The war between the dwarves and the Terrans lasted for more than a month.

Food prices have risen four times in the past month or so. Not to mention ordinary people, even nobles can't afford to eat now.

Now in the entire territory of the dwarves, all the foreigners are thinking about evacuation, because the food they can buy is constantly decreasing, and if the war continues, I am afraid that the future will not only be a matter of limit, money can't buy it, not to mention that many people don't have money.

The dwarves have a poor sense of prevention, after all, the dwarves are the only country in the world that does not worry about infiltrating spies, because the tallest dwarves are up to the waist of other races.

Except for the goblins who don't look like them at all, the dwarves really can't find any race that can disguise themselves as them, not even dwarf humans.

Of course, nothing is absolute. For example, the dwarves don't know that there is a small race in this world, less than 10,000 people, a small race that has never appeared before other races, the goblin race.

In addition to their stature and beard, dwarves and goblins are very close. A group of stocky goblins put on beards and dressed in fat clothes disguised as dwarves to do things for him.

In the dwarven border city of Mingcheng, in the market, a 'dwarven nobleman' dressed as a nobleman, wearing a rare bearskin coat, came to the food store with a team of retinues.

"Boss, come five thousand catties of fine flour."

Where has the young man seen such a big patron and hurriedly called the shopkeeper.

The shopkeeper's eyes are so poisonous, he can recognize this bearskin coat at a glance, and it must have thousands of gold coins to say the least, this is definitely a rich master.

"I'm sorry for this noble lord, now we don't have so much refined flour, the consumption of the front line is too huge, and now flour is a rare substance.

We don't have much ordinary flour in our store, let alone refined flour. ”

The shopkeeper said with a smile. "Why don't you get some ordinary flour, and you'll be left with no ordinary flour when it's late. Although His Majesty has purchased a large amount of flour from abroad, no one can say when it will arrive. ”

"How many more?" The dwarven nobles were a little displeased. Dwarves and nobles are both notoriously foul-tempered, and now that these two are combined, it's good that they don't run wild.

"Three thousand two hundred and twenty-seven pounds of refined flour and thirty-five thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven pounds of ordinary flour."

The dwarven nobleman hesitated for a moment, "I want all the refined flour, give me 10,000 catties of ordinary flour." There are so many people in the manor, and every day is a lot of consumption. ”

Manor? Is this still a nearby nobleman? Why doesn't such a god of wealth know himself, and he has to stammer.

"Okay, a pound of refined flour is twenty silver coins, and a pound of ordinary flour is eighty copper coins." The shopkeeper starts counting money!

"Wait, how much do you say! How can the price of your ordinary flour be sold more than the price of the original fine flour! "The dwarven nobles finally can't take it anymore, and this is about to explode! The minions behind him were also gearing up, ready to fight.

Twenty silver coins for a pound of fine flour, why don't you grab it.

The shopkeeper smiled bitterly, you really wronged him, he is robbing it now.

"The old man is angry, this is wartime, there is no way!" The shopkeeper's chin shook off the dwarven convoy patrolling outside.

This is a city after all, and it annoys the escorts, and no one has good fruit to eat. Honest dwarves don't care whether you are a nobleman or not, you will be punished for making mistakes, this is the unchanging truth of dwarves for tens of thousands of years.

"That's seven hundred and twenty-five gold coins and four silver coins!" The shopkeeper looked at the dwarf nobleman with a smile on his face.

"Five gold coins will be exempted, and I will come more often in the future." The dwarf nobles are in pain, and they are reluctant.

"I'm sorry master, I'm just running away, I can't be the master, let alone those five gold coins, even those four silver coins, even a copper coin can't be missing."

"You!" The dwarf aristocrat's straight stom! "You're a bunch of vampires!"

"I advise you again, buy or not buy, if you don't buy, please do it, we just got the news, the price will increase tomorrow morning, if you don't believe it, you can come back tomorrow morning." The shopkeeper looked like a dead pig who was not afraid of boiling water, and the angry dwarf nobles jumped angrily.

The dwarven nobles were venting their dissatisfaction, but after all, if people had to eat, they finally had no choice but to buy flour, and bought an extra 10,000 catties of ordinary flour, so as not to increase the price again.

The shopkeeper sent all the flour to the wagons. What a big convoy it was, and people from the neighborhood came to watch.

Looking at the distressed appearance of the dwarven noble, the shopkeeper wanted to laugh. Fool, you deserve to be deceived.

In the evening, the shopkeeper happily counted today's results, especially the nobleman, who was too easy to deceive, more than 800 gold coins, the shopkeeper touched the gold coins in his hand, and smiled from ear to ear.

Wait, something doesn't seem right! The shopkeeper is also a person who has been in contact with money all year round and has a keen sense of money! The shopkeeper took a closer look at all the gold coins! Didn't see any problems. But the keen feeling is to make the shopkeeper feel a little abnormal.

The shopkeeper was still not at ease, so he brought a scale and put a gold coin on it.

Oh, my God! The weight is wrong! It's not a gold coin of pure gold, but a counterfeit coin that blends with other metals!

One after another, fake, fake, all the gold coins turned out to be fake! The shopkeeper's eyes were dark, and he fainted directly at the counter.

Sunset, the guy got off work and asked his sister to the tavern for a drink, he couldn't afford to drink good wine, even if it was ordinary oat wine, he was a little distressed.

The girl hadn't come yet, and the guy was bored and sat on the stool and looked around. At the next table were two middle-aged men dressed as city guards chatting.

"Where did the city lord get so much flour recently, and the granaries are almost full!" A soldier asked.

Another soldier gave him a blank look, "What do you care about so much, you don't know who the city lord is, if he hadn't done those shady things and stammered to the top, how could it be his turn in this position."

That vampire who crushes us! Even though he is so rich, he still doesn't pay us a salary. I saw a skinny nobleman in a bearskin coat go out yesterday with a whole box of gold coins! ”

"What is he going to do?"

"I guess it's all over the place, those damn groundhogs!"

The man secretly had fun, the nobleman in the bearskin coat didn't spend a lot of time, and his money was not cheated out of our shopkeeper.

The guy took another sip of water, and the girl came, and the guy and the girl started talking, completely ignoring that the two soldiers around him were still chatting.

Early the next morning, when the guy went to work, he found that the shopkeeper had fainted in the store. The guys are stupid, it can't be robbed, I just got eight hundred gold coins yesterday!

The man quickly woke up the shopkeeper, and the shopkeeper's heart was painful to death, crying and telling the man that the gold coins were all counterfeit. The guy suddenly remembered the words of the guard at the next table who had eavesdropped in the bar yesterday, and hurriedly told the master.

The shopkeeper was furious, took everything, called a carriage, and went straight to the merchants' union.

On the same day, the shopkeeper came to the Chamber of Commerce, and many merchants in it were deceived by fake gold coins! The shopkeeper told everything he knew, and several of the 'servants' proved that they had indeed seen someone carrying things to the city lord's mansion!

One stone stirred up a thousand waves, and the merchants united to go to the city lord's mansion to ask for an explanation. The momentum of the city is full of wind and rain.

The castle lord was at a loss, thinking that the merchants had rioted.

The merchants became more and more noisy, and even wanted to rush into the city lord's mansion to have a look.

Can this be done, the city lord has already done something unseemly, and if this is discovered, he will be finished.

The city lord, who didn't have much wisdom, was born in the military after all, but he was not used to these merchants, and if he was disobedient, he would directly suppress them by force.

He didn't know that behind every merchant was more or less supported by aristocratic forces. His actions aroused the resentment of merchants and nobles throughout the city.

The saddest thing in war is always the civilian population. The price of food has risen again, and ordinary citizens simply cannot afford it, and some people can't even buy it if they want to.

At this time, there is only food in the underground world, and the supplier claims to be the city lord's subordinates, how much food is needed, how much is it, but the price, it is expensive and scared to death.

Even the nobles who have always been extravagant feel expensive, not to mention the mercenaries and bards.

You can live without dreams, but you can't go without eating. The townspeople are complaining, even resentful. The slums were the first to riot, and it was better to die of starvation than to starve to death, and it was better to die in battle than to starve to death.

rebellion

This was the biggest political mistake of the city lord, and the city lord did not hesitate at all, and immediately suppressed it, killing hundreds of people in one go, before forcibly suppressing this vigorous riot.

Although the riot was suppressed, the flames of resistance were buried in everyone's hearts.

There was chaos in Ming City, and the 'dwarven nobles' wearing rare bearskin coats had already left the city and headed for the next city.

As for the flour, hehe, burn it directly over a fire.

They don't lack anything, they don't lack food, they don't lack money!