Heroes of Silver Moon Chapter 512

The fine charcoal in the brazier burned, dispelling the little moisture in the room.

In the warm and dry bedroom, Simon lay on the big soft bed and slowly opened his eyes. Livia's gentle and peaceful figure was immediately imprinted in his pupils.

"Uh..." His throat was burning to death, and Simon struggled to get up, but with just a slight movement, pain enough to make people faint came from all over his body.

It took a long time to close his eyes, and Simon survived the pain. He gestured to the elf girl with his eyes, Livia immediately understood, picked up the water glass that had been prepared, and slowly brought it to his mouth.

Coo, coo... After taking a sip of a glass of water, Simon relieved the discomfort a little this time. He turned his head without moving his body, and began to look at the bedroom.

Alice was sleeping soundly beside the bed, looking very tired, as if she had stayed by his side all night.

Cirillo and Harris leaned against two corners of the bedroom with long swords on their waists, and kept scanning the elf sisters with stern and sharp eyes, as if they would kill them mercilessly if they made any changes.

There was an extra wooden table in the bedroom. Twilight stood in front of the table and prepared the potion, sometimes mixing several tubes of potion in different proportions, sometimes shaking the potion, and holding it up for careful observation.

"Well...Harris." Simon made a weak voice.

"My lord." Harris heard the call and hurried to Simon.

"Cough... how much food has been rescued?" Simon closed his eyes and asked in a voice as thin as a mosquito.

Harris looked heavy, as if unwilling to face this question, and replied: "Probably, a quarter!"

"Cough cough..." Simon was agitated, and coughed more violently, which caused Harris and others to be nervous.

"It's okay, it's okay, where is Deborah?" Simon asked after he calmed down.

"Now that the weather is fine, he organized his manpower and temporarily set up a grain drying field, which is now drying the grain." Harris replied without any surprise.

The food problem is the top priority. Although a quarter of the winter wheat has been harvested before, most of it has been soaked in rainwater and must be dried as soon as possible, otherwise it will soon become moldy and deteriorate.

Because of this, when Simon was seriously injured and unconscious, Deborah, the chief administrative officer, was not by the lord's side.

If we can save more food, we must save as much food as possible.

As for the wheat that was completely soaked by the rain, there was no other way but to let them rot in the soil, and even the gods could not bring them back.

"Call Deborah back." Simon was full of thoughts and said slowly with his eyes closed.

"Yes, my lord." Harris immediately arranged for the guards to call for someone.

Summoned by the lord Simon, Deborah hurried to the lord's bedroom. As soon as she entered the door, she was about to salute, but Simon asked directly: "Estimate how much food shortage we have now?"

Deborah has already calculated this question countless times, and the answer has already been engraved in his heart. With a heavy face, he replied without thinking: "The new law covers 250,000 mu of farmland, including 150,000 mu of winter wheat and 50,000 mu of spring wheat. 50,000 mu of soybeans.

The sudden torrential rain caused us to lose three-quarters of the winter wheat, and almost half of the ungrown spring wheat. The situation of soybeans was relatively good, only one-fifth was lost.

The spring wheat is ripe at the end of July, and the soybeans are ripe in September. In addition to the winter wheat we rushed to harvest, according to my estimation, the food will probably last until April next year. "

Simon's heart sank, he slowly opened his eyes, and said with a wry smile: "The spring wheat doesn't mature until mid-June, so there's a food shortage of two full months!"

Two months seems to be completely insignificant, but when it comes to the food issue, this is almost a fatal blow. Going without food for ten days and half a month can starve to death, let alone two full months!

If the food shortage cannot be solved, then after the food is completely exhausted, the simple and honest people in the new law will immediately become Shura.

They will **** everything they can eat with red eyes, even people themselves.

Deborah lowered his head and did not speak. Simon closed his eyes and thought for a moment, then opened his eyes and asked, "A few days ago, I asked you to go to the merchant to buy food. How is this going?"

Deborah replied hesitantly: "I'll hand over this matter to Wallace. I heard that he had a smooth contact with the merchants and even paid a deposit."

Ever since he was coerced by Simon to join the new French territory, Wallace, the director of trade, has never stopped at all.

Fortunately, he has been in business for many years and is familiar with business and trade, so he is more comfortable handling the business affairs of the new law, and now he has won the trust of Deborah.

Simon said without thinking: "Call him over."

After receiving the summons, Wallace also rushed here. The small bedroom was almost full of people. They were concerned about Simon, the injured lord, so no one dared to make noise, and they just stood around silently.

"Grain purchase, how are you talking with those merchants?" Simon asked calmly.

When Wallace heard this, he immediately showed annoyance, and replied with an ugly face: "My lord, the deposit has already been paid, but after the heavy rain, all the merchants broke the contract and raised the price of grain tenfold!

Originally, a bag of grain was worth at most one silver coin, but now a bag of grain costs one gold coin, which is really too much! "

Although not long ago, he was also one of these unscrupulous businessmen, but since he joined the New French Territory, under the temptation of the noble title and hereditary manor, Wallace has completely adjusted his position, and his position is completely biased towards the New French Territory. .

"What? Ten times! Damn bastard, they should all be sent to the gallows." Harris, Deborah and others all changed their faces and cursed.

Simon was lying on the bed ~www.mtlnovel.com~ his face still had that calm look on his face, but the sudden heavy breathing still showed that he was not superficially calm.

In normal times, due to the extremely low tax policy of the new law and the excellent alchemy products, these merchants are all smiling and amiable.

But now, as soon as the new law leaders are in danger, these businessmen immediately reveal their true nature and use their most used skills-to take advantage of the fire to loot!

"Promise them, no matter what the price is, we must close the food gap." Simon said with sharp eyes.

After surviving this crisis, he will naturally make these greedy businessmen pay the price.

But now, he has to make a compromise.

"My lord, you can't! With the price of grain offered by those merchants, if we buy large quantities of grain, then our gold coin reserve under the new law will immediately bottom out!

It's better to wait a few more months, and when the limelight is over, maybe the price of food will drop. said Deborah, trembling all over.

Simon took a deep look at him and said disappointedly: "Don't underestimate the patience of those merchants. From now on, they will spare no effort to buy and stockpile grain. In the end, the price of grain will be even higher!"

Deborah's body shook, her face turned pale.

He had forgotten that this heavy rain did not only endanger the Xinfa Territory. All the territories near the Gelug Mountains may suffer from food shortages this year.

If they don't buy it, other lords will naturally buy it. When the food is finally sold out, no matter how much gold coins are spent, they may not be able to buy a single grain.

If it develops like this, in the end, the people of the new law will definitely start a riot!

Therefore, the best time to close the food gap is now.

Chapter end

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