In the morning of the royal capital, as soon as it was dawn, Susan woke up from her sleep, and after taking care of the housework, she went out to buy the ingredients for the next few days.

The streets were very lively, with a constant stream of caravans, a sturdy camel beast pulling a wooden wheeled cart full of various supplies on the widened concrete road, and several wealthy merchants who were going to the royal capital for the first time were commenting on the huge wheeling waterwheel in the distance, and from time to time they could hear bursts of exclamations.

With a slightly piercing whistle, an ornately decorated alchemy cart sped by, billowing steam gushing out of the chimney at the front of the car, attracting the envious gaze of the townspeople and merchants.

This kind of steam cart, which can run on its own without horses and camels, costs hundreds of imperial gold coins, and only people with real status can own one, which is the new fashion of the wealthy merchants and nobles in the royal capital......

As for the wizards, they ride in a faster iron box that doesn't need to spew steam, and it is said that it requires witchcraft and magic to activate.

Susan was thinking when an oval shadow suddenly fell, but a huge and imposing airship swept over their heads, covering the hot sun above.

On the side of the street, groups of children are stepping on the shadows cast by the airship, happily chasing and playing......

This bizarre everything, even though Susan sees it every day, is still a little uncomfortable.

For the past year, she has felt as if she was living in a dream.

First of all, in the propaganda of the church, the evil sorcerer led the army to occupy the royal capital, brutally killed King Bazel, razed the holy church to the ground, a large number of devout believers were arrested, and the entire royal capital was panicked, for fear that those demonic minions would target themselves.

However, what happened next was not what they expected, and instead of performing evil human sacrifices and rushing into their homes to loot money, the wizards began to repair houses and roads, and opened many magic workshops to recruit iron-making, glass-making, and musket-making workers at high prices.

At first, no one dared to join the workshop, and there were even rumors that this was a means for wizards to confuse them, and the magic workshop ostensibly recruited laborers, but in fact it was conducting all kinds of evil human experiments, wizards extracted human souls, corrupted flesh into skeletons, and threw them into the abyss!

However, since the bold Haydn joined the wizards' workshops and lived a richer and richer life, even being allocated a new house, such rumors have been dispelled.

Susan was glad that she and her husband were among the first few people to work in the workshop.

Keep in mind that even though the Workshop has expanded several times since then, the number of workers it can recruit is still limited.

Those who woke up too late had to build roads and mine - not cheaply paid, but much harder than in the workshops.

Now, together with her husband, she was paid twenty silver coins a month in the musket-making workshop, which would have been unimaginable a year ago!

For the first time, Susan knew that her weekly work was actually a day off for a holiday.

This is simply the kingdom of heaven described in the Bible, but it was built by sorcerers......

Susan thought about it, and soon arrived at the most prosperous street in the royal capital, and couldn't help but look at a newly opened clothing store, behind the glass wall was a colorful dress, the fabric and color, it was simply more luxurious than the noble lady wore before.

The price was not too expensive, about ten to fifteen silver coins, Susan counted the coins in her pocket, but thinking that she still had to prepare for the expenses of the two children entering the wizarding academy, she gritted her teeth and walked to the bakery on the side.

"It's still the usual practice, three bags of white bread and two beans." Susan took a small bag of copper coins from her bosom and handed it over.

The bakery, Comb, shook his head. "A total of 1 silver and 90 bronze ......"

"How can it be so expensive?" Susan's eyes widened and she looked at each other in disbelief.

She remembers that a week ago, a bag of white bread cost only about fifteen copper coins, and a bean feed only sold for ten copper.

"You probably don't know that the price of wheat has risen recently, and bread naturally has to go up too." Comm muttered that in just a few days, the price of wheat had nearly tripled, and he was already selling it cheaply.

"As for the reason...... Maybe it's because of the war. ”

There are rumors in the royal capital that the wizards have already invaded the territory of the empire, and the people in the new territory are also able to enter the workshop to work and live a life of eating white bread like them.

But where did you get so much bread?

Although Kom heard from merchants from afar that the wizards had created an alchemical artifact that could automatically cultivate the land, it should not be able to feed the millions of people in the kingdom.

What's even worse is that there seems to be a food shortage in several territories in the northeast of the kingdom, so now there are rumors in the royal capital that there is not enough food to eat.

Many shrewd merchants have begun to stock up on wheat, and Comm is no exception, and then reminds Susan that it is better to buy more today, and maybe tomorrow it will be more than that!

Susan looked at the high price, a little uncertain, but thinking that the price of bread might continue to rise, she counted the coins and sighed.

"Five more bags of brown bread."

"Five bags of black bread, a total of sixty copper!" Comm was so happy that after tasting the delicious white bread, not many people would want to eat the hard, hard black bread again.

Now I can take advantage of this opportunity to clear my inventory.

After paying three silver coins in a rather distressed manner, Susan took the ingredients she bought, and couldn't help frowning, not only the price of bread has increased several times, but it is also much smaller to the naked eye, it was originally a piece of bread that was the standard thickness of four fingers, but now it has been reduced to about three fingers.

Susan couldn't help but feel a little worried, since the wizards took control of the royal capital, famine seemed to be a thing of the past, but now the continuous increase in food prices made Susan quite worried.

Even if you can barely afford it now, what about a week or even a month from now?

Susan clutched the last few silver coins in her hand, wondering if she wanted to buy more.

……

Rumors of famine soon spread throughout the kingdom under the joint efforts of a group of nobles and wealthy merchants, and the price of wheat increased almost every day, causing panic that affected the city of oil for a time!

Lynn, who was in the laboratory, pondering how to change the large nuclear explosion technique to the large hydrogen explosion technique, was also forced to stop his research and was pulled into the conference room.

After reading the report, Lynn couldn't help frowning.

In just half a month, the price per kilogram of wheat in the kingdom has increased from the original two copper coins to the current ten copper coins, which is more than five times the original amount!

"Why didn't anyone remind me of such a big thing before?" Lynn asked, puzzled.

He could see at a glance that this was someone who wanted to disrupt the entire kingdom by manipulating the price of food, and the best way was to kill it at the first sign of it, and once it evolved into a chain reaction, it would be difficult to deal with.

Because everyone will start to hoard spontaneously, and no amount of food will be enough!

Lauder, who was in charge of grain procurement, was quite helpless and poured bitter water.

Due to the construction of the nuclear fusion reactor, all the speakers and the grand wizards are too busy, and unless it is a particularly urgent matter, there is no way to hold a meeting to discuss it.

Moreover, successive wars often lead to an increase in the price of grain, and it is very normal for the price of wheat to fluctuate in the short term, or even soar and double.

It's just that they have been controlling the price of wheat by collecting and releasing grain, so in the past year, it has only increased by about 50 percent, which is several times higher than the wages of the poor, and has not caused any waves.

As a result, Lauder did not pay much attention to the increase in wheat prices at first, and sent more grain to various places to calm food prices as usual, until he realized that the situation was completely out of control, and then reported it as an emergency.

Alva, who was in charge of trade on the side, also added that the day before yesterday, the church suddenly set up a sentry post in the border city of the empire to strictly check the departure of caravans, and the caravans coming from the empire were reduced by eighty percent at once, which means that they can no longer buy food from the empire on a large scale!

Two pieces of bad news in quick succession have worried a number of lawmakers.

Even though most wizards don't have any theoretical basis in economics, they know the importance of food with their feet, and the people can wear tattered and rotten points, and they can not buy those novel alchemical creations, but they can't skip food!

After pondering for a while, Raphael proposed that a rationing system could be introduced, with a maximum amount of bread to be purchased by each person, and punishment for exceeding.

Some lawmakers even felt that they could save some food by cutting the lunch supply in the workshop.

He had heard the wizards of the Alchemy Workshop complain that because of the Council's requirement to serve one meal a day, many poor people who were extremely scathing would deliberately skip their morning and dinner, and eat one meal at a time in the Workshop.

"No, this will only cause more panic, and the food in our hands is no longer enough!" Harrov rejected the proposal outright, knowing full well that any current strategy to cut food supplies would further contribute to the skyrocketing price of bread.

Aurora turned to look at Lynn and asked in a deep voice how much wheat they still had enough to supply the entire kingdom.

Some time ago, she had received a report that large tracts of arable land in the eastern territory of the kingdom seemed to have been abandoned.

"It's not deserted, in fact I'm planning to consolidate this land to grow some cash crops." Lynn explained.

Haderrata is known as the kingdom of the mines, which is its strength, but sometimes it is also its disadvantage.

Mountainous means that there are few plains suitable for large-scale farming.

The scattered fields scattered throughout the kingdom simply had no way to take advantage of much mechanization.

Lynn thinks that this is too cost-effective to grow wheat, so it is better to plant a fruit tree or something, enrich the diet of the townspeople, and improve the situation of night blindness per capita in the kingdom.

In addition, it is also to allow some yeoman farmers to get about the same income as the lords who enter the workshop, otherwise who will go to farm?

As for the supply of food, of course, it is also sufficient!

Since conquering the southern part of the kingdom more than a year ago, Lynn has begun to lay out, because this area has the only alluvial plain in the kingdom, so he asked the musketeers to unite with the liberated miners to reclaim a lot of new land there, and engage in a fully mechanized large farm model!

Today, more than seventy percent of the kingdom's food is produced from this super farm......

Although the members of the council present did not understand what Lynn's mechanized farm looked like, they still heard one thing, that is, they still had enough food in their hands.

Realizing this, Harrov and the others immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and then asked rather strangely.

"If there is enough food, then why do we buy a lot of wheat from the Empire?"

"Naturally, it was to prevent famine caused by mass displacement." Lynn said with ease. "It's always safe to have a little more food reserves, isn't it?"

Once they defeat the Holy See, they will need to face tens of millions of poor people in the empire, so it is better to prepare early than late!

Lynn also did not expect that her efforts to consolidate the farmland in the east and buy grain from the empire would cause some people to miscalculate and start a food war.

"Lauder, have you found out who is behind the scenes?" Lynn paused, then asked.

"I suspect it has something to do with the nobles in the kingdom." Lauder replied hesitantly.

Since there are so many people buying wheat on a large scale, and many traders and even commoners are involved, in a short period of time, he can't determine who is behind the scenes, and who is following the trend to make a profit, but it is certain that a large number of royal nobles must be involved.

However, he has already asked the psionic wizards to investigate, and it is believed that it will not be long before the results will be available.

"Noble ......" Lynn's face suddenly turned cold.

Lately busy dealing with the empire and the church, he has almost forgotten that there is such a group of moths in the kingdom who rely on the territory and do not work.

The reason why we didn't solve them all before was because the sorcerers had not yet captured the kingdom and had not yet gained the trust of the people, and taking the liberty of taking action against these people might make the hard-won stable situation erode again.

In addition, not all nobles are so unethical, and some noble children who know how to be flexible and knowledgeable are still willing to embrace the new era, so it is not easy to kill all these people.

Lynn thought for a moment, then spoke. "Since they are willing to collect grain at a high price, let them continue to collect it, and release part by part of the grain we have reserved!"

He did not intend to send people to arrest all the merchants who hoarded wheat, because there were too many of them, and secondly, there was no such law in the kingdom.

But that doesn't mean you don't have any other way to clean up these people.

It is also a good opportunity to let those businessmen who want to follow the trend and take advantage of the situation and make a fortune know that the freedom of trade is limited, and once the line is crossed, they must bear the consequences!

'071, help me bring up artificial starch technology,......' Lynn muttered in his mind, he didn't want to take out this technology so quickly.

(End of chapter)