I really just want to be a big lord

Chapter 52 The Farm
"Master, since I became the manager of Chenglue Factory, the sales of the factory have been steadily increasing. Our main customers of lamp holders have increased from six main cities to eight main cities. In this field, our Chenglue factory should be in the top three."

Before leaving Beishan Manor last time, Juan, the manager of Chenglue Factory, could be said to have been severely reprimanded by Keos, but this time, his overall attitude was obviously more respectful and careful.

In the luxurious and comfortable office, Keos sat on the leather chair behind the desk, the housekeepers Pete, Salveira, the guards and servants who escorted him on this trip, and the manager who was reporting the situation of the factory Juan, the rest of the factory's middle management, stood.

"Last year, our Chenglue factory's annual profit was 3379 coupons, and the sales volume in the first three months of this year was 1774 coupons. After deducting the average cost, the profit in the first three months of this year was about 200 coupons higher than the same period last year. The annual profit It is expected to be about 700 to 800 coupons higher than last year, so Chenglue Factory will create the highest profit record since its establishment.”

At the end of the report, Juan was quite proud, with a hint of pride.

Even the butler Pete, who was standing beside Kaios, couldn't help but nodded slightly.

When the butler mentioned Juan in front of Caios before, he praised him a lot, and was quite satisfied with his management and operation ability.

Of course, a lot of things happened during this period, especially after conducting various investigations with Kaios, he also knew that there were bad guys hidden in the contracted servants of the Li family, so he couldn't be trusted casually.

But in his opinion, even if Juan is a bad guy, he is also a capable bad guy.

Squinting his eyes to listen to the report, Kaios, who seemed to be about to fall asleep, suddenly asked, "How many workers are there in Chenglue Factory?"

"This..." Juan looked back at a manager at the level of a servant chief behind him: "The number of workers."

However, Kaios interrupted him and said, "Just give a rough estimate."

"There... there should be 300... 400 people." Juan said uncertainly.

Kaios looked past him, and looked indifferently at the manager he had asked before: "How many people are there in the factory?"

The manager glanced at Juan with some anxiety, then walked to the desk silently, took out a stack of papers, and handed it to Kaios with his head down: "Master, this is the list of workers."

Kaios took it over and glanced at it. In addition to the name, gender, and age, the handwritten list also included the original territory and other information. After flipping through it, the numbers ranged from 1 to 683.

"A total of 683 people." After Kaios finished speaking casually, he didn't question Juan again.

Normally speaking, from the perspective of a noble lord, a manager who can guarantee stable profits is qualified, and a manager who can steadily increase profits every year is excellent.

But here in Keos, the close to 9/10 purple halo at the back of Juan's head is enough to explain a lot of problems - when he was at Beishan Manor last time, his halo was still half purple and half gray.

There is a high probability that Juan is with Benin and the others, but Keos will not do anything against him this time, and he should not be a key person.

Kaios didn't stay at Chenglue Factory for too long, and after telling Chenglue Factory to give all workers extra meals for a month, he left with his people and went to the next destination.

On the way, Keos finally couldn't help calling Pete to his carriage, and asked, "Why are the workers in Chenglue Factory basically disabled?"

Pete was startled when he heard that, but his surprised eyes immediately turned into dazed eyes. He obviously remembered Kaios' amnesia, and he explained: "Because they can't work on the farm, they come to the factory. Chenglue Factory They can handle the intensity of work."

He said with a sigh: "It's also thanks to the fact that we have so many factories. If the lords don't have factories or don't have so many factories, then they can only go back to their place of residence and wait to die."

Pete's words sounded quite detailed, but Kaios sounded more puzzled.

But at the next destination, a farm of his family, this question was answered.

……

Guliang Farm is the closest farm to Beishan Manor in the Li family. Its annual stable output is about 1800 magic coupons, which is considered a small and medium-sized farm.

The fields stretching endlessly are basically planted with a kind of plant - "Glowing Magic Fruit".

This is a kind of magic plant, from which magic power can be extracted, and it is a kind of magic plant with great economic value.

In the Holy Alliance, when it comes to the property of noble lords, the word "farm" refers specifically to the magic plant farm.

On the contrary, if it is a food crop that ordinary people eat, it needs to be prefixed, such as "melon and fruit farm", "vegetable farm", "restaurant dedicated to farm" and so on.

Now all the arable land, whether it is planted with magic plants or food crops eaten by other people, needs to be pre-treated by people organized by Shengyou Palace before it can be cultivated.

After ordinary fields are pretreated, it is very easy to grow ordinary grains and vegetables. There is no need to remove insects and weeds, and it has little to do with the weather. As long as the appropriate amount of water and fertilization is applied, the harvest and picking will be done when the time comes, which greatly saves manpower and the output is even higher Five to ten times pretreated.

And if you grow magic plants, you can't plant them without pretreatment. Only pre-treated fields can meet the cultivation conditions for magic plants.

It is precisely because of this that regardless of the northern boundary or the western boundary, the land that the nobles have developed from the endless forest has to be converted into the "economic territory" that they have already processed with Shengyou Palace.

There are more than a dozen main economic magic plants that can be used to extract magic power. Guliang Farm chose to grow "Glorious Magic Fruit" because Shengyou Palace believed that this kind of magic plant was the most suitable for growing in their area and had the highest economic benefits.

"Glorious magic fruit" matures in two months, and it takes two months to raise the ground in winter. It can be harvested five times a year.

When Kaios and the others came this time, it was just in time for harvesting the fruit. The fields were full of people. Just looking at the number of people, it might even be more than the number of workers in Chenglue Factory.

But what shocked Keos was the way those in the fields harvested.

The people working in the fields are basically middle-aged men, most of them are topless, wearing a very wide black standard belt with long standard sticks inserted in the belt.

A submerged black tube was inserted into their left abdomen, and one end of the tube was connected to one of the sticks on the waist.

In the field, they picked off the apple-sized, golden, ripe fruits that formed under the crops that were about the height of an adult. They used a small knife in their right hand to cut off the upper shell, and then replaced the knife with a straw, inserted it fiercely. Take a few sips, pull out the straw, insert two thumbs into the hole at the same time, break it off to both sides, and after breaking it open, eat the pulp in three or four bites quickly, and throw the shell into the basket next to it.

Basically, from picking to eating a fruit and throwing away the shell, it takes about 10 seconds if it is fast, and 15 or 16 seconds if it is slow.

Some people, looking at the bulging stomach, obviously have eaten a lot, and even retch after eating, but they will still hold back and continue to pick and eat.

Seeing this scene directly, Kaios understood what they were doing without asking Pete and Salveira.

This is to extract the magic power in the "Glorious Magic Fruit". What they wear on their waists is the real hard currency of the Holy Blessing Alliance, the basis for the Holy Blessing Magic Coupon issued by the Holy Blessing Palace, and all magic devices and equipment in this world need it The standard energy of:

magic wand.

It turns out that the magic stick is obtained by artificially eating the magic plant, forcibly extracting and transforming it, and pouring it into an empty stick.

Kaios actually read the introduction to the operation of the farm that grows magic plants in the book, but there is only a simple sentence on it:

After ripening, it is manually picked, squeezed and bottled.

He didn't expect that it was such a manual extraction and filling method.

The big man with a full belly is only measured by the magic power unit contained in his body at this time. If it is judged by level, it is at least level 6~7, and it is not impossible to reach level 8 or level 9. That is the rank of an intermediate magician.

Of course, let alone mid-level magicians, they can't even beat level 1 or level 2 magic apprentices. They can't control those magic powers, and if they don't pay attention, they will explode and die.

They need to implant the magic stone first, and then drink special medicine to prepare, and then they can directly extract the magic power in the "radiant magic fruit" by this way of eating, and then use the preset device to extract and encapsulate the magic power into the magic stick inside.

Kaios also now knows why when he was in the Chenglue factory, Pete said, "Because they can't work on the farm, so they come to the factory."

This way of extracting magic power, those potions, preset devices, and magic stones in the body will cause various damages to the body. They carry magic power that they cannot control, and they will inevitably suffer a huge backlash.

Those with disabilities were already lucky enough to survive, and there must be many more who died directly during the picking process.

The people working in the fields were full of energy, picking and eating desperately, without any fear or tension, as if they were not worried about the terrifying magic power in their bodies and the backlash and damage this magic power would bring to their bodies.

The accompanying farm director talked and laughed, proudly introducing this year's harvest to him.

Whether it was Pete, Salvela, or the other guards and servants who followed him, they all had normal expressions.

Only Kaios, walking on the avenue opened in the field, looking at the scene of the harvest in full swing, was cold all over his body, as if he was walking naked among the glaciers.

(End of this chapter)