Global Lords: Me and My Calabash Kiddos

Chapter 83: Chapter 75: Food Price War, Probing the Yu

The spirit rain dripped into the swimming pool on top of the villa, leaving only a pool of liquid before quickly vaporizing.

This type of rainwater cannot be directly collected.

Drip, drip, the spirit rain lasted for three whole hours.

The territory members felt a long-lost comfort.

The fruits in the orchard, after this heavy rain, will surely ripen within two days.

Those fruits and vegetables are already overripe; if not picked, they will soon fall off.

Looking around, the west of the manor is a golden ocean, with wheat ears three times the size of those on Earth. Due to the ”too long” ripening time, they can be seen bursting through the husk, as if a gentle touch will make them fall.

”Gu Qianqiu, arrange two hundred people to operate the super harvester for harvesting the grain. All remaining people press the captives to pick all the vegetables and fruits. Store the watermelons and some fruits in the ice storage, stack the other vegetables together; I want to sell them quickly.”

Yi Tian commanded the task as he exited the city.

Nothing is absolutely perfect.

In this weather, Yi Tian’s first concern is the three thousand acres of vegetables and fruits.

If not, these vegetables will rot in at most two days.

Under the sun for half a day, the leaves will turn yellow, and many vegetables will lose moisture.

The grains are also tricky to handle, 18,000 acres, two super harvesters continuously working, it will take two days and nights to finish harvesting.

Yi Tian predicts that in two days, it will be the prime time for selling grains.

Yi Tian first sells some appetizers, although not maximizing the profit, it’s something inevitable.

Yi Tian ponders over pricing strategy; everything requires moderation, creating huge profits without mishandling the price is what Yi Tian hopes for.

In this food crisis, those who seize the opportunity will earn more.

Those who miss the chance might lose everything.

The treasure chest of a few days ago made many merchants, including Yi Tian, extremely anxious, fearing that the treasure chest might contain a large amount of grain.

This kind of mindset of harming others for self-interest is also inherent in human nature.

Similarly, if merchants stockpile grain today and didn’t sell it, tomorrow the Lords might suddenly have sufficient food, and the merchants will regret it.

Another point, this grain price hike cannot be too extreme. Mist Scroll is the Lords’ trump card.

”Someone can’t hold it any longer.”

Yi Tian opened the auction house, food section, and saw some food for sale in dribs and drabs.

Grains, vegetables, meats are all available.

The appearance of Yu changed many merchants’ thoughts; when water is scarce, everyone will definitely prioritize finding water, grain is secondary.

Many merchants entered the market early, securing their profits.

With many wolves and little meat, once food is auctioned, it disappears in less than a second.

Without decades of being single, it’s impossible to snatch food.

The grain made its initial appearance at twenty times the price, for 20 Celestial Dao Coins per kilogram.

Merchants continually tested the price, 30, 40, 60, 80, 90...

After two hours, the grain price shot up to 100 Celestial Dao Coins per kilogram.

And still, there is an upward trend...

Merchants were already envious, some directly listed prices at 200 Celestial Dao Coins per kilogram, even 500 Celestial Dao Coins per kilogram, 1,000 Celestial Dao Coins per kilogram.

Reckless price hikes!

But just then, a large batch of grains entered the market, priced below 200, giving Lords some options.

In a short time, it’s impossible to buy them all.

The moment those heavenly priced grains were instantly abandoned, the Lords finally realized there are many merchants selling grains and food; they were in a competitive relationship and feared any unforeseen events.

At this moment.

All merchants overestimated themselves and underestimated others.

They vainly believed that very few Lords in the world had stored grain, stored meat, owned ice storage, greenhouses, and graded soils.

Believed that in Celestial Dao World, there might not be a single one who can eradicate locusts even in a whole major district!

Believed that in Celestial Dao World, those who can kill Rain Beasts were unparalleled!

In reality, not only in major districts, even within subregions, there are many merchants sharpening their knives.

Moreover, there’s even a handful of people with the buggy Rain Beast Core.

Perhaps in the second summer minor season, a large batch of merchants is preparing.

After gaining short-term windfall profits, this time, the merchants lost their means to expand benefits.

The grain price did not break through 200, a large batch of grains priced above 200 went ignored.

Merchants varied, after being stalled by the Lords for half an hour, they began discounting grains.

180, 150, 130, 110, 100.

Those impatient ”pseudo-merchants” indeed dragged down some ”genuine merchants” who remained calm.

The key is there are more pseudo-merchants than genuine ones; they only focus on immediate interests, severely following the trend.

Lords are not easy to fool; they can accept high prices, but absolutely not heavenly prices.

Merchants’ unbridled price hikes made most Lords form a tacit understanding.

Celestial Dao Coins could pop out at 1000, this world most Lords’ three-dimensional stats haven’t broken 100, plus the territory slaves, they might eat to bankruptcy within a few days.

Not to mention, greed has no end; if Lords compromise at 1000, merchants would aggressively report even higher prices.

Is this really asking for money?

This is asking for lives!

If truly forcing the Lords, blades of grass, tree bark, ”protein”, enduring for ten days is feasible.

Junior-level Mist Scrolls, during the last Celestial Dao Fortune, were basically given to everyone. The feasibility of hunting outside is enormous!

As long as they endure until a new round of grains mature, let the profiteers go to hell!

As the territory members harvested vegetables, Yi Tian witnessed this grain siege warfare.

Ultimately, the grain price stabilized at 100 Celestial Dao Coins per kilogram; this price made the Lords heartache, but they reluctantly accepted.

In reality, merchants have already profited a hundred times, but still insatiable, many merchants believe grain is equivalent to life, thousands, tens of thousands of times could be feasible.

Little did the lords know, their situation wasn’t entirely hopeless, as the Celestial Dao Rules always left a lifeline!

”This is just the beginning; there are definitely many people with food, never underestimate the people of the world.”

Yi Tian exclaimed as countless amounts of grain poured into the auction house.

The transaction volume of these grains was enormous; all the grain Yi Tian possessed couldn’t match the auction house’s sales in one minute.

Even though Yi Tian had nearly 40 million kg of grain, there was no possibility of increasing the price.

Celestial Dao Coins met Yi Tian’s psychological expectations. If the price can be maintained in two days, earning tens of billions of Celestial Dao Coins from grains is no problem for Yi Tian.

Meat products were relatively expensive, 500 Celestial Dao Coins per kg, mostly dried meat, smoked meat, with a small portion of fresh meat, likely from freshly slaughtered ferocious beasts.

Meat was scarcer than grain, and at this price, they were usually bought within minutes.

This time, Yi Tian harvested various vegetables totaling 26 million kg.

Watermelon, Hami melon, sweet melon, and other fruits totaling 5 million kg.

These were all the vegetable seeds Yi Tian had.

Yi Tian categorized the vegetables into three price levels.

The third tier consisted of green vegetables, cabbage, carrots, onions, potatoes, loofah, pumpkin, winter gourd, leek, celery, etc., with very high acre yields, totaling 21 million kg.

These vegetables were hard to sell at high prices, and were only sold at the price of grain, 100 Celestial Dao Coins per kg.

The second tier consisted of cucumbers, tomatoes, eggplants, green beans, green peppers, etc., with slightly lower acre yields, totaling 5 million kg.

These vegetables were sold at 200 Celestial Dao Coins per kg.

The third tier consisted of watermelon, sweet melon, Hami melon, climbing fruit, totaling 5 million kg.

These fruits were more durable than vegetables, and Yi Tian planned to keep them in ice storage, selling them as ice-chilled fruits at 500 Celestial Dao Coins per kg.

This was the price Yi Tian analyzed from market trends, although somewhat ruthless, considering this opportunity to potentially gather Elemental Warriors, Yi Tian had to go along with it.

Over a thousand people harvested the vegetables at lightning speed.

In just a few hours, the vegetables were piled into dozens of heaps.

Yi Tian took out the Celestial Dao Stone, scanned a pile of vegetables, set the price, and listed them!

The first heap of hundreds of thousands of kilograms of vegetables quickly sold out, converting into a massive amount of Celestial Dao Coins.

Yi Tian didn’t raise the price and continued with the second heap, third heap...

Two hours later, all vegetables except for watermelon and other fruits were sold!

Under the sun, some of the vegetables had already lost moisture.

Fortunately, everything went smoothly.

3.1 billion Celestial Dao Coins earned!

Over 7 billion Elemental Warriors seemed to be halfway prepared.

Just as Yi Tian accumulated 3.1 billion, the keen-minded individuals of the Celestial Dao World were in an uproar.

A series of Wealthiest in the World auction slips appeared, quickly transforming into Celestial Dao Coins and falling into Yi Tian’s pocket.

They were already numb to all this; other merchants auctioning tens of thousands of kilograms of food was already significant, unlike Yi Tian whose sales were in the hundreds of thousands, completely unreasonable.

The auction slips made it easy to calculate Yi Tian’s earnings.

3.1 billion Celestial Dao Coins!

What does Wealthiest in the World need so many Celestial Dao Coins for, does he actually spend them all?

It’s impossible to slaughter the fat lamb.

Wealthiest in the World hides too deeply, no one has seen his true appearance, moreover, no one knows which major region he belongs to.

In fact, more people coveted not Wealthiest in the World’s Celestial Dao Coins but Wealthiest in the World’s Spirit Fruit and Enlightenment Tea!

Moreover, the secret of Wealthiest in the World’s Spirit Fruit!

In this world, nothing was more important than strengthening one’s power.

Wood Spirit Liquid was valuable, if buying large amounts of Wood Spirit Liquid to foster Spirit Fruit, it was a losing business.

Moreover, after the Wealthiest in the World Spirit Fruit event, lords possessing Wood Spirit Liquid wouldn’t sell a drop.

”Lord, as you predicted, some of our lake’s water supply ducts have been damaged, whether in Lake One or Lake Two, they’re alike.”

As territory members transported watermelon and other fruits back to the city using carts, Gu Qianqiu reported to Yi Tian.

Yu had finally appeared!

”Qianqiu, Yu, have you ever heard of it?” Yi Tian asked Gu Qianqiu.

”Seems I’ve read records of Yu in ancient texts, they live at dawn and die at dusk, their life is extremely short, but they can attack the shadows of living creatures, causing them to be plagued by bad luck during their brief existence.”

After pondering, Gu Qianqiu replied to Yi Tian: ”Yu appeared in the Ten Kingdoms Region countless years ago, causing quite a stir, now Yu is already part of history, but other specific information is unknown to me.”

”Live at dawn and die at dusk?” Yi Tian realized this was likely Yu strengthened by the Celestial Dao Rules.

In different major regions, Yu’s power varied.

From Purple Phoenix Moon Dance, Yi Tian discovered Yu hadn’t harmed anyone’s name.

Of course, if a lord really wants to take a risk, that’s uncertain.

”Gu Qianqiu, find a captured troublemaker of C-level strength and have him fetch water by the lake.”

Yi Tian instructed Gu Qianqiu.

Yu’s appearance, number, attack method, aftermath of the attack, Yi Tian knew none of these and could only test them.

Moreover, Yi Tian had other ideas.

For example, Brass Mechanized Guard, Elemental Warriors!

Whether these ”special members” would be attacked by Yu?

”Yes, I’ll arrange it immediately!”

Gu Qianqiu swiftly captured a Black Scale Race Silver Warrior.

This person was always slacking off at work, never grasping the essence of 8127, nor realizing he was a captive, still dreaming of 966, Gu Qianqiu had tolerated him for a long time.

Even Horn Alliance Golden Warriors weren’t as arrogant.

Did you see how, after being beaten hanging on the iron pillar in the west of the city, the Three-Eyed One-Horned High Priest also behaved obediently?