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"Anyway, tell me what you think. I retracted my thoughts in an instant, and my eyes were locked back on the boy in front of me.

"Yes, it's actually a very simple question. He subconsciously avoided my gaze, which made me a little displeased, "first because my own horizons have been broadened, secondly because this place is not 'spectacular', and finally because of ......," he said, and suddenly raised his head high as if he had made up his mind, and a sense of confidence and seriousness flashed in his clear pupils.

"The time of the day. He spat out the words heavily.

Seeing his seriousness, I bowed my head slightly and motioned for him to continue.

"After three years of traveling with you, I am no longer the child who was completely ignorant and curious about everything, which means that now I have a certain standard for evaluating things, so naturally I will not make a fuss about everything......" He paused, his eyes pointing out the car window again with the deflection of his face, "and then there is the place itself, from the building materials to the decoration in all aspects, the architecture here is completely inferior to what I have seen in the peninsula before." I don't know the interior of any 'building' I've never been in, but these old wooden houses that look damp and old really have nothing to do with the rumored 'magnificence'. With that, he turned his head back again, but his body gasped slightly.

I could clearly see that his young face seemed to be covered with a blush of excitement.

"On the way from neutral, I discovered that it was harvest season, but in the fields of the Northwest Plateau, which was supposed to be the busiest period, not only was there no one there, but even the golden ears of wheat that were supposed to be connected to the sky and replaced green as the main color of the season were rare......" he pondered, and the frowning look of his brow was very attractive, "The impact and scope of the drought are much greater than the news from other countries...... Famine is unavoidable, and in this case, the nobles in the city should be busy, and the commoners should have no leisure to go out and drink. There are fewer people who come to drink, so naturally it is even more 'spectacular'. ”

He tried to express his thoughts as coherently as possible, but his brow tightened, as if he had fallen into a new thought.

I guess I'm thinking about how to solve it if it were him...... I stared playfully at the teenager whose mind was racing, and it was really funny. I love seeing other people think, and there's another, no, more attraction to this kid.

It's been another three years, and since then...... Don't disturb the boy's thoughts, in fact, once he starts thinking about a difficult problem, it is difficult for others to disturb him. I'm the same with that. So, I quietly closed my eyes and began to think about what I should be thinking about.

It is now the seventh month of the 499th year of the New Earth calendar, and the six-month-long drought has made what should have been a good harvest a misnomerous "Month of Joy." Although the crops on the continent can be harvested six or seven times a year due to the "gift of God", the name of the month has long since lost its original meaning. But drought is a long-lost word, not even in the thirty-two years since I was born. What has only happened in historical documents or literary works is now true in this continent known for its abundance.

And the current situation is that the Northwater Empire, which is located in the northwest of the continent and has natural conditions that are not as good as those in other regions, even in previous years, can only achieve four crops a year, not to mention, the famine is already quite serious. Goddane, a populous country in the east, also experienced varying degrees of famine in the northeast and west, and the situation was probably the same in the cities of the neutral country and the Republic of Gloriland in the southwest, and the Duchy of Ohro, known as the "desert oasis", was not much better, and even the Brusken Empire, the "land of the blue sea" in the southeast, had more or less bloodshed due to rising food prices. Of course, at present, all this information is still tightly sealed by various countries, and as for how I learned about the situation in various countries, of course, it is thanks to my pervasive intelligence network that is widely distributed throughout the mainland.

Well, when you think about it this way, the only place that is still stable, after several times, the entire continent is left with only the peninsula. Well, she probably won't do anything that worries me too much, but maybe she'll do something to embarrass me.

――I couldn't help but shake my head.

The drought has caused unimaginable devastation and, of course, in addition to the drought, there seems to be something far more "interesting" than drought in the jungle of Dagosos, at the southernmost tip of Northwater, on the border with the Republic, which I mentioned on the letterhead I threw away.

Well, I'll talk about that later. People have all sorts of ideas about "catastrophes", and for speculators like me, the best business opportunity is now. Naturally, I will not let go of such an opportunity, and as a big businessman, I will naturally not be like an ordinary peddler. I've always only done big business. Thinking of this, the face of the Chancellor of the Northwater Empire after hearing the price I quoted appeared in front of my eyes again.

In the morning, as a merchant, I entered the palace in Northwater, met the young emperor who had just "taken power", and sold a huge amount of grain for three times the price of the previous year, enough to keep the empire running for a year.

The deal, which could have been considered "blackmail", was quickly completed, and at the same time that almost every nobleman present was in a state of consternation, the young emperor agreed to my offer, and then personally sent me out of the palace despite the sluggish crowd around him. Presumably, tomorrow there will be boring rumors in the streets and alleys of the royal city that "the new emperor is an incompetent dumb king, a fool who has lost the face of the aristocracy". Well, this sentence is redundant.

"The new emperor is a fool, and we will earn what we have in the future. "I said this with a smile to the two attendants in charge of the operation of the Chamber of Commerce not long ago. Looking at them laughing after listening to my story, I felt a sense of accomplishment after a child's prank was successful.

This is a joke, of course!