As she spoke, Zi Yan was still muttering in her heart, you can choose not to save the people in those four cities, but I can't ignore my brothers and sisters in the Holy Church!
Lu Chen happily took another sip of wine, then spoke cheerfully, "Who said we can't save them? Of course we have to. Don't worry, they won't last much longer. The price of Artemisia annua will collapse sooner or later."
Seeing Zi Yan's puzzled expression, Lu Chen sympathetically explained, "As I've said before, the reason these merchants were able to monopolize the artemisia annua market in such a short period of time was because they invested a lot of money. A lot of this money was borrowed from other sources, and they have to pay interest."
"Now they have a huge backlog of artemisia annua, and they have to pay huge interest every day. As long as the artemisia annua is not sold, their pressure will increase day by day. When they find that even if they sell the artemisia annua, it can't make up for the losses, they will completely collapse."
"Do you know what collapse means? It's a rout like an avalanche. The scene is quite spectacular. If hundreds or even thousands of people aren't killed, it wouldn't be worthy of the word collapse."
"So how long will this take?"
"Well, it depends on my mood."
"What do you mean?"
"Because I said that Artemisia annua can treat malaria, maybe tomorrow I will find a drug that can replace Artemisia annua."
"Hiss~ How much money will these people have to pay then?"
"The principal plus interest isn't much, but the bulk of it is liquidated damages. A rough estimate is that all ten families combined will have to pay at least 30 million taels!"
"Thirty million taels is not a small amount. Will they default on the debt?"
"Don't worry, the contract was signed in great detail, there aren't any loopholes."
"How do you know this?"
"Haha, of course it's because I lent them that money!"
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