Clink!
The flushed and excited crowd toasted once more, indulging in the feast laid before them.
Many precious ingredients were carelessly tossed to the ground.
Then, quietly picked up by waiters and stuffed into their own pockets, provoking laughter among them.
[Banker] Hal Black grabbed a handful of silver coins from his pocket and stuffed them into the maid's chest, laughing:
"The enclosure movement not only granted us land, wool, wealth, and status, but nearly monopolized the entire nation's food trade market.
Converting vast farmland 'from agriculture to pasturage' increased national fiscal revenue, yet with food no longer produced, it relied solely on imports from our grain merchants, essentially handing its lifeline over to us.
With us pulling strings from behind the scenes, how could royal iron not retreat step by step?
Ever since this year's enclosure movement reached its peak, plus the impact of war, Hightins' grain prices have also risen continuously.
