Alien King

Chapter 472 Food War
Ye Tian nodded and said: "That's right, of course they are planning this, but if we succeed in enclosing the Knights of Light outside Yekaterinburg and annihilating some of the Knights of Light's soldiers, then we can try to make the Knights of Light retreat." If not, their strategy of cooperating internally and externally will naturally fail."

Hearing Ye Tian's words, Lin Qiyu asked, "What? Now you have a way to successfully annihilate the Knights of Light?"

Ye Tian exhaled, and said: "For now, it's too early. But the name of the Shenwu Infantry Regiment is not easy to come by."

"Shenwu infantry regiment?" Lin Qiyu said in surprise.

Ye Tian nodded again, raised his head, looked at the sky, and continued: "I don't know when that girl, Xian Di, will be able to call the Shenwu Infantry Regiment."

At this moment, another soldier of Lin Qiyu hurried over, came to Lin Qiyu's side, and said anxiously: "My lord, just came the news that the soldiers from all counties, cities, states, and counties in East Siberia Food prices are skyrocketing, and people everywhere have rioted and revolted in large numbers."

"What?" Lin Qiyu stared and said in disbelief.

Ye Tian also frowned.

In all fairness, Ye Tian's attention had been on how to deal with the major armies of the Erka people and the current Knights of Light, but he ignored how to deal with the local nobles and common people after occupying the territory of Erka. relationship above.

Moreover, what Ye Tian never expected was that the final problem actually appeared on the food.

Frowning, Ye Tian thought for a while, and then said: "This is the linkage effect brought about by the Knights of Light's attack on Yekaterinburg. After the nobles from all over the world know the news, they will definitely take measures to respond to the light. The attack of the Knights should be carried out on a larger scale, to drive away our intruder as soon as possible."

Lin Qiyu said with a worried face: "This problem is not like a war. Winning is winning, and losing is losing. Instead, the winner does not win and the loser does not lose. It is really difficult to solve."

Ye Tian also said: "These nobles secretly manipulated the price of food, arousing the resentment of the local people. If the houses of these nobles were copied, the rebellion of the local people would be even more decisive. But because the common people could not survive, they wanted to rebel again. There will be another riot, and if we send troops to suppress it, it will also trigger a wider riot.”

Speaking of this, Ye Tian sighed and continued: "To completely solve this problem, we must support a local nobleman, and a nobleman whose position is inclined to ours."

Nodding her head, Lin Qiyu went on to say, "Yes, it must be a pro-leaf faction."

At this time, Ye Tian raised his head, looked at Lin Qiyu, and said, "I don't know how much Huangfu'an's food reserves are. Whether it can continue to last."

Lin Qiyu said: "According to what the grain transshipment envoy sent by Huangfu'an said last time, the Huangfu family has already mobilized all the grain reserves of all the semicolons in the Tiangong Empire. At this moment, his grain reserves are no longer enough. Too much. It is estimated that it can last for six or seven days at most."

Ye Tian raised his head, looked at the sky, and said repeatedly: "Six or seven days."

After thinking for a while, Ye Tian nodded again, and continued: "Even six or seven days is enough to scare those nobles."

Speaking of this, Ye Tian looked at Lin Qiyu and said, "Let's go, let's meet those nobles."

After speaking, Ye Tian turned around and walked into the city.Behind him, Lin Qiyu, Meirou, Biling and others all followed behind and walked towards the city together.

For the former governor of Yekaterinburg, Van Delkin, his mansion has already become the headquarters of all nobles in Yekaterinburg.

At this time, 27 nobles gathered together again, and they were discussing and arguing fiercely with each other in a relatively hidden side hall in Van der King's mansion.

Earl Sood was a very respectable nobleman in Yekaterinburg. At this time, Earl Sood saw the people arguing endlessly, so he knocked the crutch in his hand on the ground and said, "Everyone, don't fight back and forth. In my opinion, the most important thing now is to continue to cooperate well with Prince Ivan in Mojing City, continue to drive up the price of food, and drive the army of the Tiangong Empire out of the territory of the Eka people as soon as possible."

"However, Lord Earl Sord, the cash I can use is less than 2 taels. If Tiangong continues to deliver food here, I won't be able to buy it anymore."

Speaking of this, Viscount Chegel had a somewhat complaining expression, and continued: "To be honest, the food in my basement is enough for me to eat for ten years."

"Yes, Lord Earl, the price of grain has skyrocketed, and it has now risen to four taels of silver per bag of rice noodles, but the Tiangong Empire is still sending grain to here in a steady stream. If this trend continues, we will have as much money as we need." Not enough."

"My lord, the bigger problem now is that once the Knights of Light attack Yekaterinburg and the Divine Machine Battalion of the Tiangong Empire retreats, the price of food will inevitably fall, and the food we buy at a high price will not be sold at that time." It must not be sold at the purchase price, so wouldn’t it be a mess of losses.”

"Now the nobles in the cities, counties, and counties of East Siberia don't have much cash in their hands, but the Tiangong Empire is still sending food in a steady stream. At present, it seems that there is no head Son."

"Yes, my lord,..."

"..."

"Enough." Earl Soder tapped the ground again with his crutch. Due to anger and excitement, the corners of his mouth trembled slightly, and he snorted heavily. Earl Soder raised his hand and pointed at the nobles in front of him one by one. Member, said in a low voice: "Do you know? The seven armies of the Eka have been wiped out, and even the Western Army, which is feared by the Western Continent, is now smashed into the sand. In order to save the country from danger, His Royal Highness will sacrifice himself to save the country. The Arctic Scepter was released, and then the Knights of Light were invited. Now the victory is in sight, you nobles of the hereditary royal family, you just took out some silver, so there are so many complaints, you, what face do you have, go see The successive emperors of the Oka royal family."

Hearing Earl Soder's words, many nobles knew that this was true, so they stopped talking.

Glancing at the many nobles, Earl Sord said again: "This is the moment of life and death for the Oka Empire. Everyone must work together and never disagree. Just imagine, if Oka really collapsed, everyone They are all nobles, I would like to ask, if the people of the Tiangong Empire have taken power, do you really still have the good life before?"

At this moment, the guard outside the door suddenly walked in, walked straight to Van der King who had not said a word, and whispered a few words.

Van der King's complexion changed, he raised his head, looked first at Earl Soder, then at the crowd, and said: "Head of the Tiangong Empire's Imperial Household Office, Governor and Chief of Liaodong, Ye Tian has arrived."

Everyone was shocked.

This Ye Tian, ​​could it be that while many nobles are gathered together, he wants to catch them all in one go.

Van Delkin turned his head, looked at the guard and asked, "How many people did he bring?"

"In addition to Ye Tian himself, there is also Lin Qiyu, the commander-in-chief of the Shenji Battalion, and then several guards and mistresses from the Royal Household Office." The soldiers replied.

Van der King's face was cloudy and uncertain, and after a long while, he slowly said: "I didn't bring the army, it doesn't look like I came to raid the house."

Earl Soder snorted coldly, and then said: "No matter what his purpose is, we will see you first."

Van Delkin frowned, pointed to the numerous nobles, and said, "Then you?"

Earl Sord snorted again, and continued: "What are you afraid of, we have so many nobles, let's have a frank and honest talk with this Ye Tian today, and see who speaks faster and who speaks harder .”

Walking along the garden corridor of the original Yekaterinburg Governor's Mansion, Ye Tian looked at the surrounding scenery from time to time.In all honesty, although this Van der King has reached his sixtieth year, the garden in this mansion still exudes a pure and elegant charm. The style of the whole manor is not like an old man, but more like a princess .

As Ye Tian walked, he was also thinking about the root cause of this grain price war and its continuing development trend.

In fairness, this battle is like the financial war in the previous life.

On the one hand, they deliberately buy food, causing a short-term food shortage, thereby driving up food prices.The other side is to continue to deliver grain and keep grain prices as stable and down as possible.

In this tug-of-war between the two sides, they continue to eat in while they continue to release.It depends on who has more silver or who has more food.

If the nobles of the Eastern Siberian State secretly unite and finally consume all the food that the Tiangong Empire can deliver to the Eka Empire, then they can be said to have won.After the peasant uprising, no matter whether it is the Shenji Battalion or the Tianyang Army, it is impossible to divide the troops into four groups to comprehensively suppress them. In the case of riots in various places, they can only be forced to choose to retreat.

However, if the Tiangong Empire sent more and more food, the nobles of the Eastern Siberia State would not be able to eat it together, and they would eventually suffer huge losses.Because they used extremely high prices to buy a large amount of grain that should not have been so expensive.It will not be sold in the future, and a huge amount of money will be wasted in vain.It is no exaggeration, if this time, the total amount of food delivered by the Tiangong Empire is greater than the silver in the hands of the Eka nobles, after the nobles of the entire East Siberia lose this food war, they will face danger of bankruptcy.

Thinking of this, Ye Tian's heart skipped a beat, maybe this is an excellent opportunity to completely control the nobles of Erka.As long as they are really bankrupt and only have food in their hands but no gold and silver, these nobles will become commoners, and it will be much easier to deal with them when the time comes.

(End of this chapter)