Will the kemonomimi encounter Alien Ranch Story?

But in reality, it's difficult to understand what it actually is, let alone artificially creating wormholes and similar things for travel—while ensuring that the traveler doesn't turn into something else in the process.

"Okay, let's get back to the main topic. What do you plan to use this... engine for?"

"I haven't decided yet. It could be used as a microgravity engine to manufacture large aircraft, or it could simply be used as a fixed deflection shield. Theoretically, it could also be made into a powerful enough small-scale crustal ripper. However, I won't do that, and such a modification would be more like building a new device than a modification."

Old Xia really hadn't figured out what to do with this warp drive. Maybe it could be used to build spaceships in the future? But the ring of meteorites around Terra was a real problem; conventional rockets simply couldn't launch them.

[PS]

Given that the Gauls have risen up, we will refrain from breastfeeding for one day today and instead breastfeed in reverse as a sign of respect.

Niu Niu: Why did they have to include me in the recall of the US ambassador?

Gaul: Because you are a vassal state of America—

It seems that countries without US troops stationed there can speak with more confidence.

Chapter Forty-Seven: The Uncrowned King

Chapter 47

Debugging the warp drive, installing the arc thrusters, launching the rocket, and the return journey took nearly half a year for Lao Xia. During this time, the Xia Group's headquarters building was finally completed, and under Yelena's command, the Yeti team successively installed internal security equipment.

Instead of all employees crowding into Sanlian Pharmaceutical, some employees moved to new company departments.

Meanwhile, on his return journey, Lao Xia also brought with him some simple pharmaceutical and biological equipment manufactured by the Snowfield Workshop.

In particular, we plan to bring over the makeshift medical kit that was disassembled and repaired from the lifeboat.

In this way, some simple tissue culture work can be carried out locally, instead of being manufactured on farms through remote operation. Given the medical needs of the Terrans, Lao Xia has entered a completely new field that no one can compete with, and no pharmaceutical company can overlap with it in terms of technology or interests.

That is the market for organ transplantation and various biological consumables. The most important piece of equipment is the tissue culture machine used to manufacture blood bags. It induces stem cells by slicing bone marrow, then induces them to divide and replicate, and manufactures blood of various blood types at the speed of filling beverages in a human-like environment.

This device is affectionately called the "drink machine" by the chief physician at Rhode Island, and her life's dream has changed from achieving medical success to saving money to buy one of these tissue culture devices from Dr. Xia. Dr. Warfarin, who has never been stingy or frugal, has recently started scrimping and saving on every penny of treatment costs.

Besides this equipment, there are various products based on induced stem cell differentiation technology. Strictly speaking, this also falls under Lao Xia's agricultural expertise. This induced differentiation and tissue culture proliferation technology is indeed an agricultural and industrial technology in the interstellar era.

Neither spaceships nor space stations are luxurious enough to allow you to graze livestock. As for synthetic meat, the cost to meet the standard is generally too high. If the cost is suitable for large-scale, cheap supply, the taste will be somewhat different. We are not in an impoverished civilization during a period of economic hardship, so why should we endure this kind of treatment?

So, as a compromise, we have this tissue culture technology. It can mass-produce blood to make pig's blood curd, and it can also mass-produce human blood. The only thing limiting them is morality, which can be impacted and collapsed at any time with the changing times.

Most importantly, Lao Xia also brought some farm equipment and production components to Longmen. Longmen is not suitable for farming, but animal husbandry seems to be very promising on the lower deck.

What are you planning to raise? Chickens, ducks, or rabbits?

"It's insects..." Old Xia brought insect eggs used on the spaceship. Type: American scythe and fly. Use: to make dried cockroach powder and maggot powder. These can be bred using the domestic waste of Lungmen and the dark and damp environment of the lower deck. After sterile detoxification treatment, they can be used for agricultural and pharmaceutical production.

The former can be used to make various wound medicines, while the latter is a good animal feed. Then, the high-protein maggot powder can be used to set up simple and quick free-range chicken farms in the suburbs outside Longmen City. After all, Xia's Group is registered as an agricultural products group, so it has to do some agricultural work.

Moreover, insects have a nickname: "ruthless protein-producing machines." There is no farmed product with a higher feed conversion ratio than them, and they can also process wastewater and garbage in the process.

If he didn't have to stay in Terra, Lao Xia would really like to switch to the Covenant's improved version of the Locust.

Rapidly and effectively clearing the vegetation from an ecological planet at a speed comparable to a grazing landslide and turning it into rich protein material, it is often used as the first step in terraforming.

Later, some can be cultivated to replace highly toxic herbicides and perform biological weed control. These artificial locusts can use non-toxic pheromones to mark specific vegetation and clear away weeds and unwanted shrubs without damaging crops.

Of course, spraying this stuff into a competitor's field and pretending it was a slip of the hand or a drone malfunction is not uncommon news, but it usually gets the perpetrators brought to justice quickly.

A swift and thorough enforcement of the law can deter evildoers, but it cannot stop fools. And fools will inevitably emerge in any civilization; sometimes, even intelligent people will temporarily become fools for various reasons. Therefore, such behavior has occurred occasionally up until Old Xia fell into this situation.

"By the way, Mr. Xia, don't you raise rabbits?"

"We already have a big one at home."

"I mean the regular kind of rabbit..."

"Oh, this is a special breed of breeding. In reality, it's more cost-effective for me to raise mice. I was originally planning to save them for later in Casimir."

Old Xia said that he does not plan to raise specialty products for the time being. At present, he mainly raises pigs, cattle and sheep. The pigs will be raised on the snowfield, while the cattle and sheep will be gradually moved to Kazdel. As for the horses, it goes without saying that the plains of Kazimir are the most suitable.

Heavy draft horses can greatly replace a portion of the demand for mechanized agriculture, reducing reliance on industry.

Moreover, it's not very useful for Old Xia, but it's extremely useful for normal Terrans, including Ursus people.

The farm's main export to Ursus is these docile heavy draft horses. Not only has the empire officially ordered a large number to replenish its logistics department, but the southern city-states have also placed orders. Interestingly, the Sami Duchy in northwestern Ursus is the largest buyer of the farm's horses and cattle for both meat and draft.

Unfortunately, the farm's pasture area is limited in size, and its output simply cannot meet the demand; orders are likely to be booked for several years from now.

The situation should improve if Kazdel's agricultural bases and ranches become operational, but it could also worsen.

Because for Sargon and Kazdel, Old Xia probably won't soon have to figure out how to breed those long-legged creatures used for racing horses to serve as warhorses. Speaking of which, the guy who could imagine people fighting on horseback must be a top genius.

"Clang!" The landship slowly docked with the old town dock. Under the operation of the sorcerer, the crane transferred containers to the dock's stacking area. This was the first time the old town dock of Lungmen had been put into use after its renovation. The empty stacking area was soon filled with red containers bearing the "Xia's Agricultural Products" wheat seedling logo.

"Soy protein, soy sauce, rice vinegar, and huge quantities of sugar and blood bags..."

The dock management personnel stared blankly at the list. What were all these strange things? They could understand the first few items, but what did the blood bags at the end mean?

In addition to blood bags, there are also barrelled antibiotic powder, anti-burn gel, ointments for treating skin diseases, and other medical products. Now, Sanlian Pharmaceutical's sales outlets won't be full of other people's medicines; only one oral anti-Originium agglutination agent will be their own.

Of all the goods, the strangest was a large box of chirping chicks. This was what Lao Xia had brought over to start the Longmen Chicken Farm. Chickens are not picky about their breeding environment, not to mention that Lao Xia also planned to raise maggots on the lower deck as feed.

Raising and selling locally can speed up the return on investment and the replenishment of profits. After all, although Lao Xia doesn't need much profit personally, he needs to invest a lot of funds in the next round of development. There is still a large gap between the funds needed for the development of Kazdel and the current funds.

The development of Kazdel involved three steps. First, he had to bribe the nobles to obtain the land management rights and smoothly enter Kazdel. To acquire enough land for Old Xia's farm to be fully developed, he needed to bribe a large number of greedy nobles in Kazdel and hire enough Sarkaz mercenaries.

The second step is normal operation. However, Kazdel's traditional agriculture and animal husbandry is absolutely no match for Lao Xia. What follows is a collapse in the prices of Kazdel's agricultural and animal husbandry products.

For a city-state like Lungmen, which is primarily based on industry and commerce, this is undoubtedly good news. Old Xia might become a living saint, even for a city like Ursus.

Because no one in Ursus with a brain would want to rely on agriculture for a living; the economy is mainly based on military industry and mining. A decline in agricultural products means that the living conditions of ordinary people will actually improve.

However, Kazdel was different. It lacked sufficient industry and mining. Apart from mercenary business, the main income of the local nobles came from land rent, and the production activities of most ordinary people in the area depended on agriculture.

This means that the prices of agricultural products in Kazdel might be so low that it's unbelievable why some people wouldn't be able to afford to eat.

But in reality, this would lead to farmers going bankrupt, because most of their fertilizer and seeds were borrowed from nobles.

Especially for self-sufficient farmers, they have to bear the costs of taxes, seeds, farm tools, and fertilizers. Their economies of scale cannot compete with Lao Xia's, so when grain prices collapse, they will find that they can sell their crops for less money.

In a normal, modern country, or a country like China, the crisis would actually be a great thing if agricultural taxes were reduced or exempted and the government purchased grain to maintain a floor price, because grain reserves would increase.

As for Kazdel, which is currently embroiled in a civil war, they lack the capacity to carry it out, and even if they did, they wouldn't, because the logic of the nobility is different.

They are at war and need food supplies. Now that Lao Xia's food is incredibly cheap, and they can't be requisitioned or robbed, they will inevitably buy and stockpile large quantities. And to buy and stockpile large quantities, they need real money.

The main source of income for the nobles of Kazdel was land rent, and the only way they could obtain this money was by taking it from the farmers and tenants.

There are essentially two types: one is a tax on goods, because due to the sharp drop in the price of goods, they need to levy a higher tax rate in order to sell enough goods to pay their subordinates' salaries and maintain their luxurious lifestyle.

The second option is to collect money directly, which has the same effect. Farmers are forced to sell their crops at rock-bottom prices to pay off debts and taxes. However, when crop prices are no longer just low, but at the point where they lose money no matter how much they sell, it will lead to massive bankruptcies and land loss for farmers.

Compared to individual tenant farmers, Lao Xia's production scale was large and his funds were abundant, so the nobles were naturally happy to entrust him with the right to use the land.

After all, while collecting rent may seem stable, it actually incurs costs. There are instances where landlords simply stop collecting rent because the costs are too high.

Not to mention, if Lao Xia is short of money to undertake other large-scale projects, he might use grain as leverage and money as a weapon to completely turn Kazdel's economy and market into ruins.

At this point, it might not just be the independent farmers and tenants who die—the feudal nobles would perish even more completely.

After all, these bankrupt farmers could still work on Old Xia's farm, but these nobles really had no choice but to hang themselves.

This leverage is the easiest to manipulate in history and has been widely used since the beginning of commerce. It involves buying up grain in large quantities to drive up grain prices while you are farming, and then lending you funds and goods to help you with production. Once you have grown the grain, you start dumping it into the market, and the grain price plummets instantly.

Then you can't get cash, so you can only use land to pay off the debt, and then the cycle repeats itself. Soon all your assets, savings, and land will be squeezed clean. There are two ways to deal with this unscrupulous business behavior.

Option one: If you have a grain reserve, I'll release it if you buy it at a high price, holding out until you give it back. If you sell, I'll buy it back, seeing how much you have in your warehouse. However, it's clear that neither Kazdel nor the Great Yan Dynasty has such a grain reserve.

Method two, a method favored since the beginning of feudal society, is hoarding and speculation, right?

We could just slaughter them all and ransack their homes, like fattening up a pig—but Old Xia is probably at the level of a wild boar king, so this method has almost no chance of success, and the outcome would be unpredictable in a real fight.

Even without using this leverage attack, simply engaging in normal farming and operating, selling with meager profits, and using all the money to expand production—this kind of normal behavior that no one can criticize, and which even conforms to the basic cycle of social progress and the development of productive forces—would still deal a devastating blow to the feudal small-scale peasant economy.

The continued decline in grain prices has led to the bankruptcy of many farmers. Those with more assets quickly realize that farming is not as profitable as doing other things, and they voluntarily abandon their land and flee, resulting in a large number of migrant workers and displaced people.

The exorbitant taxes levied by feudal nobles, the extortion and bribery of officials at all levels, and the opportunistic price gouging and suppression of collateral prices by other unscrupulous merchants, as well as the increase in lending rates, will all drive them to their doom.

As for expecting these nobles, bureaucrats, and unscrupulous merchants not to do this... it's better to hope that a strong man will suddenly appear out of nowhere; that might offer some hope.

Either do not develop productive forces and maintain traditional agricultural production, or allow the aristocratic government system and production relations to enter a new era that can adapt to this output.

Otherwise, even normal production activities, even if Lao Xia didn't seek a single penny of profit and invested all his money in reproduction expansion and welfare, would still drive farmers into bankruptcy.

Unless he replaces the nobles of Kazdel in exercising governmental functions and diverts a portion of the funds intended for expanding production to purely relief and protective subsidies.

But why did he do this? He wanted to squeeze a large number of people living on their small plots of land, to bankrupt the nobles, landlords, and tenant farmers, and to buy their land. In his hands, the same means of production could support at least ten times the population.

As for all the evil deeds, he didn't need to personally lead people to burn farmers' fields or exploit them with usury and various unscrupulous business practices, because these nobles would do the job perfectly or even excessively.

He simply did nothing but diligently and honestly farm the land and then sell the harvested crops locally.

Even the impending large-scale uprising and chaos in Kazdel would have nothing to do with his farm.

After all, he doesn't withhold wages and income from his employees, nor does he exploit their surplus value. After deducting his own necessary costs and the funding needs for the next stage, the rest can be paid as wages.

Eventually, a situation similar to arson will form in Kazdel, with riots of refugees burning down the castles and manors of the nobles like a tidal wave. On the ruins, Old Xia's farm will gradually spread over, gathering the land and the remaining people.

Of course, it was impossible to absorb all the refugees who were used to burning, killing, and looting. This process would also be accompanied by a lot of military operations and trials and executions. After the people were gathered together, farms and processing plants would be established in the areas where they were gathered. The remaining people would then be transformed from refugees and landless farmers into agricultural laborers or production workers.

Instead of spending time and effort clearing away the thorns bit by bit with a shovel, it's better to set a wildfire and burn all the weeds, thorns, bushes, and poisonous plants to ashes, then build something simple on the white ground.

In this wildfire, Kazdel's traditional production relations and hierarchical relationships will completely collapse, and people will discover that so-called noble bloodlines are not much better than ordinary people. Of course, some "benevolent nobles" or "kind-hearted young ladies" will be cruelly treated.

[The threshold for this kindness is very low. Please do not mistake it for a Japanese fantasy. For real, so-called benevolent young ladies, please refer to the memoirs written by the descendants of Tibetan nobles, which record that leftovers were given to slaves.]

Instead of feeding it to dogs, that would be an immense act of mercy. Yet the slaves who ate her family's leftovers actually led the CCP to wipe out her family—that's utter ingratitude, worse than pigs and dogs.

If W was merely stirring up trouble for Theresis, then Xia was uprooting him, or more accurately, uprooting the entire Demon King's court. Even if Amiya inherited the Demon King's abilities, or even if she were nothing at all, as long as she could demonstrate sufficient leadership skills, she could ascend to the throne of rulership in this new Kazdel.

Because all the production relations and hierarchical order based on the original means of production, such as the land, will be burned to ashes in the wildfire. When the so-called nobles are dragged out of the castle like dogs by angry farmers and hung on the guillotine, everyone will realize that the so-called noble bloodline is useless.

Conversely, whoever controls enough food and production capacity to feed the rest of Kazdel will be the Demon Lord of Sarkaz, and may even be more terrifying than any Demon Lord in the past.

Because the Demon King of the past had to consider the opinions of the high-ranking nobles, and not everyone supported him. However, the new Demon King might... be a different story.

Having gained control of the Sarkaz, Old Xia, who is no different from a demon king without a crown, can once again revert to a more moderate approach to the Kazimierz strategy, since he already has enough manpower and doesn't need to resort to arson.

However, whether being run over by a tractor with rotary tillers or having one's land burned down is more painful for the knights and nobles of Kazimierz is a matter of opinion.

However, for the farmers of Kazimir, the former is clearly better, since they are the ones holding the tractor, not the ones lying on the ground waiting to be run over.

Chapter Forty-Eight: April is...