I Pioneered Scientific Magic

Using only starch naturally couldn't make bread, but as a daily food for the poor, it was definitely no problem!

Only carbon dioxide, water, electricity, and magic power were needed! Before the last two were everywhere, the first two needed to use the Parliament's thunderstones and magic stone reserves.

"But... won't this consume too much?" Kevin hesitated again and said, the daily food for three million people would definitely consume a huge amount of energy!

"Don't worry, before long, we won't need to worry about energy anymore," Lynn patted Philip's shoulder reassuringly, saying with a smile.

They had recently discovered a new magic stone mine, and as for electricity, wasn't there a nuclear fusion reactor about to be completed?

In fact, the technology for artificial food in the federation was only widely used after the development of nuclear fusion and the technology of matter-antimatter annihilation!

After dispelling the doubts of Kevin and others, Lynn turned to the door and spoke.

"Loude, come in!"

Receiving the command, Loude, who had been waiting outside the door for a long time, hurriedly walked in, striding with his prosthetic leg.

Upon entering, his first glance fell on the half-eaten bread brick on the square table.

With extremely limited knowledge of magic, Loude seemed to see the bread brick as something Lynn conjured out of thin air!

It was a miracle of void creation!

No wonder Lord Lynn dared to instruct him to sell nearly half of the wheat reserves in just a few days!

"You should taste it too!" Lynn reached out and handed the remaining half of the bread brick to Loude.

The latter was also excited and directly took a piece into his mouth, which melted away soft and fluffy.

"Just like a cloud!" Loude exclaimed. "If this kind of magic bread could be mass-produced and put on the market, perhaps no one would buy wheat anymore."

It's just that Loude wondered what expression those wealthy merchants and nobles who were frantically hoarding grain would have when they saw this?

Loude thought to himself, but didn't forget the main point, immediately taking out a secret envelope from his pocket.

"Lord Lynn, this is the list of personnel collected by the council's psychic wizards. They are the ones responsible for raising grain prices this time, attempting to blame the kingdom's cholera outbreak on them."

Those nobles concealed themselves and relied on remotely controlling various caravans to buy up grain in large quantities, even killing many trusted aides responsible for the operations in an attempt to cut off any traceability.

However, under soul searching, there were no secrets to be had. After spending several days, those psychic wizards still followed the clues all the way up. After all, the nobles intended to continue causing trouble, which inevitably required further contact with the caravans.

Grand Duke Gade, Count Mortan, Count Bell, Count Held...

The list was long, covering almost all the major nobles in the northern part of the kingdom. If it had been a year ago, each name on it would have been enough to affect the stability of the entire kingdom.

"And about that person, according to the investigation of the wizards, he seems to have also participated in the plan to plague the kingdom!" Loude said discreetly.

Lynn nodded, not particularly surprised. Without the other party's consent, how could the nobles dare to make such a big fuss?

But it's also good that it saves him the trouble of finding excuses...

"Now, how much grain has been released?" Lynn put away the scroll in his hand and casually asked.

"It's about ninety thousand tons of wheat, totaling one hundred and seventy-three thousand six hundred imperial coins..." Loude reported excitedly.

This is simply robbing money!

Most importantly, this is just the beginning. They still have half of the wheat to get rid of, which is the real big deal. After all, at the current rate, flipping the price of a kilogram of wheat a couple of hundred times would be a breeze.

Lynn thought for a moment and felt it was probably enough.

Although the accumulated wealth of those nobles was very rich, the amount of cash they could come up with was probably only around a million imperial coins, which might not even be enough to buy all the wheat.

After sharing the happy news, Loude carefully reported some bad news. "Due to the skyrocketing price of wheat, large-scale famines have already occurred in the western and northern territories of the kingdom."

Although the council ostensibly controlled the entire kingdom, in reality, it only had absolute control over the 'cleared' southern, central, and recently conquered eastern territories, while the rest of the territories were still under the control of the nobles.

Now that the nobles are busy buying grain to make money, naturally, no one can care about the lives of the poor people in their territories.

Loude was very aware that this magical star still cared about the poor, so he carefully worded his sentences when mentioning the scenes of starving people everywhere, gnawing on grass and trees.

However, to his surprise, Lynn showed no sign of anger or worry. Instead, he smiled and gave orders.

"Good, let Redell handle it. Bring some grain over and distribute the flintlock rifles we've exchanged to them!"

This... this... rifles?

Loude was astonished. He had not expected Lynn to use such a brutal method to solve the problem.

Or perhaps Lynn had already planned the follow-up strategy when gradually releasing grain and getting those nobles involved.

"Your wisdom is as vast as the sea..." Loude hastily flattered, but there was also some sincerity in his tone.

With the nobles messing around like this, which was equivalent to completely losing the people's hearts, coupled with the distribution of grain and rifles, they could easily reclaim the kingdom's western and northern territories without any effort, and incidentally gather popular support.

Lynn didn't pay attention to Loude's flattery, continuing to inquire about the progress of the grain collection plan he had instructed.

"It's true that a small number of caravans have sold their grain, but more are still the kingdom's subjects selling grain to us at low prices," Loude replied truthfully.

"This is indeed... surprising." Lynn couldn't help but smile wryly. However, it also proved that their strategy of improving the living standards of the people had achieved good results.

You should know that the current market price of wheat is several times the purchase price, but the subjects are still willing to sell grain to them at low prices.

A hint of a smile appeared on Lynn's face, then he suddenly spoke in a cold tone. "Tonight, let's lower the purchase price of wheat to fifteen copper per kilogram!"

"Yes, Lord Lynn." Loude couldn't help but wipe the cold sweat from his forehead. Before, he had always been puzzled as to why this magical star wanted to buy grain at prices far below the market, but now everything was clear.

This wasn't the price of buying grain, it was clearly the countdown to raising the butcher's knife!