I Made Scientific Magic

September has quietly arrived, and the rush-construction train station and the railway tracks connecting the various places have finally been completely completed with the joint efforts of wizards and hundreds of thousands of laborers.

However, the rich merchants and nobles in the kingdom have already fallen into a frenzy due to the soaring food prices. In just one month, the price of food has increased by 500 times!

Every morning, there would be countless caravans waiting outside the granary, and the warehouses of wheat transported by the airship would be snapped up without unloading!

Because as long as you grab the food in your hands, you can earn several times the income after waiting for a day or two. Driven by such terrifying profits, most people have gone crazy to the point of losing their minds!

However, there is a limit to this kind of madness, because the food in the hands of the parliament seems to be inexhaustible, and the price of the food shipped every day is gradually increasing. Now, thousands of tons of food are thrown into the market every day!

Tens of thousands of imperial gold coins are needed to eat all of these grains, but the coins in their hands have already been spent almost before, and some wealthy businessmen have even mortgaged their entire net worth!

But everyone knew they had to buy all the grain, or if the price of wheat crashed, their fortunes would be wiped out!

This batch of grain was finally forced to be bought in batches by dozens of grain teams!

After buying the food, the wealthy businessmen and nobles couldn't sit still anymore, and they sent their people one after another to check how much food the wizards still have!

It is obviously not an easy task to sneak into the granaries of major cities to find out this point during the magic monitoring. Finally, the spies came up with a way to investigate in the workshop.

Wizards need to provide three meals a day for the laborers. If there is not enough food in hand, the supply will definitely shrink!

After some investigation, they did get a shocking news, but it was just the opposite of what they had imagined before—the magic workshops in major cities are planning to add a midnight snack to the night shift workers to reward them Hard work!

On the second day, the council directly threw more than 5,000 tons of wheat in the major cities of the kingdom, stunned all the caravans who wanted to buy wheat for a while!

"Impossible! Where did they get so much food?" Marquis Mortain snarled angrily while grabbing the collar of the attendant who was reporting to him!

Herder and the other earls of the empire did not look like they were in a position to win and strategized as they were a few days ago. Their eyes were red, and they couldn't believe this fact either.

In the past month, they have bought enough rations for three million people to feed for half a year, and the rest of the rich merchants who want to take the opportunity to make a fortune have bought no less than them. Five thousand tons of wheat?

"Lord Mortan, what should we do now?" Viscount Sk said in a panic, in order to support Mortan's desperate plan, he did everything he could!

"Otherwise, should we sell the grain now?" Earl Bell suddenly suggested.

Bell's suggestion undoubtedly moved the nobles very much. Now the price of a kilogram of wheat is as high as 500 copper coins. If they can sell all the grain they bought before, everyone present will be rich!

"Idiot! Do you think our wheat can still be sold?" Marquis Mortain slapped the conference table heavily and roared angrily.

Not to mention the market price of 500 copper coins per kilogram, even if the price is reduced to 100 copper coins, no one will take a look at it!

The Marquis of Mortain didn't know what drumming and passing flowers was, but he knew that the parliament provided three meals a day for the poor, so that no one in the market would buy a grain of wheat at such a high price except for those who harvested it!

The rest of the merchants are not fools either, who would dare to continue buying grain when the situation is unclear?

Five thousand tons of grain was released from the parliament in the morning, and it has been piling up until now that it has not been sold, which is enough to prove this point!

If they send out a large amount of grain again, the price of wheat will collapse instantly, and then it will cause a large-scale run, and even make the wheat in their hands worthless!

Bell panicked immediately, and hurriedly said, "But aren't those wizards collecting food? We can sell all the food to them!"

Mortan looked at Bell coldly, then turned his head to look at the attendant who was lying on the ground trembling slightly. "Come on!"

"As of last night, the price for wheat purchased by the council is... ten kilograms for one copper coin!" the attendant said cautiously.

Hearing this news, Bell nearly passed out.

Are you kidding me, ten kilograms for one copper coin?

This means that he spent a whole hundred thousand imperial gold coins to buy the wheat that he spent all his wealth. Now it is worth millions of imperial gold coins. The wizards actually want to buy it back for only two hundred gold coins!

This is crazy!

"No, I remember that Viscount Sk said a few days ago that the price they buy wheat should be twenty coppers per kilogram!" Bell shouted hysterically.

If it was twenty coppers, although he would lose most of his property, he could barely accept it.

Under Earl Bell's cannibalistic gaze, the attendant stammered and explained that the price of grain purchased by the council has been decreasing almost every day, from twenty coppers per kilogram to fifteen coppers, then ten coppers, and five coppers. Copper, two coppers...

And the price last night has dropped to the lowest point in the history of grain prices in the kingdom, ten kilograms of a copper coin!

Nobles such as the Viscount Sk can't accept this ridiculous price at all, which means that their existing assets will shrink to one five thousandth of their previous assets in an instant!

Bell roared even more hoarsely.

"This is a naked provocation, it's war!"

"Where is their granary? I will send someone there immediately to burn all the food for those wizards!"

The nobles present were full of anger, as if they were ready to overthrow the kingdom.

"Burn a fart!" Herder cursed angrily, pouring cold water on everyone.

Five thousand tons of food were scattered in more than forty cities in the kingdom. Not only were there heavy soldiers, but there were also not a few wizards in each town. What did they use to burn?

Do you really think wizards can't use magic to put out fires?

In fact, not only can they conjure large amounts of water out of thin air, they can even summon rainstorms and lightning with ease!

Thinking of the scene of someone calling the wind and rain and raining terrifying thunder in the capital a year ago, an unspeakable fear rose in Herder's heart, and he couldn't help regretting why he had listened to Mortan's words, Confront wizards who wield terrifying magic.

Bell, Sk and the others looked at Mortan with increasingly unfriendly eyes.

The latter obviously noticed that the atmosphere on the field was becoming more and more subtle, and said in a cold voice.

"Don't forget, everyone, we are all tied together now, and my death will do you no good!"

"Now we have only one way left!"

Having said that, the Marquis of Mortain paused obviously, then opened his mouth, almost squeezing out the words through his teeth. "That is to continue... to buy food!"

As long as they can buy all the wheat in the council, the initiative will return to them!

"I never believe that those wizards can't run out of food!" The resonant voice of the Marquis of Mortain continued to resound in the castle. "Can they magically conjure wheat out of thin air?"

It has only been more than a year since the wizards occupied the southern and central regions of the kingdom. Even if they started to reclaim the land from then on, how much food could they grow?

Mortain firmly believed that these 5,000 tons of wheat must be the last stocks of the council, and now they are being released in one go to frighten them!

The news about the workshop must also be released on purpose, so that they can mess themselves up!

After all, he had never heard of what kind of supper. How could those wizards suddenly show kindness and let the laborers have another meal under the condition of food shortage.

This must be deliberately used to confuse them!

Under Mortan's analysis, Bell and the others seem to have grabbed the last straw, whether they want to believe it or not, it must be true!

But soon everyone realized another problem.

Buying 5,000 tons of grain at the current price is a full 250,000 imperial gold coins!

This is killing them!

Nowadays, everyone's property has either been mortgaged, or they have spent it all when buying grain. Where can they find so much money?

Thinking of this, Herder and others retreated one after another.

Mortan knew that if he did not set an example, the noble alliance would fall apart today, so he gritted his teeth and said. "I mortgaged my manor, and I should be able to collect 20,000 imperial gold coins!"

"Everyone, it's time for life and death!" "Think about it, as long as we can cross this hurdle, the food in our hands can be exchanged for inexhaustible wealth, but once we lose, the accumulation of generations of families They will all be burned..."

Amid Mortan's encouragement, the nobles present also reluctantly liquidated their few remaining properties. After all, if you take a step back now, you will be in an abyss, and if you go further, you may be able to have everything!

They have to gamble on this one!

About half an hour later, more than 40 nobles struggled to scrape together the 250,000 gold coins with land deeds, and Mortain immediately asked his trusted confidants to take an airship to the major cities of the kingdom to collect all the 5,000 tons of grain. buy it!

After paying the only property in their hands, none of the nobles left the secret room, and everyone was anxiously waiting for the news to come.

After waiting for an hour, the guard came in from the door.

"How is it? Is the capital already in chaos?" Herder and others immediately surrounded him and asked impatiently.

Mortan understood that it was only an hour, and the confidantes he sent to buy grain all over the kingdom should still be on the way.

It's also possible that the wizards can't hold on any longer and plan to negotiate with them...

The personal guard who came in to report did not answer the cross-examinations of the crowd, but handed over a newspaper with trembling wrists. "Master Mortan, this is today's [Magic Daily]..."

Watching the fearful expression on the guard's face, Mortan felt a little uneasy in his heart, and flipped through the "Magic Daily" in the opponent's hand to read it.

After seeing the conspicuous and intentionally enlarged title on the homepage, Mortan's pupils shrank slightly, and the energy and blood all over his body surged up uncontrollably. He became so anxious that he fainted on the spot.

"Lord Mortain..."

The nobles present were horrified. Bell snatched the [Magic Daily] at the first time, and after a few glances, he felt a chill rushing from the soles of his feet to his heart, and shouted in horror.

"Quick, send someone to bring back all the people who bought the grain!"

...

Five minutes ago, in the City of Fire Oil, inside the newly built Wizard Academy.

Ivana fished out about ten kilograms of wheat grain from the wooden box where the wheat was stored, packed it in a strong coarse cloth, and was about to go out.

"Are you going to the granary to sell wheat again?" Monroe, who was doing daily prayers in the living room, suddenly opened his eyes and called out to the girl who was about to go out.

"Yes, those wizards lowered the price of food again yesterday. I think this may have some deep meaning." Ivana replied freely.

"The deep meaning? I'm afraid the council has insufficient funds?" Monroe said with a sneer.

Thanks to Ivana's secret investigation, he also "understood" the reason why those wizards were able to persist in the food war until now!

Through the operation of the parliament, all the meager food reserves in the hands of the poor are bought back at extremely low prices to support this food war and maintain the most basic decency!

But this is just a stopgap measure after all, it won't last long!

Monroe even thought that today was the time when those wizards showed their true colors, and the five thousand tons of wheat should be the last stock.

Ivana pursed her lips. She had a different idea from Monroe, but she didn't intend to refute. After taking the ten kilograms of wheat grain, she went out.

Along the way, no one stopped or questioned her. After all, it was not the first day she went out to sell grain, and they were not the only two who bought and sold wheat during this period of time.

Many wizards regard this as an opportunity to make a fortune, but there is not enough space to accumulate grain, and the financial resources cannot compete with those wealthy merchants and nobles, usually they can only buy low and sell high to make a fortune.

When Ivana arrived at the granary, there was a long queue here. Although the price of wheat purchased by the council would decrease every day, the number of people who came to sell the grain did not decrease but increased!

This also surprised Ivana. You must know that there is a gap of five thousand times between the purchase price of wizards and the market price!

That is to say, if you sell ten kilograms of wheat to the council, you can only get one copper coin. If you are willing to sell it to major grain merchants, it will be worth fifty silver coins!

After keeping silent for nearly a month, Ivana finally couldn't help but asked.

After hearing the girl's question, the townspeople gathered in front of the granary and waited looked at Ivana with envious eyes. When the girl was about to ask again, Sue, who was wrapped in a torn clothes with a little old grain, looked at Ivana with envy. Shan said with a sigh.

"You have never experienced a famine, have you, my lord wizard?"