Chapter 704: Chapter 435 Agricultural Production_3
If the Tilaimei Plain were not under Colin’s rule, Johnson would have agreed to the proposal right away, but now... he needed to return and give it serious consideration.
"It’s all right, if the Tate Family has any ideas later, you are always welcome."
Johnson didn’t continue to persuade. He believed that as long as he made contact early and was willing to lose more benefits to lower food prices, these forces had no reason not to choose him as their new food supplier.
Once he opened up these families’ markets, he could slowly return food prices to normal.
Thus, as long as the farmland he owned could be profitable in the future, the initiative to cultivate new farmland could not be considered a complete failure, and there would eventually come a day to break even.
It’s just a pity... that he had far too little suitable farmland in his hands, even if he did capture these market shares, it was unlikely to affect the food business of the Tilaimei Plain.
"... Colin Leonard."
Johnson silently recited the name in his heart, his eyes darkening involuntarily.
Now, just thinking of that name ignited an uncontrollable fury in his heart.
Taking a deep breath, Johnson stood up, ready to contact the familiar forces to discuss the new food business.
No matter what, even if he couldn’t pose a substantive threat to the food business of the Tilaimei Plain, at least he could spite that new Councilman whom he detested to the bone!
...
Tilaimei Plain, Golden Barley.
As soon as Colin returned, Shelley came to see him.
"Improved farming tools?"
"Yes." Shelley smiled, "The assembly-line suggestion you made before was of great help to me. I guess you might have different views on farming tools.
But before, you weren’t a member of the Truth Society, and you didn’t have much to do with the Tilaimei Plain, so there was no reason to bother you."
"But now—" Shelley looked at Colin with a smile, "You are the Lord of Tilaimei."
Colin also smiled, saying, "Actually, if you hadn’t come to me, I would have probably looked for you to discuss the farming tools after taking care of my matters these next few days..."
He paused, then continued, "As you thought, I have many ideas about farming tools. Hmm, if possible, I actually want the Tilaimei Plain to achieve fully automated agricultural production as soon as possible, so that other industries can be developed better."
"Fully... automated..." Shelley frowned slightly, repeating this somewhat awkward term.
"But that’s too far in the future for us now, we have to start with the simple things..."
Colin chuckled; he hadn’t actually done any farming, but he understood the broad direction of developing high-yield crops and replacing manpower with agricultural machinery. This was enough to revolutionize the entire agricultural production of the Tilaimei Plain!
Not to mention, if high-yield crops could be cultivated and appropriate agricultural machinery developed.
Then, with a drastic reduction in costs, he could, if he wished, completely dominate most of the Neustadt region’s grain market with extremely low prices.
In a few years, the majority of the grain supply in the Neustadt region could very well be monopolized by the Tilaimei Plain!
Of course, this was just an optimistic estimate. To achieve this, confidentiality in the machinery and crops was essential.
This was clearly difficult.
But Colin hadn’t intended to focus solely on agricultural development in the Tilaimei Plain in the future, so confidentiality was not too much of a concern down the line.
After all, the geographical conditions of the Tilaimei Plain had already established its unshakable status in agriculture.
As evening approached and the sun sank below the horizon,
Just when Colin and Shelley had finished discussing the design of the farming tools and were ready to rest for a while, he suddenly felt uneasy.
Guided by intuition, he uneasily activated World Perception.
After the familiar sensation of consumption, the world changed.
Without looking around, Colin stared intently to the south.
There, a striking column of black energy shot into the sky, and a strong sense of crisis suddenly enveloped him, as if some gaze was being cast from the Sea Domain.
’Is this... divine malice?!’