Pioneer Lord: Starting From Daily Intelligence

Chapter 353: Chapter 157: Over 300 Extraordinary Ears and Territory Specialty: Half-Elf Leather Armor

In response to Su Li’s inquiries, Vandar replied immediately, ”My lord, I have already used the [Sunset] Divine Magic on the vanilla plantation. And I’ve used it twice, which can cover 10 acres of vanilla fields.”

Su Li asked excitedly, ”How does it work? Are there any extraordinary vanilla?”

Vandar nodded and said, ”I’ve discovered three Emerald Seed level extraordinary spice plants in these ten acres of vanilla fields. However, we need to wait for the vanilla pods to mature in order to analyze the results through the arcane patterns on them.”

It seems that a championship-level Druid can only grow Emerald-level extraordinary fruits, but to achieve Deep Blue levels, the Druid needs further enhancement of their power.

Perhaps when this Great Druid reaches the Legendary level, and he grows a large number of purple and gold quality fruits, he could mass-produce championship-level, Divine Chosen level, and even Legendary level knights in the territory!

After all, having an elder at home is truly a treasure.

A Legendary level Druid farming continuously can bring a large number of extraordinary fruits to the territory.

But that’s looking ahead; when Vandar enhances to the Legendary level, by then the territory might already have many Legendary level knights guarding him.

Therefore, Su Li didn’t think much more about it and instead asked, ”How’s everything else? I’ve been occupied with war-related matters lately and haven’t paid attention to farming.”

Vandar hesitated slightly, carefully choosing his words to avoid angering Su Li, ”The farming is going smoothly, but the slaves... have a few complaints.”

Su Li paused and asked, ”What do you mean by ’going smoothly’? What complaints do the slaves have?”

What complaints could the slaves have?

Vandar carefully replied in a low voice, ”They feel that you are somewhat... hypocritical. Some people smugly proclaim that you provide them with so much food because you hope they will serve you devotedly. To go to the battlefield and fight against the evil monster’s henchmen.”

”So a portion of them, under malicious incitement, chose to strike. They refused to go into the fields to pick cotton. Right now, it is cotton harvesting season, which is crucial for our territory’s winter warmth, so it has a small impact.”

”In addition, they also demand to have the same treatment as armed attendants.”

Upon hearing this, Su Li couldn’t help but clench his right fist, grinding his teeth as he asked, ”Am I too merciful?”

If not for the noble’s upbringing, which allows expressing anger but not expressing anger inappropriately, he would have been tempted to angrily scold this bunch of bastards!

He provided them with food far beyond the ordinary, gave them opportunities to rise, offered them a bright future, truly treated them as human beings, believed in sharing the territory’s destiny with them, and never even considered driving them into battle. In the 5,000-strong army Su Li calculated could be gathered today, there were no places for any slaves.

In the end, in their eyes, he was nothing more than a hypocritical evaluation?

Beside him, Freya crossed her arms in front of her chest, supporting her heavy bosom, leaned against her tall Half Griffin, twitched the corner of her mouth, and snorted coldly: ”I always felt your attitude toward slaves was problematic. Always thinking you give with sincerity and others would return with gratitude.”

”But this is a value shared only among noble bloodlines and honorable knights, completely inapplicable to those slaves who are born wretches. Haven’t you considered why they fell into being slaves? I suppose, when a slave refuses to pick cotton and accuses you of hypocrisy, there certainly is a group of people cheering and applauding around.”

”Among the Empire’s nobility, there’s a piece of traditional wisdom from the land of Arabi: When joking with slaves, slaves will look down on you.”

”Stop talking!” Su Li irritably waved her hand, asking, ”Don’t they have any traditional wisdom like: Don’t easily get angry, because when angry you show your real skills, and then others know your skills are actually lousy?”

Freya shrugged and said, ”I’ve never heard of it, but what you said makes a lot of sense. You know what’s best to do.”

What to do?

Like other nobles in the Empire, if any slave refuses to work, tie up his daughter, and in front of the slave, chop off his daughter’s hands, feet, and head one by one?

It seems that in the eyes of some Empire citizens, this is the true symbol of civilization.

Indeed, in their eyes, colonizing them, enslaving them, and exploiting them is civilization.

When you truly treat them as equals, they instead think you’re hypocritical.

Freya said coldly, ”You should put down the helper’s complex and respect others’ destinies.”

That’s well-said. The Eastern traditional virtues that those born in nobility are accustomed to are truly unsuitable on this side of the Empire.

The uncivilized fear power but do not cherish virtue.

If you’re too kind to them, they instead think you’re easy to bully.

Su Li said, ”They definitely don’t consider Frederick the Chief Judge hypocritical. Never mind, I won’t intervene in this matter, let Frederick handle it.”

Bloodbeard Frederick?

Vandar only felt a chill on his back, the Chief Judge’s reputation in the Bauhinia Earl’s territory is enough to stop children from crying.

He’s not merely un-hypocritical, he’s truly terrifyingly true.

But he couldn’t comment on this matter either, perhaps sometimes a price is necessary for both sides to recognize reality clearly.

Su Li subsequently asked with concern, ”Is our cotton ready for harvest?”

Vandar nodded and replied immediately, ”Yes, my lord. During the summer planting, we planted over four thousand acres of economic crops, including cotton, rapeseed, sugar beet, etc. Among them, cotton accounts for over 800 acres, which is estimated to produce 240,000 pounds of cotton.”