"I can hear it, I can hear it." Zhu Ping was pleasantly surprised in his heart, saying that Cao Cao Cao had arrived.

As soon as he was in trouble, a call from his hometown came, and he couldn't help but make Zhu Ping feel easy.

But counting the days, it's been half a month since the last call, and it's time to call at this time.

Zhu Ping hurriedly asked, "Is Big Guy Chen here?" I'm in trouble right now......"

[What's the trouble, don't be in a hurry and say it slowly. 】

"Before, you said that at least nearly 1,000 people would come to sign up on the first day, but now it's a big problem, and the dense crowd of workers fills the entire commercial street, and a few have to have 20,000 people.

Twenty times different from what you estimated! ”

[Twenty times!] 】

[How is it possible!] Are those nobles going to flip the table? 】

[I mentioned it before, you don't believe it, now believe it!] 】

【……】

There seemed to be several old men on the other side of the phone arguing over the incident.

However, while the other old men were arguing, Professor Chen responded to Zhu Ping's words.

[Zhu Ping, don't care about these old men quarreling, the top priority is to stabilize the situation in Orlanton first, as for these applicants, you will recruit at least sixty percent of them.

You can judge by the clothes on their bodies, those who are dressed in shabby faces and dishes apply, and those who are dressed gorgeously and seem to have surplus food in their hands will wait and see for the time being. 】

"Professor, why is this happening, why are there so many unemployed people all of a sudden?" Zhu Ping's voice couldn't help but have some blame.

It's almost like asking, how can you so many smart old scholars calculate the values that deviate so much from the facts?

[Zhu Ping, originally we thought that the number of unemployed people was around seven or eight thousand, which is already a conservative estimate, leaving enough fault tolerance.

But there is only one fact that causes such a big deviation.

That is, almost all the nobles were unwilling to provide for these workers, and the factories were closed en masse.

Originally, we guessed that maybe one or two nobles would not be able to hold on to their estates and would do such a thing, but no one could have imagined that this amount would be so staggering.

We never thought that the aristocracy would be so short-sighted to such an outrageous point! 】

Short-sighted to the point of outrageous...... Zhu Ping heard the helplessness of the think tank group from this sentence.

It's like modern people pondering the behavior of primitive people, although they have the knowledge to crush it.

But no one knows how far these primitive people will go.

The industrial industry is like a hen that lays golden eggs, and the aristocracy is now doing the business of killing chickens for warmth, preferring to drive civilians out of the factories to "earn" this money.

Right! That's right! It's about making money.

The aristocracy had grain in their hands, and after the price of grain continued to rise, and the factory workers were driven out, the nobles reaped a lot of money by selling the grain.

As for the consequences, the short-sighted nobles did not think about this, they only wanted gold coins.

Zhu Ping has no waves in his heart for the nobles.

Originally, he had thought badly enough of the nobility, but reality told him that it was not bad enough.

The aristocracy monopolized geography and hindered world exchanges, monopolized the economy hindered world development, and monopolized science and technology hindered world progress......

If that's all there is to it.

The aristocracy can't even tolerate themselves, what they want is extreme interests, extreme status.

and even prefer to go into ruin for the sake of these interests and status.

It's like someone once said that a merchant could sell the rope that hanged him for profit.

Zhu Ping asked in a hoarse voice, "What should I do?" ”

[Now there is only one path to choose, and that is ......]

"War!"

[War! 】

……

Port.

The fleet of the Kingdom of Gaia floated from the ocean on time and on time, bringing with them an abundance of grain, as well as wine and rum made from it.

Today, the filthy docks are so well kept that the stone floor is covered with a lavish carpet of red paint.

In the distance, steel-cast steamships were constantly spraying gray-black smoke into the sky.

"Buzz!"

After the roar, the ship gradually docked in the harbor, and the landing board extended from the bed room.

A diminutive nobleman in a gorgeous tuxedo slowly walked down, and he smiled knowingly, "Oh...... Xiao Nong, Lin Zheng, my good friends, haven't seen you for a long time. ”

Xiao Nong greeted him with a big smile, took the lead in shaking hands with him, and said, "Sir Beth, don't come unharmed!" ”

This diminutive nobleman was called Bes, a baron of the Kingdom of Gaia, who was good at business.

Since he came to Orlanton three years ago, he has signed an agreement with Orlandon, and he is willing to sell food to the Kingdom of Orlanton at a very suitable price.

The value of the grain was frighteningly cheap, even lower than that of the nobles of Orlanton who hired their own farmers to produce.

This made the three great nobles, including the King of Orlanton, overjoyed at that time.

even made the two viscounts condescend and took the initiative to talk to them and call them brothers.

Speaking of the division of titles of barons and viscounts, it is actually not the division of a kingdom independently.

Otherwise, under the king, why did Xiao Nong and Lin Zheng, who were above 10,000 people, say that they were viscounts?

Is it bad to hear an earl or even a marquis?

In this world, the status of nobles is sacred because it is recognized by the "Holy Country" of the Central Continent......

Back to the point.

After Xiao Nong and Ness communicated.

Lin Zheng also walked over slowly and leisurely, and greeted the bass very politely, and the bass was also very gentlemanly in return.

From this small detail, it can be seen that Baron Ness is a man of coarse and fine.

Xiao Nong said with a happy face: "Baron Bes, you are really a trustworthy friend, you can deliver such precious food on time every time.

In this case, the knight also purchased all of them at the previous price. ”

Ness looked left and right, and interrupted: "I don't know ...... His Majesty the King"

Lin Zheng responded: "His Majesty the King is old and died a few days ago, and now the new King is adjusting his internal affairs and has no free time for the time being. ”

After hearing this, Ness's eyes flickered, and then he smiled without a trace, and said, "Two viscounts, to tell you the truth, the harvest of the Gaia Kingdom this year is not very good, and the price may fluctuate a little. ”

Xiao Nong admired this honest old friend very much, and believed what he said without refuting it.

But Lin Zheng frowned and asked, "I don't know how much more expensive the grain will be this time than the last time, why don't you transport the grain down first and discuss it." ”

He wanted to take control of the initiative first.

However, Ness was full of confusion and said: "Actually, Sir Ben doesn't want the price to rise so much, but there is no way, the harvest is not good, and a bag of rice has risen by this amount." ”

"Sancheng?" Xiao Nong frowned, thinking in his heart how much of a threat the price of spending fifty percent more would pose to the flow of funds.

However, Beth shook his head and continued, "It's three times! ”

"Baron Bass, could it be that you are robbing?" Xiao Nong's eyes widened, unable to accept this fact.

Lin Zheng, looking at the nobles of Orlandon, frowned and said, "Which of you confided the news." ”

He thought that someone had sent the news out in advance, causing the other party to know about the civil unrest in Orlanton, so he wanted to raise the price and make a profit.

The barons of Orlanton also looked shocked, looked at each other, and shook their heads to indicate that they didn't care about their business.

Beth seemed to be joking, and said: "Two friends, don't think about robbing me, these grains don't just belong to Sir Ben, if you rob them openly, the ship will drive away directly, and the next time you will come will be Gaia's army!" ”

At this time, Xiao Nong and Lin Zheng realized that the other party had premeditated and had planned to raise the price before coming.

Xiao Nong said in disbelief: "Baron Ness, there is something wrong with you doing this!" In the original agreement, you promised to keep the price as low as possible. ”

"Oh...... That's right! My old friend, the price of the food I sell is still low! It's just not as cheap as it used to be. Ness smiled triumphantly.

Because he has seen that these two people already have an "attitude of confession".

At this moment, a group of people suddenly rushed over in the distance.

The leader is a handsome young man, but there is no immature look on his body, which makes it difficult to treat him with the attitude of a junior.

Zhu Ping had just arrived, and when he saw the neat aristocrats, he smiled and said, "Everyone is here?" What a coincidence! ”