The work of rebuilding the Kingdom of Stormwind has been going on for two months, and the current situation can be said to be getting worse and worse.
The despicable tricks that Bores relied on Greg's guidance are now being imitated by other nobles. Since the nobles are called on to take on the responsibility of rebuilding their homes, everyone will divide a piece of land for "reconstruction".
As a result, large areas of land in the plains surrounding Elwynn Forest were occupied by these nobles.
In the past two months, more and more civilians have returned by boat from Lordaeron. However, when they returned to their hometown, they found that the land that originally belonged to them had been usurped by the nobles!
Of course the common people who lost their land disagreed, but the nobles soon gave their reasons:
They are responding to the call of His Royal Highness the Prince and the Marshal, and the nobles contribute to the reconstruction of their homeland.
[You civilians, please don’t think that I am occupying your land, I am just helping you rebuild your home. The power of the civilians is very weak, but the nobles have many resources.
Therefore, if we unify a large area of land for overall reconstruction, the efficiency will be much higher than that of individual small families rebuilding their own small plots of land.
We can build houses in a unified manner and reclaim abandoned land into large farmland, including water diversion for irrigation and sewage discharge. We will build these as a whole.
Don't worry, when everything is rebuilt, the small piece of land that belongs to you will still be returned to you.
If you are still worried about this, you can invest in our construction and witness the new home being built with your own eyes. If you work here, I will also give you wages.
In essence, I am helping you rebuild your new home, and I will also pay you wages. This is a beautiful thing!
You must not have any worries, I am responding to Marshal Lothar's call, the nobles must contribute! It doesn't matter if we suffer some losses, the main thing is to give back to our common people.]
I have to say that Greg's move was not just a trick, it was simply a poisonous plan.
Without making a sound, the land ownership of common people was turned into land use rights. The so-called participation in the construction is better to say that the free people inexplicably became the serfs of the nobles!
It is clear that precious land has been exploited, but in their discourse system, not only can you not object, you even have to thank them!
In the ruined Stormwind City, most of the scattered rubble had been cleared away. Everyone was surprised to find that an area in the southeast corner of the city had been preserved.
After all, Stormwind City is a majestic city with a long history, and the real purpose of the orcs is not to completely destroy Stormwind City. Therefore, it is normal for a large area to be still habitable.
Standing on the half-collapsed city gate tower, Lothar's eyes were full of worry. The nobles followed 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 now, what those guys did was quite legitimate. But Lothar knew very well that they were destroying the Kingdom of Stormwind.
Lothar now urgently needs Li De to give him advice, but this guy took a group of people to sea again a month ago. I heard that he was going to the northern continent of Northrend to fulfill his promise to the dragon.
The red dragon there.
Regarding the situation before him, Li De only left one sentence when he left.
"In less than three months, none of these guys will be able to escape, and they will all be shattered to pieces."
If it hadn't been for what Li De had done before, Lothar would have definitely regarded this guy as a liar! He even suspected that this guy was colluding with the nobles to convince himself to let the nobles have their way so that they could steal the entire country.
Now 70% of the land in Elwynn Forest is in the hands of the nobles!
Lothar now sees no sign that these nobles will be shattered to pieces. All he sees is that this country will be shattered to pieces.
But Lothar didn't expect that things would turn around the next day, when Kul Tiras' ship entered the port.
Lothar and Dai Lin haven't seen each other for nearly half a month. Before leaving last time, Dai Lin was so mysterious that Lothar didn't know what he was doing.
However, Dai Lin seemed very happy during this meeting.
"Big money, big money! Fresh yarn, and fresh cotton cloth. The goblins of Hanhai Protector have conquered the loom technology again."
Lothar suddenly realized that no wonder he hadn't seen him for half a month. After a long time, he turned out to be in Kalimdor.
The previous two shipments of goods were distributed to the northern countries in the past two months. However, for the sake of market stability, those goods will continue to be sold at market prices. This time Dai Lin spent another half month to bring back more than
yarn, and woven cotton.
Basically, on that day, the nobles suddenly received a notice that with the assistance of the northern countries, a batch of yarn would be sold to common people at four-fifths of the market price.
Low-priced grain, low-priced cloth, low-priced thread...these are all common forms of aid from other countries in difficult times. However, such a well-intentioned policy is often exploited by greedy people.
Bores has finally figured it out recently. The strategy that Greg taught him is essentially to exploit the loopholes in the kingdom's decree:
Let the nobles contribute to the reconstruction, but there is no prescribed method. If the nobles have money and some have private soldiers, annexing land and annexing small independent kingdoms can be regarded as reconstruction.
After realizing this truth, Bores thought that he could draw inferences from one example to other cases.
After Bores learned about the so-called low price line of four-fifths price, he found that where it was four-fifths, it was obviously even lower.
The official market price is actually the market price in Lordaeron, but in the currently ruined Kingdom of Stormwind, the only places available for trading are small markets built on the ruins.
In the case of extreme scarcity of materials, prices must be much higher than normal. The market price of four-fifths of the thread is lower than the cost of production by their own weavers, so it is particularly attractive to the nobles.
Almost on the same day, that batch of yarn was swept away. But just when the nobles took advantage of this batch and prepared to sell it to the common people at twice the market price tomorrow, they discovered that another batch of yarn appeared on the market.
, the price is three-quarters of the normal market price!
In vain, the nobles still want to use twice the market price to continue to harvest the common people who become their tenants. Now there are three-quarters of them, let alone selling them twice, even four-fifths of the original price is not wanted.
This sudden situation made the nobles very angry. The group of guys headed by Bores went to question Lothar directly. 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 apologized and said that it was just an accident. The yarn that arrived yesterday was from Gilneas, and the yarn that arrived today was from Lordaeron. Lordaeron has a lot of money, so the price of the yarn it supports
Lower. I hope these nobles will try to persuade the common people who bought yesterday's thread when they go back. Although today's thread is cheaper, it is not lower than the normal price at least?
"Yesterday it was Gilneas, today it's Lordaeron?"
Looking at the two bundles of identical yarn, Bores fell into thinking.
He sensed that there was definitely something wrong with this, but he couldn't think of any problem. After all, the price was lower than the market price. Since it was available in the market, they just accepted it.
After collecting two batches of yarn in succession, the nobles suddenly received an invitation letter from Lothar that night.
"This batch of low-priced threads is our allies' aid to civilians. So I hope they can be sent to people who really need them.
You are all noble knights with extremely high ethics and morals. I think everyone should be able to understand what I am saying, and I hope that conversation is the only way of communication between us."
In the old city, Lothar's sincere advice not only failed to touch the hearts of the nobles. On the contrary, these guys were still determined to sell the yarn at a high price tomorrow.
But early the next morning, they once again found a third batch of yarn in the market, and the price was as low as three-fifths of the market price.
"He is provoking us!"
By now, Bores finally saw that such a price was definitely deliberately arranged. Although he didn't know the real purpose behind it, it was definitely a provocation to them.
Bores said excitedly, but then he calmed down. Although the recent smooth sailing made him a little arrogant, he has not forgotten who the person opposite him is. No one can confront Lothar head-on.
Not daring to confront Lothar head-on, Bores could hardly defeat the greed in his heart. Lothar's words yesterday made it very clear that he would not allow the nobles to shop for those low-priced yarns.
So under the leadership of Bores, the nobles sent servants to pretend to be commoners to collect all the yarn in the market.
After taking back the third batch of yarn, the nobles began to have a tacit understanding not to consider the issue of shipment, but what to do if the goods were available tomorrow.
Sure enough, the price gradually dropped for several days in a row, but the price was always suppressing them, making it impossible for them to ship the goods.
The price continued to drop until it stabilized by one-half. At that time, almost everyone in the nobility had two or three rooms full of yarn. These were just small aristocrats, Bao
Reis has enough yarn for twenty rooms!
Seeing the price stabilized at one-half, Bores believed that this was the biggest loss the other party could bear, but he couldn't bear it anymore.
As the ability of the nobles to scan goods has declined, civilians have been able to buy cheap threads in the market. The nobles looked at the threads in their hands, starting from four-fifths of the market price, but today they no longer know how much money they have lost.
But Bores was still unwilling to admit defeat. He mobilized more than a dozen nobles to jointly weave the threads in their hands into cloth. What's the use of the threads that commoners can buy? They don't have looms at all. Since returning to the Kingdom of Stormwind,
, almost all production tools are in the hands of these nobles.
No matter how many threads there are, it will not improve the efficiency of weaving. No matter how many threads there are, cloth will still be scarce. Therefore, in the current Kingdom of Stormwind, the price of cloth is still high.
In other words, as long as the nobles produce a large amount of valuable cloth, no matter what Lothar and the others are going to do, they will win in the end.
The nobles gathered together hundreds of looms and ordered the ragged weavers to work day and night.
In this way, the two sides seemed to have entered a truce. After a hundred looms worked continuously for a week, the nobles could own 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 extremely proud. The yarn in Lothar's hands was finally empty. Now that all the yarn on the market is concentrated in their hands, and only they have the ability to produce cloth, the money they lost before will soon be doubled.
Earn back exponentially!
However, the next day when the nobles carried out hundreds of rolls of cloth and planned to go to see Lothar triumphantly, they did not see the yarn anymore in the market, but there were thousands of rolls of cloth clearly displayed!
Seeing this scene, Bores felt his eyes go dark, lost consciousness and fell to the ground.