Lynn's move of asking Lauder to sell grains in batches confused the MPs present. To resolve the current crisis, the safest way would be to deliver a large amount of cheap grains to the market at once, so that Those nobles and grain merchants should retreat when they see the difficulties.
"Are you trying to take this opportunity to empty out the savings of nobles and wealthy businessmen?" Raphael guessed.
"You can say that." Linn nodded. In his opinion, this might be a rare opportunity.
If this group of people had been staying in the territory and being their landlords, it would be hard for them to find reasons to clean up these remnants of the old era.
"However, as a result, the rising food prices may affect the stability of the entire kingdom." A member of parliament said with a frown. The price of a piece of bread has now increased to five times the original price.
If it rises to ten or twenty times, trouble will definitely occur.
"Don't worry too much about this, as long as we increase the food supply in the workshops, mines and colleges from one meal to three daily meals!" Linn said decisively. "The kingdom cannot be in chaos!"
Now most of the citizens of the entire kingdom have been included in the city's magical operation system. The army, railway construction, various workshops and civilian colleges almost cover the eastern, central and central areas of the kingdom under the wizard's rule. More than 90% of the population in the southern territory!
The remaining nobles and businessmen are not under their control. These people also have considerable assets and do not need to worry about them.
Lin En's bold plan for universal rationing left Raphael speechless.
If the workshop ensures three meals a day, then who will buy wheat and bread?
Of course it’s the people who are trying to raise food prices…
Raphael suddenly thought of this.
Lynn's approach is equivalent to controlling the intensity of the food war within a certain range. It can even be said that it is completely out of touch with ordinary civilians, and it has directly turned into a direct confrontation between the parliament and the nobles and wealthy businessmen!
"Is the food in our hands really enough?" the great wizard Arad said worriedly.
On the one hand, the Parliament is responsible for supplying the entire kingdom's food rations, and on the other hand, it also has to produce enough food to engage in price wars with the wealthy merchants and nobles.
"Of course wheat alone is not enough." Lin En's mouth showed a hint of a smile, and then he said. "But fortunately, we can use magic to make bread!"
Making bread with magic?
As soon as this statement came out, the congressmen present were shocked.
"Master Lin En, now is not the time to joke!" Arad couldn't help but interrupted.
Although magic can do many things, even mimicking various elements, it cannot replace real matter after all!
Relying on magic to directly solve the food problem is simply a fantasy!
The several speakers looked solemn. They all knew that the magic star was conducting research on the transformation of matter and energy, and it was not completely impossible to use magic to solve the food problem.
However, according to Lin En's own words, the energy required to convert one gram of material is equivalent to a nuclear explosion. It seems impossible to rely on this to feed the kingdom's population of three million.
"In short, I already have a spell model about bread magic. I can completely perfect it in a week at most!" Linn said confidently.
In order to meet the requirements of star voyages, the Federation has invested a lot of energy in technologies such as artificial starch and cell-cultured meat. Each research is very mature. It is not too difficult to magicalize it, and the raw materials are simple enough to be used anywhere. visible.
Seeing how confident Lin En was, Raphael and others looked at each other.
Using magic to create food, something that completely goes against common sense, seems to be something that this magic star can develop with a little research.
Several speakers were also speechless.
It can only be said that someone develops new magic very quickly.
For example, the magic transformation equation to advance to Legend took more than a month from the time they captured Judge Joshua, and they even took the time to complete the drawings of an artificial sun...
I really don’t know how his brain grew...
Harrov sighed secretly, and then spoke decisively.
"Since you are fully confident that you can solve the food problem, let's do this!"
…
On the second day after the meeting, under the operation of Lauder, the first batch of fifteen tons of wheat was sold at a price slightly lower than the market price, eight copper coins per kilogram, and then within just half an hour, It was wiped out!
Then came twenty tons, thirty tons...fifty tons, and the price became higher and higher, finally settling on twenty copper coins!
But even so, the wheat will still be sold out after being transported to various cities, because the current market price of grain is much higher than Lauder's selling price, and as long as it is resold, the profit will be doubled!
The wealthy businessmen and nobles of the kingdom are all going crazy, and many of them have spent all their savings on it!
In just a few days, one kilogram of wheat has grown to fifty copper coins, a full twenty-five times the original amount!
And the price of a bag of white bread has soared to one silver coin!
Even the black bread that the dogs refused to eat a few days ago costs forty copper coins!
In other words, a laborer who works hard in a magic workshop can only buy a few bags of white bread with a monthly salary, and cannot even support himself.
At the same time, in the fortress of the royal capital, Marquis Mortan held his wine glass high, looked at the nobles who came to participate in the secret gathering, and spoke with high spirits.
"Everyone, we have now achieved a comprehensive victory. I guess the Wizards Council is already in a state of distress, right?"
Earl Held quickly agreed. "Lord Mortan's wisdom is not comparable to that of wizards who study evil arts. I'm afraid these idiots don't even understand what economics is..."
The rest of the nobles also spoke out to praise Marquis Mortain's ingenious plan to wipe out the family. Some even secretly regretted that they were too cautious. If they had replaced all the family property with food earlier, it would have been increased dozens of times by now. Got it!
Amidst the compliments and echoes, Mortan's face was filled with a proud smile, he took a sip of the red wine in his glass, and then asked about the current situation of purchasing wheat.
The attendant on the side replied slightly excitedly. "Reporting to Lord Mortan, we spent 70,000 imperial gold coins to buy two months of rations for the entire kingdom. In addition, other merchants who followed suit or wanted to make a fortune were also buying aggressively. Even according to the most conservative estimates, we have already sold out enough grain to feed three million people for half a year!"
"Very good, very good!" Mortan nodded with satisfaction.
"But Lord Mortan, unlike what we expected before, the mud-legged people in the royal capital don't seem to have any intention of causing chaos." Viscount Sk said hesitantly.
According to their previous predictions, the poor who cannot afford wheat now should be unable to sit still.
"I think even if they really starve to death, those untouchables may not really have the courage to stand up and resist the wizards who control evil arts. Even if they can't afford white bread, they can still buy a few pieces of black bread mixed with hay to survive. If it doesn't work, Wouldn't it be possible to get by just by chewing on the turf?" Earl Bell shook his head.
He felt that Mortan and others underestimated the patience and adaptability of the poor people. In the past, when there was famine in the territory, he would not give a grain of food. Wouldn't it be possible for some people to survive?
"It seems that the price of wheat is not high enough now!" Mortan shook the wine glass in his hand and said playfully.
How is it possible that those poor people can still afford black bread?
Held and others clamored to raise the price of black bread to more than one silver coin, so that the untouchables would not be able to afford a few pieces even if they worked hard to death.
In fact, they have long been dissatisfied with the current situation in the royal capital. You must know that white bread used to be exclusive to the nobles, but after the wizards came, even the dogs in the royal capital could eat it. Now they are just letting them eat it. Those mud-legged people returned to their old lives.
Amidst the excited shouts of the crowd, the attendant spoke hesitantly. "Lord Mortan, when I asked the caravan to purchase food, I got some information."
"I heard from some workers that wizards' workshops are willing to provide free meals." The attendant said cautiously.
The smile on Mortan's face paused for a moment, his brows raised slightly, but it soon relaxed, and the mocking look on his face became heavier. "It seems that the Parliament has really thought of a useful way to stabilize the situation in the kingdom, but I don't know how long they can feed it with millions of mouths!"
The nobles present were not intimidated by the Parliament's bold strategy of controlling food for all. After all, it can be seen from the fact that the other party frequently sells large amounts of wheat at low prices that the Parliament still wants to bring down the price of food!
Viscount Sk also reported good news at this time. "You may not know yet, but the spies I sent found that after the wizards released a total of one hundred tons of wheat in various cities in the kingdom in the morning, they began to secretly harvest grain again at night..."
"Look, this shows that our guess is right. The parliament has not enough food." Mortan laughed.
The parliament did not have enough wheat on hand and wanted to balance the price of grain. The only way was to secretly purchase grain from outside and pretend to have sufficient reserves.
"Then how much are they prepared to spend on repurchasing it?" Held asked with a sneer.
The wizards have killed so many nobles in the eastern part of the kingdom and plundered their property. It's time to take it back!
"It's twenty-five copper coins per kilogram!" Viscount Sk said with a strange expression.
Earl Held almost thought that he had heard wrongly.
The other nobles also had shocked expressions.
"Are you kidding me? Are these wizards crazy?" Count Held said in disbelief.
Now the price of one kilogram of wheat has already exceeded fifty copper coins. Even the price of grain released by the parliament has exceeded forty-five copper coins. Now the other party wants to buy it back directly for half the price...
What fool would do that?
Whoever came up with this idea probably has something wrong with their brains!
"These wizards are really stupid, ignorant and greedy..." Mortan said sarcastically, but it was normal to think about it. A group of mud-legged people who were originally hiding in dark corners suddenly took charge of the entire kingdom. How could they cover everything?
That's why I think it comes out one after another, and there is no logic at all.
Realizing this, Mortan was completely relieved, drank the red wine in his glass happily, and talked loudly about the future of the kingdom under the rule of the nobles.
A small number of nobles vaguely felt that the wizard council's abnormal behavior of collecting grain at low prices might not be that simple, but in this intoxicating atmosphere of victory, some of their worries were quickly forgotten.
In any case, they achieved an unprecedented victory and were not worried about being liquidated.
Nobles like them are not the only ones buying wheat now. The first batch of people who secretly promoted the increase in grain prices have already been dealt with. The wizards should not be able to find out for a while.
Even in the worst case scenario, after the Wizards' Council found out in the end, would they still dare to attack so many nobles when the kingdom was about to fall into chaos?
Maybe we need to rely on them to provide food to save the country...
"To the honor of the nobles!" the tipsy Mortan raised his right arm and shouted impassionedly.
Held was also excited, raised his glass and drank it in one gulp, shouting loudly.
"Honor the nobles!"
…
While the nobles of the royal capital were holding a celebration, in the City of Fire Oil, Laud, who had just compiled the information, stepped into a large manor.
This place was once the residence of a local great earl, and it was very grand. However, its former owner had been hanged on the tower long ago, and now it is the temporary residence of a certain magic star.
Different from the last time he came, there was a sign at the door that read "Vicious dogs inside, no one allowed to enter".
"When did Master Linn start raising dogs?" Lauder muttered to himself, thinking slightly, wondering whether to send one over next time he came.
He heard that some of the great nobles of the empire had a hobby of raising vicious dogs, and they were not just ordinary dogs, they had part of the blood of Warcraft, and they looked very majestic.
However, this idea was extinguished the moment he officially entered the manor, because Lauder discovered that the so-called 'vicious dog' on the sign was actually a giant blue beast that was more than two meters tall and over five meters long.
The most peculiar thing is that its body is translucent, with 'hairs' that are constantly flowing like flames on the surface. The masonry in contact with its four legs is burned into lava by the high temperature. The terrifying aura it exudes makes Lauder swallow involuntarily. Spit.
Fortunately, Muto had no interest in a two-legged beast that didn't even have magic power in its body. Seeing that the other party was not a threat, he lazily closed his eyes.
Lauder wiped the cold sweat from his head and carefully walked around. After entering the inner room, he soon heard the noisy discussion inside, one of which was Linn's voice.
"What do you think food is, why it can sustain a living creature's daily needs, and how it is grown?"
(End of chapter)
