Lynn had Laud sell the food in batches, which puzzled the council mbers present. The safest solution to break the current crisis would be to dump a large amount of cheap grain onto the market at once, so those nobles and grain rchants would know to back off.
"You wouldn't be trying to drain the nobles and tycoons of their savings, would you?" Rafael speculated.
"You could say that," Lynn nodded, seeing it as a rare opportunity.
If these people just stayed peacefully in their territories, acting as their landlords, he wouldn't have an easy excuse to clear out these remnants of the old era.
"However, this would cause the surge in grain prices to impact the entire kingdom's stability," a congressman frowned and said, with the price of a loaf of bread now five tis its original price.
If it rose to ten tis, twenty tis, there would definitely be chaos.
"We don't need to worry too much about that, as long as we increase the food supply in the workshops, mines, and academies from one al to three als a day!" Lynn said decisively. "The kingdom can't fall into chaos!"
Now, the vast majority of the kingdom's subjects had already been integrated into the urban magic operating systems, with the army, railway construction, various workshops, and civilian academies covering over ninety percent of the population in the eastern, central, and southern territories under the Wizard's rule!
The remaining nobles and rchants were not under their control, and these people also possessed considerable assets and didn't require their attention.
Lynn's bold nationwide rationing plan astounded Rafael.
If the workshops guaranteed three als a day, then who would go buy wheat and bread?
Obviously, those trying to drive up the grain prices...
Rafael suddenly realized this.
Lynn's approach effectively controlled the severity of the food warfare within a certain range, and it might even be said to be completely disconnected from the ordinary citizens, turning it into a direct confrontation between the congress and the nobles and tycoons!
"Do we really have enough food at hand?" the Grand Wizard Alade said worriedly.
The congress had to manage the kingdom's food supply on one hand, and on the other hand, they had to secure enough grain to wage a price war against those tycoons and nobles.
"If we relied solely on wheat, of course it wouldn't be enough." Lynn's mouth curved into a slight smile before he continued. "Fortunately, we can use magic to create bread!"
Create bread using magic?
Upon hearing this, the assembly of council mbers was utterly stunned.
"Master Lynn, now is not the ti for jokes!" Alade couldn't help but interrupt.
Although magic power could achieve many things, even mimicking various elents, it ultimately couldn't replace the real substance!
Depending on magic to directly solve the food problem was simply ludicrous!
However, the judgent chiefs maintained a solemn expression, for they all knew this star of magic was conducting research on material and energy transformation, and solving the food issue with magic power wasn't entirely impossible.
But according to Lynn himself, the energy required to convert one gram of material was equivalent to that of a nuclear explosion spell; relying on this to feed a population of three million seed quite unlikely.
"In any case, I already have a spell model for 'Bread Magic'; I'll be able to perfect it within a week at most!" Lynn declared confidently.
In order to et the demands of interstellar voyages, the federation had invested considerable effort in synthetic starch and cell-cultured at technologies, all of which were quite mature; converting these into magic wasn't too difficult, and the raw materials were simple and readily available.
Seeing Lynn this confident, Rafael and the others looked at each other in bewildernt.
Creating food using magic, sothing that completely defied common sense, seed to be just a minor research project he could develop from Lynn, the star of magic.
The judgent chiefs were sowhat at a loss for words too.
All one could say is that soone's speed in developing new magic was simply too fast.
For instance, the spell for converting magic power into legendary status took just over a month from their apprehension of Judgent Chief Joshua, and he even managed to sketch out a design for an artificial Sun...
It's really difficult to comprehend how his mind works...
Harrov muttered to himself, then resolutely spoke up.
"Since you are completely confident in solving the food issue, let's proceed with that!"
...
The day after the eting ended, under Laud's operation, the first batch of fifteen tons of wheat sold for slightly below the market price at eight copper coins per kilogram, and within just a half-hour, everything was gone!
Then ca twenty tons, thirty tons... fifty tons; the price also increased progressively, finally settling at twenty copper coins!
Yet even so, the wheat was still swept up as soon as it arrived in various cities because the market price for grain was far higher than Laud's selling price, offering a chance to double the investnt upon resale!
The kingdom's wealthy rchants and great nobles, one after another, were like madn, many of them even betting all their savings!
In just a few days, the price of one kilogram of wheat had risen to fifty copper coins, twenty-five tis its original price!
And the price of a bag of white bread soared to one silver coin!
Even the black bread that dogs wouldn't eat a few days ago now cost forty copper coins!
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