By all right, showing us this was showing us how strong their country was.
This should be a secret that was closely guarded by them and the second prince should know this, but he was actually bringing us to tour the farms.
It was almost as if he was inviting us to see the state of his country.
Just how would that help him?
But of course, we wouldn't turn this opportunity down.
In the first place, the Midra Kingdom was still a hostile kingdom to our kingdom, even if we were trying to build relations with them. In the end, we would have to take care of the Midra Kingdom eventually since they wouldn't give up on trying to take down our kingdom.
So we would naturally try to find as much information as we can about the Midra Kingdom.
What we found was...
The Midra Kingdom's crops were growing well.
Unlike the Beirut Kingdom that had poor land and poor farming techniques, the Midra Kingdom's land was well managed and properly equipped. The crops were growing abundantly in the Midra Kingdom, unlike in the Beirut Kingdom.
We could see that they even had enough crops to sustain feeding livestock, sothing that wasn't present in the Beirut Kingdom.
It was clear that the Midra Kingdom was much better off than the Beirut Kingdom.
However, that was a bit strange since the Midra Kingdom's land shouldn't be that much better. The land that they owned was in the sa climate region and had the sa fertility as the land in the Beirut Kingdom.
So even if they were in two different kingdoms, the plants should have grown at around the sa pace. Of course, that was considering the difference in technique as well.
When asked about this, the village chief proudly said, "Because of our second prince, we put in farming reformations a few years back. Since then, our crops have been growing unlike anything that we've seen before. In just a few years, we have grown more than enough food to feed ourselves and we've been able to sell the excess for plenty of money."
"Farming reformations?" I couldn't help asking about this, "What kind of farming reformations?"
This ti, the village chief wasn't as willing to talk.
But it turned out that the second prince wasn't the sa.
When the second prince spoke, not only the village chief, but also the ministers were shocked. But that shock kept increasing as they heard what he said.
"It's not enough to praise. It's just a shell that I found that when crushed up creates a powder that helps the growth of plants."
A shell?
The fourth prince was surprised, but I wasn't as surprised since I knew a little about this.
Calcium, it was what was in the powder of the crushed shell that helped raise the quality of the soil. The higher quality the soil, naturally the better the plants grew.
This was sothing that normal people wouldn't have been able to discover since most people wouldn't crush shells in the first place. So for the second prince to discover this, he or the people that worked for him had quite the curious minds.
But I also knew that it was impossible for crushed shells alone to have this kind of effect.
They had to also have so kind of fertilizer that helped the plants grow.
This had to be fertilizer that was better than the manure that was already used in this era.
I didn't know what kind of fertilizer the second prince had found, but it was certain that he had found so kind of fertilizer.
This was a man that had all kinds of innovation and had all the tools to make his country prosperous. It didn't seem like there was a need for him to want to do sothing like work for us…
As long as he waited long enough, it would only be a matter of ti before he took the throne and he would be able to do what he wanted with his country.
When that happened, this Midra Kingdom might actually beco a country that would far surpass the surrounding countries.
So I was more and more confused by what the second prince was doing.
The fourth prince seed like he wanted to ask a few more questions, but I grabbed his shoulder and stopped him.
When the fourth prince looked at , I just gave him a look that seed to be telling him to stop.
I had already gotten enough information from this and I knew that pushing further would only harm us. So I didn't want him to keep pushing or else it would arouse suspicion.
The second prince revealed a faint smile when he heard this before saying to the village chief, "How about showing them the fruit orchard that we have growing?"
The village chief quickly nodded before leading the way with a proud look on his face.
Not only did they grow their normal plants, they had even started a fruit orchard.
It had to be known that a fruit orchard was completely different from just farming normal crops. A fruit orchard was not sothing that could be created that easily since it took a large amount of ti before it could yield fruits.
Yet the fruit orchard in this village was already filled with trees that were fruiting, showing that it had been here for a while.
This was a clear sign of just how prosperous this village, no this entire country was.
This was not a small deal, this was a very big deal.
The ministers revealed proud smiles as well when they saw this.
The reason that they had even agreed to this was because they had been told by the second prince that this was a good chance to show off the might of their kingdom with their resources.
Seeing the look on my face, they knew that I had realized just how prosperous they were, which ant that they had achieved their goals.
The second prince didn't waste any ti after that as he finished the tour and led us to another place.
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