"There was a certain connection."
Roger said with a smile, "In short, the greatest effect of this operation was putting more money into circulation. Once there is more money on the market, all we need is for more goods to circulate, and the lives of most people will improve."
"Once their lives improve, the greatest impact will be that the population starts growing even more rapidly. Our plan is already more than halfway successful."
The Magic Goddess listened to Roger and nodded slightly. She had roughly understood his line of thought.
It was not difficult to understand, really.
There were only a few core issues.
The grain produced by one mu of land was enough to feed a whole family, so not that many people needed to buy grain. With too much grain on the market, prices plummeted.
As grain prices crashed, nobles and estate owners realized that grain had become so cheap that farming might not even recover its costs. Thus, people started wanting to sell their land. The more land there was for sale, the lower land prices fell.
With both land prices and grain prices crashing, those who had originally planned to save money to buy land instead wanted to spend it on other things they considered valuable. Meanwhile, merchants and nobles holding valuable goods were unwilling to sell them for the moment, so prices rose.
But if that was all, the money of the wealthy would still remain in their warehouses. Only the goods had stopped circulating.
Thus, Roger intended to encourage more people to enter magitech industrialization and produce all kinds of goods in large quantities. Once there were more things on the market, prices would naturally fall.
As for the nobles and merchants, they were simply too wealthy. Their money needed new ways to