"It's delicious!" The winter wheat has finally been harvested. Several Lingshan representatives from the Leishen City Lingshi Mine are very happy. The white flour steamed buns are delicious. "Scallion pancakes, two more."

"Hey, Bai Liang, that's enough. You've already eaten three sheets. The yield of white flour is low, so we have to be careful with it."

"Yeah, the yield per mu of this thing is less than 200 kilograms."

"That's good. There's so much arable land. The Sea Tribe is very generous. Sweet potatoes have a high yield, but eating too much of them makes you sick."

"What do you think about that Bingyueshui?"

"Bai Liang, it's up to you."

"What do you mean by let me watch? This is everyone's intermediate spirit stone."

"oh!"

"ah!"

"Um!"

"What did you say? I didn't hear you clearly."

What a bunch of bastards, all afraid of taking responsibility. Okay, I'll just play dumb. Anyway, the amount of intermediate spirit stones transported back to Shenshan is nothing to me.

Bing Yueshui was such a clever girl, and with a bright hint, every month, some intermediate-grade Fire Spirit Stones were taken away by Bing Yueshui. "Production is just about enough. Even if you send a few hundred more intermediate-grade Spirit Stones back to Shenshan, you won't be rewarded."

The chef sent by the Sea Tribe is very good. Whether it is made with white flour or corn flour, the food he makes is... top-notch.

Is 200 kilograms per mu too little? It can't be produced in warm areas.

The Leishen City area is quite suitable.

Spring plowing in the Leishen City area is the busiest. As for winter wheat, with so many people idle, they might as well plant it before the autumn harvest and not occupy the busy farming season. It can be harvested in the summer of the following year. Why is it not the busy farming season in Leishen City?

We have said that the arable land potential in the Leishen City area is also huge. Planting winter wheat will not affect anything.

It's summer, and the warm regions are busy harvesting. Here in Thunder God City, too, they're busy harvesting wheat. The Sea Tribe isn't just growing wheat around the Spirit Stone Mine. They're also planting winter wheat during the off-season, using both human and animal power.

In Thundergod City, some arable land yielded 170 to 180 kilograms of wheat per mu; some areas yielded 120 to 130 kilograms per mu. So, it doesn't matter how many kilograms you get, it's still a harvest, right? Over 40,000 mu of winter wheat was harvested.

Who said the Thunder God City area only had one harvest? Aren't these four or five million kilograms of wheat considered food?

"Old Ma, are there so few millstones?"

"These are good to have. It's too difficult to grind with a stone mill like this." White flour tastes good, but it's not easy to grind.

"Okay, winter wheat is easier to store than potatoes anyway, so let's grind it slowly." Four stone mills were polished and two were given to the representatives of Shenshan.

"We'll keep some of it, and take most of it to Haifan City. There are many stone mills there."

"I think so too. The craftsmen in Haifan City are highly skilled, and there are many stonemasons and stone mills."

"I heard that Haifan City no longer likes to grind and directly uses wheat to exchange for supplies. They exchanged thousands of donkeys and tens of thousands of kilograms of salt from the Tengou tribe, thousands of kilograms of copper ingots from the Hongzang tribe, and several ships and a lot of large fish skins from the Qinghai tribe..." Ma Han almost knew everything.

"So, maritime trade has reopened?" Wu Qi asked.

"For now, it's just bulk trade. No residents are allowed along the coast of Haifan City. I think this is a good thing, as it prevents us from being attacked by the enemy."

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War is war, not a childish act of anger. Fight, then make peace, then fight again. Between nations and tribes, there are only interests. Talk of war and hatred is childish.

The Sea Tribe thinks trade is profitable, so let's exchange.

The Hai Tribe's summer harvest had increased significantly, after all, they had expanded their arable land by hundreds of thousands of acres. Potatoes were good, but they were consumed in large quantities during storage, requiring more cellars.

After the summer harvest, it is most cost-effective to trade a batch of potatoes.

Therefore, it wasn't just wheat that was traded, potatoes were also included in the bulk trade. The Sea Tribe had its own food supply and demand budget, so they just had to stick to a certain scale.

Salt, donkeys, copper ingots, fish hides, and ships—the Sea Tribe needs them all, so let's trade. After all, food is the most essential thing. Even if you vigorously develop agriculture, there won't be enough to eat.

Even if the Tengu and Guilin King tribes mastered the right copper-tin ratio for copper plowshares, so what? Even experienced coppersmiths need time and process to adapt to the new ratio. It is unrealistic to think that they can develop copper plowshares on their own.

The same logic applies to the tribes on Lingguo Island. After all, the Hai Tribe used a divisive tactic, and there were only two skilled copper plow and shovel coppersmiths left in the Lingguo Island Copper Workshop.

In the end, the Hongzang tribe and the Guiluowang tribe won the final victory in the battle and won the ultimate control of the Lingguo Island copper mine. The two large tribes joined forces and their strength was also very powerful.

Powerful? Producing so much copper ore, the initial smelting is okay, but if you want to process the copper ingots into copper plows and shovels, you need to develop gradually.

Look, you have to send a large number of copper ingots to the Hai Tribe for further processing.

Sending it to Haifan City would also be fine. There are still a few coppersmiths left in the copper workshop there, so forging copper plowshares wouldn't be a problem. During the winter, Beida City shipped in a lot of coal, and there was also a good stock of charcoal. There was no shortage of anything, so the copper workshop in Haifan City could just reopen.

Most coppersmiths have gone to Sun City. Even so, the newly reopened Haifan City Copperworks is more powerful than the one on Lingguo Island. This demonstrates the importance of heritage. The Hai Tribe has been producing copper plowshares of reasonable proportions for years. Now that the technology no longer needs to be kept secret, are the familiar processes still there?

What the hell? The price went up?

That's right, six to one (six pounds of copper ingots for about one pound of copper plowshare. Of course, the copper plowshare isn't exactly one pound, but that's roughly the ratio). As for the tin, you'll have to get it yourself. It's up to you whether you want to trade or not. Sun City will ship back a large shipment of copper plowshares in winter. The Sea Tribe doesn't care about your Lingguo Island copper ingots.

Are the Guiluowang and Hongzang tribes in great need of copper plowshares? Not really.

When the coalition forces attacked, the Lingguo Island branch of the Sea Tribe packed up almost all of its copper plowshares and ran away. Finally, they were picked up by Huoshi's fleet at a secret sea outlet.

In other words, the combined forces of the various tribes on Lingguo Island defeated the Lingguo Island branch, even killing Qingzang and Bingyueyue, without even recovering a single copper plowshare from the Sea Tribe. After all, the Sea Tribe had been mentally prepared for an attack on the Lingguo Island branch, and Bingyueshui had even personally gone to the Lingguo Island branch to arrange the transfer of the copper plowshares.

By the same token, the Ox-Head and Horse-Faced Guards of Donghai Island had already begun transferring the copper plowshares after receiving instructions from the charlatan sent by Huoshi. In the end, they were picked up by Huoshi's fleet at a secret small sea outlet on Donghai Island.

Ma Yue would rather give up the large livestock and bring back the copper plowshares. After all, under the circumstances at the time, losing the navy was equivalent to losing all sources of copper.

The Guiluowang and Hongzang tribes are desperate for copper plowshares, or perhaps they prefer to pay for them first, lest the Hai tribe default on their payments. Okay, just take back the older copper plowshares used by the Hai tribe for spring plowing. As for the production of new copper plowshares, Haifan City will slowly process and produce them.