After visiting the grain merchants within Backlund, Lan Nuo confirmed that they had united and would not sell a grain of grain to themselves. However, this did not make them nervous. Instead, they asked the person in charge of this matter to The members smiled as if their plan had succeeded.
"The concealment of those farmlands can be lifted, and we are ready to harvest." Lan Nuo had previously specially made many concealment scrolls to use on the farmlands of the farmers who cooperated with him.
There are a large number of wealthy farmers in the suburbs. In fact, they can be regarded as small landowners. They have purchased a lot of agricultural machinery and can maintain a large area of land with only a small number of people. They are much richer than workers in the city, but they can still The two parties had reached an agreement that the output of various crops would be sold directly to the Mohist family, eliminating all middlemen.
Billf is a farmer near the suburbs. There are not many farmers working for him, and he doesn't own much land. Therefore, the life he lived before is actually not much better than that of the farmers under him. He just wants to pretend to be decent. He was wearing a gentleman's dress.
But after the Mo family cut out all the middlemen, the purchase price increased significantly, and his life really started to become more respectable.
Some time ago, the Mo family said that they had developed a drug that could increase wheat production, and asked him to spray it on the farmland, and promised that even if there was no increase in production or adverse consequences, he would be compensated according to the price of his agricultural products.
After receiving this guarantee, he agreed to spray the strange drug. However, the scene in the farmland still made him at a loss.
The wheat, which was already somewhat yellowed, now grows extremely tall. It has turned golden yellow in the autumn wind, but the problem is that the wheat field is already taller than him, and the wheat ears are not just the top one, but also contain two or three in the gaps between the leaves every week. .
"Bless the Harvest Goddess! Oh my god! What on earth is this? Is this the so-called increase in yield?" Billf was worried about the mutation of his plants for a moment. He broke off the ears of wheat from the plants in front to check and found that the ears of wheat grew longer. It's like a corn cob, but it has wheat kernels growing on it. After peeling off all the wheat kernels, the stick in the middle is thinner than the corn cob.
Looking at the seeds in his hand that were much larger than ordinary wheat kernels, he was not sure whether they were edible or not. After the wheat kernels became larger, the outer skin became slightly thicker. So much so that you can directly peel it off with your hands to reveal the white starch inside.
Billf put this thing in his mouth and chewed it a few times. Judging from experience, this thing seemed to retain the characteristics of wheat in addition to getting bigger. Although the changes in front of him made him overwhelmed, since this thing can really Maybe this was a good thing, so he immediately called other farmers to harvest. Anyway, even if the Mo family didn't recognize this strange food, they had already signed an agreement with him, and they would compensate his farm and there would always be no loss. of.
The same is true for other farms that use special chemicals. Although they are a little wary of the strange mutations in the crops, based on years of experience, they have determined that this is indeed a food crop that can be used normally.
After the harvest was completed and the yield per mu was calculated, almost everyone was stunned. The yield of this thing was not only doubled compared to before, but the worst was triple the level. Some with careful care would even have higher yields. high. When the Mo family's acquisition team arrived, they saw the wheat grains that had been removed from the sticks.
They were piled on the yard like normal wheat in the past. Although the wheat kernels were obviously larger than before, they obviously wanted to sell them as normal wheat. After all, they wanted others to accept new things. There is a cost, and they are not going to pay that cost.
Fortunately, it was the Mohist family who purchased these things, so they were not worried about sales. While the Mohist family's caravan transported these grains back, many nobles who had joined together were already panicking. After the effect of the hidden scroll disappeared, they The spies on the outskirts of the city finally noticed the fields they had subconsciously ignored before.
Previously, under the effect of the Hidden Scroll, these fields were as if they were covered with stone hats. No one paid attention to them at all, so that the strange plants growing in these fields were not noticed.
After the concealment was lifted, the nobles remembered that there were a large number of farmers cooperating with the Mohist family. Originally, the food of these farmers was not enough to sustain Mojia for a long time, but now, the sudden emergence of new crops has doubled the food output, and the Mo family also has advanced chemical technology, which can produce large quantities of fertilizers and sell them to these farmers, ensuring that Each crop yields such high yields.
Relying on this food, the Mo family may not be able to survive the next harvest, but if they send people to other cities to purchase food and bypass those grain merchants, it will definitely be enough to survive the next harvest.
"Damn it! Does the Church of the Goddess of Night also support the Mo family? Such important information has been ignored by us. Where are the grain merchants? Why don't they buy the grain of these farmers? Can't they also buy the grain of these farmers?" The gentleman in a tuxedo had a face. His expression had begun to break down, and his private detective also had a helpless expression on his face.
"It was purchased, but those farmers had a good harvest, too much grain, and purchased it at a high price. Many grain dealers couldn't bear it. Some even lost their pants because of the high-priced grain purchase.
Later I found out that many of them were sold by the Mo family themselves. How could anyone dare to collect food now?
All the food I had eaten at a high price was now in my hands. These people also have to worry about the Mo family not buying their food, otherwise they will all lose money. Let alone asking them to purchase grain now, the limit is to ensure that they will not sell the hoarded grain at once, causing grain prices to collapse. "
"How could this happen?" The nobles present murmured to themselves. Some even wanted to use force to suppress these people, but were quickly restrained and calmed down.
There are too many people. It would be fine if it were a strike, but if it were a direct uprising, these people now have factories that can produce a large number of firearms and weapons in a short time. It is really not something they can solve now.
Someone was lying on the chair in despair. The current situation was no longer under their control. A large number of workers were organized and created huge wealth in just one month, and this part of the wealth was not theirs at all. What can be divided up now, let alone divided up, they just want to get these workers back to their factories as soon as possible, even if they have to pay some extra costs.
If that doesn't work, they can only recruit the extremely poor, but many of those people have been influenced by the Mohists, and have been organized by the Mohists, and have shown productivity that they can't understand at all. Those people they want to recruit now, I'm afraid the cost will also be greatly increased.
The Mo family is building more and more factories and projects. Even if those infrastructures maintain operation in the future, they will not need so many workers. If time continues to drag on, the Mo family's own industry may be enough to absorb all these workers. By then There was no point in further compromise, the city no longer needed them.
"Let's negotiate! We can't hold on anymore. If we continue like this, we will definitely die first." Finally someone couldn't hold on anymore, and it was like knocking down dominoes. After the first person expressed his stance, many nobles also Expressing their stance, some of them can still hold on for a while, while others can no longer hold on. At this time, no matter whether you are willing or not, you can only choose to compromise.
So in the square of the Mohist headquarters in Shangxian Street, a negotiation that seemed like a scolding began. The nobles insulted the workers for being greedy, and the workers in turn cursed them back, saying that they were just a bunch of moths, not harvesting crops but depleting the treasury. Fill.
However, the two sides continued to scold each other. Under the mediation of the Mohist family and members of the royal family, agreements were reached one after another, including the maximum daily working hours, prescribed rest days, and compensation for work-related injuries at work. Compensation for accidental death at work, labor protection for workers in jobs that may cause physical damage, etc.
They are actually already working for the Mo family. These requirements are precisely to apply the Mohist template to this group of factory owners.
But this time, the initiative was in the hands of the workers. They had learned to fight for their own interests and refused to give in to their demands. The meeting was extremely chaotic, with quarrels, swearing, and even fights happening from time to time.
But in the end, the nobles made a compromise. After all, this era was not completely controlled by the capitalists. Affected by the old era, some nobles who represented conservative and backward forces sympathized with the workers' plight. What's more, even if they were not sympathetic, The status quo cannot be changed. If the Mo family leaves them alone and goes it alone, the losses will be even more unbearable.
In addition, members of the royal family are also mediating among them. They also see that the Mo family has the ability to go it alone, but they do not want the situation to develop in that direction. The nobles can also rely on mutual restraint to balance. If the Mo family develops into If one family is the only one, no one can really control it, so now we need to use nobles to balance the Moh family and slow down their development.
During the meeting, many nobles were thirsty for debate. When facing the former untouchables, they were surprised to find that these people were all eloquent. It would not be an exaggeration to say that they were highly educated and wealthy. Some of these nobles even knew each other. A month ago, he was an unknown ordinary worker in the factory. At this time, he was talking rationally, arguing hard, and striving for interests as if he were a talent cultivated under the elite education of the aristocracy. It is really hard to imagine that in a month How on earth could an illiterate worker be trained to this level?
Some people suspect that these workers have become Extraordinary, so they ask the Extraordinaries around them to secretly observe. If they can discover the Extraordinary characteristics of these workers, then they may be able to use this as an excuse to win over the forces on the side of the church to stand on their side. .
However, the answers given by the Extraordinaries were confusing. The workers who debated with them had a small amount of Extraordinary power remaining, but it was extremely weak. Now they were almost no different from ordinary people.
In other words, they have been exposed to extraordinary power, but they do not have it in their bodies now, but they have actually become smarter. This is puzzling. From the surface, this seems to be mental pollution, but mental pollution, How can one become smart and knowledgeable?
Although they found out that the Mohists would select workers and give them extraordinary characteristics. This information is not kept secret. But he couldn't figure out what was going on. After all, compared to giving extraordinary characteristics, depriving them of extraordinary characteristics was more secretive. Those workers who were deprived of extraordinary characteristics would also keep secrets.
Because they also have the opportunity to acquire other extraordinary characteristics, the more knowledge and skills they can master quickly, the more the better.
Faced with these workers who had been armed with knowledge, the nobles had to give up many of their rights before reaching an agreement with the workers, but they could only win some of them to return to work, and a considerable number of others. , has been completely integrated into the Mohist organizational system, and can no longer be separated from the organization.
At this part of the plan, the Lannos have initially succeeded. They have basically mastered the complete industrial system of this era. Next, they can evolve rapidly under this industrial system, and various benefits actively promoted by the emperor The bills of the emerging aristocrats and capitalists are driving a large number of landless peasants into the city. Lan Nuo does not need to worry about the subsequent shortage of workers. The remaining thing is to use the gap between technology and cost to harvest little by little. Other nobles and capitalists in this world eventually annexed the entire industrial system in the kingdom.
There will inevitably be armed confrontation in this process, but now they are ready.
After having his own industrial system, Ezreal on the sea drove his ghost ship to his own dock on the seaside, since the ghost ship can be like the ship of Theseus by constantly replacing its own parts. To turn himself into a completely different ship, then the Lannos can radically transform it. As long as the overall volume of the final product is not much larger than the current one, it can be changed into almost any shape. In theory, it is completely possible. Transform it into a mecha, so that this thing can fight on land and become a ground battleship. Of course, in theory, you can also add propellers to this thing and make it an aerospace carrier. Nowadays, the industrial system is complete, and semiconductor technology is also Begin to fully invest in development. It won’t be too long before the birth of electronic computers. I’m afraid it won’t take long for biological computers to come out. The transformed ghost ship will soon have its own radar, and this means that this The ship's strike range can gradually be extended to hundreds of miles, and even for angels, it is difficult for their abilities to affect hundreds of miles away.
On the ghost ship, Ezreal, who was directing the transformation, suddenly felt his shoulder being tapped, and then he saw a transparent spirit palm tapping his shoulder, with a letter in his palm. It has Bernadette's signature on it.
[To be continued]
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