"How much?" Hai Qing thought she had misheard and almost wanted to pick her ears.

"One hundred million, you heard it right." Xu Ning is worth hundreds of millions, can he still be fooled?

"Miss Xu, are you serious?" Hai Qing was a little overwhelmed. For a moment, he wondered whether he was crazy or Xu Ning was crazy.

"Of course I'm serious! Corn now only has one cob of fruit, so if there are two cobs, wouldn't the yield be doubled? One person would double it, what about tens of thousands or hundreds of millions of people? How much would that be?" This is just like a modern algorithm. The easiest way to become a billionaire is for everyone to contribute a piece!

Hai Qing widened his eyes. His original plan was just to spend a high price to buy a method to benefit himself.

What Xu Ning meant was that this method had to be made public so that everyone could use it.

But if this method works, there won’t be any more disasters in the future, right?

"Have you thought about it? You only have one chance, if you miss it, it will be gone."

Hai Qing was extremely conflicted. Not to mention 100 million, he didn't even have the square root of 10,000.

"I would like to ask Miss Xu, has the price remained unchanged?" If Xu Ning answered yes, then he would have no choice but to give up.

Because the price Xu Ning mentioned was too scary, even though Xu Ning fooled Hai Qing, he still had his sense.

"Of course not. The price is naturally different." The method of growing corn is not a secret. Once she tells it, the method may spread to more people after it reaches one person.

The reason why she kept Hai Qing hanging was actually to test him using psychological mechanisms.

“Why is the price different?”

"The poor take nothing, and the rich go bankrupt."

Hai Qing was shocked, fearing that her actions would anger many powerful people.

"Miss Xu, how can you guarantee that this method will definitely increase production?"

"I can't guarantee it. Everything depends on God's arrangement." She is not a god. Now that there is a drought, how can she accurately predict whether it will rain next year?

Hai Qing stammered, "You weren't..."

"I just said there's a method, but I didn't say it's 100% feasible. Don't you understand farming? There are so many factors that affect the harvest. How can I say it's possible?"

Hai Qing and the shopkeeper were both dumbfounded. Xu Ning was still talking to himself, "However, if the fertilizer is improved, even if the output can't be doubled, it can be half."

"Half?" Hai Qing's eyes lit up. How much is half? Fifty percent!

With this 50% of food, there will definitely be fewer people going hungry.

"Girl, what do you think, if I were to buy the recipe, what price would you ask for?" Hai Qing suddenly felt uneasy. He was both afraid and looking forward to Xu Ning's answer.

Hai Qing's family is a local grain merchant, and the business has only been passed down to the second generation, to him.

His father was a peddler who started from scratch. He certainly had assets of several thousand taels, but he couldn't come up with more. However, he really didn't want to miss this opportunity.

Amidst Hai Qing's hesitation, the shopkeeper finally couldn't help but speak out, "Ms. Xu, the entire Shanglu County probably doesn't have that much money combined?!"

Is it so poor? Xu Ning wondered, there are at least a few grain merchants in Shanglu County, how could they not have a total of 100 million?

Oh, she is worth hundreds of millions, what should I do if I suddenly feel a little proud?

Xu Ning looked at the shopkeeper's protective look with amusement and gave the answer: "Mr. Hai, for five hundred taels, I'll sell you the method!"