Chapter 249 Plant Procurement

"If she comes again, can you do me a favor?"

The officer drank the last bit of wine in the glass and spread five gold coins on the bar.

"Glad to help."

The bar owner accepted the five gold coins. He liked such generous people.

"You know, everyone's business is not good during the recent migration season... The adventurers who are less fortunate have gone to work. If you have news about her, you can introduce us to her. Our ship is at the 42nd berth of the airport. Hackett just came out from the surrounding area... We are also familiar with the route."

The officer touched the heavy bag of gold coins in his arms, feeling that it is good to have money, and complained to the bar owner at the same time.

These gold coins are earned from trade.

They did not come to this city belonging to the kingdom alone. Jilinming Engineering College covered the seagull-class carrier in the territory with a layer of wooden iron shell to stabilize the structure and pretend to be a normal ship... There will be no difference in appearance.

Everyone is a sheet metal roller, and they look the same from a hundred meters away.

The large roller that the adventurers originally rode on was thrown into the Engineering College for exhibition.

With a ship, there is a cargo hold.

With a cargo hold, you have to carry goods.

They took the unsalable floating ray bone blades from the Lord's Market and sent them to the local market. Only the largest bone blades were purchased by the Lords/suckers, and the remaining batch of bone blades of medium length had no sales - it would be better to grind them into powder.

In addition to bone blades, there were also various special magical plants and fruits on the transport ship. They brought a small amount to At, a city-state built on the edge of the floating island.

If the price sold here is higher than that thrown into the Lords' market after deducting taxes, he will choose to sell the goods in his hands here.

And Hackett gave the leading officer a suggestion as an adventurer, to take the floating ray bone blade directly to the local guard manager. Since the price of this kind of thing is unstable, it is better to play its ornamental value and forging value.

The prevalence of adventure culture has prompted them to pursue a good weapon far more than the Lords who focus on cluster combat.

Judging from the situation a few days after they arrived in the city, the rate of return, after deducting some handling fees and taxes for local managers, can still get 30% more net profit than in the Lord's Market.

Ji Lin has not received this news yet. After receiving this news, he will definitely hate himself for not establishing trade with the indigenous city earlier and dumping materials into it.

30% extra net profit!

Saying goodbye to the hotel owner, the officer adjusted his adventurer outfit that he bought on the roadside for half a gold coin, and gently pressed down the wide brim of the hat that was used to cover his head.

He still likes his military uniform more.

The humanoid population in this world generally has four ears, and he will not be suspected if he exposes his human ears. As for the top of the head, the worst thing is to make up a reason that his ears were cut off during the battle to get away with it.

It doesn't feel good to walk on the road without a hat and be watched by people.

After a burp, the officer felt that there was nothing wrong with his body, and disappeared into the crowd with Hackett.

"Captain Jiang, where are we going?"

Hackett followed Jiang Liu's steps, only to feel that his pace was much faster than usual, and he could not keep up with his actions.

"Let's go to the nearby fruit and plant market and pick some local plants."

The officer called Jiang Liu looked at the notebook in his hand. This was a compulsory course for every officer. No matter what plan was executed, it was necessary to write it down in the notebook he carried with him, sort it out and confirm it.

"We need plants that are easier to keep alive. We don't have too much labor to invest in the sky island. Output and taste are secondary."

The expedition team did not lack land, but they were extremely short of manpower, and the problem of lack of manpower was almost everywhere in the territory.

A plant thrown into the ground, once the birth spell was cast, it would naturally be best to bear fruit without too much care - land with output is always better than land without output.

"If you are talking about disposable plants, Commander Jiang, we grow fewer plants, and generally grow plants that can grow for decades."

Hackett explained for him. He knew a little about plants.

The most common plants in this sky island world are mainly tree crops. It is difficult for large tracts of wheat and rice to survive the attacks of predators and herbivores. When they come, working farmers have to hide in houses for safety... and it is also difficult to find farmers who are willing to risk their lives to help you farm.

Agriculture is also a labor-intensive industry.

Only two super-large sky islands are qualified to maintain a large area of ​​safer farmland.

"The birth spell can shorten the growth time of a normal tree from five or six years to about one year, and then it can produce food stably."

"Fruit trees?"

Jiang Liu swiped through his notebook. He remembered that there was indeed no popular fruit tree planting in the territory. If there were a variety of tree plants here, he could purchase them and try it out first.

Maybe the lord would need it.

"After all, I have thought about how to control a sky island and develop industries on it before..."

Hackett scratched his head and followed the officer through the market. They passed by the guys who shouted that they had collected rare fruits and rare plants from other sky islands. The output of plants in this world is no less than that of animals, and each small sky island may form its own environment.

The officer stopped and looked at a small shop on the street, revealing a hint of doubt.

The rice in the rice bag was round, full and... soft?

Soft rice?

Hackett saw the officer Jiang Liu's eyes fall on the rice bag on the ground of the shop next to him, and explained to him.

"This is the fruit of the tree that grows rice... but the taste is much worse than the rice in the camp. It is not the rice that is often eaten in the camp... It is very popular with the various chambers of commerce that control the island. One tree can support dozens of people."

Interesting.

Jiang Liu nodded and wrote its name in his notebook.

When purchasing, bring two plants back to the territory and two plants to the Sky Island, hoping that it will give some face and not be unable to adapt to the local climate.

From beginning to end, he wrote down several kinds of trees. Only one shop caught his attention. It was a shop that specialized in selling large bundles of green grass. It was the only shop on the whole long street that sold such large bundles of green grass. The long green grass was firmly tied up and placed in front of the store. You could still feel the vitality it exuded after being cut.

Jiang Liu walked to the door and asked tentatively.

"Boss, how much do you want to sell this grass?"

"Green fodder, forage grass, three gold per bundle, no delivery, if you deliver to the port, you will be charged an extra gold for every ten bundles."

The shop owner rubbed his hands and looked at the two customers, hoping to get more money from him.

The officer thought, forage grass...

The task given to him by the lord was to purchase as many plants as possible to fill the gaps in the territory, and this forage grass was also one of them.

He and the shop owner put forward their requirements for seeds.

"You want to buy seeds?"

The officer nodded.

"Hehe, although this seed is easy to take care of, it is really difficult to grow. Planting this green fodder outside of here is very popular with cloud creatures."

The shop owner cleared his throat and decided to give this sucker a bundled sale. If he didn't sell it, he would make more money. After all, seeing the high price of green fodder, there are many people who want to buy it and grow it themselves to make a lot of money, but no one succeeds.

Because it is so popular with cloud creatures, it is difficult to grow it even in safe areas.

"But if you really want seeds, one hundred gold and five bags of grass. Each bag of grass seeds can be used to sow ten acres of land. I'll give it to you at a bargain price."

Jiang Liu listened to the shop owner's name. They all called the major categories of organisms here cloud creatures, which was not bad. He was worried that there was no good unified name.

But they might not plant on the sky island, so this little problem didn't matter to them at all. No matter how much they could attract sky island creatures, they couldn't attract them to the territory's agricultural area.

One hundred gold coins was a little expensive, but the officer was ordered to collect plants that might be useful in the territory, and he didn't use his own money. Ji Lin approved a budget of 30% of the sales of the cargo carried by the airship.

He finally took away five bags of grass seeds for one hundred gold coins, while the boss looked at him like a fool.

The price of these grass seeds was normal, but they were indeed not suitable for planting on the sky island. If an ordinary person bought them, the one hundred gold coins would be wasted.