Steam Era: The Lord of 'Puluo' Chapter 1464: Locals_4
Previously on Steam Era: The Lord of 'Puluo'...
The ship from Sea City takes the old land to Yangtu Island, offloads the earth, loads up with new soil and comes back. This is the annual soil exchange, whether it’s Earth Market or Sea City, it’s a big event.”
Indeed it is a big event, especially for the farmers from Earth Market.
An old farmer had just loaded a cart of soil, Li Banfeng glanced at the amount and asked, “How much land can this cover? Is it half an acre?”
“Half an acre?” Tan Jinxiao shook his head, “Seventh Master, you’re joking, ten carts of soil wouldn’t cover even an acre!”
Exchanging soil is not something done overnight; once the autumn harvest is over, soil exchange must begin. Apart from resting for two days at the New Year, the entire winter is spent running back and forth, and even with such effort, the soil is not fully exchanged by spring!”
Li Banfeng saw that not far away, quite a few people were driving their livestock, dragging soil, walking toward the shore. The crowd moved endlessly through the narrow cave, like…
Like a train moving through a mountain tunnel.
“Why not use a train to transport the soil?” Li Banfeng was pondering this, “Wouldn’t using a train to haul the old soil here be faster than using ox carts and horse-drawn carts?”
And it wouldn’t require so many farmers to come here, just hire a batch of loading and unloading workers!”
Tan Jinxiao sighed, “That’s true, but the boss said we can’t build so many railways.”
“Why can’t we build? Doesn’t Human Market have plenty of railways?”
“Seventh Master, those railways in Human Market are for transporting goods! Transporting goods is for Underground City’s business, that’s the urgent matter!”
Li Qi felt there was more to this statement: “Exchanging soil is for farming, farming is for eating, isn’t eating an urgent matter?”
Tan Jinxiao was rendered speechless, this wasn’t something he decided.
Li Banfeng saw through the hint: “Spring planting, autumn harvest, winter soil exchange, it’s a year-round cycle keeping people busy, right?”
Tan Jinxiao nodded, “It’s about keeping busy, if idle, they might start thinking. Seventh Master, the reason they didn’t let you go to Earth Market before is this same reasoning. Soil is the farmer’s lifeline; if we went to Earth Market during soil exchange and the boss blocked the Sea City route, the soil wouldn’t exchange, the year would go without harvest, how would the farmers live? Therefore, before taking over Earth Market, we must first capture Sea City.”
“Do you think Sea City is so easy to capture?” The boatman nearby, wearing black pants, a blue jacket, and a bamboo hat, smiled at the two.
Tan Jinxiao glanced at the boatman, “Guan Huodong, you’re truly timely.”
Guan Huodong shook his head, “This isn’t serendipity, your conversation was too loud, I have been watching you for a while.”
This is Sea City’s leader, Guan Huodong, he is the Peeping Cultivation above the clouds, from the shore to the sea, hooks are everywhere. Even though Home Cultivation has characteristics that are hard to detect, it’s difficult to escape his ear.
Li Banfeng sized up Guan Huodong seriously and asked, “Does your name have any significance?”
Guan Huodong frowned, “What does that have to do with you?”
Tan Jinxiao explained, “He named himself that, meaning clarity like a well-lit cave!”
Li Banfeng was taken aback, “I hadn’t thought of that!”
Tan Jinxiao praised, “Ordinary people wouldn’t think of it, Guan Huodong’s name has literary flair; he is educated!”
The two laughed as if there was nothing significant at hand.
Guan Huodong laughed, “Old Tan, you’re joking around with me at death’s door, let me give you a hint, in the next life, when you come to Sea City, speak less loudly, the loudness makes you look stupid, it makes you seem clumsy, shows you lack memory!”
As the words fell, Guan Huodong’s gaze turned, locked onto Li Qi, his right hand clenched into a fist.
The words were spoken to Tan Jinxiao, but the action was directed at Li Qi, with full force, not necessarily to kill Li Qi, but to cripple him.
Tan Jinxiao hadn’t reacted yet, Li Qi clutched his chest, as if with heart disease, fell to the ground.
What’s going on…
Tan Jinxiao froze, Li Qi could help him remove the marks, but hadn’t he removed his own marks?
“Don’t worry for him, it’s your turn now.” Guan Huodong smilingly looked at Tan Jinxiao, just about to clench his fist, when he felt someone standing behind him.
Li Banfeng stood behind him, smiled slightly, “Looks like you’re anxious, now it’s your turn, not his yet.”
PS: What’s at the end of the Underground Sea?