I really just want to be a big lord

Chapter 96 The Purpose of Kaios (Part [-])
The most popular magic plants in the Holy Blessed Alliance before were all of the type of "brilliant magic fruit", which matured in two months and rested for two months in winter.

There is no need to re-seed every season. You only need to check the growth of the plants, trim them, apply the prepared nutrients, and replace those plants that are necrotic or stunted due to various reasons. The workload is very small.

The real test is the harvest time.

This kind of magic plant used to extract magic power will dissipate the magic power in a very short time after it is separated from the plant, so it must be extracted as quickly as possible.

After years of iterative development, this model of devouring and absorbing magic power with manpower, and then infusing it with magic sticks has finally become the optimal solution recognized by all the lords.

So far, the cultivation of magic plants has been developed for so many years. There have been various changes and iterations in the types of cultivation of magic plants, the pre-conditioning methods of the land, the devices implanted in farmers, the training of farmers before work and the conditioning of medicines, but the overall This set of structures is very stable.

The alternative is not that no one has thought about it. Someone has designed a magic device that automatically extracts magic plants. Some magic circle masters have even considered building a large magic circle to cover the entire planting area within the magic circle. The magic tube is connected to the magic plant, and once opened, the magic power of all mature magic plant fruits in the entire range can be squeezed out and stored in the magic stick.

But the problem is that these methods have various problems, such as the use of magic circles. First, the efficiency of magic power extraction is a bit low. Unless the fruit is ripe, the magic tube is inserted into each fruit, otherwise it will be extracted from other parts of the plant. Inserting a tube will cause a lot of waste, but if you insert the fruit directly, it may cause the magic power of the fruit to dissipate when inserted.

More importantly, regardless of the magic circle or other magic equipment, it is essential to consume mana. If the mana consumption is high, the cost of harvesting and extracting may be so high that a lord is unwilling to bear it.

Relatively speaking, in the eyes of many lords, the life, body and time of the people are the least valuable.

It is precisely because of this that the current magic plant harvesting system has been running so stably for so many years. No matter how efficient it is, it will not change the basic structure-the leader is still the biggest "consumable".

After touring his own territory, he met the Compaq magician of Shengyou Palace on the return journey. After knowing that the new magic plant would improve the harvest of the unit’s territory, Kaios realized that this was an opportunity to change the world. Opportunity for magic planting ideas.

During this period of time, Kaios used magic coupons to attack and recruited nine teams that made various magic devices. Most of them were not even harvesting magic plants.

So even if he is noticed by the "careful people" who have been paying attention to him, he probably thinks that he knows that the new magic planting territory cannot be sold at an ideal price, and he is rushing to the doctor in a hurry.

But what they didn't know was that Kaios actually had several plans already.

As a time traveler, Kaios did not have the memory of the original owner, so from the very beginning, he eagerly obtained information about this world through various channels.

Especially books, not to mention the non-art collections on the second and third floors of the library, which are usually not read by nobles, even the large number of books in their own study in Beishan Manor, no matter whether it is the original owner or his grandparents, there are almost no one. I went to read it carefully, and there are many books that have not been read. It is obvious that he was the first to read it.

So for the current Kaios, for this world, at some microscopic levels, the part of the real market, the part of the world, may be far inferior to the natives, but in terms of the entire Holy Blessed Alliance, Holy Blessed Palace, lords, nobles, contract In terms of the overall understanding of servants and citizens, he is definitely much clearer than most nobles.

The same is true at the level of magic power and aura. In terms of cultivation and real strength, even if he has already figured out how to use the "demon spirit", if he really fights, he may not be able to beat a rudimentary aura or magician with stronger talents. Apprentice Reiki masters might be able to hang him.

But when it comes to the macro-level cognition of magic power and aura, and the influence and effect of these two existences on the Holy Blessed Alliance and the world today, few people in this world can match him.

……

At the very beginning, after learning about the improved harvest of the new magic plant from Compaq, what Kaios thought was not simply speculatively planting the territory to make a fortune.

It's just that it's hard to explain what he wants to do and his purpose to people in this world, and it's hard to make them feel at ease.

So whether it was to Pete, or other people who helped him with affairs, or the presiding judge Pan De, he didn't say much, and he tacitly wanted to "speculate the land."

At this time, Kaios was squatting on the planting ground, grabbing a handful of soil, slowly rubbing his fingers, observing these slightly wet soil clods.

Not far away, dozens of ordinary citizens are adding nutrients and pruning miscellaneous branches to these new magic plants.

These people were transferred directly from other territories of his. Except for the part of harvesting and extracting magic power, the other tasks on the planting territory were actually very simple, and a little teaching was enough, and it didn't require much strength or physical strength.

Shengyou Palace has already taken care of the technical and troublesome parts of planting.

Kaios had seen it with his own eyes. When Compaq and the others were preparing the planting ground, they even wanted to set up a large magic circle.

He is a little curious about the principle of this kind of preconditioning, but he also knows that Shengyou Palace will definitely not let him know about these things, otherwise how can they make the lords willingly exchange multiple "birth territories" for various An economic territory?

A noble man who went down to the field with Kaios knelt down on one knee beside him in order to speak to him on an equal footing, and said, "My lord baron, after the 'new star fruit' matures, shall we let them gather in the field first?" A territory experiment?"

Keos looked back at the man next to him. His name was Delby Antos. Although he came from aristocratic background, his family didn't have any property for him to inherit, so he worked in the library in the inner city early in the morning.

Yes, this is the library staff who took him to the fourth floor and communicated with him a lot.

Even after the reading license on the fourth floor of the library expired, Kaios still went to the library often. There were still many books on the second and third floors that he was interested in. During this process, he also dealt with Delby, and occasionally Will also send some decent small gifts and the like.

After he borrowed a huge sum of 70 magic coupons from Earl Vaux, he asked Delby to come out of the library to help him with errands.

Not only him, but also Xiao Zhuoan, are working full-time for him.

Regardless of trust or ability, there is no doubt that Pete is stronger than those two, but in the Holy Blessed Alliance, even if there is a magic ticket to open the way, the status of a contracted servant will still be a restriction.

Of course, Delby's ability is also very good, and has even exceeded Keos' expectations.

He found six of the nine teams currently working on Mozhi's fast-harvesting magic device.

Of course, there were [-] or [-] teams or individuals that they found at the beginning, but only nine of them were valued by Kaios—not including the Kaios of Vidic. Those who are fancy and specialize in other projects.

"No, separate, go according to the original plan." Kaios said.

Delby was a little worried: "In this case, the harvest of many planting territories may not be guaranteed, plus consumption..."

Kaios patted him on the shoulder with a smile, stood up, looked at the territory where the new magic plant "New Star Fruit" was neatly planted and said:

"You think too much, even without these new methods, we don't have enough farmers to harvest those mature magic plants."

When walking back to the field ridge, Delby hesitated for a while, and finally couldn't help but said: "Master Baron, what if... I mean what if, what if none of them can meet our requirements this time?"

Kaios didn't stop walking, and said casually: "If you didn't reach it this time, then next time, although the ripening period of 'New Star Fruit' is one month later than that of 'Glowing Magic Fruit', there is no need to stop, one year We can still have four harvests, that is to say, we can do four experiments a year. If it doesn’t work this time, next time, if it doesn’t work next time, next time, don’t worry, I can hold on.”

Keos not only told Delby, but also Pete and Xiao Zhuoan, and he also told those down-and-out nobles who were gathered by him with the magic coupons offensive to do research on various magic devices and magic circles.

Because he knows that at this point, let them relax their minds and not feel pressure. Instead, they can give full play to the designed things and handle some emergencies better.

In fact, what Keos expected in his heart was that he would succeed in the first harvest and squeeze, and it would not exceed twice at the latest, that is, there must be results here within half a year. It’s not that the capital chain cannot withstand it. His magic coupons are still abundant, but his follow-up plan is very tight, and time is very important.

However, although they have nine teams that harvest magic plants to carry out harvesting experiments at the same time, in fact, Kaios has confirmed that the things of the two teams can be used practically - they have already experimented on the "Glorious Devil" planting land before. up.

The reason why nine teams are still allowed to proceed at the same time is because Kaios wants to give other teams a chance to practice. Those people did not fail to make it in this wave, so they went out and terminated the contract.

To study the essence of magic plant harvesting is actually to study the extraction, storage, transfer, and control of magic power, and it is through the external method of "magic power device cooperation".

And this is exactly what Kaios needs.

……

Three months later, the first batch of new magic plant "New Star Fruit" matured.

Outside the farms of the new magic plants in Kaios, there are contracted servants of other lords who come to inquire about the situation, and some lords even come to see the "lively" in person.

Originally, Keos could have allowed the guards to drive away these inquiring people. After all, his territory was not limited to those planting lands.

However, the order given by Keos was that as long as they did not enter within [-] meters of the plantation, they were allowed to look at them casually.

During the maturity period of "New Star Fruit", Kaios basically stayed in one of the farms, watching a team's harvesting process throughout.

Of course, the whole process is actually just one day.

More than 100 local residents, each carrying a basket on their backs, marched in the field. They cut off the "new star fruit" directly with scissors, and the zipper hanging from the shoulders lifted the lid of the basket immediately, and they threw the fruit into the basket , pull the cable again, the lid falls, and the back basket is covered, and then continue to cut and throw fruit, all the way forward.

When the baskets were almost full, they would sprint to the edge of the planting field, where a huge metal container had been dug out of the ground and protruded from the ground with ten chimney-like openings.

Leaders with full baskets lined up in front of each opening, and when it was their turn, they would open the baskets, and with the help of the strong leaders next to the openings, pour all the "new star fruits" in the baskets into it.

Afterwards, on a large platform built behind the metal container, a level 4 elementary magician began to cast spells, manipulating the operation of the buried metal container.

After a dull rumbling sound as if the earth was snoring, 8% of the hundreds of magic wands inserted into the half-meter-high device in front of the magician were filled.

The citizens who had been guarding the side for a long time began to come in and take out the full magic wands one by one, and then took out new empty magic wands, inserted them into the locks, and waited for a new round of harvesting and squeezing. Pack.

This process seems to be very simple, but there are actually several technical points.

One is that the magic power of the "nova fruit" just picked will immediately begin to dissipate and degrade, so the baskets behind the leaders are actually magic props, which are specially used to preserve the magic plant fruit, but they can only last for 30~40 minutes, and they cannot Completely prevent the fruit's magic power from dissipating, but only greatly delay it;

One is the container where the large magic plant fruit extracts magic power. It stands to reason that it should be called a magic device, but in fact they are arranged by a team of magic circles. It is said that it is a magic circle that integrates a large magic circle. wrong;
Another is the unified filling of those magic sticks, how to avoid the too strong flow of magic power after extraction from damaging the magic sticks, and how to reduce the dissipation and loss of magic power during automatic packaging of the device.

In fact, these technologies are not newly developed by them recently. Like the technology for storing magic plant fruits, it actually appeared more than 70 years ago. It is intended to separate the two steps of planting and harvesting from squeezing and filling the magic power. The farm is responsible for the first two steps. , the factory is responsible for the next two steps.

But because the time that can be stored is very limited, the limit is only about 6 to 8 hours, and the magic power consumed will reach a very scary number with the passage of time, which is not worth the candle.

The same is basically true for other technologies, all of which were abandoned because they required a lot of mana consumption, and have not really reached the stage of actual harvesting and extraction experiments.

But now, under the command and integration of Kaios, their team, through continuous experiments, has successfully found an optimal and most balanced parameter, whether it is the "fruit storage basket" or the "magic melting furnace". ", all fit together perfectly.

As for how to find the perfect match through experiments in such a short period of time, it is naturally a "money coupon". As long as the money is enough, the requirements can be easily satisfied.

Of course, there is still a consumption of mana, but this consumption is completely acceptable to Keos.

And he believes that after this practical operation, they will be able to carry out more complete improvements in the next season, and the consumption will be further reduced.

All the difficulties in this harvesting, extracting, and filling solution lie in the magic device, and the requirements for people are very low.

Ninety percent of those harvesting and picking in the field are elderly women who usually do chores in the territory. After they come over, they can go to the field to harvest fruit with simple guidance, without much training at all.

Because of the need to balance the consumption of magic power, those baskets are not very big. Even if they are full of fruits, they are not too heavy for middle-aged women who usually work in the territory. , and the strong man standing by to help.

As for the host of the "Magic Squeeze Furnace", it is only 4th-level elementary magic. A furnace only needs one, or at most two 4th-level magicians. a lot of.

Compared with the previous method of cultivating a group of farmers who harvested fruit on a year-by-year basis, starting in five, six, seven or eight years, this plan is naturally much easier.

The nine teams of Kaios who conducted practical experiments of harvesting and extracting at the same time all had results.

如果把以前单位种植地里“光辉魔果”的收成定为100的话，那现在“新星果”的单位种植地收成基本都是300~380之间，比圣佑宫的康柏魔法师告诉凯奥斯的2-3倍还要高一些。

Among the nine teams of Kaios, the team with the highest mana consumption, the large-scale magic device they use, probably harvests the "nova fruit" in the field planted by the unit, extracts the mana, and encapsulates it into a magic stick. The consumption is 150, and the net harvest is about 150~230 or so.

In other words, if what they harvested was not "Nova Fruit" but "Glowing Magic Fruit", they would lose 50 for each unit of planting land they harvested.

But what Keos valued the most was the combination of "Fruit Storage Basket" and "Magic Squeeze Furnace". The mana consumption for harvesting a unit of planting land was 40.

If all the "Nova Fruits" of Kaios are harvested in this way this time, then his harvest this season will be 2.6 to 3.4 times that of the previous "Glowing Magic Fruits".

Because "New Star Fruit" is harvested four times a year, while "Glowing Magic Fruit" is harvested five times a year, the annual harvest will be 2 to 2.7 times.

This is a perfectly acceptable number.

Of course, this cost only counts the magic power consumed by the magic device, not the investment in developing the device.

However, Kaios had never planned to make a fortune by running the magic planting farm.

After the open experiment of nine teams harvesting, squeezing, and filling the "Nova Fruit", Kaios directly released the news that he would start mass production of the "Fruit Storage Basket" and "Magic Squeeze Furnace" and provide installation and wizard training services.

Regarding this, the first reaction of countless lords in Yulang City who watched the excitement and remained silent was still:
How many lords will really buy this thing?

Now in the entire Holy Blessing Alliance, 1/4 of the "Nova Fruit" magic plants are planted in the hands of Kaios, and the other "Glorious Magic Fruits" already have their own farmers, so why would they buy this stuff.

A loss of 40% is unacceptable to those lords.

But what people didn't expect, and even beyond Kaios' own expectations, was that before his products were produced or sent to promote them, some lords had already come to ask for prices.

Then Keos immediately understood that this was the result of his experiment of allowing people to watch the various planting fields harvest and extract the magic plants.

The speed of harvesting, the entire process, and the packaged magic wand can all be seen intuitively.

(End of this chapter)