Lord of Arcane

Chapter 3207 Agricultural Cooperation Survey Begins

“Counselor Xia Duo, please look over there. That is the experimental area where the new varieties of Yeerlan vegetables are localized in Elan. All the vegetables sold in the market in Yeerlan are carefully cultivated varieties and are highly dependent on specific environments.

"This is not only due to the environment in which the maze is set up, but also the natural environment. Therefore, if you want to grow fruits and vegetables from Yeerlan locally, you need a localization process."

Although Philipa is not an agricultural mage, as an advisor to the Crown King, he often provides consulting advice to the Crown King. Naturally, he is well aware of various affairs in Yeerlan, including the agricultural field.

When talking about Yeerlan's achievements in agriculture, Philipfa looked proud of it, but Xia Duo, who was standing next to him, felt uncomfortable when he heard it.

Although Netheril is now among the great powers, its military capabilities are barely enough. In other aspects, the gaps compared with other elven countries are quite obvious, including the agricultural field that Shado has always attached great importance to.

Just a few days ago, Xia Duogang and Regante of Evereska reached a cooperation intention in the field of agriculture. The purpose was simple, which was to learn Evereska's advanced agricultural technology through cooperation.

And now, after hearing what Philipa said, Xia Duo once again discovered that Yeerlan’s agriculture also has its merits. In this case, how about cooperating with them?

But hybrid breeding has already been used in the cooperation project with Evereska. What else can he use to cooperate with Yeerlan?

Moreover, Yeerlan is different from Eversca. When Xiaduo cooperates with Eversca, he does not have to worry about Eversca tearing up the agreement. But if he cooperates with Yeerlan, it will be difficult not to have such worries.

At present, all he can offer is the research ideas or directions, but he does not have the real agricultural technology. In other words, the entire Netheril cannot produce technology equivalent to that of Yerlan for equal cooperation.

Once he provided ideas or directions, Ye Erlan might completely break away from him and work on his own. Even if he didn't tear up the agreement directly and deliberately delayed the progress during the cooperation, Xia Duo would have no way to stop them.

In addition, if his ideas or directions are really promising, then why would he cooperate with Yeerlan? The first in agriculture in the North is Evereska!
Thinking of this, Xia Duo decided to give it a try. Maybe Yeerlan would like to "help the poor"!

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After walking through another experimental block, Xia Duo finally said what he had been thinking for a long time, "I wonder if Yeerlan is interested in the demiplane ecological farm?"

"Demi-plane ecological farm?" This was the first time Philip heard of this term, but from the literal meaning, he could roughly guess the meaning of this term, so he showed a hint of curiosity and asked Shado:

"Has Netheril already achieved some results in this regard?"

"That's not the case. It's just my personal idea to build the farm into a complete ecosystem to maximize the utilization of various resources. The most important thing is that it can provide an important reference blueprint for future transformation of the plane!"

This is indeed an idea of ​​Xia Duo. Transforming the plane does not just mean transforming the magic network environment to be similar to the main plane, but the ecological environment.

For example, in the Yellow Sand demiplane, Xia Duo can now transform the magic network environment of that plane to be close to that of the main plane, and even the physical environment (gravity, radiation, light, heat, etc.) is very close.

But that plane is still a desert environment. If it wants to be truly habitable, it must at least be able to provide all the supplies that normal humans rely on for survival, right?

The most basic problem of food and drink is difficult to solve. Unless magic is used to maintain the production of various crops, it is impossible for people to be self-sufficient relying solely on the natural environment.

The cost of maintaining magic is generally quite high. If you really have to use up half-plane traffic, then of course the cost should be as low as possible.

If it is only used to transform the plane, then the cost issue needs to be considered. If the cost is too high, why not just look for a ready-made habitable plane that does not require transformation?
The concept of an ecological farm is actually to build an ecological cycle within the farm now, and then gradually expand it to the entire plane. Or if the farm can continue to circulate, it is actually a complete half-plane ecological farm.

With such a farm, you can produce a steady supply of various survival supplies with as little investment as possible.

With the corresponding automated facilities and equipment, once a person owns such an automated ecological farm, he or she will have the last confidence to exist in this world——

No need to worry about hunger at all.

Many times, the only thing that the rulers can control over the lower classes is food and clothing.

If the lower class can obtain the most basic or even relatively abundant food and clothing materials without doing anything, then the rulers are no longer rulers to them. At this time, they are qualified to ask the rulers to do more for them.

The rule at this time is more like a union than a rule, a union of micro-productive units, rather than being exploited and plundered by the rulers under the coercion of food and clothing.

Although there is some pressure, Shaduo is actually capable of equipping all the people in the territory with a portable demiplane. In this case, the ecological farm seems to be the only remaining piece of the puzzle. (Automation is not necessary)
If you want to study ecological farms, agricultural technology is essential, and the demiplane can provide different natural environments for research, although Ye Erlan can still leave him alone to study the ecological farms in the main plane.

But the main plane has such abundant resources that there is no need to be so frugal. If Ye Erlan really leaves him aside, it will not be enough to create a bigger gap in the agricultural field.

The real value of the ecological farm lies in the fact that it can serve as a reference for plane transformation, and plane exploration and even demi-plane creation are rare leading areas in Netheril.

By cooperating in this area, Xiaduo and Yeerlan have a win-win basis.

"The collapse of the Dragon Madness Lock on the main plane has shown an irreversible trend. In the future, we may be forced to flee the main plane. If we can't find a suitable habitable plane by then, transforming the plane will be almost the only option."

If Xia Duo said this to humans, they might sneer at him. The idea of ​​escaping from the main plane is out of the question, but the elves have already experienced an escape from another plane.

That time they were lucky enough to come to the main plane, a large habitable plane, but in the future, when the Dragon Madness Lock of the main plane collapses and the situation is so critical that they really need to escape, who can guarantee that they can still find a large habitable plane?

If you master the plane transformation technology, you can temporarily live in the small or medium-sized planes near the main plane, and then return to the main plane after the disaster on the main plane subsides.

By then, we will have to use surface transformation technology!
After all, if the Dragon Madness Maze completely collapses, it will most likely cause a devastating blow to the surface ecology, and this can be seen from the current climate anomalies.