The mage's understanding of agriculture is really pitiful. After all, how can a high-ranking mage master get involved in the dirty work?
The closest thing they have to farming is probably cultivating alchemical herbs in private greenhouses. However, these things are used to make alchemical potions and assist in casting spells, not to satisfy hunger.
And for mages with a certain status, most of these tasks are left to apprentices or vassal alchemists, or they spend a lot of money to purchase them from elsewhere. Otherwise, like the Evergreen Chamber of Commerce, they build plantations throughout the New World to steadily provide herbal medicines.
with plant raw materials.
Today, within the Mutual Protection Alliance, the Evergreen Chamber of Commerce controls many scattered plantations, some of which are distributed in swampy mountains and forests, used to plant special vines and trees needed for the Evergreen Clothes. The other part is in an environment where the climate, water and soil are suitable.
Cultivate alchemical herbs.
Those responsible for managing the plantations are all drawn from the Star Cult, either cultivating herbal plants, managing warehousing and transportation, or participating in external sales. Xuan Weizi uses this to cultivate talents and allow them to participate in various affairs.
In interacting with all kinds of people, cultivate their ability to adapt to different work environments and different social situations. It is not just the ability to summon thunder and cause fire, and to fight and kill.
When it comes to agriculture, within the Mutual Protection Alliance, no one knows it better than the Order of the Stars, not to mention that Xuan Weizi has a group of sages of the Green Ring around him.
"The cooling of the climate in the future will indeed have a great impact on agricultural production." Weston said: "Recently in the mainland, the Mysterious Eye seems to be hoarding food and various materials. Related landowners and chambers of commerce,
There are also actions to expand land annexation. It is estimated that they are also anticipating the cooling of the climate in the future and are making preparations."
Mephisetis blinked and asked Xuan Weizi: "Do you want us to expand the cultivated area?"
"Agricultural production is not just about land, it is about the earth carrying plants, water irrigating roots and stems, sunlight shining on leaves, and the atmosphere spreading seedlings. It is essentially the joint action of four major elements." Xuan Weizi said: "But if we only rely on the natural environment, then
The production of crops must also rise and fall with the gathering and dispersing of the natural environment, and will not obey human needs and will."
There are all very skilled spell casters present. Although they are not good at natural spells, they can still understand Xuan Weizi's meaning.
"Agriculture itself is a highly complex system, just like the form of energy and material transfer in the internal organs of the human body. If we just blindly expand the area of cultivated land and sow seeds, it will not be sustainable for a long time." Xuan Weizi said: "If we really want to improve agricultural production,
There are several things: land inventory, water conservancy construction, seedling improvement, fertilizer development, and literacy education."
"Building water conservancy? I heard that not only near Evergreen City, but also in the tribal alliance, many water conservancy projects have been built, ditches are dug, and even the Sky Singer personally casts spells to move mountains to block rivers and build dams. The scene must be very special.
Magnificent, right?" Mephisitis said with a smile.
There was no smile on Xuan Weizi's face as he asked: "Queen, in the past ten years, seven floods have occurred in Black Rock Province, frequently inundating farmland and villages. This has already happened before the climate has cooled down. When the climate becomes severe in the future, the disaster will return.
I don’t know how far it will develop. As the largest grain-producing area of the Mutual Protection Alliance, if it is in ruins for hundreds of miles, we will be in chaos ourselves without the need for the Eye of Mystery to end it ourselves."
Irrigation projects have extremely significant effects on increasing crop yields. Xuanweizi's experiments with the tribal alliance in Changqing City have already produced obvious results.
Moreover, through the construction of large-scale water conservancy projects, in addition to preventing floods and providing irrigation, the distribution of surface waters can also be adjusted within a considerable range, allowing the circulation of water vapor between heaven and earth to spread more widely, using it as the backbone to promote the prosperity of nature. , life cycle.
Even though the changes and energy contained in it are so weak that they can be ignored for arcane mages, for druids with keen and powerful perceptions, natural spells that value the balance of elements are of extraordinary significance.
Mephisetis nodded in approval, and then said: "As for improving seedlings and developing fertilizers, the Star Order should have quite a lot of experience, right?"
Xuan Weizi continued: "There is no end to improving seedlings. We must constantly modify and adapt to the environment. Facing the cold climate, it is expected that a large number of cold-resistant crops will need to be replanted. I will ask the Evergreen Chamber of Commerce to pay more attention to this aspect. But regarding the fertilizer, I still need the help of a group of alchemists."
"I will arrange it later." Mephisitis was very cooperative.
When Isaisothos came to Evergreen City, he preferred to use Waidan fire to improve alchemy. After nearly ten years of research and improvement, he did develop an alchemical fertilizer that can increase crop yields. However, this kind of thing needs to be combined with organic The specific operation of fertilizer mixing cannot be accomplished by just a few alchemists. At least a team of alchemists is required to be sent to various places to conduct extensive research.
But in the final analysis, this is not an industrial fertilizer with abundant output, and Xuan Weizi cannot produce cheap and efficient agricultural machinery or structures, so he does not put all his hopes here.
Seeing that Mephisetis deliberately avoided it, Xuan Weizi continued: "Queen, you have not yet interfered with the most important matters of land inventory and literacy education."
In the starry sky, the atmosphere fell silent for a moment. Weston held up his glasses and said nothing, staring at the small round table in front of him with lowered eyebrows. The "Queen of Missiles" Mephistis was silent for a moment, then said with a slightly serious expression:
"What you call 'land inventory' is not just for surveying land and farmland, right?"
Xuan Weizi knocked on the table and said: "The Russian-Georgian prince targets the nobles and rich people in order to rectify taxation, hoping to use it to have the capital to build a country. The Mutual Protection Alliance also faces the same problem, even more serious. Don't forget , we are just allies, the governors and lords control the taxation of various places.
Now, they rely on the condescending restraint of the Pentagram Tower to keep their supply and maintain their army. But in the future, when a war occurs, a large number of mages will be deployed to the front line, and even mid-level and high-level figures will be injured or killed. Who will control the place? If taxes don’t come in and logistics materials can’t be mobilized, how can we still fight the war?”
In fact, mages are a very special group. They are not only the core of academic magic research, but also the masters of violence. Wealth and power are naturally concentrated in them, and they are naturally easy to become rulers.
But in fact, an excellent mage may not necessarily be an excellent ruler. Governance itself is a tedious and complicated matter, enough to waste time on it, leaving the mage with no time to study magic, which is the most terrible thing.
Therefore, even if mages are at a high level, they are usually not directly responsible for rule and management. They need officials to manage and make money for them. As long as they can continue to provide them with money to learn spells and conduct research, mages will provide security and spell support. This is what mages are. The origin of the consultant.
However, power is not limited to violence, but also includes the degree of control over social wealth. The mage himself rarely participates in specific management. In order to obtain wealth, it is inevitable to work in tandem with aristocrats, landlords, squires, and important officials.
Even if ordinary people don't dare to openly provoke mages, they still have no problem if they want to make small moves in finance and taxation. This kind of thing is not too serious for individual mages, they just need a sufficient amount of "offerings". However, magnification
To the entire Mutual Protection Alliance, this is equivalent to the loss of a large amount of disposable social wealth, and the power itself is diluted.
This kind of thing would not be a problem in peacetime. Maybe everyone at the top and bottom feels that the small life is quite nourishing. But once we encounter various natural and man-made disasters, tense situations, and insufficient social wealth at our disposal, our ability to deal with crises will naturally decline.
Not to mention the awkward system of the Mutual Protection Alliance, which is naturally just a bunch of local states. If it weren't for the five-pointed star tower at the top, it would be impossible to even collect any taxes.
Xuan Weizi continued: "It's okay to rely on the high mage as an advisor to supervise the tax payment of governors and lords in various places. Aren't you afraid that the high mage advisors and their apprentices will collude with the local wealthy landlords? They will enrich their own pockets.
A lot of money was made, but for the entire Mutual Protection Alliance, it was constantly destroying its foundation. The people at the bottom were bearing a huge burden, and the wealthy landlords used bribery and collusion to obtain various preferential treatment and exemptions... By that time, the Mutual Protection Alliance
It exists in name only.”
Mephisitis picked up the cup and took a sip gracefully. The atmosphere in the starry sky was silent for a long time, but Weston took the initiative to speak: "The situations you mentioned were not unheard of in the past. Just like Naylor in Fire Dance City
Master Mu, his children were in collusion with wealthy landowners, and their influence was deeply entangled in the Black Rock Province. If it hadn't been for Fusman... Well, I won't go into it."
At this time, there was a leaping flame in the starry sky, gathering into a fireball like the scorching sun, and the voice of "The Balrog" Sidons came out: "Mephistis, I warned you, those people don't use whips to whip
If you keep working hard, they will definitely slack off. Fusman is the last chance for the Tower of Pentagram, but you chose to let the situation develop."
Mephisitis put down the tea cup with a smile and replied calmly: "Will the whip always be useful? Some of them are still your apprentices, and you only taught one, Fusman. Besides, now Oran
Didn't Your Excellency Suo come up with a new method?"
The scorching sun radiating the raging heat uttered angry words: "What he wants to do is not agriculture at all, but to modify the tax system and reshape the foundation of the entire Mutual Protection Alliance! If he does this, what will the future Mutual Protection Alliance be?"
Whose country is it? If I hadn’t been forced to give up my throne, would it be so troublesome now?!"
The expression on Mephisetis's face did not change, but Weston retorted slightly angrily: "What do you mean by forcing you to give up your position? Your continuous expansion in the New World aroused the vigilance of the Eyes of Mystery, and they set a trap to capture you.
Teleport to the water elemental plane. If the queen hadn't come to the rescue in time, are you sure you could have escaped from Nazarui?
Also, if you hadn't coerced the mages under you, causing them to betray, how could you have been led into the trap? The Pentagram Tower was already in danger, and only the Queen could turn the tide, even at the risk of exposing herself
Legendary spell. If I didn’t think about appeasing everyone at that time, would I still have to accommodate you?”
Xuan Weizi kept silent. This was the first time he had heard of these things. It seems that the Tower of Pentagram and the Eye of Mystery have been fighting openly and secretly for a long time. The competition between legendary mages is not something ordinary people can come into contact with.
, perhaps unknowingly the difference between victory and defeat, life and death.
However, Xuan Weizi also understands that the confrontation between high-level spellcasters is not only a competition to see whose spells are more powerful, but more about obtaining intelligence and information to target the enemy's weaknesses and counterattack the trump card. Just like before
In the battle of New Camelot City, all parties revealed their trump cards one after another. In the end, Nazarui tried to end the battle with a big killer weapon like a meteorite, but Xuan Weizi used another magical method to break it.
Although Xuan Weizi was pulled into the highest level of the Pentagram Tower, he still didn't say much, but the "Missile Queen" didn't seem to give him a chance to remain silent: "Your Excellency Olanso, Lord 'Fire Demon' said you want to
Turn the Mutual Protection Alliance into your country, please tell me, do you really think so?"
"A country that belongs to me? Can anyone really 'own' a country?" Xuan Weizi asked indifferently: "Unless I can clearly understand every person, every family, and every settlement in the country,
Depending on the situation of each group, otherwise the land must be handed over to officials or lords for management. In addition, there are specific industries that require professional management and control.
The larger the land of a country, the more complex the industry, the more interest groups there are, and the more complex the power structure. No matter what the name of the ruler, his essence is the core of the power structure, using limited resources to drive the entire structure.
Operation. As for what 'belongs to my country'? Apart from my body and mind, what else in the world belongs to me?"
Xuan Weizi still had one sentence left to say - how many people in the world dare to say that their body and mind belong to them?
Mephisitis asked with a smile on her face: "Clearly understand the situation of every person, every family, every settlement, every group in the country? Isn't this what psychic powers are best at?
?What secrets can there be at the heart of the 'Duke of the Heart'?"
Xuan Weizi did not deny that he practices alchemy and attaches great importance to the power of induction. Whether it is relying on psychic powers, prophecy detection, or the vast perception of the legendary druid, he can indeed master more information and manage it more effectively. If
With Evergreen City as the core and a radius of hundreds of miles including the Golden Crown Wood Dominion, it is estimated that it can really become his absolute core area, but it is limited to this.
"It is impossible for me to control the entire Mutual Protection Alliance." Xuan Weizi said bluntly: "What's more, what I do is only to consolidate the foundation of the Mutual Protection Alliance. If I really want to give the Mutual Protection Alliance a greater advantage in the future changes, it is also
We need the Pentagram Tower."
"Missile Queen" finally showed a look of satisfaction and said: "Then I have to listen carefully. What role can the Pentagram Tower play?"
Xuan Weizi knew that the other party was trying to express his idea through his own words, so he could only say: "Through the trade channels with the Dragon Kingdom and the Kingdom of Jarnod, with the Mutual Protection Alliance as the core, we control the key trade nodes.
Establish a brand new transnational trade system to dismantle the advantages of the Eye of Mystery from the periphery, and even replace his dominance of the routes."