...If we wait until we actually realize the benefits brought by the magic grain sharing, the old witch doctor may not care about the final harvest. But now that their tribe has enjoyed the benefits brought by two seasons of "bumpy harvests", think about it again
Giving up is not that simple~
So naturally, the old witch doctor brought up the issue of "lack of personnel" that has attracted much attention recently.
Liu Yifei naturally had a plan for this: "Yes, I came here today to inform your tribe of relevant matters...
Because the war between us and the undead army on the frontline has taken a major turn, the allies on the Elf side have made the decision to withdraw from Eri across the board. This is their collective decision, and no one can change it, so our overall cooperation cannot
Don't make drastic adjustments.
After my efforts to persuade them to stay, there will eventually be a very small number of elven druids who will stay as an important long-term support for the victims of our green field to escape the post-war famine.
But since the manpower here is very limited, the large-scale planting of magic crops like before is really unsustainable...
After our discussions, important manpower will serve as technical guidance and stay in the rear territory to help us cultivate and improve the seeds of common food crops, so as to ease the difficulty of planting for our farmers and increase the harvest.
In this process, we also treat your tribe equally and replant the existing cultivated land here with new high-yielding grain varieties..."
"Just... just ordinary grain seeds? Just the yield has increased, and the magic effect has been completely lost?"
After digesting Liu Yifei's words, the old witch doctor seemed a little unable to accept it, and confirmed it twice in his mind.
"There is really no way around this~ After all, if you want to retain the magic properties of magic crops, in addition to special seeds, you also need to continuously introduce magic irrigation into the plant growth process.
And the local area does not have the conditions to build a large-scale magic garden... Without enough druids, we do not have their method of artificially stably inputting magic power, so..."
Visible to the naked eye, Liu Yifei noticed the look of "disappointment" in the old witch doctor's eyes...
The most critical value of magic grain is the mild magic power it carries, and its huge yield, which is enough to be used as a high-energy meat substitute to "warm and nourish" the bodies of powerful people, including spellcasters.
—To put it bluntly, do you still remember the "difficulty in eating" problem Liu Yifei encountered after his "Physique" attribute improved?
"Magic food" like this is one of the solutions!
Magic power itself is a kind of alternative "nutrition" that can meet the "nutritional needs" of bodies with high physical fitness or high magic power. However, the problem is that "high magic power" itself is fully "infectious" - like the "Magic Pattern Warrior"
The reason why this kind of profession disappeared in history is precisely because of the terrible infectivity of magic on the users, which led to the great pain and ultimate madness of the professionals themselves...
Even after generations of technological improvements, they gradually evolved into the later "Magic Pattern Swordsmen", but they still had the obvious shortcomings of frequent equipment replacement and huge training costs...
The way for strong people in the NPC world to solve their nutritional needs is very simple - that is to eat other creatures with the same high physical fitness or high magic power...especially various animals!
After being buffered by the first-level body, the infectivity caused by the original magic power has been greatly reduced, and the nutrients contained in high-physique or high-magic food are rich enough, naturally sufficient to support the growth needs of predators~
However, according to the energy transfer characteristics of the food chain itself, the utilization efficiency of this energy is very low, which means that the number of high-ranking predators must not be too large...
It was also during this process that magic crops such as "magic grains" were gradually developed, and the inspiration came from the craving of herbivorous creatures for magic plants...
Magic grain does not contain much magic power, but it is mild in nature and can be cultivated in large quantities (as long as there are enough people)!
If it were given to fourth-order or even more powerful creatures, it would be a bit tasteless, but for a quasi-second-order ethnic group like the lizardmen, it would be a very good "nutrition"!
Individuals of the lizard people tribe, as long as their children have no disabilities, have enough food during their growth period (ordinary meat), and have basic training that is not too strong, they can reach a basic combat power of around the second level!
Compared with "human beings", this kind of ethnic group foundation should not exceed much~
You must know that according to strict combat power standards, "human beings" are not even considered a first-order ethnic group... It is only because of the "greed" and sufficient "wisdom" in the nature of "human beings" that they can continue to progress.
Continuously breaking the upper limit of individual strength, and then occupying a large living space in Entagre...
Similarly, magic grains are also of great value to "human beings" - if a human child grows up completely eating "magic grains", the probability of stimulating magic affinity characteristics will increase by about that percent when they grow up.
How... right?
But who would feed such precious things to civilian children on a large scale just because of such a small improvement?
You must know that those who are qualified to grow "magic grain" must either be mid-to-high-level spellcasters with special buildings like the "magic garden", or else they must be the special group of druids...
Ordinary humans can't afford it, but the "nobles" in the lizard tribe can afford it!
Previously, the old witch doctor used his tribe's "share" to exchange some rare resources from several other qualified tribes around him, and even directly exchanged it for "population"... Well, primitive tribes, don't care about these "population" (
They don’t even care about the sensitive issue of "preventing) buying and selling"~
The food they replaced was given to the tribe's witch doctors, warrior chiefs, clan leaders, etc. Since it couldn't reach the mouths of ordinary lizardmen, wouldn't it mean that it was sold at a price as high as gold for a luxury product?
Now it has to be replaced with ordinary food... Even ordinary food was originally a luxury product in short supply in Taitalia... But it is as if gold could grow in the ground, but now it is replaced by silver of equal weight...
The cultivated land is still so large and the harvest is still so large, but what does the value mean?
You can’t blame the old witch doctor for being greedy. It’s true that the tribe is now bigger and stronger, but the resource gap is getting bigger~
Originally, the tribe could still rely on "foreign exchange income" to support the tribe's rapid development and growth, but now that it's like this... anyone else will be disappointed!
Liu Yifei could fully understand the other party's mood and disappointment, so he followed up and said: "...At the same time, one of the major adjustments we will make in the way of cooperation is to demarcate all the cultivated land in the area around Onuma Lake.
Give it to your tribe, we will no longer divide the food produced locally, but give it all to you!"
"Well? Give it all to us??"
Although compared with the "loss", this exchange is really not as good as a gap in the teeth... But seeing the benefits of human beings starting to show real materials, the old witch doctor more or less came back to his senses and began to carefully
After thinking about it: "Do you mean to give us the land and let us grow our own food in the future?"
If the lizardmen were allowed to farm by themselves, the old witch doctor would probably immediately turn his back on them and drive them away - just kidding, if nothing else, the "standards" of their lizardmen's hands and feet are not suitable for planting work.
! Even if there is ready-made land and the lizard people are willing to cultivate it carefully, the results will probably be disastrous!
Therefore, "save the land and lose the people" is completely meaningless~
"No, on the contrary! Although the manpower of the druids is scarce, we will choose a suitable place to build a village not far from Onuma Lake as soon as possible, and move a group of farmers here. From now on, these farmers will use these cultivated lands
Farming, and all the income earned locally will belong to you~"
"This... sir, you mean... that you will send a group of farmers here... to help us farm?"
The old witch doctor felt that if he had not heard wrongly, then the young human opposite must have said wrongly...
It has always been undeniable that in the eyes of many intelligent creatures in the outside world, the lizard people are no different from "barbarians", and they are full of discrimination and disdain for them.
Even those who are willing to treat the lizard people fairly are very rare. People like Liu Yifei are actually willing to "help the other party farm"... This is no longer an unusual problem. Even the old witch doctor himself, who is the beneficiary,
I even felt that Liu Yifei was either crazy or had some terrible plot...
Who else would do such a stupid thing?!
Fortunately, Liu Yifei quickly dispelled the other party's doubts: "Of course, I'm not saying that what we do is completely free~
First of all, the most basic point is that you must ensure the safety of these farmers who are willing to come to farm!
Remember, this is the most important point!
Whether it's because your people stretched out their claws randomly, or the farmers themselves had some accidents, in short, as long as there is a problem in this swamp area, the truth of the matter must be found out, and the responsible party must be found.
You have to pay an absolutely heavy price to ensure that more farmers will be willing to come to your land to plant in the future!
Don't think my request is excessive. After all, you are the direct beneficiaries of this matter. If the benefits go to you in the end and the farmers still have to bear the terrible threat to their lives, who do you expect to work for you?
If this cannot be guaranteed, then I will doubt your tribe’s sincerity in cooperation..."
For a moment, the old witch doctor also doubted whether this was planted deliberately by the people in front of him, and used to start a war in the future, or to cause trouble for their tribe...
But when I think about it, it doesn’t feel right——
After all, this young man was very ready to take action at the slightest disagreement. If he really had any thoughts about his tribe...it would seem that he wouldn't have to go to such trouble to find an excuse, right?
Combined with everyone's good cooperation foundation before... the old witch doctor finally nodded reluctantly...
