Looking at Demacia's Shurima trade, the most important part is the large-scale high-priced export of domestic redundant food.
In the past, Demacia's high-quality grain could not be sold at high prices due to freight and purchase price issues. The grain was sent to the port city of Northern Shurima and was purchased by local merchants despite a huge loss rate.
After that, they had to settle the accounts, and over time, the Demacians naturally cut off their interest in participating in international trade.
However, with the use of Ningwu Dao, Jarvan IV and the Demacian nobles finally realized that the food shipped from Demacia to Shurima was not without price advantages, and its cost was still significantly lower than that of food produced locally in Shurima.
Food - It's just that the price of food purchased by North Shurima port city from Demacia is too low, and Demacia has no local food sales and distribution channels, which makes Demacia's food look like
No advantage.
In other words, it is actually profitable to transport Demacia's grain to Shurima to buy it, but this part of the profit was eaten up by local grain merchants in the past, so Demacia feels unprofitable.
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Therefore, Demacia used force in Nasramai, and while flexing its muscles, it also hoped to open up Shurima's market.
Demacia is not interested in the barren Shurima desert, but after ten years of Shurima trade, Demacia's royal family and nobles are very interested in Shurima's commercial grain market.
After the Battle of Naschram, Demacia did successfully expand its food market - the grain shipped from Demacia was distributed in Naschram, and could be traded along the eastern, western and southern routes.
Going deep into Shurima, although the profit is still relatively limited at present, as long as Taric finds another passage like Ningwu Road, it will be another golden trade route.
Unfortunately, although Jarvan IV's plan was successful, before the Demacians could gain a firm foothold, the main grain-producing areas in Eastern Shurima, headed by Kalduga and Kumangla, were officially announced.
The company announced that it would start a major food price cut, making it clear that it would start a food price war with the Demacians.
At the same time as the food price war, there was also an open letter from Black, the "port governor-in-exile of Latin America".
In the letter, Black still based his position on the Great Shurima strategy and the Shurima trade cycle that he had always advocated, and also added the content of opposing religious interference in the secular world.
In addition to his consistent rhetoric in the past, he also criticized the Sun Sect and the Moon Sect very fiercely.
In this part, Blake can be said to have frequent golden sentences.
"Fanatical religious believers have no motherland, hometown or family. Their only loyalty will be sacrificed to unknown gods, and then they foolishly take pleasure in suffering!"
"Open your eyes, fellow Shurimans, and look at the Rakkor people living near Mount Targon. Do you really envy their lives?"
"Whether it is the Sun Sect or the Moon Sect, their ultimate goal is to turn you into those ignorant Rakkor people!"
Although Blake's military level can only be described in one word, he has to admit that although he cannot understand the criticism of weapons, he is still quite comfortable in using the weapons of criticism - he directly grasped the key to the problem and combined the Titan believers and
The identity of the Shuriman people is in opposition, and the living conditions of the Rakkor people are compared with each other. Anyone who thinks about it carefully will feel subtle.
Moreover, this time he was not in vain. After Black fled to Kalduja, he indeed persuaded the local port governor to initiate a food price war with Demacia!
So, how did Blake convince the port governor of Kalduga?
It's very simple. He just talked about the price of food in Demacia and described in detail how the Demacians were unhurried and had no pressure on logistics during the siege.
In the past, the food alliance formed by Kalduga and Kumangla almost controlled the price of food in most areas of North Shurima. The food produced here was transported by sea and land to North Shurima.
Various city-states filled more than 70% of the commodity grain market.
Kaku grain is cooked and Shurima is sufficient, it is no exaggeration.
But now, the arrival of the Demacians has given Kalduja and Kumangla a huge sense of crisis.
Any business is best done when it is a monopoly.
Kalduja and Kumangla have long been accustomed to exchanging supplies, manipulating food prices together, and even using food as weapons to seek political benefits for themselves. But now, Demacia, a foreign dragon crossing the river, suddenly appears, and Kalduja
He Kumangla will naturally be wary.
Blake was aware of this, so he focused on the logistics of the Demacians - think about it, their food was transported to Uzeris, and then transported across the desert to Nasramei, which could also support their siege.
Now that they have Nasramei as a springboard, they can’t even imagine what big moves they will make in grain trade next!
The port governors of Karduja and Kumangla did not care whether Nasrameh fell or not.
But will the Demacians use Nashrame as a springboard to enter Shurima's food market...
They care about this very much!
Therefore, although he did not say it outright, Black, who was in exile, still successfully instigated the rejection of Shurima by Kalduga and the Kumangla people, coupled with his consistent insistence on the Great Shurima strategy and Shurima cycle
trade, eventually Kalduga and Kumangla finally made up their minds to start a price war with the Demacians.
Taking advantage of the fact that we now have a mature food trade network, we launch a food price attack on the Demacians in order to prevent the Demacians from selling food in Shurima, and even if they do, they will still lose money!
It seems like this is a pretty crazy choice. With two cities fighting against one country, it seems that Karduja and Kumangla are unable to hold on first.
But in fact, Karduja and Kumangla are quite confident in themselves.
As for the source of this confidence...
Kumangla and Kalduga are perhaps the best-preserved production facilities left over from the Shurima Empire in the entire Shurima region.
Although many of the automatic puppets and agricultural machinery power sources during the Shurima Empire were forced to be downgraded and turned into human power, animal power and semi-automatic drives.
But in terms of agricultural productivity, Kumangla and Karduja can proudly say, "Everyone here is rubbish."
Stable temperatures all year round, three crops a year, efficient agricultural production, inherited agricultural technology, and a mature grain sales network...
In the past, in order to maintain food prices and profit margins, Kalduja and Kumangla have always had reservations.
Even in the past fifty years, only during the Ionian War, in order to make money from the Noxians, they made a little effort to expand the scale of cultivation-at that time, the Noxians
In addition to the food provided by local state-owned farms, most of the food is imported from Kumangla and Karduja.
Throughout the entire Ionian War, Noxus used millions of manpower at its peak, but logistical supplies—especially food supplies—almost never had any problems.
Grain productivity can be seen from this.
Now the Demacians have taken their cake...
Then don’t blame them for being serious!
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At the beginning, when Kalduga and Kumangla announced a raid on Demacia's food prices, Jarvan IV did not realize the seriousness of the problem.
Two city-states dare to challenge Demacia in terms of food?
Where do you get the confidence?
But soon, Jarvan IV saw their strength.
Throughout Northern Shurima, from the east of Uzeris, food prices in all areas plummeted.
It's not a 10% or 20% drop, but the market grain prices in more than 60% of the regions have been cut in half, and in more than 30% of the regions, grain prices have dropped to transportation costs.
Thanks to the Shurima Empire, most of Shurima's city-states have varying degrees of official restrictions on local markets and trade. However, due to years of cooperation, coupled with the backlash caused by Demacia's use of force as an outsider,
, all city-states have acknowledged the decline in food prices, and have chosen to use the Kumangla and Kalduja food prices as their basis.
On Demacia's side, the first batch of grain that had just arrived in Nashrame and was about to enter the market was directly hit. More than 20 ships, totaling nearly 30 million pounds of grain, were directly hit.
This isn't the end yet.
Because of the delicate timing, after the victory in the Battle of Nashrame, nobles from all over Demacia were ready to seize this opportunity to make a fortune. They had just taken the initiative to levy the grain in the territory at a relatively high price. Many of them
Demacian farmers all took out their family grain reserves in exchange for cash. Unexpectedly, just after the grain collection was collected, the price of Shurima grain fell directly to the center of the earth...
What's even worse is that even Uzeris, who has cooperated with Demacia for many years, has obviously become a little ambiguous.
On the one hand, they happily sell various goods to Demacians, but on the other hand, they also take the initiative to lower the purchase price and selling price of food. Demacia can spend money here, but don't try to make money here!
Looking at the entire Shurima region, it seems that only the Targon line in the west is still receiving food from Demacia!
But it is no longer ten years ago, when a Golden Wheel Village can satisfy the appetite of Demacians.
How can it be possible to fully satisfy the Demacians, who are already prepared for food export trade, by relying only on the market of a few Rakkor people?
Without food export trade, where will the market environment of high prices for Demacians go?
Seeing that the situation was getting worse, Jarvan IV found Barret and began urgent discussions.
However, even as the royal family's moneybag, Barrett had no choice when facing this situation.
This kind of situation...he has never seen it before!
In the past ten years, Shurima trade in Demacia has indeed been flourishing, but with this prosperity, the Demacian people's business level and management theory have not improved much, and their business methods have also not improved.
Worthy of praise.
Now suddenly facing a challenge, no matter how experienced Barrett is, he doesn't have this kind of experience!
After thinking about it, the most stable solution he could provide was to contact Tariq first and let him find out the situation of Kumangla and Karduja, and then decide whether to fight them to the end.
It was at this time that Jarvan IV finally realized that he did not seem to understand Shurima.
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Tariq's actions and investigations will take time.
Unfortunately, time is not on Demacia's side.
With the beginning of the food price war, Demacia, which had experienced rapid economic growth in the past ten years, suddenly seemed to have been put on a sudden brake, and the economic situation quickly became subtle.
The nobles who had hoarded a large amount of grain and were preparing to make a fortune by riding the east wind of Shurima trade began to worry.
No one wants to hold such a pile of grain in their hands and watch it moldy. There is an endless stream of people making impassioned speeches in the noble council.
Some people think that Demacia’s food should be concentrated and the food prices of Shurima people should be directly driven to bankruptcy. These are often people who don’t have much food in hand at the moment. They hope to rely on people who have already hoarded food to open a way for themselves.
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Some people think that we should follow the old story of Nashrame and use Demacia's sword to open the way for Demacia's food. In this way, the proponents of free trade often have a lot of connections with the army, or they have hoarded a large amount of food.
sell.
Some people think that we should directly go to the trouble of Kalduga and Kumangla and solve the problem from the source - if it were placed ten years ago, no one would have thought that this kind of Noxian style would one day appear in Demacia.
radical figure.
Some people think that we should lose it from the south and gain it from the east, and use the Shuriman method to manipulate the price of food in Valoran - this method seems to be quite effective, and it should be effective if it is used in the Principality of Valoran.
, food, to whom should we sell it?
Jarvan IV, who originally hoped to gain some enlightenment, felt his head grow bigger after listening to two sessions.
Sure enough, we can only hold small meetings and argue in the noble council about big things, which is to do ourselves.
Helpless, Jarvan IV could only find a few of his closest friends to discuss the next response - Taric has already gone to investigate the situation. What else can we do before he comes back?
Barret, who had already spoken to Jarvan IV, fell silent.
Garen looked confused and had no idea what Jarvan IV was talking about.
After thinking for a while, Lanfu asked a question.
"Should the royal family purchase the grain hoarded by the nobles at a low price?"
This is a very interesting question.
Purchasing the grain hoarded by the nobles at a low price at this time means that the royal family will bear all the risks and will obtain all the profits in the future. Should Jarvan IV take a gamble?
Jarvan IV frowned upon hearing this.
After a long while, he finally shook his head, and then nodded again.
"The royal family will not do everything." Jarvan IV said in a subtle tone, "But... maybe someone else can do it?"