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Since Caputo insisted on not giving in, the matter of building the Seine River Triangle Paper Currency Trade Zone could only be put on hold temporarily.

Although this matter was put on hold, the food war continued.

After more than half a year of tug-of-war, the price of food has now quadrupled.

Although the price has increased so much, it is strange that no one is taking advantage of the high price to sell food in large quantities at this time.

Many nobles in Maro City who have food are unwilling to sell them even if they still have a lot of reserves at home.

In fact, not only the nobles in Maro City, but also the nobles in the entire Seine River Triangle are like this.

The reason is that, on the one hand, they must first ensure their own food security.

Secondly, they think that when the price of food reaches this point, it is no longer normal trade.

After all, the food available for trading in the market has basically been swept away, and famine is likely to occur if it goes down.

They are too familiar with this plot. If they guess correctly, the next thing is that there must be news that the granary is on fire somewhere, and then the price of food will start to soar completely.

Finally, the famine will come, and even if you have money, you may not be able to buy food.

Therefore, even if you don't consider self-protection, you have to wait until that time to sell.

For this reason, nobles with grain began to adopt a conservative strategy and no longer supply grain to the Grain Bureau.

For this reason, Jaina, the director of the Grain Bureau of Maro City, was almost crazy.

She hurried to find Ethan and asked Ethan to fulfill his promise to her.

Ethan has been waiting for Jaina to find him, because if the other party comes, it means that the grain price has reached a certain threshold.

It also means that the grain war has entered the most critical node.

One step forward, the opponent can force everyone into the abyss.

But one step back can also make the opponent burst like a dam.

Ethan has been planning for so long, waiting for this time.

Before, only 100,000 kilograms of grain were thrown out each time, and the time for throwing orders was gradually shortened to create the illusion that everyone was eager to sell excess grain because of the rising grain prices.

After this situation lasted for a while, the selling time began to be extended, from the original 5-day selling to 10-day selling, creating the appearance that the grain reserves in Maro City were limited and began to tighten.

This not only did not arouse the opponent's vigilance, but also cleverly maintained the high price of grain, and let the opponent continue their pace blindly and confidently.

Now the time is ripe, and it is time to start fighting back.

So Ethan began to take out grain from the bag of [Locust Grace], on the one hand, continuing to supply affordable grain to Maro City.

On the other hand, he began to sell orders to the outside world through the Grain Bureau.

However, Ethan was not prepared to deal with the opponent in one go, but to harvest a wave at the end.

After receiving the grain from Ethan, the Grain Bureau's long-lasting strategy underwent subtle changes.

The frequency of selling was gradually shortened from once every 10 days to one week, three days, two days, and finally to daily selling.

The amount of grain sold each time also gradually increased like a tide, 10,000 jin, 50,000 jin, 100,000 jin, 200,000 jin, 400,000 jin...

At this time, the Iris Society, no matter how stupid it was, could smell something unusual.

They began to wonder, how much was the reserve in Maro City?

Why did they buy more and more grain, but could never find out the details?

And they felt like frogs in a pot, and every purchase of grain was like adding a handful of firewood to the stove.

However, when they realized this, the water in the pot was already boiling.

At this moment, if they stopped buying, the grain they had previously bought at a high price would become a heavy burden and could only be sold at a loss.

And if they continued to buy, the grain reserves in Maro City would be like a bottomless pit.

No matter how much wealth there was, it could not fill that abyss.

After careful consideration, the Iris Society finally made a decision, which was to stop buying.

And taking advantage of the fact that there was a shortage of grain all over the country and grain prices were still high, they began to gradually release the grain in their hands, hoping to reduce losses.

However, how could Ethan let them do what they wanted so easily?

When Ethan found out that they stopped buying and secretly sold grain, he immediately understood their intention to get out.

So he immediately spread the word in the grain business circle and the "Maro Weekly", claiming that Maro City still had 10 million tons of grain in reserve, enough for the people of the world for a year.

And he also spread the news to all regions of the country through the intelligence network of the orcs.

The news spread quickly, and grain prices fell in all places.

The grain price of Maro City's foreign trade fell by half that day, but even so, no one was interested.

Therefore, it had to be lowered again the next day.

At this time, the Iris Society and the grain merchants serving it, as well as some people who were ready to take advantage of the fire, were all panicked.

You must know that although the mastermind behind the rise in grain prices was the Iris Society, when grain prices began to rise, many speculators and nobles noticed the business opportunities and joined in.

It is precisely because of their participation and speculation that the grain price was pushed so high in a short period of time.

Now they see that the price in Maro City has dropped by half, and no one is interested.

Therefore, they no longer care about joint action and are eager to sell the grain in their hands, like a race, no one wants to be the last one.

Because that means maximizing losses.

After all, grain has a shelf life. If too much grain cannot be sold, you can only watch it moldy, and finally the refined grain will become livestock feed.

At that time, it is really worthless.

Due to the panic selling of a large number of people, the price of grain fell rapidly again, and in the end it was more than 10% lower than the initial price.

At this time, Ethan was well prepared. He took out the money he earned from selling grain before and bought back the grain he had sold before at a very low price.

In this round trip, not only did he store more grain than before, but he also made hundreds of thousands of gold, which can be said to be a lot of money.

Of course, the nobles who had previously handed over the grain to the Grain Bureau for operation also reaped a lot of benefits, which made them full of confidence in the Grain Bureau.

Originally, Ethan wanted to store more grain, but due to his large-scale purchases, it took less than a month for the grain price to return to normal levels.

Considering the need to maintain stability, Ethan did not continue.

This great victory not only made the Maro City Grain Bureau and all the nobles who contributed grain a lot of money, but also made Maro City's paper money show up nationwide.

Although it has not yet reached the point of being promoted to other regions, many nobles have already known that if they want grain, they only need to have Maro City's paper money.

In order to be on the safe side, many of them will create an account in the [Agricultural and Commercial Bank] and buy some paper money more or less to reallocate their assets.

Among them, the most active are those merchants who have no noble status and no land.

Since these people do not have a deep foundation, they are most afraid of insecure assets, so they have high requirements for asset hedging.

When they learned that there was such a safe wealth protection institution in the empire, their excitement can be imagined.

Therefore, when allocating assets, many people put large assets in the [Agricultural and Commercial Bank], and even many people came directly to Maro City to invest.

Because of their madness, the paper money originally issued worth 2 billion imperial gold coins was not enough, so they had to issue more again.

At the same time, due to a large amount of investment, the employment and economy of Maro City began to accelerate again.

Everything is moving in a better and better direction.

After solving the food war, Ethan basically stopped paying attention to this matter and devoted himself to the entanglement with the Holy Light Church...