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Blackstone Code - Chapter 1260

Published at 15th of March 2024 06:29:50 AM


Chapter 1260

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On the first day of December, snowflakes began to fall over the imperial capital of the gavra empire.

In fact, it should have snowed here long ago, but although the air was very wet and cold some time ago, it was lack of opportunity for snow.

No dark clouds, no snowflakes!

This time, the snow finally fell. On the front page header of the newspaper at the corner of the table, it was written that today's temperature in the imperial capital - minus eight degrees!

This climate is rare in gavra. In previous years, it was almost so cold only at the end of December, but now it is only the beginning of December.

Everything has changed a little since last winter.

It can be hot in summer and cold in winter.

After kissing his wife and daughter, an ordinary worker put on thick winter clothes and prepared to leave. When his wife sent him away, she hoped that he would pass by the supermarket after work in the evening and bring some food back.

The man glanced at the newspaper in the corner of the table. On the front page of the newsletter, he noticed the newsletter "fully ensure food supply".

He nodded yes and left his comfortable home.

As soon as he went out, the cold wind outside the door was like a knife cutting his face. His hands were folded in his cuffs and grabbed the sleeve from the inside to prevent it from being ventilated.

Head down and walk forward against the cold wind.

In fact, his mood is not as bad as the weather. The snow-white snowflakes make the whole world look particularly clean.

Each step on the snow will leave a series of footprints in addition to the "creak" sound.

He looked back and saw that the footprints in the distance had been covered by new snowflakes, and only a short string was still slightly clear.

Most of the pedestrians on the road are like this. The cars on the road also become slow. The heavy snow is like pressing the slow release button of the world.

A motorcade passed by him and looked at the frozen banging flags on both sides above the headlights in front of the car. There was no doubt that it was an aristocratic motorcade.

The man looked sideways into the car. Behind the transparent glass were two nobles wearing very "thin" clothes. They were not affected by the cold of the world at all. They chatted easily with a smile.

"This is the noble!" the man sighed and watched the motorcade go away.

In fact, he doesn't need to complain. Today's life is much better than in the past. It is said that after seeing the nobility in the past, as long as it is a civilian, he must stop his workstation and lower his head on the roadside.

Now no one will ask him to do that. He can not say hello to the nobility, which has changed a lot.

He walked for almost forty minutes and finally came to the factory.

In fact, he can take a car, but... Recently, the prices of various materials have risen rapidly. The money for taking a car is really not much. Maybe he can save a little. After all, it is not a bad thing.

Moreover, walking is conducive to good health and warm the body. Doctors advise people to take more activities

He found the right reason for not taking a car. Everyone will have a magnificent dream, but it is a pity that poverty is always a ruthless fist to break the dream.

He came to the factory and began to work. The factory did not provide heating. The reason was that the workshop was ventilated everywhere and the heating could not heat up effectively, so they still wore thick winter clothes to work.

A man finally has a smile on his face. He will chat with his co-workers and work at the same time, but the happy time is always short.

After talking about some new topics, everyone began to work silently as if they had agreed.

There was no smile on his face, only numbness. He couldn't even feel his face!

At one o'clock at noon, everyone gets a 30 minute break. They can have lunch, then take a break and get back into their busy work.

In fact, half an hour's rest time is not enough. Gavra's workers have made trouble several times, and nothing can be changed in the end.

Their strike against the capitalists has indeed caused great trouble to the capitalists, but it is only trouble.

We should know that capitalists also serve the nobility. When the nobility is unhappy, the police will arrest the workers or organizations taking the lead in the strike.

This is not a federation, there is no free soil, so everyone abides by a rule that is not line.

I had a cool lunch at noon. It was provided by the factory free of charge. The taste was not good, but it was said that I could eat it.

The work in the afternoon was still heavy. The man worked until about 6:45 p.m., and the roar of machines in the workshop gradually stopped.

People began to pack their tools and leave.

Thinking of what his wife told him, he said goodbye to several workmates who often went home together at the corner of a street and went to the supermarket alone.

There were still not many people on the road. It was a little over seven o'clock. It was already dark. He accelerated his speed and lowered his head. As soon as he approached the supermarket, he found that today's supermarket was particularly lively.

A lot of people, a lot of people, he followed the gathering crowd into the supermarket.

Then he saw a long line at the food counter.

"What happened?" he went to the end of the line, looked at the man in front who was almost dressed up and asked friendly.

The man in front seemed to know something, "those things are now limited in supply, and everyone can buy limited things."

The man was surprised, "why do you do this?"

The man standing in front of him was silent for a moment, "probably because there are not enough things!"

The man who thought he could go back first gave up the idea.

More than half an hour later, it was his turn.

"Everyone can only buy two pounds of wheat flour, two pounds of bread, five pounds of potatoes and one pound of beef. What do you want?" the tall teller asked the man.

Of course, it's not his position or his tone to be high, but he does stand in a high position, which is designed for the convenience of the teller.

When people need something, they just need to move it to their feet and people outside the counter can get it.

If they stand at the same height as the guests outside the counter and keep lifting heavy things, they will soon be unable to continue their work.

Some men don't understand, "is there an unlimited supply of vegetables?"

He was going to buy some vegetables. The teller shook his head, "we don't serve vegetables..."

The weather is too cold, the growth cycle of vegetables becomes particularly slow, and it is easy to freeze to death at night.

A few vegetables are used to supply aristocrats. The price is outrageous. Ordinary people can't afford to buy them. Instead, it's better not to supply them.

The man paid for everything he could buy. In fact, these foods were not enough to support his family's meals for three days, and the price of these things increased by about 10% over last month, which made him very worried.

Because when he lined up in the supermarket, he heard that prices might continue to rise.

After returning home, he told his wife about these things and asked his wife to reduce the supply of the family.

The wife was a little embarrassed and finally agreed.

At dinner, the daughter looked at several pieces of beef on her father's plate and was greedy.

She looked at her mother, who could only pretend not to see.

Outside the window, the cold wind is still cold, the whole imperial capital, the whole gavra, and many families.

Suddenly, it seems that there is not enough food in the world. Gavra, which has never been in this situation, makes many people don't know what to do.

"Not enough food?"

"There's not enough food!"

The prime minister's head hurts because there is not enough food.

In fact, after the weather suddenly became extremely cold last winter, he realized that he had to store more food this winter. He did the same and imported a lot of food.

Gavra is an island country with limited land for farming and animal husbandry. In the early years, the nobles surrounded the land everywhere. Many lands that were clearly suitable for farming were the private territory of the nobles.

The nobles certainly wouldn't farm and graze. These lands were abandoned. Even if the winter was not as cold as it is now, gavra's food mainly depended on imports.

But now there are more imports, but I don't know where it came from. Gavra had no food, so people began to loot.

Some grain merchants also began to raise prices. The range of price increase seems not very impressive, and the highest is only 15%, but this is grain!

This is not anything else, not a valuable luxury. A 15% increase is enough to make many families hungry!

The prime minister interviewed a group of grain traders, so limited supply appeared.

Instead of liberalizing the supply to the people, they began to limit the supply and limited the supply on the premise that the price increase would not exceed 10%.

This makes those rumors more and more terrible!

If someone strangles the food bag, it means that the current food supply has become a problem, and the prime minister must solve this problem.

Otherwise, he can only face two choices.

First, people always live in an environment of food shortage, which is likely to cause more terrible social problems and phenomena, unless the prime minister compromises with these people and allows food prices to float freely.

The second option is that once he agrees to the free floating of food prices, more people will not be able to afford food!

When many people face these harsh problems, they often choose to be hungry, which will only make the country worse and worse.

The best way now is to use the emergency budget of the national treasury to buy a batch of grain from outside, solve the current problem first, and then start to consider the follow-up.

He was not alone in the room, there were others.

The official in charge of agriculture and animal husbandry whispered to himself and reminded him.

"Your Excellency, if you don't solve those nobles, the price of grain will never come down!"

In the power based gaifra, many things have rules. At least the capitalists can't interfere in politics with money on the island.

Those nobles are much richer than capitalists, especially those big nobles, who often search and inherit wealth for hundreds of years, which is definitely not comparable to a young man who suddenly became rich in the stock market with 100 yuan!

When the nobles did not agree to the increase in grain prices, the capitalists did not dare to let the grain prices rise.

Behind this matter, the nobility is still causing trouble!




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