At nightfall, in the study on the second floor of the Znamensky Cathedral, Mavi and Dino were calculating the funds they currently had, Edward had accompanied Katerina to the party, Fat Orange Hei was looking for stray cats in Tyumen City, and Wen went out to follow the Church of Happiness, and there were only three people in the study: Mavi, Yunia and Dino.

Yunia was fiddling with the bear doll on the side, not disturbing the discussion between Mavi and Dino, looking a little bored.

"How much money do we have?"

"In addition to the 5,000 gold pounds you gave Aaron to buy wheat flour and the 30,000 gold pounds you used to buy property and stocks, plus the 50,000 gold pounds needed to buy gold.... The Church of Truth has about 117,000 gold pounds left. ”

Dino gave a rough figure, and when he calculated the funds that Ma Wei had used up for more than a month, he couldn't help grinning: "You really spend money like water.... It's only half there so soon! ”

"It's all normal expenses, and I didn't buy anything." Ma Wei took a sip of black tea and said, "How much is this money converted into rubles?" ”

"1,170,000 rubles, 10 rubles is equal to 1 gold pound, it's easy to calculate." Dino said.

At present, the price of black bread in Tyumen is 50 kopecks, 1 ruble is equal to 100 kopecks, and if you spend all 1.17 million rubles on black bread, you can buy a whole 2.34 million sticks, one pound each.

It seems like a lot, but you must know that even in the previous years of the Great Famine, when the price of grain was the most expensive, the price of 1,000 tons of wheat flour was less than 10w rubles, and if 1,000 tons of wheat flour were all made into bread, 2 million pounds of brown bread could also be made! Enough food for the refugees for three days!

Why has the price increased by 5 times?

"There is a lot of profit to be made in the production of bread, so it is better to buy wheat flour than to buy bread directly." Dino muttered, "But if it were me, I would never buy wheat flour when the price of grain was inflated, this transaction is too much of a loss!" ”

After a pause, he breathed a long sigh of relief: "But Father, you are not doing business, in this critical moment, if you want to make the name of the Church of Truth spread quickly, burning money is the wisest and safest way, and there is no big truth as a piece of black bread more convincing..."

"Regarding the issue of refugee rations, we can wait for Katerina to come back and then discuss, the key is still to depend on the meaning of King Paul I and those nobles, if they are willing to allocate funds for disaster relief, the pressure on our side can be reduced a lot."

"No, Dad..."

Yunia, who was fiddling with the bear doll, suddenly raised her head, tilted her head and asked, "If the king allocates funds for disaster relief, won't their good reputation be taken away by them?" The refugees will definitely be grateful to them and ignore us! ”

"That's the biggest difference between the kingdom and the church..."Ma Wei smiled: "As rulers on the surface, disaster relief is what they should do, and refugees whose lives are guaranteed will indeed thank the king, but this will touch the interests of many nobles." In the past, Peter the Great sought the help of the nobles in order to eradicate the Apocalypse Church, but now that the gods have come and the king has invited the church back, it is inevitable that there will be a conflict of interest between the nobles and the church. ”

"So..."

"I think that even if the kingdom will allocate funds for disaster relief, it will be deducted a lot by the nobles, and this is our chance."

"But what if the nobles don't withhold the disaster relief money this time?" Yunia asked with a wink.

"If you know those aristocrats who eat vegetarian diets, you will find that carnivores can never change to vegetarian diets." Ma Wei touched his daughter's head and narrowed his eyes: "Unless... There was some kind of cooperative relationship between the church and the nobility. ”

"Partnership?"

"Hmm."

Fingertips slid over the edge of the white porcelain teacup, Ma Wei said thoughtfully: "The Romanov Kingdom is different from the Windsor Kingdom, it implements the serfdom system, the so-called serfs are the peasants in the territory under the names of nobles and gentry, although they have a certain degree of personal freedom and economic independence, but they are essentially dependent on the landowner and need to pay high taxes to the lord. ”

"This system has led to a large number of serfs falling into extreme poverty, and much of the food and wealth they have obtained through their work has fallen into the pockets of the nobles and gentry, and they have been constantly exploited, which is an extremely inhumane and unfair system."

"Oh..."Yunia nodded as if she didn't understand: "Did all the grain they cultivate be handed over to the nobles and gentry?" The aristocratic gentry are the ones who have the most food! Now that the price of grain is so expensive, does it have anything to do with the aristocratic gentry? ”

"It can be said that... There is a direct relationship. Dino responded: "If these nobles and gentry unite to speculate on the price of grain, it is indeed possible to make the price of bread soar by five times in a short period of time, and this kind of unconscionable business can only be done by the morally degenerate." ”

Dino prides himself on not being a good man, he has always regarded himself as a businessman, reselling goods to make money, even selling heroin to the upper class, and when he learns that the war is about to break out, he buys a large amount of related stocks, buys a winery that is about to go out of business...

But he never makes money without conscience, his long-term partners are all some aristocratic gentry, in short, the gray wolf Dino earns aristocratic money.

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If he wanted to speculate on grain, he could have hoarded wheat flour in advance, like the nobles and gentry, and profited from the war, but he did not do so.

"Assuming that the Cult of Wisdom and the noble gentry enter into a cooperative relationship, then it is likely that the Romanov Kingdom will be able to buy grain from the nobles at a normal price for disaster relief." Ma Wei said: "They speculated on the price of food, just to prevent others from buying food on a large scale, and the blockade of the sea trade route by the Kingdom of Windsor was originally a bad thing, but they took advantage of it, really... It's not easy. ”

"Aren't the nobles and gentry at a loss?" Yunia looked puzzled: "What good is it for them to sell grain to the kingdom?" ”

"They never lose. Who distributes the food purchased at the Kingdom's expense? And through which officials will it pass? After a lot of screening, even if the nobles and gentry sold the grain to the kingdom at cost price or even lower than the cost price, they could still make a lot of money. Ma Wei said with a serious expression: "What's more, the food they hoard is obtained through exploitative means, and there is almost no cost. ”

"I'm!"

Yunia jumped off the stool, held the bear and shouted, "How can it be that these people are playing such a conscientious trick behind closed doors, and the injured are civilians!" They should all be hanged! Hanged!

！ ”

"That's right, they should be hung from the street lamps as an example, but..."

Ma Wei knocked on the table, thought and said:

"Before we hang them, we have to find a way to get the food."