I Have A Cultivation World

Chapter 630: Chapter 402: Settlement after Core Formation_1

“Junior Brother Chen, we need more assistance from you for this matter.”

Jin Shanping, the Deputy Head of the Spirit Plant Department, amiably saw Chen Mobai out the door. Chen Mobai nodded and then went to see Sun Gaochang.

“Senior Brother Sun, how do you think we should handle this?”

Chen Mobai sat down in the seat opposite him. Sun Gaochang served him a cup of clear tea and listened with a helpless, bitter smile on his face.

“Junior Brother Chen, the Spirit Plant Department only has a yearly budget of one hundred thousand Spirit Stones and one hundred thousand sect contributions. After your one hundred acres of Fire Spirit Rice matures, if we bought all of them, according to the ten times support, we would need two hundred thousand sect contributions. Even if I approve it on my side, I don’t think the Vice Hall Master in the Reward Virtue Hall would agree. The matter will end up being reported to the sect leader, which will put him in a difficult position.”

In truth, it was Sun Gaochang who had invited Chen Mobai over today, but as the Deputy Head of the Spirit Plant Department, he brought up the matter first.

Half a year ago, through his connection with Meng Hong, Chen Mobai had obtained five hundred acres of Spirit Field to plant the Spirit Rice, a task that everyone deemed impossible to complete.

Both manpower and spiritual land were far from sufficient.

But who would have known that Chen Mobai had acquired the Puppetry Technique inheritance from the Eternal Life Sect and utilized Qingyang Spirit Wood to create many Agricultural Puppets in the Puppetry Department, resolving the two most critical issues all at once.

Subsequently, through various Immortal Cultivation families in the Jian Country, he was able to move a large number of non-spiritual-root descendants from these families to the vicinity of Xiao Nanshan, solving the manpower issue.

Some days ago, nearly two hundred acres of the Spirit Rice under Chen Mobai’s name matured. He invited the people from the Spirit Plant Department to conduct an early inspection and prepare for the year-end harvest.

Among these, Chen Mobai planned to keep for himself the produce from the sixty acres of the Spirit Field within Xiao Nanshan.

The remaining Spirit Rice from the small Yang Ridge, as well as the one hundred acres distributed across the other four Spirit Mountains, he declared to the Spirit Plant Department to be sold to the sect.

However, when the people from the Spirit Plant Department came for the inspection, they were full of praises for the harvest of these hundred-plus acres of Spirit Rice, complimenting Xiao Nanshan’s lineage for indeed being the best at rice plant cultivation in the Divine Wood Sect.

However, upon returning and calculating the cost of purchasing this Spirit Rice, the three heads of the Spirit Plant Department began to wear a worried and gloomy expression.

The Fire Spirit Rice is a hybrid variety researched by Chen Mobai himself. While it is crunchy, it contains the same spiritual energy and nutrients as the Yubud Lingmi and it can be harvested twice a year. Moreover, the yield per acre of this Spirit Rice can reach 150 catties. If Chen Mobai were to sell all a hundred and thirty acres of Spirit Rice to the Spirit Plant Department, the latter would have to pay 210,000 sect contributions to purchase it.

This large expenditure far exceeds the annual budget of the Spirit Plant Department.

Even if Sun Gaochang, as the supervisor, approves of it, the deputy head and the head above would definitely disagree. If this were to happen, the Spirit Plant Department would have to tighten their belts for the next two to three years.

So, after internal discussions, they invited Chen Mobai over and mentioned the issue to him.

The implication being that the Spirit Plant Department could only purchase the thirty acres of Yubud Lingmi from the small Yang Ridge at most. The remaining Fire Spirit Rice couldn’t be bought by the department due to there not being a precedent for it, so Chen Mobai could only harvest the rice himself.

If the department were to purchase it, they would send people over to harvest it and directly verify the quantity and yield of the produce.

Chen Mobai originally thought this would save him some work.

Who knew that his overproduction would scare off the Spirit Plant Department from purchasing.

“Does Sect Leader know about this matter?”

After listening to Sun Gaochang’s complaints, Chen Mobai asked. Sun slightly shook his head to indicate that he had not reported this matter to Chu Zuoshu yet.

“It should still be reported.”

Chen Mobai thought for a moment and said something that made Sun Gaochang puzzled. However, Sun soon understood what Chen Mobai meant.

Shenmu Hall.

After hearing Chen Mobai’s request, Chu Zuoshu also felt a headache coming on.

This was clearly supposed to be a good thing, but the problem was that Chen Mobai had grown too much Spirit Rice. If it were to be bought at market price, the sect could easily digest all of it.

However, in order to support Spirit Rice cultivation, when the sect had first been established, the old Founder Zhou had set this ten times support policy.

This is because the ratio of input to yield for cultivating Spirit Rice is disproportionate. Even with this support policy, the sect’s production of Spirit Rice still falls short every year and they have to buy from the external cultivation families.

But who would have thought that a farming genius like Chen Mobai would appear, and he had increased the yield of Spirit Rice to a level that the sect could hardly afford.

“Junior Brother Chen, since you have mentioned it to me, I can approve of this year’s Spirit Rice. But if there is still this much next year, I’m afraid we will have to report it to the two Old Ancestors.”

After some thought, Chu Zuoshu proposed an opinion, feeling that he cannot let Chen Mobai, a direct disciple, feel disheartened. This year the sect can afford this vast contribution. But if it continues like this every year, Chu can’t keep his position as Sect Leader and will have to escalate it to the two Old Ancestors to abolish this policy.

“Sect Leader, I have a suggestion.”

Chen Mobai believed that he had a win-win solution.

It would allow the sect to buy the Spirit Rice with ten times the contribution without causing the sect too much distress.

“Junior Brother, please go ahead.”

“Let the sect make the usual purchase. Because my Fire Spirit Rice is a new variety, this contribution can be held as a quality assurance deposit in the sect’s account. After a few years, when it’s confirmed that there’s no problem with the rice, this contribution can be gradually released to my account.”