Chapter 736: Super Farmland Foundation

Great King jumped out of bed right away to wash up, especially his paws, which he washed over and over. After washing, by old habit he first touched the horn of the divine beast. While touching it, he muttered a spell online: "Please don't give me any more pepper trees, rubber trees, or any trees; the Farmland Foundation won't finish planting, it's impossible to finish! Planting southern trees, I'm not at ease—I'll figure out how to propagate these trees myself, enough already, did you hear?! If you pull these things from the ab‑level draw, I'll die to show you~"

Bai Ze: ……

Great King began chanting: "Ore ore ore, I want gold ore, give me ore~!"

Bai Ze had already given up trying to persuade him.

Great King first drew an a‑level; he hadn't touched such a high‑level wheel in ages. The big wheel's pointer spun wildly, then gradually slowed, moving notch by notch, and in Great King's sigh it passed the gold square and stopped on the brown square.

Great King's dream of gold ore was shattered.

In the next instant a brown bubble popped up:

【Congratulations, my lord, you have won the upper‑tier prize on the a‑level wheel: Super Farmland Foundation ×1, placed in the warehouse—please check.】

Great King blinked; seeing no 'scattered flowers' two characters ahead, he knew it was over—this thing he already has fifty mu of, sigh~

【Super Farmland Foundation;

Producer: Canglang Realm

Function: With the Super Farmland Foundation, there will be no poor‑yield grain! Optimized seed genes, taste buff +200%.

Additional function: Gift this realm's rare grain‑and‑vegetable seeds—5 types (already stored in the warehouse); Gift basic manor construction ×1

Usage area: 200 mu.

Usage rights: until the lord's death.】

Great King opened his mouth wide: "No need to repeat it—adding whatever "super" just gives this plot another 150 mu compared to last time, and it's not even permanent!" How to put it… Meng Meng is getting stingier. After this, he'll be gone, and this land will be gone too.

"It's certain Meng Meng doesn't love me anymore… sigh! Chang'an, you're disappointing!"

Bai Ze gave a half‑hearted comfort: "You just lack grain; the seed grain and vegetable seeds from Canglang Realm are good. These 200 mu can be used for breeding, and didn't they also build you a speedway?"

Great King recalled that the sweet potatoes and corn he'd planted for two or three years had started to degenerate; the useless agricultural minister's breeding was really lackluster, nowhere near what Meng Meng sent… fine then.

"The place is big—I can still sell the produce to Bai Ge; our tavern can't keep up with demand, or maybe he just has more rich people…"

Fortunately this one carries the "super" label and comes with a manor, so Great King can still pick up a little side project. Looking at the newly popped side quest, his mood finally cleared.

【Side Quest Three: Construct the Super Farmland Foundation Manor.

Government subsidy: on‑site technical chief NPC ×1; specialized technical personnel ×500 (recovered after task completion);

Logic‑link supplement: recruit local manpower from Great Jin ×500;

Estimated construction period: 3 months (90 days);

Task supplies: work uniforms ×500; work meals ×500×90; public funds ×500×90……】

The wool of five hundred households really isn't much; Great King immediately took on those five speedway‑building tasks, finding they were about the same scale as before—five logic‑link supplements of six thousand people each, totaling thirty thousand, with a four‑month schedule.

"All together that's a workforce of thirty‑five hundred, and I'm calculating how much I can skim off……"

Heaven knows how he learned to be corrupt—back when he took on infrastructure projects in You Prefecture, the Great King would pay in full despite everyone's sideways glances, never shortchanging a penny, but now he's got his eye on skimming this grain and money.

He took out pen and paper and began calculating: "Meng Meng eats two liters of white rice a day—white rice is so expensive, just give them one liter. Good heavens, I could embezzle thirty‑five hundred liters a day; ignoring the manor's little project, that's three thousand shi!"

Bai Ze: ……

Great King wrote furiously, figuring out how much he could embezzle over four months……

"Thirty‑six…… ten‑thousand shi?"

He jumped up on the spot, waving his arms in the room: "I'll immediately give the Chief Steward scraping land in the south fifty thousand shi! Let Liang Jin's twenty thousand all eat white‑rice porridge!"

Bai Ze: ……

So this guy not even lifting a finger really has no idea?

"No wonder everyone wants to embezzle—when could this kind of land produce thirty‑six ten‑thousand shi? Even robbery isn't that fast; the moment I think of embezzling, it's already there……"

"Three hundred cash a day is way too much—far more than Great Jin's current daily income; if I gave fifty cash, plenty of people would do it. Times have changed, I can't be blamed…… 250 × 30,000 people × 4 months…… I've struck it rich! Ninety thousand taels of silver!"

He shouted that he'd struck it rich, and the bear and the xiǒng (mythical beast) both crawled up to look at him; Great King, sharing the loot, pointed at them arrogantly: "You, I'll buy you a honey bath! You, I'll plant five mu of carrots for you!"

The bear scratched his head, not understanding; Little Jin put his head back as before. There's also no little sheep called 'Hu‑something‑radish', so I couldn't hear it.

Bai Ze blurted out poison: "Playing favorites at this point…… but a dynasty the size of Great Jin, ninety thousand is just a little over a month's health tax. You lot of Great Jin, oh, the treasury's empty—you haven't experienced this yet."

Great King: ……

"True, it's not a small amount for you either. Better save a bit, next time it'll be months again—I heard the previous dynasty's deficit was over a million."

Great King silently sat back down, no longer shouting about striking it rich.

"This is my private stash, humph!" Lending it to the Grand Minister of Agriculture is fine, but it must be returned! Give it to him, and he'll float away.

Great King in one go pulled all three b‑level wheels.

【Congratulations, my lord, you have won the middle‑tier prize on the b‑level wheel: Urban Construction City Square ×1, placed in the warehouse—please check.】

【Congratulations, my lord, you have won the lower‑tier prize on the b‑level wheel: Imperial Five‑Route Jade Carriage ×1, placed in the warehouse—please check.】

【Confetti~ Congratulations, my lord, you have won the rare prize on the b‑level wheel: Ming Treasure Ship (Trade Improved Version) ×1, placed in the warehouse—please check.】

Great King's heart went up and down; seeing another construction task he was about to laugh, but then they just gave him a useless cart. What's special about a cart? He can't make one himself, it's totally impractical—he rides horses anyway. Before he could complain, another rare item popped up, and Great King instantly forgot everything else.

"Haha, a rare item! That fishing treasure ship was drawn from an a‑level!"

【Ming Treasure Ship (Trade Improved Version)

Producer: Canglang Realm

Appearance: the treasure ship is 43 zhang long, 19 zhang wide, with a load capacity of 1,000 tons.

Function: massive storage, cold‑fresh transport.

Support personnel: treasure‑ship captain NPC ×1 (recovered after one year); treasure‑ship helmsman NPC ×1 (recovered after one year); treasure‑ship first mate NPC ×1 (recovered after one year)

Treasure‑ship usage rights: permanent】

Great King finished reading and felt something was missing; after a moment he slapped his forehead and realized: "I know why this came out of the b‑level—this time they didn't give me a dock to build! And the fishing‑buff is gone too!"

Great King glanced at the new ship's icon in the warehouse and hurriedly summoned the NPC captain first.

This is already the second ship; the Great King is already familiar with the route. That NPC and the former captain of the fishing treasure ship share the same surname, named Chen Chao, who also claims to be from the Azure Wave Island State. This time the Great King couldn't even be bothered to be curious; after they finished introducing themselves, he went straight to the point.

「Can our ship fish? 」

He wanted to fish with a cargo ship; seeing Chen Chao momentarily stunned, the Great King added: 「You don't understand— in our fleet, even warships have to fish, let alone a cargo ship! 」

White Marsh: ……

Chen Chao: ……