MC's career as foreign lord

“This isn't a question of whether I want to or not! This concerns the reputation of the entire Silver Moon Royal Family!” Shia's expression wasn't much better as she patiently explained.

“What is an Elven Fruit? It's a gift from Yggdrasil! Now you're telling me someone can cultivate them and asking me to persuade the Queen, the Elven Legendary Council of Elders, and the elders of the Druid Order?”

“I'm an Elven Royal Princess, not an Elven Saintess! Even a Saintess is still suppressed by the Queen Mother and the Pope working together, isn't she?”

Anna scoffed, “You elves, you haven't learned anything else, but you've mastered the scheming and infighting of human society perfectly!”

“Don't talk nonsense. Humans learned it from us elves. When we fought the Crown Wars, the human race didn't even exist yet!” Shia said, “Most of the things humans have are leftovers from what we played with!”

“Right, you played well. The five Crown Wars nearly destroyed your elven race's glory. You really played well!” Anna mocked.

“You… aren't you the same? It was even a generation earlier than us. I think it was called the Skyfire Generation, right? The continent collapsed, the world was annihilated, and even your gods died more than one, didn't they!” Shia started to reveal old wounds too!

“Bah, bah, bah! Just tell me! Are you coming or not? If you don't, I'll buy these fruits and sell them to the children on the island as snacks!” Anna threatened.

Shia scoffed, “I might believe you if you said something else, but sell them? With the character of those people on your island, you won't get a single penny!”

Anna dejectedly lowered her head, but she was still a little unwilling to give up. “Just give me a straight answer! Are you coming or not? If you don't come, I'll just take your little disciple and raise him myself!”

“I'm coming! Of course, I'm coming!” Unexpectedly, Shia was so straightforward. “You keep a close eye on him! The Elven Fruit hasn't been leaked at all for so many years. If it's leaked in your hands…”

“Tch! You long-eared people are very good at threatening others. I don't believe you can break through his defenses. Just don't be embarrassed when you fail!” Anna lightly swiped at Shia's projection, directly hanging up.

She frowned. “Oh dear! If those old fogeys at home find out that I've given such a big treasure to the elven race, I don't know how they'll criticize me!”

But then she smiled a little. “But where do we get the money? It's better to let the long-ears pay for it!”

Anna seemed to be thinking about Zhou Ren's abilities. The land full of divinity was simply a divine kingdom on earth!

But the young man was unaware and was still reclaiming land, planting, fishing, and cutting trees on this land. It was said that he was recently planning to mine and breed.

He probably didn't know that if it weren't for the barrier like a divine kingdom, his farmland would probably have been eroded beyond recognition by the wasteland wind, right? —

“The wind is really strong!” Zhou Ren exclaimed. He struggled to step into the territory against the strong wind, and the people next door were nowhere to be seen.

He suddenly understood why there were so many blank lands in the wilderness. Not only did no one come to occupy them, but they also tried to shrink inward as much as possible.

This gust of wind was the first time he had seen it, but it was not difficult to guess its past power!

The mercenaries and elves next door were already inside a well-established green barrier, skillfully doing other things, waiting for the end of the wind.

Zhou Ren also braved the huge wind to bring in a few wooden blocks at the door.

“I need to make some fences, or there's no way to distinguish the wilderness from the territory!” Zhou Ren thought. He looked at the ridiculously large storm outside, which mysteriously disappeared when it hit here.

“The natural wind shouldn't disappear. There's something wrong with this wind!” Zhou Ren thought, but that was it. He didn't have the ability to get to the bottom of it now.

No wonder there was only one town here, and not even a village. Under the erosion of such a strong wind, no living thing would exist!

“Hey? How did Werner's mercenary group survive in the wilderness? Did they dig a hole?” Zhou Ren thought about this question again. “Don't let anything happen. I'm still waiting for your meat and leather to save my life!”

Now that there was redstone, it also meant that, in a way, minerals had already started spawning in this area—or at least in these areas of his territory.

I just don't know if there's any lava to make obsidian. If there is, then he's only one step away from his enchanting table.

The books for the enchanting table need paper and leather. Zhou Ren thought about it and decided to take advantage of today to solve the paper problem!

He first ran to the warehouse, put a lot of coal and stones in, and then directly threw them into the furnace to start burning.

With coal, wood could be removed from the initial burning work and only be responsible for synthesis.

He incidentally ate two steaks. It was said that it was venison from the wilderness, which was relatively rare because the prices of these meats in the town had risen a lot recently due to the presence of kobolds and gnolls.

Zhou Ren didn't care much about these. He wasn't short of money. If he could mine gold, nine gold ores could be synthesized into a gold ingot.

That's a whole cubic meter of gold! If he wanted to, he could even speculate on the price of gold!

“Hiss, this kind of thing of manipulating the financial market is exciting to think about, but if I do this kind of thing in the Silver Moon Empire, will I be killed by the elven high-level?”

Zhou Ren muttered to himself, “Forget it, life is pretty good, so don't think about these fancy things!”

He had already prepared his things. It was really a little unusual to not have anyone chattering around him today!

Zhou Ren walked out of the door. From his perspective, he could see a huge green barrier starting from here, enveloping the entire town, and then spreading to the horizon.

“What a big deal! As expected of one of the few continental rulers in history!” Zhou Ren exclaimed. No wonder the elves had the confidence to expand their territory here. Such a large shield was really a manifestation of national strength.

He walked slowly and soon passed the fishing pond, farmland, and newly opened rice field, and came to the river.

The plants in the field were growing vigorously, and many of them were his next food. I don't know when I can get a better kitchen module. Now it's just the most primitive cooking!

You can't see the tree farm here. Those trees were completely blocked by the shadow of the hills, but Zhou Ren didn't pay attention to this. He had already arrived at the dock, ready to go downstream.

As mentioned before, his territory actually included this section of the river, and even included the area across the river, but it was all grassland and woods, and there was no time to develop anything.

The small wooden boat was still parked on the simple wooden dock, and there didn't seem to be anything special about it. Even when the storm outside hit, after hitting the territory, it only slightly rippled the river here.

He looked at the river with some interest. He had caught the benthic demon fish here before. Why was it that now, looking at this river, there was nothing to be seen?

Zhou Ren didn't quite understand. Could it be that the magical act of fishing could really catch some strange and bizarre things?

As he thought, he went downstream and quickly left the boundless wilderness, arriving in the deep, dark Black Forest.

Sometimes Zhou Ren was also curious. Clearly, it was a boundless wilderness, so why was there a dense Black Forest in the middle, so dense that you couldn't even open your eyes?

It was just like those hills. These things shouldn't exist in the wilderness. They should clearly exist in mountainous woodlands.

But no matter how unreasonable it was, it was a good thing for him. He even found dark oak and some mushrooms in it.

Things were looking up. He could make dark oak tools and mushroom soup now. It seemed he had to build a mushroom house near the farm!

Zhou Ren's thoughts wandered, but he didn't forget his main task. He went down along the riverbank, and finally, near another small dock, he saw a clump of tall plants!

"Sugar cane!" Zhou Ren said in surprise. He also carefully confirmed that in the MC system, this item was indeed called "Sugar cane."

Then there was no problem. Since it was recognized by the system, it was sugar cane, which could be synthesized into sugar or used directly to make paper.

It's just that there weren't many. Accustomed to the appearance of piles and piles of coal, these nine sugar canes really seemed a little insufficient.

However, sugar cane was very peculiar. After Zhou Ren knocked it down with his hand, it would not break, but would obediently stack into a pile. This was also the harvesting method for sugar cane, just knock it down directly.

This was a very special experience. Zhou Ren felt as if he was crushing a rag, or as if he was overturning a basket, giving people a very strange sense of fragmentation.

In short, it was one word: decompressing!

But this little amount was not enough. Zhou Ren reluctantly continued downstream, and finally found another sugar cane location, a full four sugar canes. This was almost enough.

He hurried back near the field. This time, the things he prepared were relatively complete. Whether it was a shovel or a bucket, they were all there, and he could directly open up a sugar cane field.

Unlike other crops, sugar cane needs to be planted close to water, so you can't plant eighty sugar canes in one square of water. The maximum efficiency is only planting sugar cane around one square of water, which is four plants.

Of course, Zhou Ren wouldn't use this method to plant. The collection efficiency would be too low at that time. He used the traditional method of planting sugar cane, which is a row of water with a row of sugar cane.

With a row of water as the limit, he planted sugar cane on both sides of this drainage, and then with a distance of two squares, he put down three drains.

This way, he could plant six rows of sugar cane. If he wanted to plant it full, he would need 120 sugar canes alone. The task was heavy and the road was long!

The sugar cane that Zhou Ren brought back could only barely plant enough for one row. It seemed that increasing production still required time.

But the good news was that sugar cane grew much faster than ordinary plants. He should still be able to wait. If it took several months to grow like in reality, he would still consider Cai Lun paper!

(PS: Cai Lun paper: The papermaking method improved by Cai Lun in the Eastern Han Dynasty, hence the title, so it has this name)

The sugar cane was planted, and almost half of the afternoon had passed. Zhou Ren went to take a look at the rice seedlings that were growing vigorously. These things were growing quite fast.

Unlike other plants or crops, rice seeds planted in the field are not rice, but follow the ancient Chinese custom of planting rice seedlings.

Its growth rate is extremely fast. When some other plants planted together have not yet grown, it has already taken initial shape.

Rice seedlings can be directly collected. Three rice seedlings are grown from one rice seed, so Zhou Ren very cunningly planted twenty-seven.

These seeds also had to thank Dag, who made a great sacrifice for the seeds (referring to being thrown dozens of times by Liya on the grass) before barely collecting them all.

Then now he just needs to wait for Werner's mercenary group to come in again. If they bring another batch of leather, it should be about right.

He silently left the sugar cane field. Of course, things were far from over now. The planting of rice had not yet begun!

It was mentioned before that planting tea and rice both require something called a soil tester.

The purpose is to detect the temperature, humidity, climate, and altitude of the soil, so as to determine whether it is suitable for planting rice and tea.

In the later stage, when the tea comes out, it can also detect the fermentation rate of each area, which can be regarded as an essential tool in the Tea Wind series.

Zhou Ren deliberately left a grain of rice yesterday without planting it, in fact, it was for such a thing.

The soil tester requires a crushed tea leaf and a grain of rice as basic materials, a sandy soil, two redstones, two cobblestones, which seem not difficult to obtain, two nether quartz…

"!!!" Zhou Ren suddenly widened his eyes, "Damn it! How did I forget that there is also this nether quartz thing?"

Although for the original MC, there is no difficulty in obtaining nether quartz. You only need to make a hell gate and then go to the nether. Nether quartz can basically be seen everywhere.

But in this world, he has not encountered any magma. It is said that magma is a product of hell, so how can it be used to make a hell gate? Wouldn't this become a dead cycle?

Also, this world has hell. It is said that there are demons in hell. If I go there and get swallowed by the demons, wouldn't I die very unjustly?

He covered his head. Okay, let's put the soil tester aside for now. We can only continue to prepare.

He finally obtained some redstone, and originally thought that victory was in sight. Now it seems that the task is heavy and the road is long!

"If only I could directly synthesize nether quartz!" Zhou Ren said. This situation cannot exist in the original version, except…

In the More Crafting recipes mod, glass can be fired into nether quartz, but it is almost impossible now. He has not even figured out the existence of the Tea Wind mod, so how can he expect other things?

"That's not right!" Zhou Ren suddenly thought that he should have seen nether quartz there. Where exactly was it?