I made science magic

Chapter 454 Lynn: Have you heard of magic bread?

Author: pure little angel

Chapter 454 Lynn: Have you heard of magic bread?

In the morning in the royal capital, Susan woke up from her sleep at dawn. After taking care of the housework as usual, she went out to buy ingredients for the next few days.

The streets were very lively, with an endless stream of caravans coming and going. Strong camel beasts pulled wooden wheeled carts loaded with various supplies on the widened cement road. Several people were heading to the royal capital for the first time.

The wealthy businessman was commenting on the huge rotating waterwheel in the distance, and from time to time, bursts of exclamations could be heard.

Accompanied by a slightly harsh whistle, a gorgeously decorated alchemy car drove past quickly, billowing steam gushes from the chimney at the front of the car, attracting the envious eyes of the townspeople and merchants.

This kind of steam car, which can run on its own without horses or camels, sells for hundreds of imperial gold coins. Only people with real status can own one. It is a new fashion among wealthy merchants and nobles in the royal capital.

…

As for the wizards, they ride on an iron box that does not need to spit steam and can run faster. I heard that it requires witchcraft and magic to activate.

Just as Susan was thinking about it, the oval shadow suddenly fell, and a huge and majestic airship passed over their heads, covering the blazing sun above.

Beside the street, groups of children were chasing and playing happily on the shadow cast by the airship...

Even though Susan saw all this weird stuff every day, she still felt a little uncomfortable with it.

In the past year, she felt as if she was living in a dream.

First, in the church's propaganda, the evil wizard led his army to occupy the royal capital, brutally killed King Bazel, razed the sacred church to the ground, and arrested a large number of devout believers. The entire royal capital's citizens were heartbroken.

Panic, fearing that the evil minions will target me.

However, what happened next was beyond their expectations. The wizards did not hold evil human sacrifices, nor did they rush into their homes to loot money. Instead, they began to repair houses and roads, and opened many magic workshops.

Workshop, recruiting iron-making, glass-making and musket-making workers at high prices.

At the beginning, no one dared to join the workshop. There were even rumors that this was a way for wizards to confuse them. On the surface, the magic workshop recruited workers, but in fact it was conducting various evil human experiments. The wizards used human beings to

The soul is extracted, the body is corrupted into a skeleton, and thrown into the abyss!

However, since the bold Haydn joined the wizards' workshop, lived an increasingly prosperous life, and was even assigned a new house, such rumors were naturally dispelled.

Susan is very lucky that she and her husband were among the first batch of people to join the workshop.

You must know that even if the magic workshop has expanded several times since then, the number of workers that can be recruited is still limited.

Those poor people who wake up too late can only build roads and mine mines - although the salary is not low, it is actually much harder than working in a workshop.

Now she and her husband together can earn twenty silver coins per month in the musket making workshop. This would have been unimaginable a year ago!

It was also the first time that Susan knew that there was one day off from work every week.

This is simply the kingdom of heaven described in the Bible, but it was built by wizards...

Susan was thinking, and soon she arrived at the most prosperous street in the royal capital. She couldn't help but look at a newly opened clothing store. Behind the glass wall were colorful dresses. The fabrics and colors

, simply more luxurious than what noble ladies wore in the past.

The price was not too expensive, about ten to fifteen silver coins. Susan counted the coins in her pocket, but when she thought about having to prepare the expenses for her two children to enter the wizarding academy, she gritted her teeth and walked to the bread aside.

shop.

"As usual, three bags of white bread and two portions of beans." Susan took out a small bag of copper coins from her arms and handed them over.

Baker owner Kom shook his head. "A total of one silver and ninety coppers..."

"Why is it so expensive?" Susan's eyes widened and she looked at the other party in disbelief.

She remembered that a week ago, a bag of white bread cost only about fifteen copper coins, and a portion of bean paste cost only ten copper coins.

"You probably don't know that the price of wheat has gone up recently, so bread will naturally have to go up as well." Kom muttered. In just a few days, the price of wheat has nearly tripled, and what he has sold has already been counted.

Cheaper.

"As for the reason... maybe it's because of the war."

There are rumors in the royal capital that the wizards have moved into the empire, and the citizens in the newly added territories can also work in the workshops and live a life of eating white bread like them.

But where did so much bread come from?

Although Komu heard from businessmen from afar that wizards had made an alchemical creation that could automatically farm the land, it probably could not supply food for millions of people in the kingdom.

What's even more unfortunate is that there seems to be a food shortage in several territories in the northeastern part of the kingdom, so now there are rumors in the royal capital that there is not enough food.

Many savvy businessmen have begun to hoard wheat, and Com is no exception. Later, he reminded Susan that it is best to buy more today, maybe the price will be more than this tomorrow!

Susan looked at the high price and felt a little hesitant, but thinking that the price of bread might continue to rise, she counted out the coins and sighed.

"Five more bags of brown bread."

"Five bags of black bread, a total of sixty coppers!" Colm grinned from ear to ear. After tasting the delicious white bread, not many people would be willing to eat hard and chewy black bread again.

Now we can take advantage of this opportunity to clear out our inventory.

After quite distressedly paying three silver coins, Susan took over the purchased ingredients and couldn't help but frowned. Not only did the price of bread increase several times, but it also became much smaller visible to the naked eye. What was originally a piece of bread was

The standard thickness of four fingers has now been reduced to about three fingers.

Susan couldn't help but feel a trace of worry in her heart. Since the wizards took control of the royal capital, famine seemed to have become a thing of the past, but the continuous increase in food prices now made Susan quite worried.

Even if I can barely afford it now, what will happen in a week or even a month?

Susan clutched the last few silver coins in her hand, hesitating whether to buy more?

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Under the joint operation of a group of nobles and wealthy businessmen, rumors about famine quickly spread throughout the kingdom. The price of wheat increased almost every day, causing panic that once affected the City of Fire and Oil!

Lin En, who was in the laboratory thinking about how to change the large nuclear explosion technique to the large hydrogen explosion technique, was forced to stop his research and was pulled into the conference room.

After reading the report, Lin En couldn't help but frown.

In just half a month, the price of wheat per kilogram in the kingdom has increased from two copper coins to ten copper coins, more than five times the original price!

"Why didn't anyone remind me of such a big thing before?" Lin En asked in confusion.

He could tell at a glance that someone wanted to disrupt the entire kingdom by manipulating food prices. The best way was to kill it as soon as there was a sign. Once it evolved into a chain reaction, it would be very difficult to deal with.

.

Because everyone will start hoarding spontaneously, no matter how much food is available, it will not be enough!

Lauder, who was in charge of grain procurement, felt helpless and bitter.

Due to the construction of nuclear fusion reactors, all the Speakers and Grand Wizards are extremely busy. Unless it is a particularly urgent matter, there is no way to hold a meeting to discuss it.

Moreover, successive wars often lead to higher food prices. It is normal for wheat prices to fluctuate or even double in the short term.

It's just that they have been controlling the price of wheat by harvesting and releasing grain, so this year, it has only increased by about 50%. Compared with the poor, whose wages have increased several times, it has not caused any waves.

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This led to Lauder not paying too much attention to the rise in wheat prices at first, and dispatching more grain to various places to stabilize grain prices as usual. It was not until he discovered that the situation was completely out of control that he reported it as an emergency.

Alva, who was in charge of trade on the side, also added that just the day before yesterday, the church suddenly established outposts in the border cities of the empire to strictly check the departure of caravans. The number of caravans coming from the empire suddenly decreased by 80%, which meant that

They can no longer purchase food on a large scale from the empire!

Two pieces of bad news in succession made some members of the House of Representatives worried.

Even though most wizards have no theoretical basis in economics, they know the importance of food with their own feet. The citizens can wear the same clothes as they want, or they don't have to buy those novel alchemical creations, but they can't.

Not eating!

After pondering for a while, Raphael proposed that a rationing system could be implemented, stipulating a maximum amount of bread that each person could buy, and if he exceeded it, he would be punished.

Some members even thought that they could save some food by cutting the lunch supply in the workshop.

He had heard the wizards in the alchemy workshop complain before that because the council stipulated that one meal should be provided every day, many extremely stingy poor people would deliberately skip breakfast and dinner and eat until they were full in the workshop.

"No, this will only cause greater panic and confirm that the food in our hands is no longer enough!" Harov directly rejected the proposal. He knew very well that all current strategies to reduce food supply will further increase the price of bread.

of soaring.

Aurora turned to look at Lin En, and asked in a deep voice how much wheat they had left, and whether it was enough to supply the entire kingdom?

Some time ago, she received a report that large tracts of cultivated land in the eastern territory of the kingdom seemed to have been abandoned.

"It's not abandoned. In fact, I'm planning to integrate these lands to grow some cash crops." Linn explained.

[Hadra Tower] is known as the kingdom on the mines. This is its advantage, but sometimes it is also its disadvantage.

Being mountainous means that there are few plain areas suitable for large-scale farming.

The scattered fields scattered throughout the kingdom simply cannot take advantage of much mechanization.

Lin En believes that the cost-effectiveness of growing wheat is too low. It is better to plant a fruit tree or something to enrich the diet of the townspeople and improve the per capita night blindness situation in the kingdom.

In addition, it is also to allow some self-cultivators to obtain similar benefits to those who enter the workshops. Otherwise, who will farm the land?

As for the food supply, of course it is enough!

Since capturing the southern part of the kingdom more than a year ago, Lin En has begun to lay out the plan. Because this area has the only alluvial plain in the kingdom, he asked the Musketeers to work with the liberated mining slaves to reclaim it.

A lot of new land, a fully mechanized large farm model!

Today, more than 70% of the food in the entire kingdom is produced from this super farm...

Although the congressmen present did not understand what the mechanized farm that Lin En mentioned looked like, they still heard one thing, that is, they still had enough food on hand.

Realizing this, Harrov and others immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and then asked rather strangely.

"Since there is enough food, why do we need to purchase a large amount of wheat from the empire?"

"Of course it's to prevent famine caused by the large number of refugees." Lin En said calmly. "It's always safer to have more food reserves, isn't it?"

Once they defeat the Holy See, they will have to face tens of millions of poor people in the empire, so it is better to prepare early than late!

Lin En also did not expect that his actions to consolidate the cultivated land in the east and purchase grain from the empire would cause some people to misjudge and launch a food war.

"Laud, have you found out who is behind the scenes?" Linn paused and asked.

"I suspect it has something to do with the nobles in the kingdom." Lauder replied hesitantly.

Since there are too many people buying wheat on a large scale, many traders and even civilians have participated. In a short period of time, he cannot determine who is the mastermind behind the scenes and who is following the trend and trying to make a fortune.

, but it is certain that a large number of nobles from the kingdom must be involved.

However, he has already asked the psychic wizards to investigate, and he believes that the results will be available soon.

"Noble..." Lin En's expression suddenly turned cold.

Being busy dealing with the empire and the church recently, he almost forgot that there is still such a group of worms in the kingdom who are relying on their territory and not working hard.

The reason why we did not deal with them all before was because the wizards had not yet gained the trust of the people after occupying the kingdom. Taking action against these people rashly might cause the finally stable situation to erode again.

In addition, not all nobles are so dishonest. Some nobles who are flexible and have knowledge are still willing to embrace the new era, so it is not good to kill all these people.

After Lin En thought for a moment, he gave instructions. "Since they are willing to collect grain at a high price, let them continue to collect it and release the grain we have stored part by part!"

He did not intend to directly send people to arrest all the merchants who were hoarding wheat. Firstly, there were too many people, and secondly, there was no such law in the kingdom.

But this does not mean that there are no other ways to deal with these people.

It just so happens that we can take this opportunity to let those businessmen who want to follow the trend and take advantage and make money for the country to know that there are limits to the freedom of trade. Once the line is crossed, there will be consequences!

'071, help me bring out the artificial starch technology...' Lin En thought silently in his heart. He originally didn't want to bring out this technology so quickly.

(End of chapter)