Chapter 95 Jedi Strikes Back
The work of rebuilding the Storm Kingdom has been going on for two months, and the current situation can be said to be getting worse and worse.
Bores is now following the despicable tricks he taught by Grieg. Since he calls on the nobles to assume the responsibility of rebuilding his home, everyone will divide a piece of land to "rebuild" them.
This led to a large area of land surrounding the plains of the Elvin Forest for a time being occupied by these nobles.
In the past two months, more and more civilians have returned from Lordaeron by boat, but when they returned to their hometown, they saw that the land that originally belonged to them had been embezzled by the nobles!
Of course, the civilians who lost their land disagreed, but soon the nobles gave reasons:
They were responding to the call of His Highness the Prince and the Marshal, and the nobles contributed to the reconstruction of their homeland.
[You civilians must not think that I am occupying your land, I am just helping you rebuild your home. The power of civilians is very weak, but the nobles have a lot of resources in their hands.
Therefore, if we rebuild a large area of land in a unified manner, the efficiency will be much more efficient than that of each small civilian family, and it will be much more efficient to rebuild a small piece of land.
We can build houses in a unified manner and reclaim wasteland into large farmland, including water diversion and irrigation and sewage discharge. We will build these in a unified manner.
Don't worry, when everything is rebuilt, the small piece of land that belongs to you will still be returned to you.
If you are not at ease saying this, you can invest in our construction and witness the construction of a new home with your own eyes. If you work here, I will also pay you for the wages.
In essence, I am actually working hard to help you rebuild your new home, and I also have to pay you wages. This is a great thing!
Don’t worry, I respond to the call of Marshal Lothar. The nobles should contribute! It doesn’t matter if we suffer some losses, mainly to give back to our civilians.]
I have to say that Greg is more than a trick, he is simply a poisonous trick.
In a quiet voice, the land ownership of civilians became land use rights. It is better to say that the free people inexplicably became serfs of the nobles!
Obviously, precious land has been exploited, but in their discourse system, you not only cannot express your objection, but even have to thank them!
In the ruins of Stormwind City, most of the scattered rubble had been cleared out. Everyone was surprised to find that an area in the southeast corner of the city had been preserved.
Stormwind City is a long-standing heroic city, and the real purpose of the orcs is not to completely destroy Stormwind City. Therefore, it is normal for a large area to still live in.
Standing on the city gate tower that had collapsed halfway, Rosha was full of worries. The nobles held his words to do things that were completely contrary to him, but in a short time he had no reason to stop these things from happening.
Because now, what those guys are doing is still very legitimate. But Lothar knows very well that they are destroying the Storm Kingdom.
Lothar now urgently needs Li De to give him advice, but this guy took a group of people to sea again a month ago. He said that in order to fulfill his promise to the dragon, he was going to the Northende continent in the north and visiting the red dragon there.
Regarding the situation in front of him, Li De only left one sentence when he left.
"No more than three months, none of these guys will escape, and they will be crushed to pieces."
If Li De had not done one thing before, Lothar would have regarded this guy as a liar! He even suspected that this guy was colluding with the nobles and bewitching himself from the nobles so that they could steal the entire country, so that 70% of the land in the Elvin Forest has fallen into the hands of the nobles!
Lothar now could not see any signs that could make these nobles crushed to pieces. All he saw was this country to pieces.
But Lothar did not expect that the next day, the turn of events came, and Kurtiras's ship entered the port.
I haven't seen each other for nearly half a month with Dai Lin and Losa. The last time before leaving, Da Lin was mysterious, which made Losa not know what he was doing.
However, Dai Lin seemed very happy to meet this time.
"Big and big! Fresh yarn and fresh cotton. The goblins who protect the Hanhai have conquered loom technology."
Losa suddenly realized that no wonder he hadn't seen him for half a month, and after a long time, he turned out to be there for Kalimdo.
The previous two ships of cargo were distributed to northern countries in the past two months, but for the sake of market stability, the goods will continue to be sold at market prices. This time, Dai Lin spent another half a month, not only bringing back the yarn, but also the woven cotton cloth.
Basically, on the same day, the nobles suddenly received a notice that with the assistance of northern countries, a batch of yarns would be sold to civilians at a market price of four-fifths.
Low-priced grain, low-priced cloth, low-priced line... These things are all commonly used forms of assistance from other countries in difficult times. However, such a policy with a good starting point is often used by greedy people.
Bores has figured it out recently. The strategy Grieg taught him is essentially a loophole in the kingdom's decree:
Let the nobles contribute to the reconstruction, but there is no way to use it. The nobles have money and some have private soldiers, and the small kingdom is being rebuilt.
After understanding this truth, Bores thought he could learn from it.
After learning about the so-called low-price line of 4/5, Bores found out where 4/5 is, it is obviously even lower.
The market price given by the official is actually the market price of Lordaeron, but now the Storm Kingdom is in ruins, and the only place to be traded is a small market built on the ruins.
In the case of extreme material scarcity, prices will definitely be much higher than normal. The market price of four-fifths of the line is lower than the cost of their own textile workers, so it seems particularly attractive to the nobles.
Almost that day, the batch of yarn was swept away. But when the nobles copied the cheaper ones and were about to sell them to the civilians at twice the market price tomorrow, they found that another batch of yarn appeared on the market, and the price was three-quarters of the normal market price!
The nobles of the ruthless also wanted to use twice the market price to continue to harvest the civilians who became their tenants. Now there are three-quarters, let alone twice the price, even if they are four-fifths, no one wants it.
This emergencies made the nobles very angry. The guys led by Bores directly questioned Lossa. Now these nobles who hold a large amount of land even dare not be afraid of Lossa.
But this time it was Lothar's turn to pretend to be confused. He just apologized to say that this was just an accident. The yarn we arrived yesterday was from Gilness, and the one we arrived today was from Lordaeron. Lordaeron was rich and powerful, so the price of the support line was lower. I hope these nobles would persuade the civilians who bought the line yesterday after they went back. Although today's one is cheaper, it is not lower than the normal price?
"Yesterday it was Gilness, and today it was Lordaeron?"
Looking at the two bundles of exactly the same yarn, Bores fell into thought.
He realized that there was definitely a problem, but he couldn't think of any problem. In short, the price was lower than the market price. Since there was a problem in the market, they would just collect it.
Two batches of yarn were collected in a row, and the nobles suddenly received an invitation letter from Lothar that night.
“This batch of low-price lines is aid from our allies to civilians. So I hope they can be delivered to people who really need them.
All of you are noble jazz, with high ethics and morality. I think everyone should be able to understand what I am saying. I hope that conversation is the only way to communicate between us."
In the old city, Lothar's sincere admonition not only did not touch the hearts of the nobles. On the contrary, these guys still made up their minds and sold the yarn at a high price tomorrow.
But early the next morning, they discovered again that the third batch of yarn appeared in the market, and the price was as low as three-fifths of the market price.
"He is provoking us!"
So far, Bores finally realized that such a price was definitely intentional. Although it was not clear about the real purpose behind it, it was definitely a provocation to them.
Bores said excitedly, but then he calmed down. Although the smooth sailing in recent times made him look a little arrogant, he had not forgotten who the person on the other side was, and no one could face Lothar head-on.
He did not dare to face Lossa head-on, and Bores went to the greed in his heart. Lossa said very clearly yesterday, and he would not allow the nobles to sweep the low-priced yarns again.
So under the leadership of Bores, the nobles sent slaves to pretend to be civilians to collect all the yarns in the market.
After retrieving the third batch of yarn, the nobles began to have a tacit understanding and did not consider the issue of shipment, but what should we do if we have the goods tomorrow.
As expected, the price gradually dropped for several consecutive days, but the price always suppressed them, making it impossible for them to ship it out of their hands.
This price was reduced until one-half of the time and almost every nobleman at that time had yarns full of two or three rooms. This was just a little nobleman, and Bores had stored yarns for twenty rooms!
Seeing the price stable at half, Bores thought it was the biggest loss the other party could bear, but he couldn't bear it anymore.
As the aristocrats' ability to sweep goods declined, some civilians could buy cheap lines in the market. The aristocrats looked at the lines in their hands and found that they had no idea how much money they had lost since the market price.
But Bores was still unwilling to admit defeat. He mobilized more than a dozen nobles to weave the thread in his hands into cloth. What's the use of civilians being able to buy thread? They didn't have a loom in their hands. Since returning to the Storm Kingdom, almost all production tools have been controlled by these nobles.
No matter how much thread is, no hair can improve the efficiency of weaving, and no matter how much thread is, it is scarce. Therefore, in the current Storm Kingdom, cloth is still at a high price.
In other words, as long as the nobles produce a large amount of valuable cloth, no matter what Lothar and the others are going to do, they will win in the end.
The nobles gathered hundreds of weavers in their hands and ordered the ragged weavers to do it day and night.
In this way, both sides seemed to have entered a truce phase. After a hundred looms worked continuously for a week, the nobles could have hundreds of rolls of cloth! And on the last day of this week, there was finally no more yarn on the market.
The nobles were very proud. The yarn on Lothar and their hands were finally empty. Now the yarn on the market is concentrated in their hands, and only they have the ability to produce cloth. The money they had lost before will be earned exponentially!
However, the next day when the nobles carried out hundreds of rolls of cloth and planned to meet Lothar proudly, they did not see the yarn again on the market, but they were swaying thousands of rolls of cloth!
Seeing this scene, Bores felt dark before his eyes, and he lost consciousness and fell to the ground with his head raised.
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Chapter completed!