Chapter 786: Chapter 84: Moonlight Celestial Silkworm and the Silk Industry
Last autumn and winter, there was a small outbreak in the territory’s holy land. The citizens built various buildings and facilities in their villages and farms that aided production, such as Reya Wheat Ring, Rainbow Terraces, Frosty Wheat Whistle, and so on.
Among them, dozens of higher-grade Emerald Green Ears could be produced around the Reya Wheat Ring, benefiting the entire village.
Therefore, Su Li’s expectation for several estates to produce extraordinary wheat fields isn’t wishful thinking, but there is a great chance of success.
And thinking of extraordinary wheat fields, Su Li naturally thought of extraordinary vegetables.
Su Li then looked at the Maiden’s Ring and asked, "My minister, the Moonlight Cabbage is planted around this hill, right?"
Mentioning Moonlight Cabbage, Vandar’s old face beamed with a smile: "This cabbage is truly suitable for our Dawn Church. First of all, they cannot be catalyzed with Vitality Growth and can only grow with the lunar phase cycle."
"Then, the vegetable itself can heal civilians and can be made into potions, significantly enhancing the healing abilities of our church cultivators."
"Moreover, it is not picky about the planting environment; it can grow beside clear streams. Currently, we are planting three acres here at the Maiden’s Ring, and they are growing very robustly. We plan to spread these Moonlight Cabbages to the priests and nuns of various villages after the autumn harvest, so that every Dawn Goddess Monastery’s priest has dozens of Moonlight Cabbages within the monastery to heal ordinary civilians’ wounds. This will save them a lot of divine magic to focus on development."
Su Li highly appreciated this plan. The positioning of the Dawn Goddess Church has always been an important extraordinary force in promoting the territory’s development. In fact, from the beginning, Su Li didn’t really emphasize the healing ability of the Dawn Church. Although they could indeed heal some common diseases for the rural civilians and even provide free aid to some poor people and wanderers, Su Li always allocated this healing ability to the Shalya Church and directed the Dawn Church to focus entirely on developing production.
As some say, there is only one disease in this world, and that is poverty.
Frankly, the territory is not yet luxurious enough to concern itself with everyone’s health conditions. For example, why is cancer incidence significantly higher? Because human lifespan has significantly increased. Previously, humans wouldn’t even live long enough for cancer to develop due to all sorts of other reasons.
The leading causes of death in the territory are still not diseases and injuries. The top three causes of death are war, hunger, and looting.
Considering how to quickly develop, enhance strength, and allow more people to survive is the most reasonable strategic choice.
With these Moonlight Cabbages, at least it will free up a lot of energy for these Dawn Church priests, allowing them to simply hand a cabbage leaf to patients for ordinary farming wounds or monster bites.
Su Li then curiously asked, "What is the potion made from this cabbage leaf?"
"It’s the Regeneration Potion, which can allow the target’s wounds to regenerate, approximately equivalent to Shalya Church’s ’Hand of Shalya’ grade. However, our potion’s output is much larger than Shalya Church’s, possibly tens of times more. The raw materials for the Hand of Shalya potion are very specific, requiring Calming Flower and Swallowtail Grass, while our ’Regeneration Potion’ can be made from any vegetable with healing effects."
Su Li then turned to look at the Moonlight Cabbage field below. Although this farmland is not yet mature, it already has the appearance of an extraordinary spiritual field. The neatly planted Moonlight Cabbages have grown to a considerable scale, and their color is indeed like the bright full moon. A few acres connected together look like a patch of moonlight scattered on the ground, making it extremely beautiful and charming.
Everything looks pleasing to the eye, creating anticipation for their harvest.
Currently, the territory is peaceful, with no major war concerns at the borders. This beautiful estate will definitely make it safely to the autumn harvest.
Then Su Li asked, "I remember there is another extraordinary plant?"
"Yes, there is also the Stone Skin Pumpkin, whose planting conditions are even more demanding, only growing in crevices of abandoned castles, ancient battlefield ruins, or mineral-rich areas. We have currently planted over an acre. However, there is also good news that the growth cycle of these pumpkins is not as long as Moonlight Cabbages; we are already able to harvest, and the yield is expected to not be less than 8,000 pounds!"
That indeed is good news!
This is an important material for making city walls more robust, Su Li immediately instructed: "Quickly sell these Stone Skin Pumpkins to enhance the defensive capabilities of the rural strongholds and estates in Hesse, especially those villages farther from the urban areas."
As long as this harvest season can safely pass, the strength of Hesse Territory will surely soar to a new level.
With the special attention from the Dawn Goddess Church cultivators on these extraordinary spiritual plants, Su Li has little reason to worry, and he continued to ask, "My minister, besides being the shepherd leader of religion, you are also the most important Minister of Agriculture in the territory. At the current stage, larger-scale farmland is clearly more important. What is the agricultural development situation of our territory?"
Vandar immediately replied: "Lord, our agriculture is thriving. This spring alone, our territory’s farmland is over 2,200 hectares, just in Jorn Shallow Bay. However, as the territory has solved its most basic food needs, about a third of the crops have been planted with economic crops and vegetables. We conservatively estimate a production of 25,000 tons of grain, which alone is enough to fully pay our tributes to the Gray Rock Clan."
