Chapter 399: Cash Crops
Isaac and the others are busy in the town of Gilded Roses, and they have become one with the people, and they have begun to build a rough generation of machines.
However, the effect is not very ideal, but they don't care, but under the leadership of Isaac, they have a lot of fun, ploughing the ground of the Minotaur Hammer out of many potholes of different sizes, and the first generation will inevitably have problems.
However, after playing crazy, Isaac and the others also quickly made a second-generation machine, and the effect was much more stable than the first-generation machine.
And Claire was not idle in her study, dragging her chin, looking at the pile of materials in front of her, her fingers kept tapping on the table, and the room was echoing with the rhythmic tapping sound.
"This is the south, where cotton crops once a year, so it's not suitable for large-scale cultivation." Claire said, pulling out a piece of information about cotton in front of her and setting it aside.
Then he looked at the other papers, and continued to murmur: "Sugar cane is good, you can squeeze the juice and make sugar, and the profit has increased several times." ”
Claire put her finger on the paper in front of her and continued, "These rare and precious fruits are fine, and they are close to Nafu City, so there is no need for storage and transportation. ”
"There are also favorite crops such as tea and cocoa nuts, as long as they are processed in situ and then sold, the price and profit can be directly increased several times, so there is no need to worry about the lack of income in the gilded rose town."
Claire's idea is to diversify the crops in the town, the residents of the town used to grow wheat, barley, corn, soybeans and other food crops, although these food crops are just needed, but there are also many people who plant, not only they grow other territories, but also among the farmers in other territories, there is no shortage of food in the market, on the contrary, the more they grow, the lower the price will be lower.
Of course, this can't be blamed on them, after all, before Claire came, the farmers here were all growing food crops, and they couldn't live by planting anything else, and they were forced to die by those high taxes a long time ago. If you grow food, you can still have some food left over after the collection to survive the season of waiting for a bumper harvest.
And now, after Claire found out about the problem, she wants them to turn to growing cash crops, such as the fruits and sugar cane that Claire just exemplified. As long as these cash crops are processed, the price will rise exponentially, and the factory can be set up in the town, and the profits can be left in the town, so that they can form their own set of economic systems.
As long as the town's income rises, the town's infrastructure will naturally develop. The adults who go out to work will also return to the Gilded Rose Town, and if they can earn enough money at home, who wants to go out and work? Not only those who were originally residents of the town, but even people from other places might be drawn to it.
Reagan is now in Hill City, and Claire has also sent someone over to bring back the seeds of those crops when he comes back, and Claire told him to buy all the seeds of cash crops on the market, and it won't cost much anyway, buy them back and put them in the field to experiment to know which one is the most suitable.
The experiment doesn't take long, with Rona a half-elf here, you can see the growth process of the crop in a few minutes with the elf magic, and you can judge at a glance whether it is suitable or not.
After selecting the crops, it is time to build a factory in the town, the previous planting is all preparatory work, and the construction of the factory is the top priority of this work, making tea into tea, making cocoa beans into coffee powder, and leaving the profits in the town after this step. Otherwise, if you sell the economic crop to others, you will also work for others.
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After selecting all the cash crops suitable for growing in the Gilded Rose Town, Claire stretched out her finger and tapped vigorously on a piece of paper in the center in front of her.
"Hops, this must be planted!"
Alcoholic beverages are a big seller of consumer goods everywhere, and even the taverns in Nafu City need to consume a lot of beer and other alcoholic beverages every day, and there is no shortage of market for alcoholic beverages, and in terms of profits, Claire will not let go of this piece of meat anyway.
Moreover, the raw materials needed to brew beer and other alcoholic beverages are grain crops, barley, wheat, rice starch, etc., and it is impossible for the gilded rose town to switch to cash crops.
The main crops are still food crops, but they usually make these grains into alcoholic beverages and then buy food from the outside world, so even if there is a food crisis later, the brewing of alcohol can be interrupted, and the Gilded Rose Town is still a granary that can provide a lot of food.
Brewing alcoholic beverages can turn these original food crops into high-value commodities, and the gilded rose town can profit from it. This is Claire's idea at the beginning, as for the other cash crops, it is just to make the crops in the Gilded Rose Town more diverse, to avoid monotony and become an involution mode again, and to put in more effort and harvest not as much as before.
After a period of revision, Claire finalized the initial development plan for the Gilded Rose Town.
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"Rhona." Claire skillfully pushed open the door of the hospital and walked straight in.
Rona rarely didn't play with Eve in the backyard, but grinded herbs in the front yard, and when she saw Claire come in, she looked up and asked, "What's wrong?" ”
Well? Claire glanced at the herbs in Rhona's hand, and an idea flashed through her mind, well, it's not bad to have some herbs in the Gilded Rose Town, there are many doctors in this world who rely on herbs to cure diseases.
After shaking her head, Claire threw the idea out of her head, thinking about the things in the Gilded Rose Town? I'm not here to look for crops.
"I'm going to go out, will you come along?"
"Where to go? Gilded Rose Town? Rhona's tone was slightly interested.
"No, I'm not in a hurry." Claire smiled, "But it has something to do with it." ”
Lorna stopped the grinding stone pestle in her hand and asked, "Is there a solution to it?" ”
"That's right."
"Then you wait for me." Lorna began to clean up the stone mortar and poured out the ointment inside.
"Don't you ask where you're going?" Claire asked.
"Why do you ask so much?" Rona quickly finished disposing of the pharmaceutical tools, and after following Claire to the town of Gilded Roses, after experiencing this incident, she began to become curious about this matter, and wanted to see how Claire solved it.
After patting her hand with the powder glued, Rhona said to Claire, "I'm ready!" ”
Claire: "I didn't say I'm going now, I'll leave tomorrow morning, I'll let you know when I come here." ”
Rhona glanced back at her cleaned stone mortar and other pharmaceutical tools, and then stared back into Claire's eyes for a few seconds.
"Then why didn't you tell me?"
"You didn't ask me, did you? You didn't even ask me where I went. Claire gave a triumphant smile, "And said, 'Why do you ask so much?' ’”
Rhona: "......"