Civilization of Azeroth: Start the Great Pyramid Chapter 95

The work of rebuilding Stormwind Kingdom has been underway for two months, and the current situation can be said to be getting worse and worse.

Boris relied on the despicable tricks pointed out by Greg, and now other nobles are also imitating them. Since the nobles are called on to take the responsibility of rebuilding their homes, then everyone will divide a piece of land to "rebuild".

As a result, large areas of the plains around Elwynn Forest were occupied by these nobles.

In the past two months, more and more civilians have returned by boat from Lordaeron, but when they returned to their hometowns, they saw that the land that originally belonged to them had been embezzled by the nobles!

Of course the commoners who lost their land disagreed, but the nobles soon gave their reasons:

They are answering the call of the prince and the marshal, and the nobles are contributing to the rebuilding of their homeland.

[You civilians, don't think that I am encroaching on your land, I am just helping you rebuild your home. The power of the commoners is very weak, but the nobles have a lot of resources in their hands.

Therefore, we uniformly rebuild a large piece of land as a whole, and the efficiency will be much higher than that of individual civilian families rebuilding their own small piece of land.

We can build houses in a unified way, and reclaim the abandoned land into large farmland, including water diversion for irrigation and sewage discharge. We will build these as a whole.

Rest assured, when everything is rebuilt, the small piece of land that belongs to you will still be returned to you.

If you are still not at ease, you can invest in our construction and witness the new home being built with your own eyes. You work here, and I will give you wages.

In essence, I am helping you rebuild your new home, and I also pay you wages, which is a beautiful thing!

You must not have any concerns, I am responding to the call of Marshal Lothar, and the nobles must contribute! It doesn't matter if we suffer a little, the main thing is to give back to our civilians. ]

I have to say, Greg is more than a trick, it's a poison trick.

Quietly, the land ownership of the commoners has been turned into the right to use the land. The so-called participation in the construction, it is better to say that the free people have become the serfs of the nobles inexplicably!

It is clear that the precious land has been exploited, but in their discourse system, you not only cannot express your opposition, you even have to thank them!

In Stormwind City, which was in ruins everywhere, most of the scattered rubble had been cleaned out. Everyone was pleasantly surprised to find that an area in the southeast corner of the city had been preserved.

After all, Stormwind City is a heroic city with a long history, and the real purpose of the orcs is not to completely destroy Stormwind City. Therefore, it is normal that there will be large areas still habitable.

Standing on the half-collapsed city gate, Lothar looked worried. The nobles held up his words and did things that were completely contrary to him, but he had no reason to stop these things in a short period of time.

Because it's open now, what those guys are doing is still very legitimate. But Lothar knew very well that they were destroying the Kingdom of Stormwind.

Lothar urgently needs Li De's advice now, but this guy took a group of people to sea again a month ago. I heard him say that in order to fulfill his promise to the dragon, he would go to the Northrend continent in the north and visit the red dragon there.

Regarding the situation in front of him, Li De left only one sentence when he left.

"Within three months, none of these guys can escape, and they will all be smashed to pieces."

If it hadn't been done by Li De before, Lothar would definitely regard this guy as a liar! He even suspects that this guy is colluding with the nobles, beguiling himself to let the nobles go their own way, so that they can steal the entire country, so that now 70% of the land of Elwynn Forest has fallen into the hands of the nobles!

Lothar can't see any signs now that these nobles can be smashed to pieces. All he sees is that this country is about to be shattered.

It's just that Lothar didn't expect that the next day things turned around and Kul Tiras' ship entered the port.

With Daelin, Lothar hadn't seen each other for nearly half a month. Before the last departure, Daelin was so mysterious that Lothar didn't know what he was doing.

But this time, Dai Lin seemed very happy.

"Big money! Fresh yarn, and fresh cotton. The goblins of the Hanhai Protectorate have conquered the loom technology again."

Lothar suddenly realized that it was no wonder that he had not seen him for half a month. After a long time, he went to Kalimdor.

The previous two cargoes were distributed to the northern countries in the past two months, but in order to stabilize the market, those cargoes will continue to be sold at market prices. This time, Dai Lin took another half a month to bring back not only the yarn, but also the woven cotton.

Basically on the same day, the nobles suddenly received a notice that with the assistance of the northern countries, a batch of yarn would be sold to the commoners at four-fifths of the market price.

Low-priced food, low-priced cloth, low-priced lines... These things are all common forms of aid from other countries in difficult times. However, such a well-meaning policy is often exploited by greedy people.

Boris has been trying to figure it out recently. The trick Greg taught him is essentially a loophole in the kingdom's decree:

Let the nobles contribute to the reconstruction, but there is no specified method. The nobles have money and some have private soldiers, and the annexation of land and independent small kingdoms can be regarded as reconstruction.

After realizing this truth, Boris thought that he could draw inferences from other facts.

The so-called low price line of four-fifths price, after Boris took a look, he found that where it was four-fifths, it was obviously lower.

The official market price is actually the market price of Lordaeron, but the only place for trading in Stormwind Kingdom, which is now in ruins, is the small market built on the ruins.

In the case of extreme material scarcity, prices will definitely be much higher than normal. Four-fifths of the market price of thread is lower than the cost of production by their own weavers, so it is especially attractive to the nobles.

Almost on the same day, that batch of yarn was wiped out. But just when the nobles copied this bargain and prepared to sell it to the commoners at twice the market price tomorrow, they found that another batch of yarn appeared on the market, and the price was three-quarters of the normal market price!

The nobles still want to use twice the market price to continue to harvest the commoners who become their tenants. Now there are three-quarters of the price, let alone double the price, no one wants four-fifths of the original price.

This sudden situation made the nobles very angry, and the group of guys headed by Boris directly questioned Lothar - now these nobles who hold a lot of land even dare not to be afraid of Lothar.

But this time it was Lothar's turn to pretend to be confused, he just said apologetically that it was just an accident. The yarn that arrived yesterday was from Gilneas, and today is from Lordaeron. Lordaeron has deep pockets, so support lines are cheaper. I hope these nobles will persuade the commoners who bought the line yesterday. Although today's is cheaper, isn't it lower than the normal price?

"Yesterday's Gilneas, today's Lordaeron?"

Looking at the two bundles of identical yarn, Boris pondered.

He sensed that there was definitely something wrong with it, but he couldn't think of anything wrong. After all, the price is lower than the market price. Since there is one in the market, they will accept it.

After collecting two batches of yarn, the nobles suddenly received an invitation letter from Lothar that night.

"This batch of low-priced lines is our allies' aid to civilians. So I hope they can be delivered to the people who really need them.

You are all honorable knights, with a very high standard of conduct and morals. I think everyone should be able to understand what I'm saying, and I hope talking is the only way we can communicate. "

In the old city, Lothar's sincere exhortation not only failed to touch the hearts of the nobles. On the contrary, these guys are still determined to sell the yarn at a high price tomorrow.

But early the next morning, they found a third batch of yarn in the market again, and the price was three-fifths of the market price.

"He is provoking us!"

By now, Boris had finally seen that the price was definitely intentional. Although the real purpose behind it is not clear, it is definitely provocative to them.

Boris said excitedly, but then he calmed down. Although the recent period of smooth sailing has made him a little arrogant, he has not forgotten who the person on the opposite side is, and no one can confront Lothar head-on.

Not daring to confront Lothar head-on, Boris went to defeat the greed in his heart. What Lothar said yesterday was very clear, he would not allow the nobles to sweep those low-priced yarns again.

So under the leadership of Boris, the nobles sent servants to pretend to be commoners to collect all the yarns in the market.

After taking back the third batch of yarn, the nobles began to have a tacit agreement not to consider the issue of shipping, but what to do if there is more stock tomorrow.

Sure enough, the price dropped successively for several days, that is, the price was always pressing them, making them unable to ship from their hands.

This kind of price drop did not stabilize until half of it. At that time, almost everyone of the nobles had a full supply of yarn for two or three rooms. This is just a small nobleman, and Boris has hoarded yarn for twenty rooms!

Looking at the price stabilized at one-half, Boris thought this was the biggest loss the other party could bear, but he couldn't take it any longer.

With the decline of nobles' ability to scan goods, there are already common people who can buy cheap threads in the market. And the nobles looked at the line in their hands, starting from four-fifths of the market price, and today they have no idea how much they have lost.

But Boris was still unwilling to admit defeat. He mobilized more than a dozen nobles to join forces to weave the thread in his hand into cloth. What use can civilians buy thread, they don't have a loom at all. Since returning to Stormwind Kingdom, almost all production tools have been in the hands of these nobles.

No matter how much thread there is, it will not improve the efficiency of weaving~www.mtlnovel.com~ No matter how much thread is flooded, cloth is scarce, so in the current Storm Kingdom, the price of cloth is still high.

In other words, as long as the nobles produce a lot of valuable cloth. No matter what Lothar and the others do, they will win in the end.

The nobles gathered hundreds of looms in their hands and ordered the ragged weavers to work day and night.

In this way, the two sides seem to have entered the armistice stage. After one hundred looms work continuously for a week, the nobles can have hundreds of rolls of cloth! And on the last day of the week, there was finally no more yarn on the market.

The nobles were very proud, and the yarn in Lothar's hands was finally empty. Now the yarns on the market are concentrated in their hands, and only they have the ability to produce cloth, and the money they lost in the past will soon be doubled back!

However, the next day, when the nobles carried out hundreds of rolls of cloth and planned to meet Lothar triumphantly, they did not see the yarn again in the market, but there were thousands of rolls of cloth shining brightly!

Seeing this scene, Boris only felt that his eyes were dark, and he lost consciousness and fell to the ground.

Chapter end