Volume 3 Chapter 60 - Before leaving (1/2)

The result of the spring harvest this year in Banta City was dazzling.

When it was the spring harvest last year, the wheat harvested in Banta City was six hundred and thirty thousand tons. It was already a very large number, being in the front ranks of the Lampuri Kingdom.

For a small city like Banta City that was at the bottom of the Lampuri Kingdom’s ranks, this was a very hard to obtain performance. Everyone thought that Banta City with the help of the agricultural magic machines had already dug out all its potential and couldn’t raise this number again.

But after this year’s spring harvest was over, the City Lord Manor reported that Banta City harvested a total of eight hundred and seventy thousand tons of wheat!

It was even two hundred and forty thousand tons more than last year!

It had to be known in the year before last, because of the farmland improvement project Count Sean had carried out, all the farmland that could be opened was already opened with the help of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce agricultural magic machines. Now every year in Banta City, they were planting wheat in every place possible.

So theoretically, Banta City’s grain yield had already reached a peak by last year.

There was only one reason for this shocking breakthrough, which was the important product from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the fertilizer.

In this spring harvest, according to the data, the farms that used fertilizer produced much more than the farms that didn’t use fertilizer.

The most exaggerated part was that one mu of land provided almost double the amount of crops!

During the winter, many villages under the lead of Koror Village, Kambia Village, and Mexilan Village used fertilizer. The final output that they received was from using fertilizer in their fields.

According to the calculations of the City Lord Manor, if all of Banta City’s farms used fertilizer, with a conservative estimate, Banta City’s seasonal grain yield could break over a million tons.

This was a very shocking number.

It had to be known that in the past, Banta City’s grain yield was only two hundred thousand tons and now it was possible to break over a million tons.

If this transformation was brought over the Lampuri Kingdom, with such an astonishing grain yield, not only could they easily feed their citizens, they could even have a large surplus.

In the eyes of many Banta City citizens, this was an unbelievable matter because it was already pretty good for the Lampuri Kingdom citizens to eat their fill, how could there be a surplus?

But in Xu Yi’s eyes, this was a very normal matter.

Although the Lampuri Kingdom was a small kingdom, it had a very good geographical position. Most of its land was suited for farming and most of its land was flat, so it was suited for large scale cultivation.

With such a good terrain, it was a joke that they wouldn’t be able to feed themselves.

Normally speaking, the Lampuri Kingdom should be a great nation exporting grains.

Of course, the Lampuri Kingdom was a bit remote. After all, in these two years, the Lampuri Kingdom was finally able to solve the basic issues of their citizens with the help of the agricultural magic machines.

Although now that the output of grain increased in Banta City, the extra grain wouldn’t be wasted.

Of the eight hundred and seventy thousand tons of grain harvested, six hundred and twenty thousand tons was turned over to the City Lord Manor and five hundred tons of that was turned to the agricultural department to enter the kingdom’s granary. The final one hundred and twenty thousand tons of grain was controlled by the City Lord Manor.

But in reality, how to deal with this was a problem for the City Lord Manor.

When Banta City only harvested two hundred thousand tons of grain, the City Lord Manor only had around ten to twenty thousand tons, it was just a drop in the bucket. There wasn’t anything left after giving everyone a share and they even needed to subsidize a part of it to use for expenditures.

Now that they had over one hundred and twenty thousand tons of wheat, the City Lord Manor didn’t know how to deal with it.

If it was before, it would have been very simple. They would have just sold the wheat and earned several tens of thousands which would be used to pay the expenditures of the City Lord Manor.

But with Count Stagg being more lenient to business in Banta City, the business tax since the beginning of the year had increased for Banta City. Just the tax for April alone was already close to a hundred thousand gold coins.

So there was no financial pressure on Banta City right now and it wasn’t worth it to sell this wheat anywhere.

So after considering it, Count Stagg constructed a granary outside of Banta City, specially used to store this extra hundred and twenty thousand ton of wheat. He also sent the city guards to guard that place.

Setting up a granary outside a city was a first for the Lampuri Kingdom.

This action had created a stir in the Lampuri Kingdom.

Regarding Count Stagg’s idea, everyone had praise and opposition.

The people who praised him said that Count Stagg’s actions were looking to the future, ensuring the stability of Banta City.