Fel doesn't lie to you

Chapter 491 Alsace's Wrath

"What are these people crazy about?"

Arthas looked at the letters from the nobles in Stormwind City speechlessly. There were many flattery and loyal words in these letters. Although they were not evidence of rebellion, they reached Varian's ears. , It can also make these people feel uncomfortable.

"What about business, do I have any business to do?"

Sitting on the edge of the field, watching the undead farmers constantly plowing the fields, he was a little confused about the thoughts of these Stormwind nobles, and he didn't understand what they were suddenly courting him for.

Even if you rely on him, you shouldn't write him a straightforward letter!
"There is a lot of chaos in Stormwind City. It is said that the remnants of the orcs are constantly attacking them, causing their nobles to suffer a lot of losses. It may be to make up for their losses, and I want you to be in your Majesty Terenas. Say something nice there."

Kel'Thuzad looked at these letters and summarized them for Alsace.

"However, the prices they offer are indeed very good, and they are very cheap."

"How cheap?"

Alsace accepted it suspiciously, and then saw a number that made him unbelievable.

"Is ten copper plates cheaper per kilogram of salt? And what's the matter with their hoes? Why is it so cheap after being transported by sea?! Did they find any huge salt mines there?"

His exclamation made the undead farmers in the field look over curiously, but they didn't surround them, because their prince often watched them work in the fields recently, and ate the same pot of rice with the soldiers.

Such a good prince, they have nothing to doubt.

But for Alsace, this is a bit unacceptable. He had just talked with people from various chambers of commerce some time ago, and it took a lot of effort to negotiate the prices of various materials. Even so, he knew I owe a lot of favors, and I have to pay them back in the future.

But the goods given by the nobles of Stormwind City obviously need to be shipped by sea, but they are still cheaper than theirs!
"I don't know either. Logically speaking, our salt merchants should give the lowest price."

Kel'Thuzad didn't quite understand either. Although he knew how to make salt, it would be nonsense for an archmage to make salt all day long. Therefore, this matter should be done by ordinary people, and their labor force is just right for this kind of thing.

So he didn't understand why salt could be so cheap.

But at this moment, the gracious Lord Prestor came, and beside him was his fiancée Calia.

Alsace was a little annoyed, because Calia had obviously become haggard and sad, but he also knew that it was not Mr. Prestor's fault, but those flatterers.

But what Prestor said next made his blood pressure rise.

"Well, I took the liberty to visit, Your Highness, but you shouldn't care about my rudeness, because I brought a message from Li Ke."

Just hearing this name, Alsace felt his head a little dazed, his cheeks a little hot, and he had an irresistible urge to roar.

But he still endured it, and stretched out his hand to Prestor very rudely.

"let me see."

Prestor smiled awkwardly, and handed the letter to Alsace. Alsace looked at the thick envelope and couldn't help but narrow his eyes.

"Why is it so thick?"

He frowned, opened the envelope, and what he saw was not expensive but elegant parchment, but sheets of white paper.

He flipped through it, but there was no pleasantries in it, Li Ke didn't even say hello to him, there was only a price list in it.

The cost of the salt coming out of his factory, the wages of the workers, and the cost of transportation.

Then there is the price after the nobles bought it, the cost of shipping, then the customs duties at the South Sea town and port in Lordaeron, and finally the selling price of the local nobles, and the price that the nobles of Stormwind City sold to him.

In addition, the prices of various cloth, various herbs and hoes are also included.

There are not only detailed prices, production processes and processes, but even labor costs and possible corruption links.

But even with so many additional processes, when his goods came to Lordaeron from the hands of those Stormwind nobles, the price was much lower than other people's.

Especially for those cloths, each cloth is five or six silver coins cheaper on average.

Alsace, who has been studying the economy these days, quickly calculated in his heart that if the people on this land have Li Ke's efficiency and ability, and the price of Li Ke's goods, then the common people in Lordaeron will live a better life. A good life without worrying about salt and clothes!
but……

The drawings that followed made Alsace's face darken.

Because this picture is Lordaeron's price process.

From the factory to the sale, step by step, people in every link exploit layer by layer, and finally when it reaches the hands of the common people, all they can get is salt mixed with sand and gravel.

And short of catty and short of two,

Alsace was silent, because what Li Ke said was the truth.

The truth is the most silencing thing.

Alsace angrily smashed the blueprint in his hand on the table, and couldn't help but yelled.

"Is he teaching me how to do things?!"

He was very angry, but he couldn't tell who he should be angry with, whether he was angry at those corrupt nobles, or angry at his father's inaction, or——

Angry that I don't have Li Ke's ability to leave others behind and do it alone?
He knew very well that without nobles, he would not be able to manage so many people by himself. Although the nobles were loyal to him, these people would undoubtedly consider their families.

Just like him, he also has to think about his family.

Everyone has selfishness, and he is very clear that the reason why his father reuses Sir Uther is because the other party has no selfishness.

But this……

What the hell is this?

Why can Li Ke's people eat salt that is dozens of times cheaper than his people?
Why? !

Why can Li Ke's citizens earn enough to feed a family of eight as long as they can work an eight-hour job? !

Why?
Arthas understood Li Ke's drawing completely, but he was even more angry because of it.

He saw the 'role' of the nobility:
Let the goods become extremely expensive, and the income of the people is extremely low!Put his kingdom in jeopardy!

They are a bunch of moths!
But he still wants to use these moths to rule his kingdom!

He wants to be like a log, watching these moths drill around his body!
"damn it!!"

He smashed the table with his fist angrily, but firmly held the drawing that Li Ke gave him in his hand.

Li Ke did not give him semi-finished technology, but real technology.

But although what Li Ke showed him was true and comprehensive, there were still things that were not shown.

Li Ke didn't show him his—

cost.

(End of this chapter)