Chapter 3211: Agricultural Cooperation, Investigation Begins

"Consultant Xia Duo, please look over there. That is the experimental plot for the localization of new Eerlan vegetable varieties in Ailan. All Eerlan vegetables sold on the market are carefully cultivated varieties, and they are extremely dependent on specific environments."

"This is not only due to the environment set by the Mythallar, but the influence of the natural environment is also significant. Therefore, if one wants to grow Eerlan melons and vegetables locally, a localization process is required."

Although Feilifa is not an Agricultural Mage, as a Consultant to the Crown King, he must frequently provide advisory opinions to the Crown King, so he is naturally well-versed in the various affairs within Eerlan, and this naturally includes the agricultural field.

Speaking of Eerlan's achievements in agriculture at this moment, Feilifa also appears to take pride in them, but Xia Duo, listening from the side, feels quite uncomfortable.

Although Netheril has currently joined the ranks of major powers, its military capability is barely sufficient, and compared to the various Elf nations, the gap in other aspects is quite obvious, including the agricultural field that Xia Duo has always valued.

Just a few days ago, Xia Duo had just reached an agricultural cooperation intention with Ruigeante of Aifuruisi. The goal was simple: to learn Aifuruisi's advanced agricultural technology through cooperation.

And now, after being told this by Feilifa, Xia Duo has once again discovered that Eerlan's agriculture also has its merits. Since that is the case, should they also have a cooperation?

But cross-breeding has already been used for the cooperation project with Aifuruisi. What else does he have that he can use to cooperate with Eerlan?

Moreover, Eerlan is different from Aifuruisi. When Xia Duo cooperates with Aifuruisi, he almost never has to worry about Aifuruisi tearing up the agreement, but if he cooperates with Eerlan, it is hard not to have such worries.

Currently, all he can offer are research ideas or directions; he does not possess true agricultural technology, or rather, the entire Netheril cannot produce technology equivalent to Eerlan's to use for equal cooperation.

Once he provides the ideas or directions, it is entirely possible for Eerlan to cast him aside and go it alone. Even if they do not directly tear up the agreement, if they deliberately delay progress during the cooperation, Xia Duo would be helpless against them.

Besides, if his ideas or directions really have broad prospects, then why would he want to cooperate with Eerlan? The number one in Northland agriculture is Aifuruisi!

Thinking this way, Xia Duo still decides to give it a try. Perhaps the Eerlan side likes "poverty alleviation"!

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After walking past another experimental plot, the words Xia Duo had been brewing for a long time were finally spoken, "I wonder if the Eerlan side is interested in Semi-plane Ecological Farms?"

"Semi-plane Ecological Farm?" This is the first time Feilifa has heard this term, but from the literal meaning, he can roughly guess its implication. Thus, he reveals a look of curiosity and then asks Xia Duo:

"Could it be that Netheril has already achieved certain results in this area?"

"That is not the case; it is just a personal hypothesis of mine: to construct a farm into a complete ecosystem to maximize the utilization rate of various resources. Most importantly, it can provide an important reference blueprint for future Plane transformation!"

This is indeed one of Xia Duo's ideas. Transforming a Plane is not just about modifying the Magic Net environment to be similar to the Main Plane, but the ecological environment.

For example, the Yellow Sand Semi-Plane. Today, Xia Duo can indeed modify the Magic Net environment of that plane to be close to the Main Plane, and even the physical environment (gravity, radiation, light and heat, etc.) is very close.

But that plane is still a desert environment. To be truly habitable, it must at least be able to provide various materials that normal humans rely on for survival, right?

The most basic problem of food and drink is very difficult to solve. Unless magic is used to maintain the production of various food crops, it is impossible for people to be self-sufficient based solely on the natural environment.

And the cost of maintaining it with magic is generally relatively high. If one really falls to the point of using Semi-plane flow, then the lower such costs are, the better.

If it is only used to transform a plane, then one also needs to consider the cost issue. If the cost is too high, why not just look for a ready-made Habitable Plane that does not need transformation?

The concept of an ecological farm is actually to construct an ecological cycle within a farm now, and then gradually expand it to the entire plane later, or if the farm can circulate indefinitely, then it is actually a perfect Semi-plane Ecological Farm.

Possessing such a farm allows for the continuous production of various survival materials with as little input as possible.

Coupled with corresponding automated facilities and equipment, once a person possesses such an automated ecological farm, they possess the ultimate confidence to exist in this world—

No need to worry about hunger at all.

Many times, what rulers can use to manipulate the bottom layer is actually only one thing, and that is—food and clothing.

If the bottom layer can obtain the most basic or even relatively abundant food and clothing materials without doing anything, then to them, the ruler is actually no longer a ruler. At this time, they have the qualification to demand that the ruler do more for them.

At this time, the rule is less of a rule and more of a union—a union of micro-productivity units, rather than being coerced by food and clothing materials to be exploited and plundered by the ruler.

Although there is some pressure, Xia Duo actually has the ability to equip all his subjects with a portable Semi-plane. In this situation, the ecological farm seems to have become the last missing piece of the puzzle. (Automation is not a must)

And to research ecological farms, agricultural technology is essential, while Semi-planes can provide different natural environments for research. Although Eerlan can still cast him aside and research ecological farms within the Main Plane independently.

But the Main Plane's resources are so abundant that there is no need to be so frugal. If Eerlan really casts him aside, it would not be enough to widen a greater gap in the agricultural field.

The true value of an ecological farm lies in its ability to serve as a reference blueprint for Plane transformation, while Plane Exploration and even Semi-plane creation are rare areas where Netheril leads.

By cooperating in this area, Xia Duo and the Eerlan side have a foundation for a win-win situation.

"The collapse of the Main Plane's Dragon Madness Mythallar has already shown an irreversible trend. In the future, we might all be forced to flee the Main Plane. At that time, if we cannot find a suitable Habitable Plane, transforming a plane will be almost the only choice."

If Xia Duo said these words to humans, the other party might scoff at them—fleeing the Main Plane? Don't even think about it. But the Elf race has long since experienced a plane evacuation.

That time they were lucky to come to such a large Habitable Plane, but in the future, when the Main Plane's Dragon Madness Mythallar collapses and the situation becomes so critical that they truly need to flee, who can guarantee that they will still be able to find a large Habitable Plane?

If one masters Plane transformation technology, one can temporarily reside in small or medium-sized planes near the Main Plane, and wait until the disaster on the Main Plane subsides before returning to the Main Plane.

At that time, one might also need to use Plane transformation technology!

After all, if the Dragon Madness Mythallar collapses completely, it will likely deal a devastating blow to the Surface ecology. This can be glimpsed from the current climate anomalies.