Finally, Hestia said,
"That's Loki's kid on the tablet. Her name is Riveria. She's been coming to see you every day lately."
"Oh, Riveria."
"That's all? Aren't you going to ask her why she is looking for you?"
"Never mind her, sleep is the most important thing for me now."
"..."
...
After getting up the next day, Takumi still asked Hestia,
"So, why did she come to me?" Hestia rolled her eyes: "I don't know either. I asked her, but she didn't want to tell."
Otherwise, why would she be so jealous? It was because she was misunderstood by Riveria's mysteriousness.
Fortunately, it was just a misunderstanding.
She didn't mind Takumi opening a harem, but she didn't want him to keep secrets from her, which implied distrust.
When Takumi heard this, he shrugged: "Forget it, I'll go to Orario to look for her later, in case something happens to the Loki Familia."
"Well, go ahead and see if you can pry that kid over. Loki's tablet will definitely be furious by then."
Hearing Hestia's words, Takumi suddenly felt a black line across his face.
Do you even listen to what you're saying?
Also, how much do you hate Loki? You are willing to let your own man raid her wall.
Hestia, who was thinking about it, suddenly remembered something and said:
"By the way, Hephaestus came to me two days ago and said the plan for you to find a grain seller fell through, and no one was willing to take it."
"You don't want to sell food from Dimension City, right?"
"Um." Takumi nodded: "Didn't we collect a lot of grain before? At that time, our population was too small and the production was excessive, so we planned to get rid of some of it."
But no one was willing to harvest it, and Takumi was not surprised.
After all, those agricultural families originally relied on farming to make a living. If they bought crops from outsiders, wouldn't they be ruining their own jobs?
Takumi also knew that exporting food would not be so easy, so he didn't have high expectations at first.
But Hestia's next words made Takumi stunned.
"Why are you selling such a good thing? How about keeping it for your own people?"
"Good thing? How did that food become a good thing?"
Takumi couldn't help but be a little confused after hearing this.
"Don't you know?"
Hestia also looked at Takumi in disbelief.
"Should I know?"
Seeing that Takumi really didn't know, Hestia explained.
"Those crops of yours were all cultivated with your artifacts, so they have some divinity attached to them, and they will have a certain strengthening effect after being eaten. Do you think they are good things?"
Takumi also didn't expect that his own food would actually have a strengthening effect, and he was silent for a while.
"That's really good stuff..."
Fortunately, the sale was not successful, otherwise it would have caused a lot of trouble, not to mention the loss.
"Therefore, we should not think about selling the food we produce in the future. It is best to keep it for our own digestion."
"Well, you're right."
Takumi also agreed to this suggestion.
It is impossible to sell it again. Wouldn't it be delicious to keep such a good thing for yourself?
Then, Takumi rewarded Hestia.
I have to say, her discovery really helped him a lot.
In addition to stopping losses and avoiding trouble, it also gave Takumi some confidence.
For example, in the future issuance of currency in Dimension City.
Originally, Takumi thought that a grain-based economic system was not reliable enough.
After all, there is a dimensional gate, and food can be imported from other worlds.
Even if he restricts the import and export of food in Dimension City, some people below will probably have a lot of complaints.
But there is no need to worry now.
The crops produced in Dimension City have a strengthening effect, which makes the future food-based economic system very stable.
Because this is no longer just daily rations, it is also a way to become stronger.
Even if Takumi places no restrictions on food imports, there is no need to worry about the impact on the currency system of Dimension City.
After knowing the strengthening effect of self-produced food, the residents of Dimension City probably will not eat ordinary food.
Ordinary food? Dogs don't even eat it! (Kuro: We really don't eat it!)
Unless the food is too scarce, you wouldn't consider eating imported food.
After all, it has a strengthening effect, and the price of self-produced food will likely be thousands of times higher than ordinary food.
At the same time, this also brings huge advantages to the economic system of Dimension City.
The currency exchange rate in Dimension City will be very high.
After all, there is self-produced food as a guarantee. It would be strange if the exchange rate was not high.
This will also bring a lot of benefits to the residents of Dimension City. A high currency value means that you can buy more things with less money.
Just look at Lumineer to know this.
Lumineer has sucked an unknown amount of blood around the world with its currency circulation and exchange rate advantages.
Although Takumi does not intend to suck blood like this, he still couldn't ignore the convenience it brought; it was real, and he couldn't stop it!
Takumi instantly understood the mystery and was immediately excited.
"But in this case, the great cause of farming can no longer be left idle."
Thinking of the more than a thousand acres of land that were temporarily idle outside, Takumi couldn't wait to plant crops on them right away. He didn't know about the enhanced effect before, so Takumi thought that overproduction would be a waste.
Now that he knows, Takumi feels that he doesn't care if he is full with this small output.
"It just so happens that there are now a large number of agricultural machines, so we can safely expand the scale of cultivated land."
Takumi plans to open up more farmland. After all, who can have too much of a good thing like self-produced grain with a strengthening effect?
At worst, he will think of ways to improve the storage conditions so that the grain can be stored longer. As soon as he thought of it, Takumi stood up quickly.
"Hestia, I won't go over to Orario. Please notify me when you see Riveria coming again."
With that said, Takumi walked outside.
"Well? Where are you going?" Hestia didn't react and shouted at Takumi's back.
Takumi said without looking back, "Farming!"
...
Takumi came to the field and started working without saying a word.
He pointed his hand toward the open space, and with a flash of golden light, a large cultivator appeared.
This was Takumi's new discovery while searching for supplies in the Apocalypse world.
Originally, he couldn't understand overly complex machinery, mainly because he didn't understand the internal structure of these things.
But as long as he understands enough, the Universal Instrument can transform these machines.
It includes but is not limited to: agricultural machinery, vehicles, aircraft, production equipment, and other mechanized items. The effects and performance of the things transformed from the Universal Instrument are far more powerful than the original ones.
Takumi got into the cab of the cultivator and started the machine.
A row of ten-meter-long rotary tillers behind the car was placed on the ground and began to rotate and till the land.
Takumi stepped on the accelerator and the car flew off.
It accelerated to 100 kilometers in less than one second!
Much more awesome than sports cars and the like!
Fortunately, Takumi reacted and braked in time; otherwise, his kick would have hit the fence.
At the same time, Takumi looked back and saw that twenty acres of land, ten meters wide and two hundred meters long, had already been plowed!
"Awesome! As expected of machinery, this is much faster than human power."
Originally, Takumi was a little worried that the farm machinery worked too slowly and was not as fast as pulling the plow himself, but now he was relieved.
There was nothing more to say, so he turned around and started again!
In less than a minute, Takumi turned the cultivator on and off and ran for five seconds. After a few rounds, the ground was plowed.
Then Takumi transformed the device into a seeder and began to sow rice.
After sowing, he transformed into a spray drone. After fetching water from the reservoir, he controlled the drone remotely. The machine sprinkled water on the newly sown land.
The whole process took less than half an hour.
"This efficiency is so terrifying. I feel like even if I expand the area dozens of times more, I can still do it all by myself."
"Moreover, it is more time-consuming now, and it will only take less time to take care of it after planting."
Takumi's eyes flashed with a thoughtful look, and he finally decided:
"Then let's open it up! Anyway, I can handle it."
As he said that, Takumi transformed a tool into an axe and started to chop down trees to the east.
Although there are also logging machines, those machines are only for ordinary people and are not much faster.
Since Takumi has his own abilities in terms of strength, manual chopping is faster and can more flexibly deal with woods that grow at random locations.
Boom~~!
With loud noises, the trees fell one by one.
But Takumi had already moved far ahead, waving the axe constantly like harvesting wheat.
It took Takumi about two hours to expand the southeastern part of the cultivated land to one square kilometer of one thousand by one thousand meters. The area of cultivated land increased four times, reaching one hundred hectares, about ten thousand acres.
Then, Takumi used the floating spell to clean up the fallen trees and built the fence.
During this period, the movement also attracted many monsters, including al-mi'raj and wild boars.
These preys were handed over by Takumi to Haruhime, Shizuka Marikawa, and Rika Minami for them to handle.
Well, Haruhime did not go back to Orario but was kept by Takumi.
Mainly because she was already proficient in casting spells, and now her labor force alone was comparable to that of an engineering team.
Considering the workload of the upcoming projects in Dimension City, Takumi kept her.
Then Takumi cleaned up the trees again. The farm machinery was very fast, and it could be plowed in half an hour without caring about the field planning.
Takumi also experienced a different kind of racing.
Before he knew it, it was already noon, and Haruhime came over to call him for dinner, so Takumi stopped.
After eating, Takumi went to the cellar of the granary again, carved a frozen magic circle in it, and changed the cellar into an ice cellar to store meat. After dealing with these, Tomoko came over to report again, saying that the city planning plan was completed.
Takumi checked it out, chose one he liked among several plans, asked Tomoko to draw the drawings, and then found Haruhime.
"Haruhime, you can build ten buildings in the open space of the current residential area later, according to the style of the clan branch building, with two floors. If you have anything you don't understand, just ask Tomoko."
"Shizuka and Rika, please go and help Haruhime. I will come over after I finish my work here."
These ten houses are resettlement houses prepared by Takumi for the next increase in immigrants.
After all, there are two hundred people coming, so it's impossible not to prepare in advance.
"Yes."
The amount of consumption depends on the total population of Dimension City, and it cannot be consumed if there is too much.
So Takumi only planted so much for the time being, but even so, it was already more than double the last harvest.
The output in half a month is enough to feed 5,000 people for a year. If the full capacity is calculated, the annual output provides rations for 120,000 people.
If all 10,000 acres are planted with staple grains, the annual output will reach the supply for 300,000 people.
And when calculated according to the value of crops, it is even more outrageous.
Based on Takumi's estimated ratio of one to one thousand, converted into ordinary grain, the annual output is enough to feed 300 million people!
Therefore, Takumi does not plan to grow such a large amount of staple food; some other crops should also be introduced to increase species diversity.
Then, Takumi started planting trees again.
All kinds of fruit trees took up 200 acres!
But after all, it only accounted for 200 acres. After 3,000 acres, there were still 3,000 acres vacant.
So Takumi planted another batch of herbal fruits, such as strawberries, watermelons, and cantaloupes, totaling 1,000 acres. He simply planted the last 2,000 acres with grapes.
Except for a small portion of sweet grapes that are edible, the rest are sour grapes used for winemaking.
The reason is that these grapes are easy to handle after harvesting and can be stored for a long time after being turned into red wine. Finally, after watering them again, Takumi came to the residential area, ready to help build the houses.
As soon as he came back, Haruhime came up and reported a problem.
"Mr. Takumi, these woods are too hard and cannot be cut by the machines we collected before. We also broke two cutting machines during the operation..."
"Broken? How did they break?"
When Takumi heard this, he was concerned. The equipment he had worked so hard to acquire was broken in a blink of an eye, and he quickly asked about the cause and effect.
Haruhime also told him the situation truthfully.
Takumi understood after carefully listening. It turned out that Shizuka Marikawa and Rika Minami made a common-sense mistake.
They thought that the wood in Dimension City was the same as the wood in their world, so they took out the cutting machine, pulled up the diesel generator, and started working. As a result, as soon as it hit the wood, there were only sparks.
After damaging the saw wheel of a cutting machine, they moved out the cutting machine meant for cutting steel.
This time they succeeded in causing damage to the wood, but before they could be happy, the grinding wheel got stuck, the motor started to smoke, and it finally burned out.
Seeing that the work could no longer be carried out and another trouble occurred, the two women quickly reported the situation to Haruhime.
"I forgot to remind you that the trees here are stronger than iron."
After Takumi heard this, he didn't blame the two women.
After all, he was also responsible for this, as he didn't remind them clearly at the time.
However...
"Have you never encountered such a situation here?"
Takumi looked at Haruhime curiously.