then?”, Liu Feng asked.

“Who cares about the future? That is why I don’t like the new young generation. Everyone talking about the future and how this will affect the future children. Who cares? I am going to be dead then. I would rather die comfortably knowing that my children might not have the best life, rather than die now, and confirm that.”, the man said.

“Why would you say something like that? By letting the demons stay, you are guaranteeing your death, and the death of your family.”, Liu Feng said.

“Meh. You are thinking of this too much. Even the kings might not have thought so much. They must have just seen that the presence of demons would threaten their land, so they started this campaign. Demons or no demons, wouldn’t have mattered.”, the man shrugged.

“This man is simply impossible!”, Liu Feng thought to himself as he sighed. Just hearing this man made him feel that all the work he had done was pointless. Not wanting to falter his will any longer, he looked away and towards their surroundings. Now, they had passed the lush forests, and the roads were surrounded by farm land. 

It appeared that the farmlands weren’t tended to in a long time, because all they could see for the next few miles was brown and not the good grain type. The farmers must have fled either because of the demons, or the army.

Liu Feng looked front again. It seemed that many people had the same frustrations that he did. They did not like the fact that they had to walk for so long. It was just that they kept it to themselves.

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