Pioneer Lord: Starting From Daily Intelligence

Vanilla is an important specialty planned for the Hesse Territory, and thanks to the arrival of the Divine Power Tide from the Dawn Goddess, this round’s harvest includes vanilla.

So when Vandar brought the good news, Su Li eagerly asked, ”Have there been any achievements in vanilla cultivation?”

Vandar immediately nodded and said, ”That’s right. Under the full urging of Edmond’s divine magic, a batch of vanilla matured quickly, and we have now planted an area of 30 acres.”

”If these vanillas are not destroyed during the chaos of war, with the Dawn Goddess’s blessing, the vanilla will undoubtedly have a great harvest this year. We might even yield 3 to 4 pounds per acre.”

Vanilla pods, as a spice, are worth their weight in gold. One pound of vanilla pods can directly be exchanged for a pound of gold, translating to a value of dozens of Gold Crowns.

If there’s a harvest, these 30 acres of vanilla could produce 120 pounds of vanilla pods, bringing in over 5000 Gold Crowns to the territory!

Don’t underestimate the 5000 Gold Crowns; if each specialty can bring several thousand Gold Crowns, the territory can reap over 20,000 Gold Crowns in a year through farming alone.

This number is quite impressive and can maintain a well-equipped and well-trained army for the territory.

So Su Li pondered and said, ”The Hot Spring Village is to the northeast of Green Leaf Hills, still some distance from Heisen Castle. As long as our territory’s army can defeat the Green Dragon Followers Legion and severely damage them, they won’t have enough numbers to discover this place. So make sure to send people to take good care of this area.”

The expansive fertile lands in Jorn Shallow Bay are to the east of the territory and are likely to face monster invasion. Grain production has already been affected, and we can’t afford to let the spice production suffer another heavy blow.

Vandar immediately nodded in agreement, ”I will arrange for a nun to take a team of loyal slaves here to produce with peace of mind, and we will not give up here until the last moment.”

”Mm, let them produce with peace of mind, and I will send a stationed knight from the Corona Knight Order with a squad of attendants to guard this place.”

After saying this, Su Li continued, ”Herbs are also due for a harvest next season, so make sure to look after everything. Then take people from various Orders to fully produce potions. Before the decisive battle erupts, I hope to equip each knight with a healing potion.”

This is not a trivial matter. It’s worth noting that even a basic healing potion costs 1 to 3 gold coins. Although the price isn’t high, the production isn’t easy because many territories don’t have that many herbs, and it’s a large consumable. Even a well-established noble family might not necessarily have a stock of five or six hundred.

A knight clan might only store a few, for the knights to use when they go to battle.

Vandar confidently assured, ”In the coming period, with the monsters besieging the city, the nuns from all the churches will return to the city from the countryside. I’ll gather them to fully produce. The output from the territory’s previous spirit medicine farm is enough to sustain our consumption for a month or two.”

These two matters were Su Li’s primary focus, and then Vandar reported on some agricultural matters like the irrigation of the Hot Spring Village and the development of Jorn Shallow Bay. Su Li only briefly listened and entrusted all these administrative tasks to Vandar.

While the two were discussing farming matters, a knight galloped over from afar, reported to Hilude, who then approached Su Li excitedly, saying, ”Lord, good news! Knight Connor has brought a squadron of knights to our territory.”

”Knight Connor?” Su Li frowned and thought for a while, but couldn’t recall who this person was.

Although his cultivation speed was fast, it was primarily due to Hilude’s efforts. Hilude was intimately aware of his every surge and heartbeat, helping him adjust his cultivation rhythm, guiding him in training.

Su Li’s shoulders bore only the gentle beauty of nature and the warm breeze, and of course, two beautiful legs.

He himself was of merely average talent, without an extraordinary memory.

So he genuinely had no impression of this person and asked, ”Who is Knight Connor?”

Hilude was slightly surprised, but assumed it was just the Lord being forgetful, and gently reminded, ”Like Schwartz, he was the Guardian Knight of your father, Lord.”

”Father?” Su Li was even more stunned; no wonder he had no impression of Knight Connor, as he barely remembered his nominal father!

It wasn’t that he was heartless or detached from family ties, but his nature was akin to a solitary soul adrift in the Otherworld.

Alone in a foreign land, the only ones he truly recognized as family were Hilude and Avril. These two were the ones who stood by him unconditionally in his loneliest and most uncertain times.

The others, like Oerstein, Schwartz, and even Ingrid and Philis, were subdued by his methods.

It was only after spending a lot of time together that these people, some due to shared goals and others through ”familiarity breeds fondness,” gradually formed a strong, intimate bond with Su Li.

Knight Oerstein was like his right-hand man, akin to the camaraderie between Zhu Yuanzhang and Xu Da.

Philis even became the mother of his child; blood became thicker than water, and love turned into familial affection.

In contrast, he had only met Count Suna once in his life and had exchanged just one sentence with Knight Connor. It was only natural for him to have no feelings for them; remembering them would be odd.