Chapter 305

The content of the revelation was very simple.

Don't send beastfolk to do the selling.

First, beastfolk aren't familiar with human kingdoms.

Second, beastfolk are now devoting all their efforts to construction, and don't have that many hands available.

If beastfolk aren't sent, what to do?

The method is very simple: make use of the people of the Xiling Kingdom!

Just like now.

Whether noble or commoner, everyone has the right to haul potatoes from Yan City into the Xiling Kingdom to sell.

The wholesale price is quite cheap—only 20 copper coins per jin.

In the currency system of the Gods' Continent, 1 gold coin equals 100 silver coins, and 1 silver coin equals 100 copper coins.

The price of rice on the Gods' Continent is 2 silver coins per jin.

An ordinary commoner has elders above and children below—at least five mouths in a family—and needs to eat at least two hundred jin of rice a month, which costs 4 gold coins.

And a commoner, working for a noble, only earns six or seven gold coins a month; only families with two or more working members are a bit better off!

Of course, there are also some commoners who can receive land from the nobles and just pay taxes, so the grain they harvest is their own, and they don't need to buy grain.

But now, a great many nobles no longer use this method.

The method these nobles use is to pay commoners to work for them; the harvested grain belongs to the nobles, and then the commoners buy grain back from them.

Through this method, the nobles can earn even more!

Buying rice, 2 silver coins per jin—that is, 200 copper coins.

The previous selling price of potatoes was about 70 copper coins per jin, one-third that of rice.

The wholesale price the Yan Kingdom previously gave to Lord Hawke was also 20 copper coins per jin, allowing Lord Hawke to earn more than double the profit.

But now, the Yan Kingdom has given this supply price to anyone from the Xiling Kingdom who hauls goods from Yan City beyond twenty kilometers!

Whether commoner or noble!

This gives the commoners of the Xiling Kingdom a chance to get rich!

Of course, nobles can also have this chance.

After these commoners haul the potatoes back, their ability isn't enough to support them transporting them farther, so they will definitely sell them locally.

Once the volume of potatoes sold locally increases, the selling price of potatoes in the eastern region will drop, and profits will decrease.

This forces the nobles to haul them farther to earn a profit!

Through this method, the Yan Kingdom can, in a very short time, without lifting a finger itself, make potatoes spread throughout the entire Xiling Kingdom!

It even squeezes the sales space that rice originally had.

This is exactly what the Xiling Kingdom's royal family hopes to achieve. Now the Xiling Kingdom's rice output is decreasing, and the royal family and the Church are hoarding rice to prepare for war.

They hope the Yan Kingdom's divine beans will ease the food pressure. It's just that the Xiling Kingdom's royal family can't purchase from the Yan Kingdom and sell it themselves, because it would provoke a backlash from the nobles—the nobles are all counting on selling their increasingly valuable rice!

The fox woman Sister Qing Ling and Meng Ying's previous plan to send beastfolk to do the selling would likewise provoke a backlash from the nobles.

But now, the method Lin Yan conveyed to them through the revelation pulls in both the nobles and commoners of the eastern region, making these nobles actively help the Yan Kingdom expand its sales channels. The backlash is then very small—and if there is any backlash, it's the nobles who bear it!

And with this money-making opportunity, even nobles from farther away will probably come running to haul potatoes!

When that time comes, the Yan Kingdom's potatoes can be sold into the Xiling Kingdom on the largest scale and at the fastest speed, crushing everything with their price advantage!

This is exactly what made Meng Ying, after working through this key point, increasingly feel the terrifying part of the Lord of Flames!