User blog comment:Zippertrain85/"Why the Empire Should Prevail Over the Stormcloaks! Part 3 (Economics)" Refuted/@comment-6044976-20131228125415/@comment-24355185-20131230134441

StarkBlack, your example of mines, unfortunately for you, is actually the worst example you could give. You could have said anything! Forests, farms, fish! But no, you said that the Cyrodiil has ample mines. Ulfric specifically states that one of the benefits of taking the Reach is that the Empire can no longer "raping" her silvermines.

"Now that the Empire has been driven from the Reach we can put a stop to the raping of her silver mines."

Cyrodiil needs Skyrim. Simple as. Trade will not cease, it does not cease. The EEC is in Windhelm after all!