Baseles did not meet with the peasant representatives outside the city, and the peasants did not disperse, but they arranged camps and put on a posture of long-term petitions. In addition to the peasants who had already arrived in Constantinople, there were also peasants from various agricultural areas of the Eastern Roman Empire.

There was a curfew throughout Constantinople, and some streets were closed to traffic during the day, and residents who were forced to take long detours complained. Walking through the streets, listening to these complaints, Sheila was just glad that she didn't stupidly choose to ride in the carriage. The carriages on the street were moving at a speed that was far from walking, and Sheila had overtaken one inspected carriage after another to reach the front of her destination.

This is a mansion, and the owner of the house is a big nobleman, and at this time he took the whole family back to the country. After the re-establishment of the legions, the Roman court took control of the life and death of everyone in Constantinople, and at this time most of the people in Constantinople were not friendly to the great nobles.

When I entered the house, I was greeted by a young face. The relatives of this great nobleman are temporarily in charge of the house, and Sheila's relative is really bold enough. In case a crowd rushed in, the old and weak in the house would not be able to do even the slightest resistance. The living room was full of young faces, and Sheila was a little surprised that there was no carriage in sight in the courtyard. As the people in the congregation discussed the convenience of coming on foot, Sheila couldn't help but smile. The old guys are used to things that represent identity, but the young people are not. At least for Sheila, it's actually quite comfortable to walk.

Everyone quickly put Sheila in a very important position, and the young man in charge of the housekeeper asked, "Miss Sheila, I think what you said last time makes a lot of sense, but can you really do it?" ”

"Can you do it to see the Great Song. As I said before, the land of the Great Song and Ugram yielded about 50 atabi wheat, and the Eastern Roman yield was 30 atabi."

"I think there's only 25 atabi in a lot of places." Someone said what he knew about the yield.

Sheila didn't want to dwell on this content, she continued: "If the output of Eastern Rome can also reach the output of the Great Song Dynasty, what do you think is the profit price of selling grain? ”

"Twice as much at the beginning of the year?" The young housekeeper aristocracy said a very direct feeling number.

Sheila sighed inwardly, she originally thought so, but after asking the technical staff at the office, she realized that it didn't feel reliable. She stood up and walked over to the blackboard she had ordered, took out the notebook in her pocket, picked up the chalk and copied it according to the contents of the notebook.

Farming is not a simple process of burying seeds in the soil and waiting for them to grow and harvest. Sheila writes down the simplest process. Including breeding, ploughing, composting, fertilization, and driving birds and beasts away before sowing. There are also the labors of the cultivators. Even the process of the recent order was written for several minutes.

It took another half an hour to explain, and finally added up all the consumption. If we do not talk about how much is distributed to the cultivators after harvest, and simply calculate the input in the production process, if a Ugram land produces 50 atabi wheat, its price is actually a little lower than the CIF price of imported wheat in the Yuan Kingdom. The price of wheat is much lower than at the beginning of the year.

The young aristocrats were stunned, partly shocked by the price, and more overwhelmed by Sheila's familiarity with agriculture. Many people looked at Sheila's eyes full of distrust, the price is really so low, isn't it possible to make a fortune by farming.

At a loss for a while, the gatekeeper said with some muttering, "Let's talk about something else." ”

Sheila's heart was full of contempt for these useless men, whether it was an old nobleman, a young nobleman, or a middle-aged nobleman who was neither old nor young. The reaction of these people to hearing these stories was the same, they didn't believe it and didn't want to try. Well, only the kid known as the abnormal Dahl family was interested in these and signed a cooperation agreement with Sheila. Now the agricultural technicians of the office have arrived at Dahl's house with tools and seeds. Apprentices recruited by Europa followed suit. If this group of nobles doesn't care about this at all, probably only the boys of the Dahl family can make these nobles understand that this kind of thing is not impossible. If you don't do it, of course you can't do it.

The nobles then began to discuss the recent situation, and the number of people outside the city increased, but Baseleus insisted that he could not see the representatives of the group. Baseleus's attitude is said to be that he will never accept coercion. Most of the aristocrats thought that Barcellus was too stubborn, and if he was willing to meet with the peasant representatives and promise to raise the price of grain, a crisis that shook the East Rome would probably be resolved immediately.

Sheila didn't speak, just listened quietly. She felt that the nobles certainly wanted to raise the price of food, but they did not have the courage to publicly declare their position. If people on the street heard the nobles' claims, they had to spit on them if they didn't throw stones. As a result of rising food prices, the pockets of already empty city dwellers will shrink dramatically, and they will not even have enough to eat.

While listening, someone asked Sheila, "Miss Sheila, I don't know what you think about the court's refusal to pay." The imperial court is so rich and can afford to support so many legions and legionnaires, why is it unwilling to come up with money to raise food prices. ”

Sheila looked at the person who was asking, and it was not only the nobles who said this, but many of the residents of the city also made the same opinion. Sheila's old neighbors are like that, and Sheila has done a lot of talking in order to make them understand the problem. Now she really didn't bother to say it, because the old neighbors didn't understand the politics and finances of the Eastern Rome now, even if the problem was more acute. The aristocrats asked this question, and it made her feel that these guys had other agendas.

Seeing that Sheila was silent, the other young nobles also asked. Sheila could only speak: "Everyone, do you know what currency the imperial court paid to the Yuan State for buying the grain of the Yuan State. ”

"What currency?" The nobles were stunned.

"The import of grain from the Yuan State is the internal trade of the Quadripartite Alliance, and the imperial court pays the Yuan State the money paid by the Quartet." As she spoke, Sheila couldn't help but open her bag, took out her wallet from it, and took out a square note to show these nobles. After they finished reading, Sheila took out a few more coins from her wallet, "This is our Eastern Roman coin, you want this kind of coin when you sell grain in Constantinople." Do you know the settlement model of the four-party banknote? ”

Following the previous stunned face, the nobles began to shake their heads with a second face at this time. Sheila could only walk to the blackboard, and she couldn't bear to destroy the food cost calculation model she had written, so she chose an empty seat. But the space was too small for Sheila to write what she wanted to write. In the end, she only felt that anger was born from her heart, and since the nobles didn't care, there was no need to leave it for them to study. Sheila erased everything she had written and began to write on the empty blackboard about the appearance and patterns of internal trade.

The Quadripartite Alliance carried out international trade through the money banks of the province of Europa, and the grain of the Yuan Kingdom was sent to the Eastern Rome after completing customs clearance inspection and weighing, and then it entered the warehouses of various places, and then it was not paid by the Eastern Roman Empire, but directly transferred from the money houses of the province of Europa. The same is true for the purchase of goods by the Yuan Kingdom, and after the price and quality are determined and the goods are delivered, the money is also transferred from the money bank of the province of Europa and transferred to the accounts of the Eastern Roman Empire and other supplier countries.

This kind of trade settlement model is not even used by the four parties, and the settlement is completely completed on the books. The money banks set up by the province of Europa for trade were not controlled by the Song people of the province of Europa. Each settlement is fully attended by the resident accountant team of the relevant country to ensure that the data is correct.

Unlike the previous talk about grain planting, the nobles asked questions and spoke one after another when they listened to the lecture, and before Sheila could tell the final result, there were already shrewd and capable nobles who shouted excitedly: "It turns out that the grain obtained by the imperial court has nothing to do with domestic trade and currency. ”

Confused by the lack of intelligence, Sheila recounted it in detail for a long time, and the 'clever ghosts' in the middle interjected as clever themselves, showing that they had understood the problem. Those who are not smart enough have listened to this chaos for a long time before they suddenly realize. The young nobleman in charge of the housekeeper sighed: "No wonder Baseleus resolutely refused to agree to raise the price of grain. ”

"How?" The clever ghost didn't understand this time.

The housekeeper said a little proudly: "The price of domestic grain has nothing to do with the price of imported grain, if Baselus raises the price of imported grain, won't he have to give more money to the Yuan country, and the imperial court will not do this." ”

This view was immediately denied, "What you said is not right, foreign grain prices are different from domestic ones, and no matter how high domestic grain prices are, the imperial court does not need to give more money to the Yuan State." ”

The housekeeper also felt that this view was reasonable, but he still felt that something was wrong, and he couldn't hold his face, so he couldn't help but quarrel. Listening to the nonsense of these guys, Sheila felt that the men were really unreliable. Just as she was impatiently bowing her head to drink tea, she heard the housekeeper who had already lost the upper hand in the argument ask, "Miss Sheila, you can help me talk about it." ”

Sheila, of course, didn't want to help the housekeeper, and she didn't agree with other people's opinions, so she finished her tea and said: "Domestic food prices are different from foreign food prices, and there is a very important reality. The trading parties of the Quadripartite Alliance all have money in their hands, and they all have a lot of Quartet banknotes to pay for the sale. But we don't have any money in Eastern Rome, we don't have money to buy any food, do you think it's the church's soup kitchen? If you want to raise the price of grain so much, then let me ask you, at the beginning of the year, there were many people who bought grain, and who in your family took out the grain and sold it? At the current price of grain, many of your families have started to sell grain, but how much grain has been sold. If the price is low, the seller does not want to sell, and the buyer cannot afford to buy if the price is high. ”

The young nobles understood, and they were all silent. When Sheila puts the simplest reality in front of them, these people find that they don't understand it and can't accept it.