After listening to Roland's explanation, Beowulf and Natasha and his wife had all their doubts dispelled, and their admiration for the young man's mind became more and more admired, and they took this opportunity to turn out all the problems that had plagued them for a long time and seek guidance from Roland. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

"In addition to the operation of the tournament, there is also an imminent problem, and the surge in foreign tourists during this period has put a lot of pressure on the food supply in the city." Natasha's face was sad.

Roland picked up the teacup, blew off the foam and took a sip, and asked Natasha: "Kitland City has been implementing a planned grain price policy for many years, and the official price of grain, corn, soybeans and other major food crops has been officially limited, resulting in low grain prices, and local farmers are forced to give up farming without profit. ”

"I've been approached with this advice more than once, but I think it will do more harm than good." Beowulf said in a deep voice, "There are more than 200,000 fixed residents in Kitland, these people have no land to plant, and the bread they eat every day must be bought in the store, if the price of food is released, it will inevitably lead to a surge in food prices, and the price of food will soar with the price of bread, and the price of bread will rise with the increase in price, and the price of bread will increase the cost of people's livelihood, and the price of other consumer goods will also soar, and the consequences will be unimaginable!" ”

Roland nodded and smiled: "Lord Lord's premonition of inflation is very insightful, we might as well continue to deduce, the total number of workers and soldiers in Kitland City is more than 100,000, their income is relatively fixed, it is impossible to quickly adjust with the rise in prices, once the food price is out of control and leads to hyperinflation, they will immediately feel that the quality of life has decreased, it is difficult to support their families, this state will not last too long, people will complain, workers will rise up to strike and protest, soldiers will be demoralized and even riot, At that point, the whole of Kitland will be turned into a powder keg, and any spark can detonate it. ”

Beowulf and Natasha glanced at each other, and cold sweat broke out on their heads.

"So I'm curious, who advised you to liberalize food price controls? No matter who he is, he is either completely stupid or harboring evil intentions, and the two of you had better be more wary of such people in the future. Roland said quietly.

Beowulf frowned, touched his chin and was silent.

Natasha sighed softly, "There are so many bureaucrats in the city hall that they are stupid, and I am afraid that there are also conspirators who collude with Sergei's father and son." ”

Roland stopped at the point, did not get too involved in the power struggle in Kitland, and continued to offer advice from a commercial perspective: "If you can't raise the price of food, you can only pay more financial subsidies to increase food imports." ”

Natasha continued his words and said: "I have already mentioned this matter to Victoria, but she is also very difficult, firstly, we cannot afford to buy more grain for the time being, and secondly, even if we have money, it is not easy to do, the grain producing area of the New World is thousands of miles away from Kitland, and the grain purchased in the New World is loaded on a ship to cross the North Sea to the White Gull Harbor, and then transported from the White Ound Harbor to Kitland City, a long round trip takes a long time, and the water is far away from quenching the thirst of the near. ”

Roland had long investigated Kitland's food supply and was not surprised by Natasha's predicament.

The Yangbo sisters were friends with Beowulf and Natasha, and Port White had long maintained close trade ties with Kitland, in fact, Kitland relied heavily on grain imported from Port White to ensure food supply.

However, Baiou Port was only a port, and it did not produce grain locally, so it imported large quantities of grain from the New World through a large overseas trading fleet.

Bulk products have a supply cycle, it is impossible for you to say that you can ship 100,000 tons of 100,000 tons today, and you must book two months or even one or two quarters in advance.

Over the years, the population growth rate in Kitland has been relatively stable, and the Yangbo Chamber of Commerce calculates the food consumption according to the population base, and then formulates a transfer plan to order grain from the office in the New World, and the amount of imported grain in each quarter does not fluctuate much, and the traders are not willing to bear the fluctuations, otherwise they will not be able to sell it at a good price after it arrives, and they will have to increase the cost of storage.

The problem stemmed from the lack of consideration by the Beowulf couple. At the beginning of the year, it was decided to hold an unprecedented tournament, but it was not estimated that this event, which was widely watched by the tribes of the Northland, would bring more than 30,000 visitors to Kitland, and these tourists would stay in the city for an average of two or three months, and the food consumption would be astronomical, which immediately had an impact on the city's relatively stable food supply.

Now that the couple realized that the food supply was insufficient, they realized that the situation was not good, and hurriedly turned to the Yangbo sisters to raise food, where was there still time.

Roland had a ready-made channel to solve the urgent need for food supplies, but it didn't make much sense to just act as a firefighter, he wanted more and thought further.

"Your Excellency, Lady Natasha, there are some things I have to say, there is disrespect between the words, please bear with me."

Beowulf smiled bitterly: "You probably want to scold me and Natasha? As the lord of a city, he didn't take into account the impact of the flow of outsiders on food demand, let alone reserve food in advance for emergencies, which was stupid. ”

Roland shrugged and didn't deny it.

Beowulf sighed, "We made mistakes, we should be scolded, in fact, Natasha and I were just wandering adventurers five years ago, our own strength is good, but we have no management experience, let alone manage a city of 200,000 people, we have been back in Kitland for almost five years, these years have been working hard to learn the skills of managing the city, and now I dare not say that I am competent, if you want to scold, we will accept it with an open mind, and we will try to avoid making the same mistakes in the future." ”

"Criticism is criticism, you have to give us ideas later, Sister Yangbo can't count on it, now it's all up to you, if you can help us solve this problem, 'lion totem' or something...... Uh-huh, negotiable. Natasha winked at Roland, smiling ambiguously.

Roland suddenly choked on the tea and coughed, quickly wiped the corners of his mouth, and said hatefully: "That kid Vigraf betrayed me!" ”

Natasha slapped him twice on the back to help him calm down, and said with a smile: "You don't know that stupid boy?" It's almost the same to sell yourself! He asked me about the lion totem, and asked me if I could make an exception for non-Kord believers. ”

Roland was secretly moved, Vigraf is definitely a friend!

Putting down the teacup, Roland smiled in a "pyramid scheme".

"Lord Beowulf, Lady Natasha, have you heard of the Harvest Ring?" (To be continued.) )