"If your guess is correct, they are 'processing' the backlog of goods." Gaia said after taking a sip of water, although she didn't need to do this.

"Why?" Anrak looked at Gaia with wide eyes, "Why not sell it to those who need it at a low price?"

"Because the cargo owner believes that if the price is lowered to a level that is acceptable to the current people, the income earned will be lower than the cost paid to sell these things." Gaia looked at Anrak who still looked puzzled, Penke

The same is true for Dora and others, and they continued to explain, "Goods are not produced before they can be sold directly to consumers. Merchants also need to pay the cost of packaging the goods and transporting the goods to the market. When the merchants find that selling goods not only cannot withdraw funds, but also reduces the amount of money."

When they suffer losses and have to pay an extra fee, they would rather not sell the goods and destroy them on the spot."

"...That's right." Anrak nodded doubtfully.

Dora and Punk, who had seen more, looked at each other and remained silent.

Gaia continued: "In addition, some commodities may be abandoned due to supply and demand problems. When market demand is far greater than supply, the price of commodities will rise. Faced with huge profits, nobles will start production in a rush.

For this kind of commodity, their actions caused the market supply and demand to suddenly reverse. In this case, even if the nobles sell the goods at a loss, there will be a considerable amount of excess goods that cannot be sold at all and have to be disposed of."

"So, which category are these people dealing with?"

Gaia couldn't help but frowned. How could he know which type it belonged to? He couldn't even contact the observer, so he could just take a look.

Anrak looked at Gaia's face and asked blankly: "You don't know, right?"

"Yes, I don't know." For some reason, Gaia felt a little uncomfortable and admitted very frankly, "My personal guess is the former one."

At this time, Miramichi clapped softly and praised: "Mr. Gaia,"

"Your insights are quite interesting,"

"I always thought you were not very smart,"

"Now I hope you can accept our apology."

"You're welcome." Gaia smiled at Miramichi, "I'm used to being ignored and looked down upon by guys who claim to be smart."

Then Miramichi's expression became quite interesting, and her red skin twitched slightly with excitement.

Anrak completely ignored what happened between Gaia and Miramichi, and asked again: "Then if it was cleaned bicorn meat and cured ham, would the nobles also deal with it wantonly? I listen.

The traveling elf said that this kind of thing has already happened in the southern part of the Human Federation."

Gaia couldn't help but frown at this question. In the last era, he heard a joke that he didn't know whether it was true or not: in the city-state era, the magic airship airbags in many countries were made from the skins of bicorns. In order to meet the demand for building airships, the people of these countries

During the war, sausages and bicorn meat were never seen.

Although she doesn't know whether this joke is true or not, Gaia is very aware of how tight the supply of meat products in various countries was at that time, and even now, it seems that this situation has not been completely resolved.

If the nobles really disposed of ham and bicorn meat at will, even though the quantity is unknown and it is not comparable to the scale of pouring milk into the river in the last era, it still shows that the southern economy is on the verge of collapse.

When Gaia was silent, Dora suddenly pulled out today's newspaper from the bag behind her and handed it to Gaia.

After thanking Dora, Gaia quickly browsed through the headlines on each page, only to see a patchwork of whitewashed reports - it seemed that news reporters had the same thing no matter what time and space they were: Who pays to speak for whom?

Putting down the newspaper, Gaia's expression became more serious.

"What's wrong?" Anrak asked Gaia in concern. Dora and Penke glanced at the front page of the newspaper that was thrown on the sofa, and the confusion on their faces deepened.

Only Miramichi is still smiling, and it has nothing to do with financial problems.

"Maybe the avalanche will come earlier than we expected." Gaia finally spoke after a moment of silence and tried to contact the observer again. "The nobles started to handle the goods like this, which means that the futures are finished. I don't know what the futures exchange is now.

The situation, but I guess it is already in chaos. The nobles who are hoarding goods are probably thinking about how to reduce their losses, but they will eventually find that no matter how they do it, their wealth will shrink quickly."

Gaia, who still couldn't get in touch, shook her head and continued: "Of course there should be a few guys who choose to sell short orders who will laugh happily, but most people would not have expected the prices of various commodities a few months ago.

It will all go down together.”

Anrak still looked confused, but Dora and Penk looked like they understood, and then Gaia said: "The next step is the bank, right? The bank lends money to the nobles for futures trading, and the wealth of the nobles

But it evaporated, so the bank couldn't collect their money."

"What's worse is that the futures contracts used to cover the debt will become worthless," Gaia added.

"Um...do I need to do something?"

Gaia was not prepared for Anrak's sudden question, so she was stunned for a moment before asking: "What should we do?"

"Yes, isn't this a good opportunity to fish in troubled waters? Don't look at me like this, I still have quite a lot of copper coins in my hand."

Gaia scratched the back of his head in embarrassment. Although he had seen a lot of messy financial and economics examples through observers, the knowledge gained from this kind of observation would not be very professional. He knew the general principles and used them to bluff

He's not a bad person - especially now that financial and economic theory lags far behind what it was in the previous era.

But it would be too difficult for Gaia to actually operate it.

But Anrak didn't seem to give up yet. Just when he was about to say something, Dora suddenly took out a document bag from his carry-on bag, unbuttoned the document bag and said: "You two wait a moment, although I am just a

An ordinary explorer, in the words of the mustached king of the defeated southern country, I belong to the middle class, or petty bourgeoisie, and so on. But I have a child who happens to be in the futures trading that Mr. Gaia just mentioned.

work.”

While saying this, Dora looked at Anrak from time to time. It seemed that she had decided that the inventory of this female vampire who "has quite a lot of copper coins" was not that simple.

Anrak did not speak, and when Dora continued, Penke continued to look at Gaia, who was sitting on the sofa, and shrugged, as if "leaving all the powers to Dora".

After hesitating for a moment, Gaia herself knew that even if she went to find the leaders of various kingdoms, people with unknown identities and origins like herself would probably not be able to meet them, let alone make the other side believe in her.

You can't just say: "Daddy, be obedient." right?


Chapter completed!