Pioneer Lord: Starting From Daily Intelligence-Chapter 550 - 19: The Results of Farming
That ranges from a minimum of 18 Silver Coins to a maximum of 30 Silver Coins, which is quite a significant fluctuation.
This is reasonable. After all, this Calming Flower is indeed rare. If you want to cultivate it in bulk, the conditions are quite stringent; you require the special terrain with the Wind of Jilun converging.
However, to say the price is prohibitive is not quite right. Ordinary people, as long as they have the courage to enter the forest and search carefully, can basically find one within two kilometers.
Vandar once explained that a single Calming Flower generally requires the convergence of life force within two kilometers to form. And in the forest, the wildness of Tal is particularly intense, and it’s quite vibrant, so encountering a Calming Flower is relatively easy. Even if you harvest it this year, if you search nearby next year, you are likely to find another one.
So, even though the agricultural population in the Hesse Territory is extremely scarce, it maintains a dozen Hunter’s Lodges, supporting a hunter population of nearly 50. Hunting is secondary for these hunters; entering the forest to gather berries, raspberries, bird eggs, and precious herbs is their true purpose.
The untamed nature of Tal causes everything in the forest to grow abundantly, and it would be a complete waste if not harvested.
Moreover, those frontier posts in the forest regularly send villagers to gather, returning to town with militiamen and adventurers to sell some valuable items they collected around the forest and posts.
This results in the town’s prices fluctuating almost daily. If Su Li didn’t disdain these trifling profits, he could hoard goods and make significant wealth through buying low and selling high.
A single Calming Flower, sent by a farmer or hunter, sells for 20 Silver Coins. He collects them and sells them for 30 Silver Coins, earning a profit of 10 Silver Coins.
As a lord, he deals with Gold Crowns daily, such that those around him have nearly lost sight of the currency’s purchasing power.
A single Calming Flower costs 20 Silver Coins! That’s equivalent to a month’s salary for an Armed Attendant or two months of labor harvest for farmers and hunters. It can be said that anyone who is lucky enough to encounter a Calming Flower in the wild or forest can bring home a considerable windfall, akin to winning a generous year-end bonus.
Thus, it becomes evident how much immense wealth a single Holy Purple Vine Tree has brought to the Hesse Territory.
The Spiritual Medicine Farm was a manor that Su Li focused on immediately after entering the Hesse Territory, and the harvests from this have been quite significant.
Vandar provided a detailed report: "The Calming Flower is ultimately a spirit medicine, with substantial profits. A single acre yields over 800 Gold Crowns. However, we sell relatively few externally, as most are used for potion production. This year, the total income from the Spiritual Medicine Farm is 1,780 Gold Crowns. Moreover, this includes the scale of over a hundred acres of Falling Grass and Swift Grass."
Indeed, once you touch the supernatural world, the value becomes incredibly substantial.
Gold Crowns equate to the annual yield of 800 farmers. 800 farmers are at least equivalent to a large village or even two ordinary villages!
In other words, many Kingdom Knights within the Empire, even if they are nobles, have annual earnings that do not surpass the yield of a single acre of spirit medicine field here at Su Li’s manor.
Therefore, when they participate in wars, they can only rally two or three knights from their bloodline, along with dozens of temporarily conscripted peasants, responding to the calls of the baron and the count.
This is why the Empire’s nobility, even knowing the dangers of the Wind of Magic, cannot resist manipulating it. The mere influence of the Wind of Jilun can bring thousands of Gold Crowns.
How can the nobility withstand inner greed?
Su Li naturally cannot resist either, especially because his troop size, though not large, is of very high quality! He plans to advance to the Baron’s Territory next year. The Elite Knights’ numbers even need to be further increased, and he must have more spirit medicine fields to support this; otherwise, he cannot even afford the maintenance cost for his troops.
Thus, he can only focus on profits, asking, "With a large number of Calming Flowers and herbs put into potion production, how many potions do we have left? How much profit have we made?"
Vandar replied in detail: "A large part of potion production has been consumed for military expenses. Currently, we have a total of 4 Earth’s Blood Potions, 5 Tears of Mercy Potions, 210 Shalya Hand Potions, and 300 Purification Potions remaining. The total income from potion sales this year is approximately 980 Gold Crowns."
Shalya Hand Potion is an entry-level spiritual potion that can be produced by both the Church and the hospital. If classified according to equipment levels, it roughly corresponds to the Dwarves’ Fine Level equipment. However, since it can be made purely by hand and the herbs are relatively common, the price is relatively low.
Of course, this is relative only from the perspective of essential territorial military instruments. For commoners, it is still an unaffordable high price, at 50 Silver Coins per potion, depleting most of a year’s income. But with taxes to pay and essential living expenses to maintain, an ordinary family cannot save half of their annual income.
Thus, this kind of potion is truly a high-end product. Further up, a single Tears of Mercy Potion sells directly for a whopping 100 Gold Crowns, which is something ordinary people could never access in their lifetime. Even in the extraordinary world, such a potion is rare. A High Tier nun or priest must be blessed with Divine Grace, in moments of profound insight, to create one.
