Chapter 1713: Troop Enhancement (1)

Zhao Chi had previously speculated about the neutral energy points from Bliss Frenzy.

But he had never been able to confirm it.

Ever since gaining Li Ruanyu yesterday, the neutral energy points had increased from 500 to 600.

This directly confirmed that the neutral energy was also tied to the number of companions.

The only strange thing was that, judging from the recovery of the inheritance points, that elven saint Siliel counted as Zhao Chi's companion.

At least in terms of actual behavior, the two had been intimate, and twice at that.

But Siliel's name wasn't on the Bliss Frenzy companion list.

Perhaps the other party had to be willing?

Although Siliel had agreed to let Zhao Chi in at the time, that was mainly to gather racial bloodlines, not really to let Zhao Chi take her.

And at the time her status was a captive—perhaps that status couldn't count as a companion?

Zhao Chi couldn't figure it out either.

But it didn't matter.

What he needed to do now was fill up those extra 100 neutral energy points.

Fortunately, with enough companions, adding about 20 points per person would suffice.

Zhuang Ya and Tang Ruan were the big contributors, each giving 30 points.

Qi Yue and Su Qin were the most delicate, each only contributing a little over 10 points before they couldn't move anymore.

Gu Qing steadily provided 20 points, until it was full.

When Zhao Chi got tired, he slept.

After 100 minutes, he was a lively and vigorous man again.

Anyway, he'd been working hard for a long time before, so today counted as a holiday.

A beautiful day passed just like that.

The next day there would still be battle.

Li Ruanyu needed to prepare for war.

So she didn't show herself at all today, only able to chat with Zhao Chi remotely—everything would wait until after tomorrow's battle.

December 16, 8:00 AM.

The battle would be at noon.

Zhao Chi's side was fully prepared.

There was still some time.

He did a simple patrol of the territory.

All the farmland in Chaoge Town had been fully cultivated.

Looking at the vast expanse of farmland, Zhao Chi was in an unprecedentedly good mood.

【Chaoge Town Farmland Data】:

【Total Farmland】 15,000 plots

「Wheat Fields」 10,000 plots

「Experience Fruit」 2,000 plots

「Sugarcane Fields」 2,000 plots

「Cabbage Fields」 1,000 plots

【Golden Juice Fertilizer】 1,180 plots

【Gold Nugget Fertilizer】 510 plots

【Fertile Soil Fields】 100 plots

The most important wheat fields were naturally the most numerous—after all, wheat was the staple food and could provide a large amount of calories.

It didn't matter if there was nothing else, but wheat had to be there.

Moreover, wheat was very easy to store.

Once ground into flour, it could be stored for at least a year.

If kept in a dry, well-protected environment, it could even be stored for 2 years.

However, if not ground into flour and stored as wheat grains, it could be kept even longer.

Previously, Zhao Chi had been short on grain, so he had to grind it into flour every time.

Later, when the grain was sufficient, the remaining wheat was stored as wheat grains.

Wheat grains have a complete outer shell—that is, bran—which can naturally and effectively isolate moisture, oxygen, and even pests.

It could easily be stored for 10 years, and if stored well, even 20-30 years or more.

So Zhao Chi wasn't afraid of having too many wheat fields—no matter how much he harvested, it could be stored for a long time.

Relatively speaking, cabbage couldn't be stored for too long.

After all, it was a vegetable.

At most it would gradually rot after half a month or so—best eaten fresh.

Moreover, Zhao Chi didn't plan to sell cabbage either; it was heavy and the price wasn't high, so it was better to sell Experience Fruit.

So only 1,000 plots of cabbage were planted, enough for his own people to eat. Even these 1,000 plots might be a bit much—the surplus could be given to Su Qin, since she had many female elves who liked eating vegetables.

Experience Fruit could also be stored for a long time.

Fresh Experience Fruit had the same effect as dried and dehydrated ones, and could also be stored for about 5-10 years, so there was no worry of rotting either.

So Experience Fruit was also quite a good cash crop.

Zhao Chi allocated 2,000 plots of farmland to Experience Fruit—definitely not a small amount.

Fresh sugarcane doesn't have a very long shelf life either.

At most a few weeks.

But if it's boiled down into cane sugar, then it's a different story.

If stored well, it can even be preserved for a long time — in theory, several decades would be absolutely no problem.

So he also allocated 2,000 mu of farmland to sugarcane.

Recently, Zhao Chi found time again to make quite a lot of golden-juice fertilizer and gold-block fertilizer.

But the raw materials for these two kinds of fertilizer are still very scarce.

But it doesn't matter.