One Plant to Another (1)
"Ch... Chief Director? Eastern Changzhou Resident Department?" the words muttered by Mu Qing Lang took Han Xi by surprise.
"Yes. While I am not around in Eastern Changzhou, you will replace me as the decision maker and registration officer to handle all the new settlers."
Mu Qing Lang instruction to him is simple and clear. Make a wise decision while the lord is not in, and make sure those migrating to Eastern Changzhou is handled and arranged into respective departments to use them to the most.
"Milord, your subject worried that he's incapable of..."
"Oh?" Han Xi worried of his own ability and almost trying to have Mu Qing Lang to take back his order. But before he finished his sentence, Mu Qing Lang's voice stunned him from continuing.
"Did I actually used a useless person as my assistant after so long? Does this means that all my decision earlier related to you was a mistake?" Mu Qing Lang's tone changed. It because harsher and filled with anger due to the words Han Xi used before this.
"No, milord. Your subject was trained and groomed into what I am now. Han Xi is not the wrong decision milord made." Han Xi knew that he spoke wrongly earlier and quickly interrupt before Mu Qing Lang keep on with his sentence.
"Hmm... Then can this lord rely on the Chief Director?" Mu Qing Lang added.
"Yes! Milord!" Han Xi replied.
"Good!" Mu Qing Lang said.
"Paying respect to the Chief Director!" everyone else present in this Meeting Hall turned to Han Xi and paid their respect. And also at this moment, Han Xi, the worthless fighter under one of the sons belonged to Namu Mayue, rise from this status and become one of the significant individuals in Eastern Changzhou.
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About an hour later after everyone left the Meeting Hall, Mu Qing Lang returned to his WUYI Saint Carriage.
Only when he's inside this carriage can Mu Qing Lang put aside all the fake expression he put up to obtains his subject's respect. If Mu Qing Lang was the same as them in both action and emotion, would he be that well respected like now?
[Toot!]
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Seated on this chair and activating the Information Table is still the best thing he would like to do, especially when there are new materials brought to his side.
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[*Prairie's Banefruit*]
[*Sugar Cornfruit*]
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"Let's check the first fruit." Mu Qing Lang tapped into the first choice.
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[Toot!]
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[Toot!]
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[Specially Cultivated Plant found. Due to the successful venture in perfecting the plant, the Iron Tail Grass, Acidic Weed, and Prairie's Baneseed will no longer be included within the Chang Emperor Prairie's Ecosystem]
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Prairie's Banefruit [Basic Mortal]
Condition: Ripened Fruit / The first perfected plant originated from the land of Eastern Changzhou
Maturity: 20 hours (10 hours if nourished by Spiritual Thread)
Origin: Iron Tail Grass / Acidic Weed / Prairie's Baneseed Plant
Harvest: 5 poisonous fruit with pebbled seeds within, may be harvested regularly
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Item Description: Prairie's Banefruit Plant. Born from the strong point of three origin plants, the Prairie's Banefruit Plant became durable to natural weather, strong tenacity to outsider threat but kind nature to creatures feeding on them. The Poisonous fruit is still fatal to human consumption due to the strengthened composition from the Acidic Weed but became milder to the creatures with evolution prospects. Once matured, the fruit will remain ripe for one month before it rots.
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Sugar Cornfruit [Basic Mortal]
Condition: Kernel / The second perfected plant originated from the land of Eastern Changzhou
Maturity: 35 days (300 hours if nourished by Spiritual Thread)
Origin: Stone Cornfruit / Prairie Sugar Root / Xian-Ren Grass
Harvest: 80 kernels/cob
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Item Description: Grafted using Prairie Sugar Root as the base for the kernels to germinate, and fed with Xian-Ren Grass leftover compost, the end result produces the breed known as Sugar Cornfruit. While it kept the specialty of long shelf-life after harvest, the Sugar Cornfruit also took in the properties of sweetness from the Prairie Sugar Root, making it a good replacement for the fragile Sugar Root. Although the long maturity period made the plant less profitable, a harvested cob of Sugar Cornfruit can be kept for ten years or more, compared to the short three day's life of a Sugar Root.
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"Like what Xiao Qing says, the fruit and kernels he gave me is indeed a replacement for the both Prairie's Baneseed Plant and Sugar Root. But..." Mu Qing Lang nodded in approval for what Xiao Qing had given him during the meeting earlier.
For a goblin without the knowledge in science, his opinion and evaluation of the plants can be said to be the most relevant and accurately hit all the significant aspects.
"I should see what can they be made into..." Mu Qing Lang leaves the Information Table and made his way to the Material Preparation Shelf.
[Toot!]
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[Toot!]
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[New Ingredient Found!]
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[Type: Fruit]
[Name: Prairie's Banefruit]
[Amount: 3 units]
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[Type: Kernel]
[Name: Sugar Cornfruit]
[Amount: 2 units]
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[Please choose the option for Banefruit's processing:]
[1] Reduces the (-2) health effect in Dou-Xian Pill when added during concoction
[2] Produced (1) Unit of Solid Methane Fuel with (200) fruits and (1) Demonic Seed
[3] Produces (1) unit of Poison Extract with (100) fruits and (1) Fighter Extract
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"From how it looks, planting them for the sake of Solid Methane Fuel should be a good idea. Should I choose a few villages so they could start providing the Banefruits to my Eastern Changzhou?" Mu Qing Lang laughed and tapped for the next option.
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[Please choose the option for Sugar Cornfruit Processing:]
[1] Refine (1) complete Cornfruit Cob into (80) ml worth of Plant Sucrose.
[2] Refine (1) complete Cornfruit Cob into (4) Pure Growth Crystals.
[3] Refine (1) complete Cornfruit Cob into (1) Unit of High-Quality Meal Pellets.
[4] Refine (10) complete Cornfruit Cobs into (600) ml worth of Medicinal Spirits.
[5] Refine (10) complete Cornfruit Cobs into (1) Unit of Prairie's Flame.
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"So... From Root Sucrose into Plant Sucrose with better yield, better number of pure growth crystals from a cob of that gigantic Cornfruit, meal replacement for the livestock, Medicinal Spirit while is likely something like snake wine or Yomeishu* and Prairie's Flame..."
"What the hell is that Prairie Flame?" the option puzzled him for now, but without enough Cornfruit Cobs in hand, it will be impossible for him to produce it. Although the Prairie Sugar Root's genetic managed to shorten the maturity period from 45 days to 35, this is still a long wait for Mu Qing Lang.
Instead, the Prairie's Banefruit Plant's collection is much better than expected. Each fruit it grows is capable of replacing five berries from the Prairie's Baneseed Plant. With five fruits harvested every twenty hours, each Prairie's Banefruit Plant may yield the harvest of twenty Prairie's Baneseed Plant.
That might sound less attractive when compared to the Prairie's Baneseed Plant's maturity period of ten hours only, but one must consider the fact related to the size of Baneseed Farming Field. Using the calculation of space, distance, and the number of plants can be grown in a single field, the two of them are considerably different is total yield.
A thousand Baneseed Plant only yields a thousand berries, enough for the production of (1) unit of Solid Methane Fuel. At most after two harvests per day, they may only produce two units of the fuel.
But a thousand Banefruit Plant may yield 5,000 fruits, which can be refined into a total of (25) units of Solid Methane Fuel. With such a big difference between the two, so how can they be compared?
"Looks like the existing Prairie's Baneseed Farm has to be remodeled to fulfill my needs." Mu Qing Lang put aside the Ashen Full Set Armor and returned to his bed, tugging up inside the blanket for a good night rest.
There was already no longer any effect from taking the Small Xian Pill into his body. After his body stats reaches 50 points in both Fitness and Force, they no longer increases even after he took two to three pills at once.
"Soon, once the Eastern Changzhou settled itself firmly in Chang Emperor Prairie, I will start completing the records for the Yan Emperor Prairie, Hundred Beast Forest, and Yulan Mountain Sea." Mu Qing Lang calmed himself down and soon fallen asleep.
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Day Eighty-One.
Before the sky turns brighter, peoples already started to get themselves ready for their work. After the new scheme of employment and salary is published through their respective directors, the number of workers grows.
Except for the miners working in the Yulan Mountain Forest Cave, everyone else that registered through the same employment attendance record was given a well-calculated salary. Although the one working in the cave gets paid better, their work is soon to be finished with twenty to thirty days.
Compared to the people that received housing and meal benefits, their package of employment contract worth much more than the miners. Some miners even wanted to settle in Eastern Changzhou, and their number is now small.
On the same morning, Mu Qing Lang made his decision to study the arrangement of Plantation along with Xiao Qing and the Goblin Gatherers. Agreeing to Xiao Qing's yesterday fruits of results, they'll start to stop planting the Prairie's Baneseed Plant and move to the Prairie's Banefruit Plant.
"Let me know how many fields we assigned for Prairie's Baneseed Plant?" Mu Qing Lang first question is related to the number of plants they assigned for now.
"Reporting to milord, we've assigned two fields purely for the Prairie's Baneseed Plant. The yield is two thousand berries every ten hours, handle by twenty farmers."
"Twenty farmers handling a hundred plants every ten hours? The production rate is too low. Hire five more farmers here and doubled their workload. Each farmer will manage two hundred Prairie's Banefruit Plant with one harvest every day."
"And upgrade the field from two to five, with each churning five thousand fruits for my Eastern Changzhou!"