Chapter 2147 Shameless
Last year, the grain price was 13 clover coins per bag, but now it is only 5 coins per bag, less than half of last year. It is obviously a good harvest, but such grain prices are really not happy. It is the same across the country, which is really despairing.
In this way, the extra harvest they sold is not as much as last year. After deducting various expenses, they not only did not make money but also lost money. Life is even worse than last year. This year, there may not even be potatoes to eat. What is going on?
The nobles above said that the grain harvest was good, so it is not valuable, because there is too much grain and there is no warehouse to store it, so it can only rot. In addition, the extra grain will waste transportation costs and a lot of messy consumption. They are kind enough to buy it to give face to the farmers. If they don’t buy it, the farmers will have no way to store it and it will rot, so it is better to sell it at a low price than to let it rot in their hands.
"Shameless!" The Magic Emperor trembled all over when he heard these shameless words. He didn't expect the nobles to be so ugly. When the harvest was small before, they could still have some face, but suddenly there was so much more harvest that they were completely shameless.
Of course they are shameless, because the nobles know that there will be bumper harvests like this every year, and the harvest will even get better and better. If the nobles don't start to lower the price now, how can they plunder the people's wealth in the future? The grain prices will be like this in the future, and they will not rise again. Anyway, they have calculated that the harvest was small before, and the price was thirteen coins per bag, and the farmers went back to eat potatoes. Now the harvest is large, five coins per bag, and the farmers still go back to eat potatoes, anyway, they will not die.
But it is different for the nobles. Although they spend the same amount of money, they earn more crops, and these grains can be brewed More wine, in exchange for more luxury goods abroad, the nobles will live a more comfortable life.
How wonderful, not only the nobles, but also the king thinks so.
The world that has remained unchanged for five hundred years has finally changed. The people who thought they had a good life suddenly realized that the life they lived before was not a life for human beings. Those nobles always say that they should thank God and the nobles for having potatoes to eat, and the people really believe it, but now the faces of the nobles are exposed, and the people know that it is not that they can only eat potatoes, but that the nobles do not want them to eat better.
Even if they have the conditions to eat better, the nobles will find ways to make the peasants go back to eating potatoes. This is the reality.
The Magic Emperor did not expect them to be so shameless: "I really thought that this world could only be like this before, and I naively thought that promoting a few civilian magicians would change the status quo." The Magic Emperor has never been so angry, never.
The shameless behavior of the nobles has completely exposed their nature. They will never let the people live a good life. There was no comparison before, and I thought that the nobles had really tried their best to maintain everyone's livelihood. Now I know why Duran thinks that the magician class is a parasite.
Although the nobles were the most shameless in this incident, the magicians in the Magic Knights were also accomplices. Even the civilian magicians did not consider the people, but the noble Yang Wei, because they followed the nobles to have meat to eat. They think that the nobles are right. A large grain harvest is not necessarily a good thing, because there are not enough warehouses and not enough transportation power, so the harvest adds pressure on the nobles to collect grain. They also agree to collect grain at a low price. After becoming magicians, their butts are crooked.
This matter was too bad and exposed the nature of the nobles, but the Magic Emperor forced himself to calm down, because at this time he had to break the nobles' evil plan to buy grain at a low price. The Magic Emperor hoped that everyone would not sell grain.
"But if we don't sell grain, we will have no money at all. We have to spend money on daily household expenses at home, and there are also seeds for next year."
If they don't sell grain, their lives will be in trouble.
The Magic Emperor said to him: "I will give you enough funds." The Magic Emperor had been to some powerful magic sites when he was adventuring before, and knew that there were gold and silver treasures in them. He used to disdain these things, but now he needs them. The fat and blood of the people that the magician class has plundered should now be taken from the people and used for the people.
The Magic Emperor came and went freely in places where ordinary magicians could not go, and took back a large amount of gold and jewelry. He told the villagers: "These jewels were obtained by the corrupt magician class from exploiting the people. They are now dead and have to be buried with these treasures. Now I will return these things to you, and you don't have to worry about not being able to sell grain. Everyone must have confidence and must not admit defeat."
The people cheered and said that they would never sell grain to those greedy nobles.
But there is still a problem: how to store grain? They don't have such a large granary.
The Magic Emperor also has a way: "Now is the time for magic to come in handy." The Magic Emperor discovered for the first time that his magic could not only be used for fighting, but also for protecting the interests of the people. His time magic can keep the food fresh, and his magic is strong enough to protect everyone's harvest.
"This is the true meaning of magic." At this moment, the Magic Emperor was happier than ever. He used to think that his magic was the capital given by God to him to become the Magic Emperor. Now he realized that his magic has never been used in the right place, and helping the people produce is the true meaning of magic.
"Shameless!" The nobles were furious at the Magic Emperor's blatant defiance. They hoped that the king would issue an order to get rid of the Magic Emperor. Some of the nobles had powerful fighting forces and they believed that they could beat up the Magic Emperor.
"We have worked hard for the Clover Kingdom, but the Magic Emperor is trying to sabotage us. This stupid groundhog said that civilian magicians are all cancer." The nobles cursed in the palace, complaining that the unruly people did not understand their difficulties at all.
The king was also very angry: "The Magic Emperor is getting more and more excessive. Now he has no regard for me. He even led the unruly people to disobey our grain collection plan. This is to destroy our Clover Kingdom. Damn it, what do you say?" Although the king was angry, he was still very afraid of the Magic Emperor, because the Magic Emperor was indeed powerful.
"Not only the Magic Emperor, but also the White Night Magic Eye, they are also acting in secret. I even suspect that the Magic Emperor is colluding with the White Night Magic Eye." The nobles were very angry. Their authority was openly challenged.
The nobles now began to realize that the Magic Emperor was against them. If they did not take down the Magic Emperor this time, their lives would not be easy in the future. However, in their view, the Magic Emperor was just speaking for the civilians, and they did not think that the Magic Emperor would overthrow them.
After all, the nobles have been doing this for generations for hundreds of years. The nobles have become a habit. They simply cannot imagine a society without nobles and magicians. So they were not worried that someone would overthrow them, they just thought that the Magic Emperor was an eyesore.
Because hundreds of years of good life had made the nobles completely unaware that the butcher's knife was already on their necks, this time the Magic Emperor would cut off the firewood from under the cauldron and fight the nobles to the end, it was either you or me.