crush the rich

The core of this plan is actually very simple.

Yin Lian outlined the goal of the plan at the very beginning: take clothing, food, and entertainment as the entry point, and encourage countries to invest manpower and money in these areas.The Mage Association developed some related magic props, sold magic equipment at high prices, and recycled the food and materials produced at low prices.

In this way, wheat planting and cotton linen planting can be freed from the limited human resources of the City of Sages, but the greatest benefits can be held in the hands of the association (as for whether Yin Lian will try to reproduce these magical principles with technology after privately mastering them, That's another story).

Yin Lian's goal is also clear. The capital of the sages has a great demand for these basic resources, but their output is actually very limited at present, and Yin Lian can't let the believers of the Life Church spend all their time planting some Low-level necessities above.

In fact, speaking of species, Martil himself has many species, but they have not been fully utilized.In addition to the fact that mages use some plants to make potions, more plants are currently unknown—some of them have no magic power and are not common enough, so they have not been discovered for practical and medicinal value, while others have Magic power, but it is only used as a magic power material in a simple and crude way, and the other parts of the use have not been discovered.

Although Yin Lian didn't know what they were used for, she also knew that there were no completely useless plants in this world.Rather, according to the experience on the earth, every part of many plants often has various important values.

If the manpower at hand can be used more effectively, the value that can be obtained will definitely far exceed that of growing wheat and cotton.

Her plan may not be the most professional, because she doesn't usually write much of this kind of plan, but it is definitely clear and organized, and there are a lot of dry goods that should be there, and all important joints are listed.

The process of the plan is a bit like a running account, the key operations are not detailed, but other side details are very detailed.If it was on Earth, no one with a little experience would write like this.But this was not Yin Lian's mistake, but a choice she made based on Matil's actual situation.

Some content that needs to be specially planned, such as specific propaganda strategies, is not important to Martial at all, because the propaganda methods in this world are extremely old and poor, and basically any method can play an amazing role .The reason why the parts that do not need to be written are also listed in detail is because these processes are not common knowledge of Matil, and they cannot be understood by default.

After such a set, in the original world, it seemed a perfunctory plan, but to the black sage, it was well-organized and eye-opening.Of course, there are also some things that he can't understand at first sight. Normally, it can be deduced after a certain period of time, but since Yin Lian is by the side, he didn't bother to ask.

Yin Lian also answered one by one.

And changes always appear when you don't pay attention.

When the musical in the capital of the sages was widely read and curious, Yin Lian chose the imperial cities of the six largest countries in the mainland, and opened a store in each.

The shop is not big, and all the chefs trained in the city of sages are used, and the ingredients are transported through the teleportation array.But this is just the beginning, Yin Lian also bought a few manors outside the city, so that they can directly grow food for restaurants in the future.

To be honest, the area and prosperity of Martil's so-called imperial city are not even as good as a town in the country, and the city actually includes a large tract of land, and its residents are several times more than the city of sages.

...the city of sages has only tens of thousands of people.

In the imperial cities of various countries, the number of people is no more than 10,000+, and the number is only tens of thousands. It can be said that the population is quite thin.

Yin Lian secretly thought, this is probably the result of the food structure.

In fact, generally speaking, the yield of bread trees is not small. If it is widely planted, although it will occupy more land, it is not impossible to meet the needs of more people.But the main reason is probably the lack of such a concept in this world-there is a lack of resources, and they seem to be more willing to choose to reduce consumption than to increase output.

Because in this era, manpower neither represents lethality nor productivity.

After realizing this, Yin Lian felt that the most important thing might be to highlight the value of productivity.

She sent a group of people to each city, and this group mainly includes three parts-cooks, farmers and trainers.Then the remaining required manpower is hired locally.

Naqi is just an ordinary orphan in Lake City. She lives with two other children in an abandoned hut in a slum on the outskirts of the city.There are not many people in the slums, and most of the houses are vacant-every winter, several houses are vacant here.

Children like her often do not survive to adulthood.

These few of them became orphans at about the same time, and it was not long before they struggled to survive, so they were able to survive.When spring came, everything came back to life and survival became somewhat easier.

Although the parents passed away not long ago, they didn't even have the time to grieve.The children did not originally live in the slums. They were driven here after their parents died. The original houses were also occupied by a group of strong and strong homeless people.

If the parents were still alive, these homeless people would never dare to provoke them.

The sheriff doesn't care about these things, after all, there is no interest at all.

The bread trees inside the imperial city and in the suburbs all belong to them. Children can only search farther afield. If they accidentally encounter wild animals, they will turn into food like their parents—in this era , no matter common people or nobles, they all have such consciousness.

That's why divine arts and magic are so important to this world.

Between the strong and the weak, there is a natural moat of strength.

That being the case, even if they are lingering, these weak children still want to live by instinct.Weakness cannot erase their survival instinct, which is probably the only strength they have left.

It's just that on the way out of the city, when passing by a fenced-off farm, a chance glance made the children's eyes widen in an instant.

"What are they doing?"

"Why dig up those bread trees!?"

Na Qi and her partners could clearly see that many bread trees were dug up by this group of people, and then transplanted to another open space in a more regular and dense way.

Not only that, but a large piece of land was suddenly opened up on the other side of the manor, and someone is building a wall for this land-the way they built the wall is incredible-"Na... Naqi... Are those people magicians? ?”

Na Qi was also a little flustered: "Why...how did the magician appear in Lake City?"

They have been brainwashed by the holy city all year round, and they all have an inexplicable fear of magic.

The discovery of a magician in front of them was enough to stop them from moving forward, and even wanted to take a detour and go in another direction.

That was compared to the two, the other boy was obviously more courageous and had a different focus.He looked around for a while, then suddenly said, "Did you notice...they seem to have moved some bread trees outside the fence!?"

Na Qi froze for a moment, then suddenly became very vigilant, and said, "What do you want to do!? You don't want to steal the magician's breadfruit, do you!? You are not afraid of being caught and eaten by them!"

The boy said: "Didn't you say that before? It's all rumors that magicians can eat people! They eat snacks created by magic, and they are said to be much tastier than human flesh."

Na Qi said: "...Who knows if it's a lie!"

The boy said: "Even if we don't pick the bread tree planted outside the wall, someone else will pick it."

"Maybe they deliberately lure others to pick them, and then they can be captured as thieves and use evil magic on them!"

The boy was so frightened by Na Qi, and a little timid, he said, "...then what shall we do?"

Na Qi made a decisive decision: "Let's go to the other side."

They walked around the farm all the way, picking the road where there were no people, but they turned around to the other side and found a large area of ​​bread trees. Due to the relatively close distance, they could see clearly this time. These trees were still densely hung. , abundant breadfruit—the most important thing is that there is no longer a magician on their side.

The boy's heart was pounding and he asked Naqi: "...what should I do now?"

Na Qi was finally moved. After a long battle between heaven and man, he suddenly made up his mind: "Let's pick a few secretly and run away! Hurry up!"

So a few children sneaked around, ran under the tree and climbed up. The older boy climbed up the tree and began to pick breadfruit.Breadfruit is generally not small in size and heavy in quality.To withstand such a weight, the branches are naturally strong enough.

The boy was a little flustered again, so the more flustered he was, the harder it was to complete his goal.After finally tearing off a breadfruit, her heartbeat was already pounding like a drum, as if it was about to jump out of her chest.

Naqi quickly picked it up and stuffed it into the arms of the younger boy, then waited anxiously for the next one.

The boy picked two more and jumped down in a panic.I don't know if it was because of good luck, but when the boy fell down the tree, he was too flustered to stand still, and his feet made a lot of noise when he stepped on the ground, but no one came out to check.

Several children ran away quickly.

It wasn't until they ran away in a hurry that two people suddenly walked out of the empty shade behind them.

"These kids are quite brave."

"Your Excellency Lian said that fear is often caused by ignorance. In fact, at the beginning, many mages were not devils, and they were just children who wanted to survive. The Holy City tried to turn us all into devils, and because of their It was too loud, and everyone believed these words, thinking that magicians are devils... In the end, even the magicians themselves thought so."

"Are we born devils? Or did the Holy City create devils?"

"No, I think... most of us... may be kinder than those nobles and believers."

"Because we have seen the deepest suffering in the world."

Another mage suddenly laughed: "Running around because of hunger, suffering because of cold, being feared because of strength, and being tolerated by the world...so resist, fight, kill... They all say that magicians are cruel, but they say At the end of the day, we too long for a better world, and we can't bear to see our children suffer what we have suffered."

"I admit that there are cruel people among mages, but my heart has never been harder than my mother. Those who have never endured hunger, fear, and injustice... are more cruel than me. "

They didn't do anything to the kids.

In fact, after the fruit trees were transplanted, it was originally a test, to test who in the city would dare to touch the mage's property.And those who dare to do this, in fact, prove in another direction that their fear of mages is not so deep-rooted, and this kind of thing happens a lot, and it can also send some information to many other people.

Na Qi and the others obviously tasted the sweetness. Children's feelings are relatively changeable, so the fear dissipates quickly.A few days after they had eaten the bread, they immediately came and stole some more.

The employees of the Grange also discovered this, but because the mage told them to ignore it, they didn't do anything to the child.

Na Qi and the other children excitedly took the Breadfruit home, but unexpectedly ran into a few poor men who were often wandering around.

"Let me see, you little brats... where did you steal the breadfruit from?"

The man grabbed the youngest and thinnest boy. Na Qi was taken aback. Looking forward, she found that there were also people blocking the way, so she could only back away slowly.

But there is no way forward.