70 One Plant to Another (3)
"Reporting to milord, the Xian-Ren Grass, Mingwen Soybean Plant, and Prairie Golden Potato is growing fine. As for the Yulan Maple Tree, we just moved a batch of seeds to the nearby land to start cultivating them. Since the location is now becoming the living quarter for the Yulan Three Spider Tribe, your subject had a meeting with the Queen Spider to discuss what can we do with them."
"The Yulan Three Spider Tribe did cooperate very well with us. Half of the one hundred Yulan Maple Tree will be cut for our first harvest, while we wait for the next batch of trees to grow. We estimate that if each Yulan Maple Tree produces 100 seeds, the second batch harvest will not be lesser than 5,000 trees."
Xiao Qing is prepared. Although Mu Qing Lang's continues to bombard him with questions, he's still capable of answering each of them flawlessly like there's an answer at the back of his palm.
"So, we're left with the Stone Cornfruit Plant and Greenland Firesilk Plant." Mu Qing Lang speaks after he nods in approval on Xiao Qing's previous answer.
"The Stone Cornfruit Plant still has some time before they can be harvested for the cobs. As for the Greenland Firesilk Plant, we had twelve bamboo baskets full of Firesilk balls stored in the storehouse beside this building." Xiao Qing continued.
"Good job. Continue with what you're doing now and send some people to move the Firesilk Cotton, not ball, to my carriage by today. I will have something to do with them." Mu Qing Lang ends his sentence and left the Resting House.
With Xiao Qing following from behind, Mu Qing Lang took another glance of the prospering Eastern Changzhou Farm where his settlement located before this.
"Oh... I almost have forgotten about it." Mu Qing Lang turned back to face Xiao Qing and gave the Goblin Teacher the two kernels belonged to Sugar Cornfruit.
"Plant the Sugar Cornfruit beside the Prairie Sugar Root. Their maturity comes once every thirty-five days, so make sure they're harvested when the cob of Sugar Cornfruit ripened." Mu Qing Lang returned the two kernels to Xiao Qing and left unhindered by anything this time.
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Returning from the Jinjiang Village, the three village chiefs wrecked their brain for the sake of retaliating against Eastern Changzhou. And since working alone is no longer a correct decision, the Wuhan, Yelu, and Namu combined their strength.
The new establishment is named as Northern Han Half-Town. With two thousand people in Yelu Village and two thousand five-hundred people from Wuhan Village, they have far more than enough people to announce their Half-Completed Town status.
And at the same time, Northern Han also introduced its metal coin currency. Stamped with the word "North" on the upper part and "Han" from the name "Wuhan" on the lower part of the coin, the Beihan-Qian (Northern Han Coins) starts to circulate around their neighbors.
Their starting point can be said to be less-risky compared to Mu Qing Lang's personal experience. After all, the introduction of currencies in business trade had been done by Mu Qing Lang, and Northern Han Half-Town is merely following the trend.
The Beihan-Qian even spreads to Eastern Changzhou, forcing them to approves a few deals using their coins. Only today Mu Qing Lang found his time to focus on this matter.
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"Milord, we collected seventy Beihan-Qian for the sales of fifty-six bottles of Recovery Ointment. Because the trade did not follow the uses of our currency, the selling price offered to them is more expensive than usual." Fengbu reports the recent trades with outsiders to Mu Qing Lang and also regarding the seventy Beihan-Qian they collected.
"Did they attract away many of our business prospects?" Mu Qing Lang wasn't worried at all. Although he was a nobody in the Industry of Internal and External Trades, Mu Qing Lang's knowledge in them is still much higher than anyone else present inside this world.
In his opinion, the act of Northern Han is the same as playing with a campfire. Printing money out like it was nothing is fun, but that will not last long. After all, you will need to supply your client's needs when they come to purchase the goods.
While you did not produce anything on your own, how can you sustain yourself? Creating Beihan-Qian is a good idea as that could accumulate the supply of perishables and non-perishables to keep their Northern Han Half-Town alive from starvation is settler's riot.
But those are nothing different from taking a personal loan, which has to be repaid to the outsiders in the future to come. If your personal loan failed to generate income to the town, won't that became a failed investment?
What if the clients requested for repayment in either form suit to their needs? It might be easy to handle if they can get rid of the request using more Beihan-Qian they stamps, but what if the client requested for products alone, and not inedible coins?
"Answering milord, the business is affected slightly, but not too much as the visitors still demanded products such as Root Sucrose, Infused Juniper Oil, Wheat Flour, and Recovery Ointment." Fengbu quickly clarifies his master's question once the question was heard.
"About the Root Sucrose, we're going to have a new product named Plant Sucrose forty days later. Make sure that the clients know about it and send some people to use the Beihan-Qian in Northern Han Half-Town." Mu Qing Lang gave his instruction regarding this matter.
"Your subject Fengbu understands. Is there anything else milord need to instruct this subject to do?" Fengbu asked.
"Yes. Put the request up saying that Eastern Changzhou needs raw materials for production. Those trading with us using Eastern Sea Spiritual Pearl, Small Xian Pill, Chang-Er Flour, or raw materials required by us will be given one unit of Infused Juniper Oil."
Mu Qing Lang's instruction made Fengbu understands how they can fight against the other party without using their own hand in the battle. But Mu Qing Lang hasn't finished.
"Tell the traders that Eastern Changzhou is growing. We're also giving out sub-contracts to the villages or settlements outside of Changzhou to manage our plantations. Lucrative benefits and salary will be given to the first few contractors." he ends his sentence.
"Subject Fengbu will attend to them personally and come up with a dependable list of contractors. Is there any specific kind of plants milord wished the contractor to handle?" Fengbu immediately replied to Mu Qing Lang's request.
"For starters, let them plant the Prairie's Banefruit Plant. Those that capable of handling ten Banefruit Field can apply for another tier contract, which is planting the Chang Empress Poppy Plant or Prairie Rock Sage." based on his experience living in this world for more than eighty days, his deduction towards the local's ability in farming is a complete zero.
Even in the history of Ancient China, people are known to plant for their own foods and supply them to the Great Shang Dynasty. But compared to this wilderness, a superpower like Great Shang shouldn't exist yet.
Added with the existence of Goblin, Orc, Bear, Satyr, Spider, and many kinds of tribes living in this piece of land, focusing on agriculture alone can be said as entirely impossible. Even Mu Qing Lang himself can't possibly achieve this result what he has now.
Basically, to survive in this wilderness, one must possess a few distinctive traits. And only through these traits combined can one grow stronger, in a group, in skills, and in knowledge. Through practices, everything is possible, but without a lead, nothing could begin.
"Your subject will immediately make sure this matter is attended carefully," Fengbu replied. After this discussion is done, Mu Qing Lang left the Trade Department Building and chosen a random path to go. After making a few corners left and right, it leads him to where Luoli's Blacksmith Shop is located.
As the appointed blacksmith to supply Eastern Changzhou with tools and equipment, the number of working people is not low. There are no lesser than twenty people working in this blacksmith alone, churning weapon and armor out by the hours.
"Ah, milord. Is there anything Luoli can do for you?" the boss if this shop came to attend Mu Qing Lang. It was something to be proud of because, except a few people like Fengbu, her husband, Qing Yi, the leader of goblins and her good buddy, Mu Qing Lang was one of the few that can make her stop working for a while.
"I have a few rare items to give you." Mu Qing Lang said and took three pieces of Dark Confer Steel and High-Purity Solid Steel out and placed them on top of an anvil.
"On Behalf of my anvil's luck! Where did they come from?" the six ingots caught her attention.
"You'll have to learn about how to make them on your own." blacksmithing can be said to be one of the few worst traits for him, so it was normal for him to leave the subject aside. After leaving the ingots with Luoli, Mu Qing Lang exited the shop with haste.
Having nothing else to do, Mu Qing Lang returned to his Village Chief Manor and went straight into his WUYI Saint Carriage.
[Toot!]
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[*Greenland Firesilk Cotton*]
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"Open it!" Mu Qing Lang tapped on the choice without further ado.
