Pioneer Lord: Starting From Daily Intelligence-Chapter 572 - 26: Jorn Shallow Bay’s Plan for Promotion to Dawn Holy Land (Part 3)
"Our church believes that when the gentle breeze sweeps through the wheat fields, it is as if Her Majesty Reya is walking on the land. If the Spiritual Energy is abundant enough, the Holy Radiance will be pervasive and brilliant, and the Holy Image of Reya on the hill is highly likely to be endowed with divinity. When the breeze caresses the lush wheat fields, the Holy Image will summon Reya’s First-Layer divinity, appearing as a golden phantom strolling above the fields."
Hearing this description, Su Li could already feel the powerful divinity that this Holy Land would possess once established.
There are certainly no shortage of such Sacred Lands within the Empire, as some Lords truly impose the Nineteen Taxes without any rebate. Their audacity comes from their territories being blessed with Divine Grace, with fields so productive they yield five to six harvests a year.
Currently, the territory has a Sacred Land that can yield four harvests a year, located within the Frost Creek area of the Blood Pine Forest, where Druids are most active. It is an area rich in forests, where Druids use the antifreeze resin secreted by birch trees in winter to form a natural ice shell region. Then, the nuns of the Dawn Church use hollow wheat stalks to make Fog Flutes, which automatically sound due to the temperature difference inside and outside the ice shell when the temperature drops below freezing, turning frost into irrigating mist.
Thus, while the entire Hesse Territory achieves three harvests a year, the over 2000 acres of fertile land within this Frosty Wheat Whistle can accomplish four harvests a year.
If this Maiden’s Ring is constructed, without even considering any especially strong effects, simply enabling the fields near Jorn Shallow Bay to achieve four harvests a year would add thousands of Golden Crowns in annual revenue to the Hesse Territory.
It might even exceed ten thousand Golden Crowns in value! After all, revenue is nonlinear. With basic expenses fixed, higher gains mean more wealth can be accumulated after costs!
And this is just the most basic influence of the Mortal World’s rules, only involving climate and temperature, making the terrain and environment here suitable for crops that normally yield three harvests to achieve four.
Vandar continued, "Additionally, once this Sacred Land matures, we plan to plant new wheat seeds here."
"New wheat seeds?" Su Li immediately recalled this issue.
He wasn’t the Minister of Agriculture, thus he paid less attention to the specific details related to agriculture.
But Vandar, responsible for the entire territory’s farming planning, clearly considered everything thoroughly, including expanding uncultivated fields, environmental improvements, and, of course, crop selection.
Vandar smiled and said, "Yes, my Lord. With this fertile land and the powerful Maiden’s Ring we’ve created, you surely wouldn’t still consider planting ordinary seeds, would you?"
Su Li raised an eyebrow and asked, "Aren’t Extraordinary Ears cultivated only in purple Spirit Fields?"
Sister Isabella normally tends to these Spirit Grains meticulously at Bauhinia Manor, but without Spirit Fields, we have been unable to scale them up.
Vandar nodded and said, "Indeed, even Emerald Green Ears of Spirit Grain, which permanently enhances a Knight’s attributes, need to be sowed in purple Spirit Fields. But have you forgotten, we also have some relatively ordinary wheat seeds that can temporarily boost a Knight’s power?"
Su Li immediately recalled and asked, "Are you referring to Steel Wheat Seeds?"
These wheat seeds emerged from ashes after Green Dragon Aelirea rampaged, having mutated from proximity to the Giant Dragon, resulting in stalks with sharp blade edges, requiring serfs to wear chain armor for harvest!
To prevent any of the hundreds of serfs, once armored and equipped with dwarven sickles, from having someone playing tricks by mimicking fox calls or stuffing odd things into fish bellies at dawn.
In winter, Oerstein specifically deployed 500 Elite Knights in heavy armor to monitor the harvest at Jorn Shallow Bay, overseeing their work.
The military force was even larger than the slaves, and if the harvest wasn’t valuable, it wouldn’t cover the army’s dispatch costs.
Such a grand scale was due to the extraordinary effect of these wheat seeds, allowing Knights to slightly enhance their power by nearly 20% for a short time.
Therefore, if the military force was insufficient, or if only Armed Attendants were sent, the slaves might secretly consume the Steel Wheat Seeds, potentially triggering a rebellion, overthrowing the territory’s army.
"But I remember the nuns of the Dawn Church saying that these Steel Wheat Seeds are hard to survive in ordinary fields," Su Li frowned and asked, "The last time these seeds appeared was a result of Green Dragon devastation, an accidental outcome."
As the Shepherd Leader of the Dawn Church, Vandar certainly understood this situation. Yet he was ambitiously eyeing the newly cultivated fields in the distance and said, "Ordinary fields can’t provide Steel Wheat Seeds with enough Spiritual Energy and vitality. But Jorn Shallow Bay is different, with its fertile soil and irrigation from Lake Revelin, the Spiritual Energy level is already quite high."
"Crucially, once the Maiden’s Ring is established, the water from Lake Revelin, delivered to the hilltop by waterwheel, will carry the divinity of Reya as it flows down in a spiral shape through grassy channels. Our church’s High Tier Priest held a dedicated seminar on this condition, and most concluded that using the Sun Descent Divine Magic won’t be necessary to ensure Steel Wheat Seeds grow here."
