Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, half a year has passed.

During this period, Lu En has been busy with the affairs of the trade route, he has been running around in the name of the governor of the province of Anluo, hitting a lot of walls, but he has also completed a lot of things, barely stumbling over the trade route as a whole, making a start, and then doing it again, at least the latecomers can go smoothly.

The first bumpy time was mainly because he was an official, but not a nobleman, and the governor was an official position, not a title, and he was considered inferior in the eyes of the imperial nobility, although most of the governors of other provinces were big nobles.

During this time, everything went according to plan, Sid no longer mentioned revenge, and he didn't know what to do, Lu En didn't have news of her, and his intelligence couldn't find out the whereabouts of a duke's daughter.

The workshops in various places have developed very well, with the exchange of trade routes, many of Livia's materials can be sent to Larante and Aulang, and the copper mines of Olang can be transported to Mokasa for sale, and Mokasa's seaside pearls are transported to Xingfeng is a rare luxury, which has improved the economic level of the local workshops a lot and improved the living standard a lot.

The ancient dragon Ayuken has not come so far, and Lu En thinks that it is estimated that he is in the same vein as Elaine, worthy of being his own father, and he can take a nap for half a year.

The development of Anluo has also been steady, cement has developed, and it is not as hot as imagined, but the business is not bad, as an emerging material, it has been adopted by some nobles who chase freshness, and has made a lot of money.

After that, Yurahir never appeared again, but it seemed that things were still going well, the Hall of Glow's side cooperated very well, and there were occasional letters, but I don't know why, this light spirit said that it wouldn't come to Anluo anymore, and even refused to see Lu En, probably because of some stimulus, but Lu En always felt that something was wrong.

Bai has been promoted to level 4, the upgrade speed is fast, and she is still in charge of the overall situation in Anluo, scheduling resources in all aspects, and now, she secretly dispatches all the resources of more than a dozen workshops, and she has the power in her hands, and she has a new ability to coordinate at level 4, she can now coordinate some transcendent beings, such as twin spells, or certain elements, to help them adjust the energy in their bodies, eliminate disorder, and it seems that the strange effect that can make the twin spells disappear when they leave Lu En. So now the three twin spells prefer to stay by her side.

The principle Lu En saw it, it is still the category of co-ordination, but the co-ordination is no longer specific affairs, but runes or energy deconstruction, and the specific implementation of eliminating disorder is to throw away some 'impurities', that is, messy runes, chaotic energy, residual structures and other things after casting, and finally the twin spells will become clean, and the runes on their bodies will be more orderly, for them, the effect will be very comfortable, and they can enhance their own power.

Nana didn't stay in Anluo during this time, because she couldn't stay anymore, so she simply ran around with the caravan every day, she was still at compound skill level 3, and her progress was much slower than Bai's, which shows that the difference between people and people is indeed very big.

But on the other hand, it's the complete opposite.,Nana's character elf.,I've been a thief since I was a child.,Now follow the caravan every day to run around to do business.,On the contrary, it's even more like a fish in water.,She can't mix up the white road.,The underworld is easy.,Bandits and thieves in all walks of life are very familiar with each other.,Plus with the natural skill of the Night Clan 3.,Able to sneak into the shadows.,For this reason, the caravan has solved a lot of trouble.,Now I'm very happy.。

The students that Lu En brought out, he didn't see much after that, but he heard that in vain, except for the dean, the others went to various workshops, these students are basically level 1 professionals, all kinds of skills are available, and they are all in use, and their original life in the imperial capital is not very satisfactory, and after graduating from school, there is a high probability that they will become the followers of a nobleman, obey, seek an official and a half-job, like Hanlock, and do things faithfully to mankind, waiting for rewards.

But now it's different, they can feel a little different from before, although what the difference is, they can't really say clearly, they just think...... There are some things that the king of monsters said to them that make a lot of sense, and when they are doing things in the workshop, they also have a sense of accomplishment, especially when they see other people, whether humans or monsters, gradually getting better, and respecting themselves very much, this sense of accomplishment is especially intense.

It's like Lu En has said many times, the vast majority of lower-class people are mixed with monsters, and they are just a person who is treated as a cow and horse in their lives, if they encounter such a team or such an organization, they have to sacrifice their lives to follow, because in this way, this life is meaningful, like a person.

Everything is moving in a good direction.

At this moment, Lu En was wandering around a glow hall in the Duchy of Aurang.

The branches of the Hall of Glows are all over the world, except for the Heavenly Realm, where it is really impossible to go, and there are traces of them in other places, even in the depths of Hell.

Although Lu En said that he had dealt with the Hall of Radiance a lot, it was also the first time he had visited it seriously.

There are a wide variety of goods here, and most of them are precious items, and Lu En is here to see the monsters and summoned beasts.

In addition to being used as a material, monsters can also be used as summoning beasts, and not only summoning beasts, many strange monsters have magical uses.

For example, there is a monster called Hitomi, which is as thin as a hair and has a transparent body, which can lodge in the eyes of the owner, so that the owner can see the invisible existence clearly, and it can also treat myopia and enhance vision.

There is also a kind of flower fairy-like monster, called Rouge Butterfly, the size of a thumb, with butterfly wings, a small body, with the fragrance of flowers, can be transformed into powder, the most common use is to turn into powder, instead of rouge, to the owner of makeup, lightly smeared, with the fragrance of flowers, but also by her own choice of makeup techniques, this kind of Rouge Butterfly is proficient in makeup makeup, the powder does not fade when wet, the fragrance is much better than ordinary perfume, very convenient, but also very expensive.

Monsters are not only used for fighting, in fact, there are more monsters in life that are used for this breath of life, and there are very few that are specially used to fight and fight.

For example, Lu En also saw a kind of radish that looked like a radish with long legs, which didn't look like a spiritual being, but only screamed, and couldn't be regarded as a monster, because no matter how strange a monster looked, it generally had a mind, and this kind of beast could only be called a brute, but most of the brute beasts were muscle sticks, so peculiar, Lu En also saw it for the first time.

"What is this?" Lu En asked the boss curiously.

"Sir, this is a very rare brute beast, called the Radish Demon, it has no intelligence, but it can run, and it is specially used as rations on the road, don't believe it." The boss explained with a grin, and then took a bite of the radish.

Lu En was stunned, this thing ...... It's really just a living radish that can jump, run, and shout...... And it looks like it's all over after a few more bites.

It's a completely useless thing......

After opening his eyes in the Hall of Radiance, Lu En walked straight out, half a year has passed, it is already winter, and the place of Mokasar is close to the sea, but it is extremely cold, and now there are snowflakes falling on the road, trees, and rivers.

When the wind blew, a dense coldness rushed to people's faces, making it difficult for pedestrians to see the situation more than ten meters away.

He didn't just come here to take a look at the place where monsters were traded, in fact, it was just to give some step on the sale of monsters in the later stage.

However, this kind of thing is too early, the trade of monsters is a big business, and rash intervention will only make him die faster, he just understands it for the time being, the real purpose of coming here is to explore the bottom of the grain trade.

The grain trade is an important means of taxation in the empire, of course, mainly for the nobles, the empire has tens of billions of people, but it is not difficult to feed these people, and even have a surplus, the warehouses of the nobles are piled up with a lot of useless, even rotten grain, but there are still people who are always hungry, and they would rather rot than take it out.

The cultivated land in the south of the empire is extremely fertile, the production efficiency is very high, and there are a large number of mages and agricultural professionals, with magic and skills to induce labor, remove insects, regulate the weather, and a large number of professionals are very helpful for all kinds of production work, so there is no need to worry about materials.

But...... The abundance of materials did not bring prosperity to the people, but the nobility became richer and richer.

Lu En concluded that in general, only when the laborer is destitute and has to go to the market to sell his labor. The capital relationship really happens. And in order to keep the workers destitute, he must keep them mobile and unstable, threatening them with the possibility of unemployment at any time. At the same time, it is based on legal coercion to help capital exercise its right to dominate free workers.

Therefore, the first priority of the nobles to maintain their nobility was to keep the others in a situation where they were always free of any assets, and to ensure that they always worked hard every day, otherwise they would go hungry.

Only in this way will the lower classes have no time to think and resist, and will be squeezed all the time, from generation to generation, endlessly.

To accomplish this, it is important to have a practical grasp of the grain, and in the absence of other forces, the most likely scenario is that the most powerful nobles and capital groups in the market use their funds and privileges to carry out double-headed exploitation, while simultaneously completing the crushing of the middle class burghers and the lower peasantry.

As for the peasants, they can squeeze the grain when it is harvested, and it is also when the peasants urgently need money, because the grain production cycle is generally as long as half a year, during which the peasants basically have pure input and no output, borrowing is often unavoidable, and the capital group can easily force the peasants to fall into a situation where they must borrow money by manipulating prices.

As a result, farmers may face very tight repayment pressures when the grain is harvested. In such a situation, as long as the grain buyers form a price alliance, they can buy the grain of the peasants at the price that is most favorable to them, especially when it is a noble alliance, and the price alliance of the buyers is a very high probability event.

To paraphrase military terms, buyers are centralized and dispersed; And the peasants must make a quick decision, and the buyer will always have the advantage of time, so that in order to repay the loan, the peasants have to sell at a very low price, and even not enough, they need to repay the old debt, and then borrow new debt, that is, as mentioned before, they must work hard every day, once they want to free up time or money to change to other things, they will immediately encounter serious economic pressure, and the fruits of their hard work will be easily taken away by the aristocratic group, and they even have to sell their sons and daughters, because not only can they not support themselves, and you have to pay taxes, pay off debts, and feed your family.

The white-haired girl is not a family or two.

For the middle-class citizens who need to eat, when the disaster year comes, no matter how serious the famine is, or even whether it exists, as long as this news comes, the grain merchants can raise the price of grain, and as long as they form a price alliance, they can easily squeeze the last penny out of the hands of the citizens, because the middle class has no ability to produce food, and they can only rely on purchases.

And where does the money that these middle-class citizens can use to buy food come from?

Obviously, from the aristocracy and the bourgeoisie.

What is the middle class? Most of them are professionals, the rank is not very high, probably between level 1 and level 4, most of them are engaged in advanced technology, have extraordinary abilities, work for nobles and big merchants, rely on their wages and salaries to make a living, generally well-educated, have professional knowledge and strong skills.

All this shows that the middle class is dependent on the bourgeoisie, it is impossible to exist alone, they have no means of production, they need to use their skills to earn wages to live, it seems that they seem to have money, but the concept of 'money' itself is created by the bourgeoisie, the right to mint money is in their hands, and the money itself has no meaning! Money is meaningful only if other people feel that money is meaningful, money cannot be eaten or clothed, and if you want to use money to buy things, you can only be exploited.

Therefore, the middle class has no land to cultivate and can only accept exploitation.

And most of the land was in the hands of the landlords, and the peasants were also tenants, and the landlords, as it had already been said, had a separate title in the empire, called the "landlord baron".

This was the means by which the empire controlled the middle and lower classes, and if they wanted to be liberated, they had to meddle in the grain trade.

As for how to do it...... Lu En already had a draft, so he came to the Hall of Radiance.

Continue to walk, in front of him is the airship station, he is going to go to a city, that is the previous inquiry, is a warehouse for storing grain, Mokasa is a coastal city, there is not so much food, and the empire has recently expanded the seaside, many new towns have been built, and the food supply must be maintained, so the big city of Mokasa has assumed the role of transportation, responsible for collecting the food from afar, and then transporting it all to the newly built metropolis on the coast, Apido.