White Horse City.

The dim sky was full of oppression, and even breathing seemed to be oppressive in the gray weather. The spacious, clean streets of this once-bustling western city are now sparsely populated, and the bare branches and dreary atmosphere of winter make the city seem to be oppressive.

The cold wind blew through Fifth Avenue, which was supposed to sell the best-selling furs in the Great Wilderness, and the two scattered fallen leaves rolled up carried a hint of loneliness, and there was not even a single figure to be seen on Fifth Avenue, known as the "birthplace of western furs".

Occasionally, there are weak merchants sitting at the door of the open shops, these small merchants can't survive such a big economic crisis, the Great Depression is coming, and the first thing the whole White Horse City can't bear is those small merchants.

These small merchants turned their only capital into gold coins and came to White Horse City with hope, they wanted to save themselves through White Horse City, but the war broke out, the price of food soared, and the road to the outside world was basically cut off.

Fur sellers, the furs they bought at high prices became waste that no one would be happy to spend on useless furs in such a period.

And so, the furs began to stink, and the furs were the ones that the merchants began to go bankrupt.

Immediately behind the fur merchants were the merchants of the Great Wilderness.

Whether it is a special product or a few other items, before the food crisis has become useless furnishings, the goods in the warehouses are piled up, and all the merchants are bankrupt or on the verge of bankruptcy.

Worst of all, the grain merchants also began to have a huge crisis.

In fact, the grain merchants in the entire White Horse City belong to those nobles, so to speak, the grain market in White Horse City has always been monopolized by the nobles.

There is not much arable land that can be cultivated near White Horse Castle, and the only arable land that belongs to the nobility is the land.

The peasants who had lived on the farms for generations were nothing more than domestic slaves in the aristocratic era, and a large part of the food they produced fell into the hands of the aristocracy.

Not long ago, when the Earl of the West transferred most of the grain from the warehouse, these nobles realized the crisis.

In fact.

Many nobles began to take the initiative to suppress the price of food in the market, and they tried to use the power of the aristocracy to calm the panic of the people below, who knew very well how much power the people below could explode.

In the history of White Horse City, they gradually transitioned from the aristocratic era when the aristocratic family was dominant to the era of capital, and today, they even faintly sprout a hint of the trend of the working era.

The aristocracy, the merchant class, the working class......

These classes constitute the current White Horse City, in fact, the current white horse city of the great nobleman Lesterlos He knows very well that the power of the workers is strong, before Wang Xiaotian sent troops, he began to control the price of grain in the market, and he was ready to sacrifice the interests of the aristocratic class in exchange for the balance of White Horse City.

However, war broke out.

From the moment the war broke out, everything was out of Lesterlo's control.

At the very beginning.

He ordered his merchants to sell grain at a parity price, but the grain that was often circulating in the market was bought by others as soon as possible, and these people were of unknown origin and obviously had a huge power behind them.

Originally, Lesterlos thought that the merchants were trying to coax the grain family, so he led the city guard to negotiate amicably with the representatives of the chamber of commerce in the city.

Soon.

The big chambers of commerce in the city began to intervene to curb some foreign food prices, and they used the power of merchants to curb the increase in food prices.

At first, Lesterlos thought that businessmen were businessmen, that they were just a bunch of cowards with great wealth, and that when there was a real threat of force, these guys would have to bow their heads obediently.

As time went on, however, Lesterlos felt more and more that something was wrong.

The price of food in the market is still rising wildly, some small traders are already showing signs of bankruptcy, and many workers have stopped working in the factories.

"I'm bewildered by the momentary steady! Damn, everything is sliding into the abyss of despair!"

Lesterlos once said to his servant.

A few days before the Chamber of Commerce began to suppress food prices, the whole of Whitehorse City was quiet, and everyone felt that it was just a short war, Whitehorse City had the strongest walls in the world, and they had countless soldiers, and no one could defeat them.

However, in just a few days.

Wang Xiaotian's army outside the city did not make any movement, but the city began to surge.

Day 1.

The entire Cheval market calmed down, and soon the merchant class and the aristocracy were all in the market, and everyone had hope and anticipation for tomorrow.

Everything seems to be moving for the better.

The next day.

"Optimistic rumors" began to appear in the market, and everyone felt that the war was over soon, that the orcs were nothing more than a bunch of mud legs, and that the prosperity of Whitehorse City would continue. That's when Lesterlos sensed something was wrong, but he felt that it was better to keep hope alive than to despair.

Lestero even stood in front of countless people, loudly announcing that the disaster was coming to an end, and the people cheered him as "the Lesterlos of the dawn".

But he forgot that when hope is lost, the despair of man will explode more fiercely.

Day 3.

As a result of these good rumors, all the prices in the market are rising! Furs are starting to pick up, and some people are buying furs and luxury goods like crazy, believing that the war is coming to an end, and that these things can be sold for high prices after the war.

The people of Whitehorse City are like a group of gamblers and start buying up waste that will not survive the disaster.

At this time, Lestero couldn't stop it, he couldn't tell the hopeful people that there weren't many troops in Whitehorse, they couldn't beat the orcs outside, and the situation in Whitehorse was actually very dangerous!

At that time, I am afraid that the desperate people will be the first to tear him apart.

Day 4.

The situation began to take a turn for the worse, and many people of unknown origin began to sell off the luxury goods in large quantities, and by this time Lesterlos had already smelled a hint of conspiracy, and he began to gather merchants and nobles to try to find out who was behind them.

At the same time, there was some bad news on the market on this day.

The precarious state of Whitehorse City began to be revealed, and everyone seemed to wake up, and they began to sell off their luxuries, using the money from these things to pay off debts or buy food.

Immediately afterward, factories began to close, and the rotten nature hidden under the façade of prosperity began to be hidden, and the entire city of Whitehorse began to fall from heaven to the abyss in an instant.

The whole market completely collapsed.

A Great Depression, the first of its kind in Whitehorse's history, began. Castle City