After the fall harvest, Banta City's grain yield had shocked everyone because it had reached a terrifying seven hundred and sixty thousand tons!
Compared to the five hundred and seventy thousand tons from last year's fall harvest, it had actually increased by a hundred and ninety thousand tons!
Not to mention Banta City's previous harvest, it wasn't even inferior to the Lampari Kingdom's cities that were much bigger than Banta City.
Because of this grain yield, Banta City had been in the limelight in the Lampari Kingdom. Then with the two years of growth from last year and last year, Banta City had become the only city that the king and the Lampari Kingdom's agriculture department had praised at the same time.
For the Lampari Kingdom that was in chaos because of the famine ten years ago, grain was the most important thing and no one dared to ignore it.
Count Stark as Banta City's City Lord could increase Banta City's grain yield from a shocking five hundred and seventy thousand tons to seven hundred and sixty thousand tons, which immediately won everyone's praise.
Because Count Stark's agricultural promotion policies had caused Banta City's economic development to stagnate, affecting Banta City's prosperity, the people who had complained about Count Stark immediately closed their mouths after learning of this grain yield.
So Count Stark's position as City Lord that seemed precarious before the fall harvest was instantly stabilized after the fall harvest. The evaluation of the Lampari Kingdom's high level members had soared, as if he had instantly surpassed all the City Lords of the other cities in the Lampari Kingdom.
However, Count Count Stark who had achieved this result didn't have a high evaluation from the people of Banta City. When they discussed him in private, there were even quite a few people who expressed their disdain for him.
"Pei!
When Satsuma Count was in charge of the fall harvest last year, he had already calculated all the farmland in Banta City. Moreover, he had us help him and determined that even if Banta City planted wheat all over and harvested all of it, it wouldn't surpass seven hundred thousand tons.
In the end, this Count Stark took in seven hundred and sixty thousand tons of wheat at once. If you say that he didn't cheat, I wouldn't believe it. "Old man Sarkozy said with a look of disdain.
"There's no need to guess, okay?"
Yasali who came from Mexilan Village like old man Sarkozy rolled his eyes and said, "My wife has a relative in Yodel Village and he told my wife that before the fall harvest, the City Lord Manor sent a group of people to recruit the villagers of Yodel Village. They said that they wanted them to help open the canal and promised that the fall harvest would be taken over by the City Lord Manor, so they didn't need to worry.
When the autumn harvest ended, he came back to take a look. My goodness, guess how much wheat Yodel Village harvested? "
"How much?" Everyone including old man Sarkozy asked in a curious voice.
"A full eighty thousand tons!" Jashari gestured and replied loudly.
"How is this possible?"
"Are you talking nonsense?"
"That's right. How big is Yodel Village? How can it harvest 80,000 tons of wheat?
Kambia Village has only collected 60,000 tons! "
… …
Hearing this answer, everyone had strong doubts about this eighty thousand ton number.
Everyone here was a native of Banta City and they had worked in the fields for several decades, so they were very clear on the grain yield of each village in Banta City.
Before this, Yodel Village was in a remote location, had bad terrain, and didn't have much farmland. At most, they could only harvest around thirty thousand tons of wheat and that was when they had a large harvest.
But this year it was eighty thousand tons, so anyone could tell that it was impossible.
"Hei, hei, you don't know this, right?
Let me tell you, after my wife's relative went back to his original farm, he found that the number of wheat stalks left after the harvest had doubled. It looked as if they had really planted a lot of grain in that farm.
Moreover, didn't you read the « Banta Times »? The City Lord Manor announced that for this fall harvest, they are promoting a new wheat seed from the Drake Duchy in Banta City. The yield is much higher than what we used before, so there is much more wheat in the end. "Yasali said with a laugh.
"What nonsense."
Old man Sarkozy immediately reprimanded, "If there was such a good seed, why would the Drake Duchy give it to Count Stark?
They wouldn't have kept it for themselves. "
Yasali gave a shrug, "Who knows?
Perhaps our Lord City Lord has given the Drake Duchy some special benefits that they are willing to take out such a good seed. "
"Bullshit!" Old man Sarkozy angrily said.
Old man Sarkozy angrily said, "Didn't that princess and minister of the Drake Duchy come over a while ago? They were clearly in the Falling Rain Valley all day, chatting with Chairman Xu. My son personally saw this, how could they cooperate with Count Stark?"
"Who knows?
The matters between these important people, how could commoners like us know? "
Yasali said in an uncaring voice, "Then again, it is a good thing that Banta City's grain yield is higher, we'll have face when we talk about it in the future."
"Are you an idiot?" Old man Sarkozy scolded him without any politeness, "You still don't understand what this means?
Now that Banta City's grain yield is higher, this Count Stark is sitting even more firmly in the City Lord position.
If he continues with his policy of suppressing commerce and promoting agriculture, then we will all lose our jobs.
Could it be that you want to work yourself to death in the fields like before? "
Hearing old man Sarkozy's scolding, Yasali and the surrounding people were stunned. After thinking about it, they found that old man Sarkozy's words were very reasonable.
The reason why they didn't like this new Lord City Lord before was because he had been promoting agricultural promotion policies as soon as he came. It put all the companies in Banta City in danger and made many people lose their comfortable and high paying jobs.
Now that Count Stark had stabilized his position as the City Lord because of the strange grain yield in Banta City during the fall harvest, the large companies of Banta City would have it even harder.
Perhaps they wouldn't be able to keep their jobs at the Cantona Chamber of Commerce because of this.
At this time, Cantona who everyone had been waiting for came in.
When they saw him, everyone asked the questions they were worried about.
Cantona waved his hand with a smile, "Everyone be assured, although our Cantona Chamber of Commerce is a company in name, what we do is farming and it doesn't conflict with the Lord City Lord's policies.
Last time the Lord City Lord met me and encouraged our company to work hard. We had to help the farmers of Banta City plan their fields like before. "
"Really?
Could it be that he doesn't know about your relationship with Chairman Xu? "Yasali asked.
"So what if he knows?
For important people like them, the most important thing is to give them what they need. "Cantona said with a faint smile.
Old man Sarkozy knit his brows to look at Cantona, "I say, Cantona, it can't be that this fellow gave you a bit of praise and you want to flatter him, right?"
Cantona laughed, "Old man Sarkozy, you're looking down on me too much.
Although the Lord City Lord praised our company, it didn't bring any benefits to our company at all.
Rather, he said that the canned fruit factory's influence was too bad, making Koror Village only plant fruits and not wheat.
If Koror Village also planted wheat, Banta City's grain yield could break eight hundred thousand tons. "
"Ah?" Hearing this, everyone stood up in unison.
"Based on this, he's planning on closing the canned fruit factory?"
Cantona gave a helpless sigh and said, "He doesn't dare force New Flyer to close the canned fruit factory, but he wants our company to help the villagers of Koror Village get rid of all the fruit trees after the fall harvest and plant all the grain in their fields."
"He dares!"
A few villagers from Koror Village immediately jumped up and roared angrily, "We worked so hard to plant these fruit trees, and they've only been bearing fruit for two years. What right does he have to uproot them just like that?"
"That's right, it was hard enough to get New Flyer's canned fruit factory, we can buy all the fruit. I'm planning on planting some more fruit trees tomorrow."
"Damn, I earned three hundred gold coins from these two mu of fruit trees, how much can I earn from planting wheat?
Thirty gold coins?
If he uproots all the fruit trees, will he give me the money? "
"That's not all. My wife and daughter are both working in the canned fruit factory. Every month, their salary is close to 30 gold coins. If all the fruit trees here are uprooted, how can the canned fruit factory continue operating?
Wouldn't my wife and daughter lose their jobs? "
"Why doesn't this idiot City Lord just die?
Our family can earn several dozen gold coins a month from this and seeing that the canned fruit is selling so well, we can earn even more in the future, but he's telling us not to do it. He simply doesn't want us to have a good life! "
"Damn, if father can't keep living, I'll go all out with that damn City Lord!"
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Previously, when they were talking about the total grain output of this autumn harvest, everyone was chatting with doubt and ridicule. But now, when they suddenly heard about this matter that was related to their own interests, everyone became excited in an instant.
Of course, the income of the villagers of Koror Village had increased by leaps and bounds due to the income from the canned fruit factory and the orchards. But now, the mayor's order was going to make them go back to the poor life of renting land. No one would be able to take it.
The group of people loudly cursed, but they couldn't come up with any good methods.
In the end, they were just a group of weak farmers. At most they could curse the aloof Lord City Lord, how could they have a way to deal with this.
Only old man Sarkozy was calm. After knitting his brows to think for a bit, he noticed that Cantona on the side had a faint smile on his lips. His heart skipped a beat as he asked, "Cantona, this idiot City Lord doing this is clearly forcing the canned fruit factory to close. What is Chairman Xu's reaction to this?"
Cantona nodded at old man Sarkozy in praise. Seeing that everyone was looking over, he said with a smile, "Of course Chairman Xu has made arrangements.
I called you all here this time to ask what you think of this arrangement. "
"Just say it, Chairman Xu's arrangements are definitely good."
"That's right, following Chairman Xu will make our lives better, following this idiot City Lord will only lead us down the path of death."
"Un, Cantona, just say it. We'll follow Chairman Xu's arrangements."
… …
"You just need to listen to Chairman Xu's arrangements for other things, but this time, I feel that you should seriously consider it."
Cantona said, "Because Chairman Xu's arrangements are for everyone to change places to farm."
"Change places to farm?
Change to where? "Everyone asked in doubt.
Cantona revealed a smile. He had been shocked when he heard Xu Yi's plan, but after these people heard it, they would be even more shocked than him.
"This place ….. is the Principality of Constantine."