I made science magic

Chapter 457 Worthless wheat and the collapsed nobles of the kingdom!

Author: pure little angel

Chapter 457 Worthless wheat and the collapsed nobles of the kingdom!

September has quietly arrived, and the train station and the railway tracks connecting various places were finally completed with the joint efforts of wizards and hundreds of thousands of workers.

However, the wealthy merchants and nobles in the kingdom have gone crazy because of the soaring food prices. In just one month, the price of food has increased five hundred times!

Every morning, there would be countless caravans waiting outside the granary, and a warehouse of wheat transported by airship would be sold out without even needing to be unloaded!

Because as long as you grab the food and wait for a day or two, you can earn several times the profit. Driven by such terrifying profits, most people have gone crazy and lost their minds!

However, there is a limit to this madness, because the food in the hands of the Congress seems to be inexhaustible. The price of the food shipped every day is gradually increasing, and now thousands of tons of food are thrown into the market every day!

It would take hundreds of thousands of imperial gold coins to fully eat all this food, but the coins in their hands have been spent long ago, and some wealthy businessmen have even mortgaged their entire wealth!

But everyone knows that they must buy all the grain, otherwise once the price of wheat collapses, their wealth will be wiped out!

This batch of grain was eventually forced to be bought in batches by dozens of grain teams!

After buying the food, the wealthy businessmen and nobles could no longer sit still, and sent their men one after another to check how much food the wizards had!

It was obviously not an easy task to sneak into the granaries of major cities to find out this during magic monitoring. Finally, the spies came up with a way, which was to go to the workshop to investigate.

Wizards need to provide three meals a day for workers. If there is not enough food in hand, the supply will inevitably shrink!

After some investigation, they did get a shocking news, but it was exactly the opposite of what they had imagined - magic workshops in major cities were planning to reward those workers who worked the night shift with a midnight snack.

Hard work!

The next day, the Parliament directly dumped more than 5,000 tons of wheat in the kingdom's major cities, which instantly stunned all the caravans who wanted to buy wheat!

"This is impossible! Where did they get so much food?" Marquis Mortain grabbed the reporting attendant by the collar and roared angrily!

Held and other counts of the empire no longer looked as determined and strategizing as they did a few days ago. Their eyes were all red, and they could not believe this fact either.

In the past month, they have bought enough food to feed three million people for more than half a year. The other wealthy businessmen who want to take advantage of the opportunity have also bought less than them. How can those wizards buy it all in one go again?

Five thousand tons of wheat?

"Lord Mortan, what should we do now?" Viscount Sk asked in a panic. In order to support Mortan's plan to wipe out his family, he spent everything he had!

"Otherwise, why don't we sell the grain now?" Earl Bell suddenly suggested.

Bell's suggestion undoubtedly made many nobles very excited. Now the price of one kilogram of wheat is as high as 500 copper coins. If they can sell all the grain they purchased before, everyone present will be extremely rich!

"Idiot! Do you think we can still sell our wheat now?" Marquis Mortain slapped the conference table heavily and roared in annoyance.

Let alone the market price of 500 copper coins per kilogram, even if the price is reduced to 100 copper coins, no one will even take a look!

The Marquis of Mortain didn't know what beating drums meant to spread flowers, but he knew very well that the Parliament provided three meals a day for the poor. As a result, no one in the market except them, the grain collectors, would buy a grain of wheat at a sky-high price!

The rest of the businessmen are not fools. Who dares to continue buying grain when the situation is unclear?

Five thousand tons of food were released in the morning of the parliament, and the fact that it has been piled up until now and not even a cent has been sold is enough to prove this!

If they release a large amount of grain again, the price of wheat will collapse instantly, causing a large-scale run and even making the wheat in their hands worthless!

Bell immediately panicked and hurriedly said, "But aren't those wizards collecting grain? We can sell all the grain to them!"

Mortan looked at Bell coldly, and then turned to look at the attendant who was lying on the ground and trembling slightly. "You tell me!"

"As of last night, the price of wheat purchased by the parliament is... one copper coin and ten kilograms!" the attendant said cautiously.

After hearing the news, Bell almost fainted.

Are you kidding? One copper coin costs ten kilograms?

This means that the wheat he spent all his wealth and spent a hundred thousand imperial gold coins to buy is now worth millions of imperial gold coins, and the wizards actually want to buy it back for a mere two hundred gold coins!

This is crazy!

"No, I remember Viscount Skok said a few days ago that the price they pay for wheat should be twenty coppers per kilogram!" Bell shouted hysterically.

If it were twenty coppers, although he would lose most of his property, he could still barely accept it.

Under Count Bell's cannibalistic gaze, the attendant stammered in explaining that the price of food purchased by the Parliament was decreasing almost every day, from twenty coppers per kilogram to fifteen coppers, then still ten coppers, and then five.

Copper, two coppers...

And the price last night had dropped to the lowest point in the history of the kingdom, one copper coin for ten kilograms!

Viscount Sk and other nobles simply cannot accept this ridiculous price, which means that their existing assets will instantly shrink to one-fifth of their previous value!

Bell roared even more hoarsely.

"This is a naked provocation and a war!"

"Where is their granary? I will send people over immediately to burn all the wizards' food!"

The nobles present were filled with rage and were ready to overthrow the kingdom.

"Burn your ass!" Held cursed angrily, pouring cold water on everyone.

Five thousand tons of grain are scattered in more than 40 cities in the kingdom. Not only are there heavy troops, but there are also not a few wizards in each town. What do they use to burn it?

Do you really think wizards can't use magic to put out fires?

In fact, not only can they create large amounts of water out of thin air, they can even easily summon heavy rain and lightning!

Thinking of the scene a year ago, when someone waved his hand in the royal capital, calling the wind and rain, and raining down terrifying thunder, Held felt an unspeakable fear in his heart. He couldn't help but regret why he had listened to Mortan's words.

Confront wizards with terrible magic.

Bell, Sk and others looked at Mortan and their eyes became more and more evil.

The latter obviously noticed the increasingly subtle atmosphere on the court and said coldly.

"Don't forget, everyone, we are all tied together now. My death will not do you any good!"

"Now we have only one solution left!"

Having said this, Marquis Mortain paused obviously, then opened his mouth and squeezed out these words almost through his teeth. "Then continue...buying food!"

As long as they can buy up all the wheat in the parliament, the initiative will return to their side!

"I never believe that those wizards have inexhaustible food!" Marquis Mortain's sonorous voice echoed throughout the castle. "Can they still conjure wheat out of thin air?"

The wizards have only occupied the southern and central areas of the kingdom for just over a year. Even if they start to reclaim the land from that time, how much food can be grown?

Mortan firmly believed that these 5,000 tons of wheat must be the last inventory of the parliament, and he was releasing them now just to scare them!

The news about the workshop must have been released deliberately to make them confused!

After all, he had never heard of such a late-night snack, so how could those wizards suddenly become so kind and let the workers have another meal despite the shortage of food?

This must be deliberately used to confuse them!

Under Mortan's analysis, Bell and others seemed to have grasped the last life-saving straw. Whether they wanted to believe it or not, this must be true!

But soon everyone realized another problem.

Five thousand tons of grain purchased at the current price is a full 250,000 imperial gold coins!

This is going to kill them!

Nowadays, everyone's property has either been mortgaged, or they have spent all their money on food purchases. Where can they find so much money?

Thinking of this, Held and others all retreated.

Mortan knew that if he did not set an example, the noble alliance would fall apart today, so he gritted his teeth and said, "By mortgaging my manor, I should be able to collect 20,000 imperial gold coins!"

"Everyone, we are now at the point of life and death!" "Think about it, as long as we can cross this hurdle, the food in our hands can be exchanged for countless wealth, but if we lose the accumulation of generations of families,

All will be burned to the ground..."

Amid Mortan's encouragement, the nobles present also reluctantly liquidated their few remaining properties. After all, if you step back now, you will be in the abyss. If you take a step further, you may be able to have everything!

They had to take the gamble!

About half an hour later, more than 40 nobles worked hard to collect the 250,000 gold coins using land deeds. Mortan immediately asked his trusted confidants to take airships to the major cities in the kingdom to collect all 5,000 tons of grain.

Buy it!

After giving away the little property they had, no nobleman left the secret room. Everyone was anxiously waiting for the news to come.

I waited for an hour before the guards walked in from the door.

"How is it? Is the royal capital already in chaos?" Held and others immediately gathered around and asked impatiently.

However, Mortan understood that it had only been an hour, and the confidants he had sent to buy food in various parts of the kingdom should still be on their way.

It is also possible that the wizards can no longer hold on and plan to negotiate with them...

The guard who came in to report did not answer everyone's questioning, but handed over a newspaper with a trembling wrist. "Lord Mortan, this is today's [Magic Daily]..."

Looking at the fearful expression on the guard's face, Mortan felt a little uneasy in his heart, and took the [Magic Daily] from the other person's hand and started to read it.

After seeing the conspicuous and specially enlarged title on the homepage, Mortan's pupils shrank slightly, and the blood and energy in his body surged uncontrollably. For a moment, he became so furious that he fainted on the spot.

"Lord Mortan..."

The nobles present were immediately horrified. Bell immediately grabbed the [Magic Daily]. After scanning it for a few times, he felt a chill running up from the soles of his feet into his heart, and shouted in horror.

"Quick, send someone immediately to bring back all the people who are buying food!"

…

Five minutes ago, in the city of kerosene, inside the newly built wizard academy.

Ivina fished out about ten kilograms of wheat grain from the wooden box where the wheat was stored, packed it in strong coarse cloth, and went out.

"Are you going to the granary to sell wheat again?" In the living room, Monroe, who was doing his daily prayers, suddenly opened his eyes and called out to the girl who was about to go out.

"Yes, yesterday those wizards lowered the price of food again. I think this may have some profound meaning." Ivina replied calmly.

"What do you mean? I'm afraid the parliament is running out of funds, right?" Monroe said with a sneer.

Thanks to Ivina's secret investigation, he also 'understood' the reason why those wizards were able to persist in the food war until now!

The parliament is working through its operations to buy back all the meager grain reserves in the hands of the poor at very low prices to support the food war and maintain the most basic dignity!

But this is just a temporary measure after all, and it won’t last long!

Monroe even believed that today was the day when the wizards revealed their true colors, and the five thousand tons of wheat should be the last inventory.

Ivina pursed her lips. She had different ideas from Monroe, but she didn't mean to argue. After taking the ten kilograms of wheat grain, she went out.

No one stopped or questioned her along the way. After all, it was not the first day she went out to sell grain. They were not the only ones buying and selling wheat during this period.

Many wizards regard this as an opportunity to make a lot of money, but they just don't have enough place to accumulate wheat, and they don't have the financial resources to compete with those wealthy merchants and nobles. They usually can only buy low and sell high to make a fortune.

When Ivina arrived at the granary, there was a long queue here. Although the price of wheat purchased by the council would decrease every day, the number of people coming to sell grain increased instead of decreasing!

This also surprised Ivina. You must know that there is a gap of five thousand times between the purchase price of the wizards and the market price!

In other words, if you sell ten kilograms of wheat to the parliament, you can only get one copper coin. If you are willing to sell it to major grain merchants, it will be worth a full fifty silver coins!

After maintaining silence for nearly a month, Ivina finally couldn't help but asked.

After hearing the girl's question, the townspeople waiting in front of the granary looked at Ivina with extremely envious eyes. Until the girl was about to ask again, Su wrapped a little old grain in rags.

Shan sighed and said.

"You have never experienced famine, have you, Lord Wizard?"

(End of chapter)