Foreign Land Reclamation By a Vegetable-growing Skeleton

Chapter 842: Chapter 472 The Starburst Array Might Be Breaking Chapter 842: Chapter 472 The Starburst Array Might Be Breaking The House of the Deceased is a platform of inestimable value to silver coins and Anthony, but for Ange, it’s nothing at all, as nothing can be grown on it.

Authorized, Anthony and the silver coin made arrangements before leaving, providing Ange with a document, “The Council of the Undead and the Sorcerer Alliance have both issued a Reclamation Decree, stating that any wasteland cultivated and producing crops will automatically belong to the pioneer.”

“A Reclamation Decree, huh? It’s been a long time since Northern Wind City was built, yet they’re still issuing such things. It seems the situation is really not so good,” Negris remarked.

The Reclamation Decree is a law that encourages subjects to open up new territories; it is also known as the Clearing Decree. The risks of pioneering are great, so the potential rewards are also significant. Securing benefits through the formality of a decree can bolster public confidence.

In history, there were initiatives like new clearing lands bearing no grain tax for three to five years, or the move westward campaigns, where sparsely populated areas that yielded productive lands could permanently belong to the pioneers.

This attracted countless people to open up their own territories. Accompanying this were titles and fiefdoms, among other things. When the area of land cleared was large enough, one could gain noble status and fiefdoms.

This is generally seen when a regime first enters an ownerless place and needs to rapidly convert it from resources into assets, and thus is willing to concede such significant benefits.

Now, with Northern Wind City having been established for so long, in theory, the Northern Wind Desert is owned, and yet such decrees are still being issued, which indicates that both parties are somewhat desperate.

Durken asked puzzledly, “How do we determine that we pioneered this wasteland? Will they send supervisors down?”

Anthony shook his head, “No, they base it solely on the output. They set the desert’s grain output at twenty catties. However much grain you produce, that’s how much ownerless wasteland you can claim. Currently, the Northern Wind Desert covers about one million square kilometers, with the only claimed areas being around Northern Wind City and the reservoir irrigation zone.”

Negris calculated with his fingers and said, “One million square kilometers could have up to 1.5 billion mu of land. So, you’re saying that if we produce thirty billion catties of grain, the entire Northern Wind Desert will be ours? They’ll also give us money? Ten Demon Crystals per ton.”

“No, no, no. If we could produce thirty billion catties of grain, the Sorcerer Alliance and the Empire would rob us together. They can’t afford to pay that much money,” Anthony explained.

So, the current situation is that the Undead Empire and the Sorcerer Alliance are both encouraging production and have offered corresponding support policies. They welcome anyone willing to farm and clear lands, offering great prices and are willing to guarantee sales, eliminating the concerns of the landlord nobility.

Such conditions are not only for Northern Wind City; the entire Plane is included. Northern Wind City, due to its geographical and climatic conditions, is not the focus of both parties’ attention. If it weren’t for the barren reservoir irrigation area, the Undead Empire wouldn’t even bother sending people here, as they are short on manpower.

The House of the Deceased, the Guild of the Dead, the Cemetery Maintenance Office, the Funeral Guild, the Spirit Dragon Knights, the Undead Cavalry Regiment… nearly every organization that could be named had been dispatched, with each city and town fiercely vying with the people from the Sorcerer Alliance, all in the interest of courting the local landlords and nobility.

While both parties were busy, a flurry of sale announcements appeared within the Guild of the Dead. Although they were labeled as sale announcements, the prices set were absurdly extravagant, often amounting to hundreds of millions of Demon Crystals, dazzling everyone who saw them and irresistibly drawing their attention to click and view.

However, the content of the announcements had nothing to do with sales; headlines were typically titles like “Beware of the Financial Risk Arising from Taking Deposits and Reselling,” “Serious Consequences that Might Arise When the Struggle Between Two Major Powers Extends to the Real Economy,” “98 Tricks to Make Your Competitors Fail to Deliver,” and so on.

The content meticulously analyzed various possibilities, with the overarching message that one should not take deposits, but rather auction after production, where the highest bidder wins.

In the headquarters of the House of the Deceased, a man in a cloak roared in anger, “Why? Why can someone set the price for an announcement like this? Only I have the authority for rewards over ten million Demon Crystals, but I don’t have the rights for anything over a hundred million. Why? Is it a mistake made by the Demon Spirits!?”

Not only were the published prices higher than his, but the authority was also higher. The man in the cloak discovered he could not delete these announcements; they just hung there perpetually.

Word spread rapidly, and before long, the entire Plane knew about it, including the Sorcerer Alliance.

A bald Goblin Mage was browsing “98 Tricks to Make Your Competitors Fail to Deliver,” clicking his tongue in wonder, “This is so devious, utterly devious. I never knew you could do it like this. The writer must be a major swindler.”

“So, what we call vicious competition, blindly pushing up returns, leading to disproportionate input and output, results in operating at a loss and ultimately the collapse of the industry?”

“Makes sense. If everyone starts growing crops, next year’s grain surplus will crash the prices, farmers will go bankrupt, and the year after that, no one will be farming.”

“Centralized grain storage to stabilize prices? Farmers don’t have the capability to store grain on a large scale, but we do. This is clearly intended for our eyes. Ah, and those dead folks also have storage capabilities. Just to be on the safe side, it looks like we need to build more large-scale grain storage facilities. However, we’ll need to transport the stored grain up here, and the transportation cost is too high.”