Pioneer Lord: Starting From Daily Intelligence

Chapter 235: Chapter 123: Four Extraordinary Farms and Spice Worth Gold (Part 3)

Su Li needs to expand the scale of the Dawn Church while enhancing the strength of the priests of the Dawn Church.

So Su Li said, ”The autumn equinox is coming soon, when the Wind of Jilun will converge in the territory, and an invisible magical rain will fall. These magic powers will fall on the ground like raindrops, forming pools that only skilled individuals and Jilun Mages can see.”

”Your Dawn Church will send people to cooperate with the Engineering Master to lead these magic pools to the Holy Land of the Dawn Church, and then gather all the nuns to pray devoutly on the Holy Land. I hope your cultivators can achieve significant breakthroughs in this prayer.”

Upon hearing this important information, the wrinkles on Vandar’s old face gathered like a blooming flower, and he immediately assured, ”Lord, rest assured. We will pray with utmost devotion. Reya is an exceptionally generous divine spirit; I believe our efforts in spreading the doctrine have been effective, and this time there will surely be substantial breakthroughs.”

Su Li nodded slightly, this was the best scenario.

If the priests of the Dawn Church enhance their strength, all undertakings in the territory will advance by leaps and bounds.

Vandar continued, ”The next farm is also related to the priests of the Dawn Church, specifically the Purple Crystal Grape Farm north of Bauhinia Manor. It is managed full-time by the pure nuns of the Dawn Church. Although it’s currently just a little over an acre of vineyard, I asked Sister Marian, and she said that these 4,000 pounds of grapes alone can produce about 100~160 bottles of Golden Purple Crystal Brandy, valued at over 2000+ Golden Crowns.”

Unlike the previous farm that holds future promise, the impact of this vineyard is quite overwhelming!

The wealth created by a nun and a brewing wizard amounts to over 2000 Golden Crowns, the profit margin is really too high.

This is undoubtedly a luxury profit margin! Not to mention one bottle of brandy being equal to a farmer’s annual output, in the Hesse Territory, it equals the output of over 2000 farmers!

Even if this model is hard to replicate, it’s not a big problem for the Hesse Territory.

The beautiful nuns of the Hesse Territory can spare no expense, 10 nuns caretaking a 10-acre vineyard? That’s 20,000 Golden Crowns.

This is equivalent to the wealth produced by 20,000 farmers.

Given the current scale of Hesse Territory, it may take years of development to barely reach a population of 20,000!

This is something that the Dawn Church must strive for with all its might, and since Su Li is personally concerned with the brewing business, Vandar didn’t continue to elaborate.

He continued to report, ”Besides these three farms, the last extraordinary farm is the Hot Spring Village on the east side of the Emerald Valley. We have developed a hot spring bathhouse here, and the spring water has a significant effect on purifying corrosion, restoring physical strength, and healing diseases, attracting many nobles, knights, and merchants to visit. The specific profits here are reported by Minister of the Seal, Lord Lauren.”

”I must say these spring waters, after flowing down the mountain, have been diverted to the hydraulic engineering in the hot spring village below to irrigate local farmlands. After research by the Provincial Affairs Council, we decided not to plant crops in this important area but rather precious herbs.”

”Herbs?”

”Herbs?”

Vandar’s report immediately caught the attention of the ministers in the hall.

This is indeed a part of the territory that most people hadn’t noticed, mainly because it is far from the flourishing towns of the territory, in the northeastern corner of the Green Leaf Hills, extremely remote.

Only a few people remember a major earthquake occurred here, and then the Lord specially ordered the construction of a hot spring bathhouse here.

But due to inconvenient transportation and insufficient manpower to build a long dirt road, aside from Dwarves and the people of the Dawn Church, few have visited this remote corner.

Unexpectedly, the Dawn Church quietly developed such a high-value farm here!

Herbs, these are the most coveted plants within the Empire. Their use is not just in developing leisure and sightseeing farms, extracting herbal oils, or making perfumes, and so on.

More importantly, these are the most sought-after spices within the Empire, an essential luxury in the kitchens, lives, and social activities of the Empire’s nobles!

There are rumors that this is because the Empire’s men, especially knights, have very strong body odors that need herbs to cover.

But regardless of the truth of the rumors, there is undoubtedly a pervasive desire for herbs from top to bottom in the Empire.

Yet, herbs are scarcely produced within the Empire. These fragrant leaves, evergreen and aromatic year-round, are called the four-season fragrant ”natural perfume bottle” and are as valued as gold within the Empire!

A pound of herbs can be exchanged for a pound of gold.

The Empire’s primary method of obtaining herbs is by going overseas, crossing the terrifying Gray Mist Sea, then across the vast Storm Ocean, reaching the distant east, to that land inhabited by Tiger Men, to purchase their precious herbs, then crossing countless ocean storms, avoiding countless Dark Arks and Vampire Pirates to bring these valuable herbs back to the Empire for the nobles to enjoy.

And within each territory capable of producing herbs in the Empire, wealth flows abundantly.

Therefore, when the hot spring village of the territory can produce spices, Military Commander Oerstein immediately became excited, the larger the planting area of the spice garden, the larger the size of the army the territory can form.