The core of this plan is actually very simple.
Yin Lian outlined the goals of the plan at the beginning: using clothing, food, and entertainment as the entry point, encouraging countries to invest manpower and money in these areas. The Mage Association researches some related magic props, sells magic equipment at high prices, and recycles the food and materials produced at low prices.
In this way, wheat cultivation and cotton and linen cultivation can be freed from the limited manpower constraints of the Sage City, but the greatest benefits can be in the hands of the association. (As for whether Yin Lian will master these magic principles in private and try to reproduce them with technology, That's another thing).
Yin Lian's goal is also clear. The City of Sages has a great demand for these basic resources, but their current output is actually very limited, and Yin Lian cannot let the believers of the Life Church spend all their time planting some Above the low-level necessities.
In fact, when it comes to species, there are quite a few species in Mathil itself, but they have not been fully utilized. In addition to some plants used by mages to make potions, more plants are still unknown - some of them have no magic power and are not common enough, so they have not been excavated for practical and medicinal value, while others have Magic power, but it is only used simply and crudely as a magic power material, and the uses of other parts have not been discovered.
Although Yin Lian doesn't know what their uses are, he also knows that there are no completely useless plants in this world. Rather, according to experience on earth, every part of many plants often has various important values.
If the manpower at hand can be used more effectively, the value that can be obtained will definitely be far greater than growing wheat, cotton and linen.
Her plan may not be the most professional, because she doesn't usually write much about this type of plan, but it is definitely clear and organized with branches and a lot of useful information, and all the important joints are listed.
The process of the plan is a bit like a running account. The key operations are not detailed, but other details are very detailed. If it were on Earth, no one with a little experience would write like this. But this was not Yin Lian's mistake, but a choice she made based on Mathil's actual situation.
Some contents that require special planning, such as specific publicity strategies, are not important at all to Martial, because the publicity methods in this world are extremely old and poor, and basically any method can have an amazing effect. . The reason why there is no need to list the parts you want to write in detail is because these processes are not common sense to Martial, and it does not mean that they understand it by default.
With such a plan, what seemed like a perfunctory plan in the original world was, to the Black Sage, well-organized and eye-opening. Of course, there were some things that he couldn't understand at first sight. Normally, he would be able to deduce them after a certain amount of time. However, since Yin Lian was beside him, he didn't waste any time and asked directly.
Yin Lian also answered them one by one.
And changes always appear when you don't pay attention.
When the musical in the City of Sages was being recited and people were curious about it, Yin Lian chose the imperial cities of the six largest countries on the continent and opened a store in each.
The shop is not big and uses chefs who have been trained in the City of Sages during this period. The ingredients are transported through the teleportation array. But this was just the beginning. Yin Lian also bought several manors outside the city so that he could directly grow ingredients to supply restaurants in the future.
To be honest, the area and prosperity of Mathil's so-called imperial city are not even as good as a rural town in China. Moreover, the city actually includes large tracts of fields, and the number of residents is several times that of the Sage City.
...There are only ten thousand people in the city of wise men.
As for the imperial cities of various countries, the number of people is only a few hundred thousand, and the number is only tens of thousands. It can be said that the population is quite thin.
Yin Lian secretly thought that this was probably the result of the food structure.
In fact, generally speaking, the output of breadfruit trees is not small. If it is widely planted, although it will occupy more land, it will not be unable to meet the needs of more people. But the main reason is probably that the world lacks such a concept - there is a lack of resources, and they seem to prefer reducing consumption rather than increasing output.
Because in this era, manpower represents neither lethality nor productivity.
After realizing this, Yin Lian felt that the most important thing might be to highlight the value of productivity.
She sent a group of people to each city. This group of people mainly consisted of three parts-cooks, farmers and trainers. Then the remaining required manpower is hired locally.
Naqi is just an ordinary orphan in Lake City. She lives with two other children in an abandoned hut in a slum on the outskirts of the city. There are not many people in the slums, and most of the houses are vacant - every winter, several houses will be vacant here.
Children like her often don't survive to adulthood.
These few of them were orphaned at about the same time, and they struggled to survive not long ago, so they were able to survive. In spring, everything revives and survival becomes somewhat easier.
Although my parents passed away not long ago, they didn't even have time to grieve. Several children did not originally live in the slums. They were driven here after their parents died. The original house was also occupied by a group of strong homeless people.
If the parents were still alive, these homeless people would never dare to mess with them.
The Sheriff doesn't care about these things, after all, there is no benefit at all.
The bread trees inside the imperial city and in the suburbs all have their own ownership. The children can only search further afield. If they accidentally encounter a wild beast, they will become food like their parents - in this era , both civilians and nobles have this kind of consciousness.
That's why divine arts and magic are so important to this world.
Between the strong and the weak, there is a chasm of strength.
In this case, even if they are barely surviving, these weak children still want to survive by relying on their instincts. Being weak cannot erase their survival instinct, it is probably the only strength they have left.
Just on the way out of the city, when passing by a fenced-off farm, an accidental glance made the children's eyes widen.
"What are they doing?"
"Why dig up those breadbaskets!?"
Naqi and his companions could clearly see that many breadfruit trees had been dug up by this group of people and then transplanted to another open space in a more regular and dense manner.
Not only that, a large piece of land was suddenly opened up on the other side of the manor, and someone was building a wall for this land - the way they built the wall was incredible - "Na... Naqi... are those people magicians?" ?”
Naqi was also a little panicked: "Why...why did the magician appear in Lake City?"
They have been brainwashed by the Holy City all year round, and they all have an inexplicable fear of magic.
The discovery that there was a magician in front of them was enough to stop them from moving forward, and they even wanted to take a detour in another direction.
That is because compared to the two of them, the other boy is obviously more courageous and has different focus. He looked around for a while and suddenly said: "Have you noticed... they seem to have moved some bread trees outside the wall!?"
Naqi was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly became very alert and said: "What do you want to do!? You don't want to steal the magician's breadfruit, do you!? You are not afraid of being caught and eaten by them!"
The boy said: "Didn't I tell you before? It's all rumors that magicians can eat people! All they eat are snacks created by magic. I heard they are much more delicious than human flesh."
Naqi said: "...who knows if it's a lie!"
The boy said: "Even if we don't pick the bread tree planted outside the wall, someone else will pick it."
"Maybe they just deliberately lure others to pick them, and then they can catch these people as thieves and use evil magic on them!"
The boy was frightened by Na Qi and was a little timid, so he said: "...Then what should we do?"
Naqi made a quick decision: "Let's go to the other side."
They walked all the way around the farm, choosing untraveled roads. As a result, when they went around to the other side, they found a large area of baobab trees. Due to the closer distance, they could see clearly this time. These trees were still hung with dense branches. , abundant breadfruit fruits - the most important thing is that they can no longer see the magician here.
The boy's heart was beating loudly and he asked Naqi: "...What should we do now?"
Naqi was finally moved. After fighting for a long time, she suddenly made up her mind: "Let's pick a few secretly and run away! Hurry up!"
So several children sneakily ran under the tree and climbed up. The older boy climbed up the tree and started picking breadfruit. Breadfruit is generally large in size and heavy in quality. To be able to withstand such a weight, the branches are naturally strong enough.
The boy was a little panicked, so the more panicked he became, the harder it was to complete his goal. After finally tearing off a piece of breadfruit, my heartbeat was already pounding as fast as a drum, as if my heart was about to jump out of my chest.
Naqi quickly picked it up and stuffed it into the arms of the younger boy, and then eagerly waited for the next one.
The boy picked two more and jumped down in panic. I don't know if it was because of good luck, but when the boy got off the tree, he was too panicked and failed to stand still. He stepped on the ground and made a loud noise, but no one came out to check.
Several children ran away quickly.
It wasn't until they hurried away that two people suddenly walked out of the shadows of the empty trees behind them.
"These kids are quite courageous."
"Your Excellency Lian said that fear is often due to lack of understanding. In fact, many mages were not devils at the beginning, they were just children who wanted to survive. The Holy City tried to turn us all into devils, and because of their The sound was so loud that everyone believed these words and felt that magicians were devils... In the end, even the magicians themselves felt so."
"Are we born devils? Or did the Holy City create devils?"
"No, I think... most of us... may be kinder than those nobles and believers."
"Because we have seen the deepest suffering in the world."
Another mage suddenly laughed: "Running because of hunger, suffering from cold, feared because of strength, and being tolerated by the world... So resist, fight, kill... They all say that magicians are cruel, but they say After all, we also long for a better world, and we can’t bear to see children suffer what we have suffered.”
"I admit that there are cruel people among mages, but my heart has never been harder than that of my mother. Those who have never endured hunger, cold, fear, injustice... are much more cruel than me. "
They didn't do anything to the child.
In fact, after the fruit trees were transplanted, it was originally a test to see who in the city dared to touch the mage's property. Those who dare to do this actually prove that their fear of mages is not that deep-rooted in another direction. This kind of thing happens more often, and it can also convey some information to many other people.
Naqi and others obviously tasted the sweetness. Children's emotions are inherently more changeable, so their fear dissipates quickly. A few days after they finished eating the bread, they immediately came to steal some more.
The employees of the farm also discovered this, but because the mage told them to ignore it, they didn't do anything to the child.
Naqi and other children happily carried breadfruit home, but unexpectedly they met a few poor men who often wandered around.
"Let me see, you guys... where did you steal the breadfruit?"
The man grabbed the youngest and thinnest boy. Naqi was startled. She looked forward and found that someone was blocking the way, so she could only retreat slowly.
But there is no way forward or backward.
