He always knows what the people most urgently need, and then satisfies it to a certain extent.

Compared with Soth, who can bring practical benefits and benefits to the people, Elminster's ideas are too conservative.

The most important thing is that the Harper Alliance may be the best spies, spies and assassins in Faerûn. They can stand up at critical moments to turn the tide and stop the evil invasion.

But they have never been qualified rulers and builders, and cannot bring tangible benefits to ordinary people at all."

Kui Lu nodded thoughtfully: "What you said makes sense. For a ruler, ability is indeed far more important than alignment. But it sounds like you are interested in Elminster and Harp.

Feeling quite pessimistic about the future of hands?"

Alustriel sighed slightly and explained: "You don't understand what Soth is like.

If he is determined to destroy the Harpers, it will definitely not be a simple cleanup, encirclement and killing.

Instead, it eradicates the foundation and rationality of the Harpers' existence from the root, destroys their ideology and values, and at the same time inflicts merciless heavy damage on the spiritual level.

Elminster is no longer young, and his mentality has become more and more aging with age.

Watching the organization that he spent hundreds of years building collapse and disintegrate in a very short period of time, I worry that he may not be able to withstand such a blow."

"Then what do you mean..."

Kui Lu raised her head and stared at her sisters.

"What I mean is to try to maintain a close relationship with South and stand up when necessary to let both parties reach an agreement and end the conflict between them."

Alustriel didn't hide anything and expressed his thoughts openly.

To put it simply, it is to provide insurance for this conflict.

"No problem! I am very happy to be on the same side as you. And Eilistraee also very much hopes that I can get close to Soth and have a deeper understanding of him."

Kui Lu thought about it for a while and quickly agreed.

In this way, two of the seven sisters formed an offensive and defensive alliance in private, and then returned to the venue to enjoy the fine wine and food provided by the Church of Woking, the goddess of wealth.

According to the plan, they will stay in Ascatra for three days to discuss specific matters regarding trade and future industrial layout with representatives from other towns.

In addition, there are also parts of cooperation with Lantan Island and Gunde, the god of craftsmen and crafts.

Under Zuo Si's matchmaking, the entire West Coast is gradually combining technology, resources and markets to open a new era.

Since the capitalist revolution has not yet occurred in Faerûn, no one yet knows what these cooperations that seem to be beneficial to everyone mean.

But Woking, the goddess of wealth, has already foreseen the future scene in which she will be promoted to a powerful god.

At this moment, she was standing on the top floor of a huge building in the super cyberpunk city on the ninth level of Baator Hell, admiring the scenes of indulgence outside, as well as the desire of countless mortals and devils to trade and earn wealth.

, couldn't help but slightly pursed his lips and said in admiration: "Everything can be traded! Everything can be bought and sold! This is simply the most perfect country in my ideal country. Dear Soth, you really never let me down."<

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"Great goddess, according to your instructions, we have spent money to buy this building, as well as other surrounding lands and shops."

A very high-ranking female petitioner knelt on one knee and reported to her god.

"Very good! Immediately allocate manpower to run this place to expand my influence in this city and strive to make more mortals and even devils become my believers." Waking ordered without looking back.
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"Understood! I have made arrangements. Within three days at most, this place will become a bustling downtown area, providing a variety of goods and services."

Female petitioners swore to give their guarantees.

After all, there is nothing else in the kingdom of the goddess of wealth. There are really a lot of capable businessmen.

As long as they come to this plane and get familiar with the business environment, they will soon be able to get along like a fish in water.

Hearing these words, a satisfied expression suddenly appeared on Woking's face, and he continued to urge: "Remember, our ultimate goal is not to make wealth, but to have influence and influence in this huge city.

The right to speak.

All the profits I make will be invested in advertising and funding those devils who have the potential to become parliamentarians and bureaucrats.

Within five years, I will control at least one-tenth of the public opinion media in this city and have politicians who can fight for our interests in the parliament.

In this way, travelers and adventurers from other planes will bring my name back and expand their faith to other planes."

"As you wish, great goddess."

The petitioners were obviously aware of Woking's grand plan and his growing ambition.

This goddess of wealth is no longer satisfied with just being the goddess of wealth in Faerûn, but wants to use the ninth level as a springboard to enter other material planes in the entire universe, just like Ogma, the god of knowledge.

Just as Waking was thinking about how to use the rules to achieve this goal, two pieces of news from Faerûn suddenly caught her attention.

One of them you know without asking is the Trade Alliance meeting being held in Ascaltra.

The other one is the sudden food crisis in Sambia.

Yes!

After the dumping of unlimited amounts of low-priced grain that lasted for a long period of time and repeatedly confirmed that the country's grain cultivation was completely destroyed, Bernard finally started the second phase of the trade war.

He first ended the operation of continuing to sell grain, and directly changed his identity with the merchants of Amn, and went to another city to sell the most popular luxury goods while using the funds at hand to purchase grain.

At the beginning, the oligarchs in Sambia thought that this fool was buying grains that were so cheap that they were worthless at such a high price. They packed up and sold the grains they had on hand, and then went to other cities.

Purchase to earn the difference.

As a result, not long after, food prices began to soar uncontrollably.

During the autumn harvest, various towns were surprised to find that due to the impact of the previous low food prices, no one in Sambia was growing food, but instead all crops were grown in cotton, flax, sugar cane, grapes, safflower, madder and other industries.

Crops.

Needless to say, the nobles and manor owners who control large tracts of land must grow what they want to make money.

As for those small-scale homesteaders who make a living by growing grains, their land has basically been annexed by wealthy people due to a large number of bankruptcies in the past. They have no control over what they grow and can only follow the orders of their masters. As a result, they do not grow any grain.

This means that by this time next year, the entire Sambia will not have even a tiny bit of food in storage.

What's even worse is that due to the high purchase price offered by Bernard, many places have directly emptied their warehouses of grain in preparation for this year's new grain entering the warehouse.

So Sambia fell into famine as expected.

And the more this happens, the more each family wants to hoard food and make a huge profit from it, without considering the life and death of ordinary people at all.

The prices of grains, flour, etc. have increased fifty-fold in less than half a month, and there is no intention of stopping.

Many poor people originally living at the bottom of society cannot even afford black bread mixed with sawdust and weeds. They can only become beggars or join criminal gangs to make a living by robbing and stealing.

Although the rapidly deteriorating public security situation made the oligarchs as the ruling class realize that the situation was not good, they sent fleets to Cormyr or other places to purchase food to curb the rise in food prices.

But the question is how could Bernard, who is proficient in business, give the other party such an opportunity? He had already sent people to purchase grain from Cormyr, Tumis, Hantu and other surrounding areas, raising it to a very high level.

Level.

This directly aroused the vigilance of local rulers, who ordered a ban on the outflow of food.

The worst thing is the Valley. Since there is no unified country and political power, the economy and trade capabilities are weak, so it has been the most severely affected.

If the Harper Alliance hadn't failed in the end, and used the power of magic to open the portal and bring back some food to temporarily stabilize the situation, 80% of them would have fallen into chaos.

In the end, under the operation of huge capital, Sambia's oligarchy finally collapsed completely.

As a large number of civilians began to revolt under the threat of hunger and death, the layout that had been spent a lot of effort finally began to take effect.

Especially those rebel leaders who received funding from food and weapons swept through surrounding areas in a very short period of time and even captured one or two towns.

The angry people dragged out all the nobles, businessmen, oligarchs and their male family members and hanged them all, using young and beautiful female family members and servants as tools to vent their anger and desire.

Suddenly, violence, panic and chaos swept across Sambia. Even the Kingdom of Cormyr had to mobilize troops to the border to prevent the riots from spreading to its own territory.

In such a situation of imminent disaster, the reaction of oligarchs and businessmen can be imagined. Of course, they are to sell the properties close to the riot areas at low prices as much as possible to reduce losses.

Otherwise, after being occupied by the "mob", I'm afraid I won't even be able to get a copper plate.

At this time, Bernard and the Amn businessman group behind him finally started to take action, acquiring large tracts of land, manors, castles, workshops, minerals, woodland and art that was too late to be shipped away at almost free prices.

Crafts, high-end furniture, etc.

There is no doubt that this is a legal plunder, and it is also a feast for capital.

The Amn people disintegrated and destroyed their biggest competitor in Faerûn using only commercial means without spending a single soldier.

No!

Not only did they disintegrate and destroy, they also succeeded in taking control of the country.

Regardless of the outcome of this civil war, Sembia will become Amn's puppet.

Because after the war is over, the local people will find it unbelievable that everything they originally owned has become the property of the latter.

Moreover, the entire process of acquiring wealth and resources is a fair and open transaction, and does not violate any laws.

Obviously, this kind of bloodless war refreshed the knowledge of Wojin, the goddess of wealth, and made her realize that there are still many potentials that can be tapped in terms of wealth and trade.

So, she directly used her divine power to send a signal to Zuo Si who was far away in Ascatla.

About two or three minutes later, Zuo Si opened the portal and appeared next to the goddess out of thin air. He asked in a slightly puzzled tone: "Is there something important that you called me all the way here?"

"Did you plan this operation in Sambia?"
To be continued...