Durin's Diary

Chapter 316: Adding money to lay people
The nickname "The Money Wise Man" spread throughout the Genoa area in just one day.

According to a secret source in Genoa, the nobles burst into curses after hearing Dulin's proposal to increase the price by 150%.

But hunger was rampant in the city, and every mouth was crying for food. Moreover, before today, there had never been a precedent in this land for the besiegers to sell food to the unfortunate people under the besiege. Even several churches acquiesced to the 150% price increase.

In the words of the Church of the God of Mercy, it is already very difficult for Northernism to achieve this step. What's wrong with adding money? Don't you nobles know the situation in the city? Let alone 150%, even if it is 300%, it is the mercy of Northernism.

Some of the nobles also felt that they were powerful in the past and had never thought of selling grain when they surrounded the Northerners.

Now I think a 150% price increase is not unacceptable. After all, if I am starving to death, what good is more money?

So, under the supervision of the churches, the teams from the city came in convoys empty-handed, exchanged real gold and silver for food, and then returned to the city.

Good news, there is food in the city.

Not everyone gets the bad news, and those who do get it have different degrees of closeness to them.

Most people are loyal to their slaves, so the secret agents said that they are nervous because so many defenders want to connect with them recently. Everyone has their own ideas.

There was even a secret agent who took the commander of a city gate guard out of the city in the middle of the night to contact Northernism. The other party used his only son as a hostage, saying that if the army attacked, he would definitely join in the effort - if they failed, his child would be left to the care of Northernism.

Now that people have talked about this, Daju also admits that he is the good one, and Du Lin simply plays the whole role, and he lived up to everyone's expectations and passed the lie detection test.

Now everyone no longer has any objections.

Many people even try to make a fortune every day - you see, Farol is surrounded by the sea on three sides, and there are a lot of sailors. They can just catch the seafood in the nearby waters and have the mages process it, and then sell it to the city.

Du Lin stopped their plan.

If you ship too much, everyone in the city will be well fed. How can I implement my plan? Will anyone take the initiative to find a way out because their children can't stand being hungry?

After Du Lin said this, the secretaries finally decided to ship once a week, which could only provide about 60% to 70% of the city's demand.

People won’t starve to death with this number, but when they can’t stand the hunger anymore, they will have some thoughts.

By June, Genoa opened its gates and surrendered.

The commanders of thirteen of the seventeen defending regiments surrendered to the Northerners outside the city as hostages, and they were all their own children or grandchildren.

The remaining four regiments killed their noble leaders and revolted.

As soon as Northernism entered the city, it began to control public order and hanged all the heroes who wanted to buy for free on street lamps.

Seventy percent of the property of the surrendered nobles was confiscated, and the rest could be taken out of the city.

Because of this, almost no nobles were willing to resist - even if they failed, at least the family would not have to meet again on the gallows. As for the oath swearing not to return to Farol, just sign it. No noble would go against themselves over such a life-threatening issue.

However, there were still a few diehards who refused to surrender, and the masters of Northernism rushed forward to help them enjoy the gallows meal.

Of course, their property became Northernist.

As for the churches of the aristocratic church in Genoa, which would be demolished, Northernism only shot the bishops, and let the remaining irrelevant people go to the Sidney Diocese in the north on their own.

As soon as Genoa opened the city, Northernism won a great victory, and Durin's reputation as a wise man who could give extra money quickly spread again. Now even when Durin's brother Poole called him, the first thing he said was, "You kid won't give me extra money, will you?"

In addition to Lublin's Dulin Elsh, there is now a new saying about Dulin.

The wise man with money, Turin Corleone. Of course, Poole is no better, he is now a doctor in Marseilles, the wise man with money.

Poole burst into tears at this - our Corleone family fought for Northernism and never cared about what happened before and after. How could our reputation be ruined to this extent?

Du Lin laughed at this - precisely because you don't remember what happened before and after your death, what's the point of you caring about reputation? Your old man used himself as a chessboard to revitalize Northernism, so why do you care about this empty reputation?
Let me ask you, does my method work?

People never worry about scarcity, but about inequality.

So, it’s still what Du Lin said.

With the example of Genoa, Northernism was also prepared to implement this tactic in Venice.

The Venetian nobles refused.

So Northernism began to seize fishing boats - not destroying the boats, but seizing the boats and the people on board.

This time the city was opened in less than half a month - the starving foreign defenders broke through the city gate in the middle of the night to join in the event, and the Northerners entered the city. This time a wave of street fighting took place, and Durin's opinion was implemented - that is, the artillery followed the infantry into the city, and the infantry was responsible for clearing both sides of the streets, and when they encountered large firepower points while marching on the avenue, they would use artillery to bombard them.

The battle was basically over by noon. At least half of the nobles chose to surrender directly, and the rest either died in battle or were hanged.

Of course, if they are willing to give away all their property, Northernism will also let go of their wives, children and the elderly.

We Northerners are really too kind.

That’s what Dulin thought—because the idea wasn’t Dulin’s.

But it doesn’t matter. A few old people and children can’t cause any trouble.

But as Du Lin said before, victory is just the beginning.

For the first time, Northernism felt the pain of a cadre gap.

So they finally asked for support from Marseille, and then Dulin's brother Pool was sent over.

In the words of old Ganedrack Francis, the South needs you more.

Poole had no choice but to be moved here.

Du Lin finally met his brother and his team again.

Not one more, not one less, is a good thing.

Poole followed Secretary Sora, who was now in charge of the Genoa area. Poole's biggest daily job was to organize work-for-relief.

For example, factories resumed operations, city walls were repaired, summer wheat was planted in the fields outside the city, and even sewers were dredged.

This was also Du Lin's idea. People cannot be starved, but they cannot be left idle either. They must be given work. Civilians are in poor health now, so their workload can be reduced, but they cannot be allowed to be lazy.

"You are so unkind." Poole even blamed Durin for this.

"We in the Grassland Elf Territory have never raised lazy people. I believe that Northernism doesn't need any lazy people either. It's a good thing to let everyone use their labor to create a better future." Having said this, Du Lin looked at his brother and said, "Believe me, brother, the human heart needs to be tempered."

There is no doubt about this.

(End of this chapter)