"If you're guessing correctly, they're 'handling' the backlog." Took a sip of water, though it didn't need to be like that, Gaia said.

"Why?" Anrak stared at Gaia with wide eyes, "Why don't you sell it at a low price to those who need it?" ”

"Because the owner thinks that if the price is lowered to a level that is acceptable to the masses now, the income will be less than the cost of selling these things." Gaia could not see that not only Anrak was still puzzled, but also Penkdora and others, so he went on to explain, "Commodities are not produced and sold directly to consumers, and merchants also need to pay the cost of packaging goods and transporting them to the market. ”

“…… That's right. Anrak nodded incredulously.

Dora and Penck, who had seen more, looked at each other and were silent.

Gaia continued: "In addition, some goods may be abandoned due to supply and demand problems, when the market demand is far greater than the supply, the price of the goods will go up, and the nobles will start to produce this kind of goods in a swarm in the face of huge profits, and then their actions will cause the market supply and demand to suddenly reverse, in this case, even if the nobles sell the goods at a loss, there will be a considerable part of the surplus goods that cannot be sold at all, and can only be disposed of." ”

"So, what kind of people are they dealing with?"

Gaia couldn't help frowning, how did he know which one he belonged to, he couldn't even contact the observer, look at it.

Anrak looked at Gaia's face and asked, "You don't know, do you?" ”

"Yes, I don't know." For some reason, Gaia was a little uncomfortable and admitted very frankly, "My personal guess is that it should be the former." ”

At this time, Miramichi applauded softly and exclaimed, "Mr. Gaia,"

"Your insights are quite interesting,"

"I always thought you weren't very smart,"

"Now I hope you can accept our apologies."

"You're welcome." Gaia smiled at Miramici, "I'm used to being ignored and looked down upon by people who claim to be smart. ”

Miramici's expression became quite amused, and her red skin twitched slightly with excitement.

Completely oblivious to what had happened between Gaia and Miramici, Anrak asked again, "If it's cleaned bicorned meat and cured ham, will the nobles settle it out at will?" I've heard from traveling goblins that this kind of thing already exists in the southern part of the Human Federation. ”

Gaia couldn't help frowning at this question, he had heard a joke in the last era that he didn't know whether it was true or not: in the era of the city-states, many countries used the skin of the bicorns to make the magic airship airbags, and in order to meet the needs of building airships, the common people of these countries had never seen sausages and the meat of bicorns during the war.

Although I don't know whether this is true or not, Gaia is well aware of how tight the supply of meat products was in various countries at that time, and it seems that this situation has not been completely solved now.

If the aristocrats did dispose of the ham and bicorns at will, albeit in an unknown amount, not comparable to the scale of the milk poured into the river in the previous era, it still showed that the southern economy was on the verge of collapse.

While Gaia was silent, Dora suddenly pulled out today's newspaper from the bag behind her and handed it to Gaia.

After Xie Dora, Gaia quickly skimmed through the headlines of the various editions, only to see a whitewashed report — it seemed that news reporters were the same in any time and space: who paid for whom to speak.

Dropping the newspaper, Gaia's face became more serious.

"What's wrong?" Anrak asked Gaia with concern, and Dora and Penck's eyes swept across the front page of the newspaper that had been left on the couch, but the confusion on their faces deepened.

Only Miramici is still smiling, and it has nothing to do with the economy.

"Maybe the avalanche will come sooner than we expected." Gaia was silent for a moment before finally speaking, trying to get in touch with the observer again, "The nobles began to deal with the goods in this way, indicating that the futures are finished, I don't know the current situation of the futures exchange, but I guess it has been a mess. The hoarders were probably thinking about how to reduce their losses, but they would eventually find that their fortunes would shrink rapidly no matter how they managed them. ”

Gaia, who found that he still couldn't get in touch, shook his head and continued: "Of course, there should be a few guys who choose to short orders and have a good laugh, but most people would not have expected the prices of various commodities to fall together a few months ago. ”

Anrak was still at a loss, but Dora and Penk looked like they understood, and then Gaia said, "The next thing is the bank, right?" The bank lent money to the nobles for futures trading, but the wealth of the nobles evaporated, so the bank could not recover their money. ”

"To make matters worse, futures trading contracts used to offset debt will also become worthless." Gaia added.

"That...... Do I need to do something? ”

Gaia was unprepared for Anrak's sudden question, so he was stunned for a moment before asking, "Do something?" ”

"That's right, isn't this a good time to fish in troubled waters? Don't look at me like this, I still have a lot of copper coins in my hand. ”

Gaia scratched the back of his head in embarrassment, although he had seen a lot of chaotic examples of finance and economics through the observer, but this kind of knowledge from watching would not be very professional, he knew the general principles, and it was not bad to bluff people - especially now that financial and economic theories are much behind the previous era.

But it would be too difficult for Gaia to actually operate it.

But Anrak didn't seem to give up yet, and just as he was about to say something, Dora suddenly took out a document bag from his bag, and said while unbuttoning the document bag: "You two wait a minute, although I am just an ordinary explorer, in the words of the bearded king of the defeated southern country, I belong to the middle class, or the petty bourgeoisie, and so on. But I have a child who happens to work at the futures exchange that Mr. Gaia just mentioned. ”

While saying this, Dora looked at Allak from time to time, and it seemed that she had decided that the inventory of this female vampire with "a lot of copper coins" was not so simple.

Anrak didn't speak, and when Dora continued, Penk continued to look at Gaia sitting on the sofa and shrugged, looking like "leave it to Dora".

After hesitating for a moment, Gaia himself knew that even if he went to the leaders of various kingdoms, a person like himself whose identity was unknown and whose origin was unknown would not be able to see them, let alone make the other side believe in himself.

You can't just say as soon as you go up: "Wo Nen Dad, obedient and obedient." "Right?