Foreign Land Reclamation By a Vegetable-growing Skeleton
Chapter 1033 - Chapter 1033 Chapter 600 Use My Seeds to Make Up the Numbers

Chapter 1033: Chapter 600: Use My Seeds to Make Up the Numbers Chapter 1033: Chapter 600: Use My Seeds to Make Up the Numbers When Rebinya led a group of pale-faced, staggering people into the nearest inn, those gathered in the lobby immediately recognized the situation and cheered with schadenfreude, “Cheers, may your efforts bring bountiful harvests, with grains filling your storerooms and continued success year after year. Don’t waste any food, hahaha!!”

Drov lacked the energy even to argue; pulling himself together with a great effort, he was the weakest of all, only able to weakly urge, “Let’s… settle in first.”

The innkeeper, long accustomed to peculiar sights, quickly processed their check-in, and several robust Minotaur came over, each lifting someone effortlessly and taking them to their rooms.

After settling them in, Rebinya herself mounted a horse and hastened to the Silver Chamber of Commerce in Northern Wind City, responding to a request from the Silver Chamber of Commerce: to put together the best farmers from Deloge City, along with their highest-yielding grain varieties and farming techniques, and come to Northern Wind City to participate in the Grain Contest.

As for what the Grain Contest was, she still had no clear idea.

Yet both she and Deloge City were now deeply entwined with the Silver Chamber of Commerce, gradually integrating into a massive system she could barely comprehend.

As long as she followed the demands of this system, she found that everything moved smoothly, whether managing the city, engaging in trade, or even suppressing bandits and repairing roads; all were without fail advantageous.

However, if she strayed from these directives, trying to sell grain during a suppression campaign or attacking bandits while repairing roads, she would immediately feel the friction, struggling to complete even simple tasks that should have been easily accomplished.

This system of synergistic cooperation was very foreign to Rebinya, as the cities here were all city-states, each ruled independently and at most forming federations of a few cities, all small in scale.

There was almost no concept of synergistic management, transfer payments, regional cooperation, unified currency, or financial circulation. Anthony, with his thousand years of experience managing a diocese, brought an overwhelming strategic advantage.

Take the simplest example: during the harvest season when a large amount of grain hit the market, and supply exceeded demand, depreciating the grain prices, what should be done?

In the past, the independent city-states would surely engage in price undercutting and vicious competition, ultimately benefiting the merchants.

But within this invisible system, Rebinya was instructed to limit grain prices, and then she found that nearby cities like Iron Sand City, Rapids Fortress, and Northern Wind City all implemented similar price tags with a minimal fluctuating range.

Cities that did not adhere to these prices saw the commerce troops of the Silver Chamber of Commerce stepping in, refusing to buy if the price was too high or too low, only purchasing within this price range, thereby firmly stabilizing the grain prices.

With the backing of the Silver Chamber of Commerce, the farmers didn’t need to undercut their prices and could sell their grain at a reasonable rate.

If someone was dissatisfied with the prices and tried to manipulate them, it wouldn’t be long before a troop of Spirit Dragon Knights riding Bone Dragons descended to uphold ‘justice.’

In this system, Rebinya discovered that it was very difficult for her to raise or lower prices, and naturally, she followed whatever prices the Silver Chamber of Commerce set.

Grain was just one example–in coal, steel, vehicles, horses–as long as she adhered to the allocation, everything felt incredibly smooth. Sometimes, even if the price was lower than the market rate, the process was so seamless that she ended up earning more.

Though she didn’t understand what ‘turnover rate’ meant, she was aware that by following the Silver Chamber of Commerce, neither she nor Deloge City was at a loss.

Thus, upon hearing the request from the Silver Chamber of Commerce, she immediately assembled the strongest team–the Drov Team.

Chairman Silver Coin had told her, “When you don’t understand something, find someone who does; your job is to identify if that person truly understands.”

So, she directly recruited Drov, only to find that the man had collapsed before they could even enter the city–what a situation…

Upon arriving at the Silver Chamber of Commerce’s branch in Northern Wind City, she was informed that the Grain Contest was organized by the Church of Light, with the winner receiving a prize of a Million Magic Crystals…

Hearing this figure, Rebinya’s entire head buzzed; she had never seen what a million magic crystals looked like.

Of course, the total amount of money she had handled was definitely more, but that was accumulated over the years, and it wasn’t hers; she had never seen a million at once, being just a noble from a remote city-state.

However, a million magic crystals was just the beginning; what was more important was the chance for limb regeneration and a divine artifact from the Harvest Goddess.

With these two prizes announced, Rebinya knew they were doomed–the championship wasn’t coming to Deloge City.

A million magic crystals were tempting, but after all, magic crystals were currency, nothing rare; anyone with so much money could bring out that many magic crystals.

But limb regeneration and divine artifacts were treasures you could not seek but only chance upon, capable of exploding a group of Wizards’ Towers, Secret Forces, large organizations, and so on.

Seeing her dejected look, the Commerce Guild’s representative attending to her said, “Chairman Silver Coin said, let you come see him after you arrive; he has a method.”

“Where is Chairman Silver Coin?” Rebinya asked.

“At the venue.”

Rebinya hurried to the venue; in fact, she had already seen the magnificent building jutting out of the desert when she entered the city.

Listening to the discussions of the pedestrians around, this building had appeared overnight, right under the noses of the Sorcerer Alliance.

Rebinya scoffed at this claim; building such a magnificent structure overnight? What a joke; not even if the gods themselves came to lay bricks.

Arriving near the venue, the area had already transformed significantly; at least four Commerce Guilds had settled in, offering a variety of services concerning accommodation, food, and transport to the attendees, while also selling their own main products.

Rebinya found the busy Silver Coin and inquired about the ‘method’.

Silver Coin asked, “The Mage Drov you brought, what kind of seeds does he normally use, and what’s the yield per acre?”

Rebinya, having learned quite a bit on the way, answered directly, “He plants rye, about 300 pounds per acre.”

Silver Coin sighed, “I knew it.”

Rebinya hesitantly said, “Chairman Silver Coin, you seem unsatisfied, but Drov said, the yield of his rye is quite high across the entire plane; if he cultivates it carefully, it could even be higher.”

“Heh.” Silver Coin didn’t say much, but his disdain and dismissiveness were already saying a lot; he directly asked, “What about you? Do you know how to farm?”

Rebinya shook her head.

“Then loosening the soil, digging holes, sowing, harvesting, you should know those, right? How about this, I’ll assign a farmer to help you, and you also register a team under your personal name, called Countess Rebinya’s team, how about that?” Silver Coin said.

“Ah? Me? What about Drov?” Rebinya asked, somewhat taken aback.

“He’ll have his own team; your Deloge City will send two competing teams. Use my seeds, a kind that yields 530 pounds of plump wheat per acre.”