Volume 3 Chapter 38 - The farmers of two different countries (1/2)

The Stantine Duchy wasn’t as cold as the Lampuri Kingdom in winter, rather it was much more refreshing once the temperature dropped and it was no longer as hot and moist.

In this season each year, because they didn’t need to worry about hurricanes and tsunamis, Swain Wein would leave his large manor outside Wein City to head to a manor by the sea to spend the winter.

But it was different this year. This year head Wein only stayed by the sea for two days before bringing his subordinates and maids to the sea, heading twenty kilometers northeast, arriving at a large plain.

Seeing the vast lands and the people working in them controlling the agricultural magic machines, head Wein couldn’t help feeling emotional.

The people from the Lampuri Kingdom were more industrious compared to the people of the duchy. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s over a thousand hired workers had just arrived half a month ago and they were working every dawn since dawn, only stopping when the sun set.

With their hard work, this patch of desolate land that no one cared about in the beginning, in just half a month, it was looking like it would be reclaimed and could be cultivated soon.

Every time he saw this, head Wein couldn’t help being secretly happy.

This hundred thousand hectares of land in his hand wasn’t worth a cent, but after renting it to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, not only would they pay three hundred thousand gold coins in rent each year, they would also give him 30% of the yearly crops.

This was equal to him sitting there doing nothing all year and earning three hundred thousand gold coins and 30% of the crops.

According to the estimates of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s chairman Xu, once this land was reclaimed, it could produce at least a hundred thousand tons of rice each year. 30% of that was thirty thousand tons.

It had to be known, in last year, he had received just over twenty thousand tons of grain from all his territories.

Thinking of this, head Wein couldn’t help praising his own brilliance.

Then thinking about how the Frestech Chamber of Commerce promised to open a canned fruit factory and a rubber processing factory, as well as building roads all over the land, connecting his territory, head Wein was ecstatic.

Let all those short sighted fools down self die from regret! See how I, Swain Wein can see into the future. As long as I cooperate with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, my territory will far surpass the territory of you bastards to the south!

Head Wein looked over the busy land before him and then a vein suddenly popped up on his forehead, as a trace of anger filled his face.

In his line of sight, not everyone was busy working in the land. There were quite a few people lazing off, only pushing the agricultural magic machine in their hand occasionally.

Seeing these people slacking off, head Wein gave a cold snort. He picked up a leather whip from a subordinate and walked over to the closest person. Before that person could react, the whip had already come down.

That person was stunned before a look of fear flashed on his face, but he didn’t dare dodge at all. He just hugged his head and ducked down, as he waited for the leather whip to fall down.

“Pa.”

The leather whip fell onto the back of that person and with a crisp sound, that person’s clothing was ripped. A bloody mark appeared on his back, showing just how strong head Wein had whipped him.

The sound attracted everyone’s attention. The people from Banta City looked at head Wein’s actions in a daze and they revealed an unwilling look, but no one said a thing.

They were citizens even in the Lampuri Kingdom, so they had seen nobles oppressing commoners before.

If this was Banta City, they might have resisted, but this was the Stantine Duchy, so they wouldn’t interfere in the business of others.

“Pa, pa, pa.”

The whip fell onto the back of that person again and again, as head Wein kept cursing him.

“Damn, you piece of trash! It was rare enough for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to hire you to come work here, that means your luck is good, but you actually dare to be lazy! Do you believe I won’t beat you to death? Ah?”

After a while, the person’s back was covered in bloody marks. Even when the whip came down, drops of blood came off it, making the scene very hard to look at.

That person on the ground had already gone limp, like he was about to faint when there was a shout from afar.

“Stop!”

Head Wein angrily turned around, who dared to stop him from teaching this trash a lesson?

After a while, the anger on his face turned into a smile and he threw away the whip as he came forward.