Chapter 381: Can You Bear To?

Chapter 381: Chapter 381: Can You Bear To?

Whether seeds with two-generation stability can be planted for a third generation depends on if the 1% of outlier seeds from that harvest contain any optimizable strains.

If they do, those optimizable strains can continue to be planted. If not, one must purchase new seeds with a certain degree of stability.

Therefore, low seed stability is one of the main obstacles to expanding agricultural cultivation after the Blue Star Great Evolution. In recent years, the Hua Country has been pouring personnel, financial, and material resources into researching how to improve the stability of Yi Evolved crop seeds.

The fact that Lords can buy seeds with two or three generations of stability at a low price is the result of experts’ years of research, cultivation, and selection.

The High Yi Element Green Light Spinach found naturally in Xiaqing’s territory, which possesses high stability, is an extremely rare Yi Evolution variety.

Her seeds’ main competitor is the High Yi Element Green Light Spinach from the Fiery Fire Team, who also possess Pollution-free Spring Water.

To accurately price her seeds, Xiaqing first needed to understand the stability of the Fiery Fire Team’s spinach seeds.

Fire Phoenix had repeatedly tried to recruit Yang Jin to the Fiery Fire Team, and one of the lures she’d used was Fiery Fire’s High Yi Element Spinach.

So, Yang Jin had a clear understanding of the Fiery Fire Team’s spinach seed stability. "The Fiery Fire Team got their spinach seeds from the Hui Yi Research Institute. For the past five years, Fiery Mountain has been using cultivation chambers that isolate the Harmful Element, along with ample Pollution-free Spring Water, to cultivate and optimize their spinach’s quality. Currently, their first-generation spinach seeds have a Harmful Element content of about 2‰ and a Yi Element content of about 9?. Under normal planting conditions, the Harmful Element stability lasts four to five generations, while the Yi Element stability lasts for two."

Xiaqing asked, "When you say the Yi Element has two-generation stability, does that mean its content will drop below 5? after two harvests?"

A plant with a Yi Element content below 5? is no longer classified as a High Yi Element plant. Even if its Harmful Element content is still below 5‰, it can only be used to make Ordinary Nutrition Liquid.

Yang Jin nodded.

The Fiery Fire Team’s Green Light Spinach seeds having four to five generations of Harmful Element stability was normal. Achieving two generations of Yi Element stability was also considered quite excellent.

Xiaqing asked, "Their spinach seeds already meet the conditions for widespread cultivation. Are they not promoting it in order to maintain the high price of Special Level Nutrient Liquid?"

Yang Jin nodded again. "A price of two thousand points per vial is high, but not outrageous. Selling Special Level Nutrient Liquid is the Fiery Fire Team’s main source of income. If they expanded spinach production and the price of the nutrient liquid dropped, it would be extremely detrimental to them."

Wanting Xiaqing to have a better grasp of the market, Yang Jin took the initiative to explain why the base’s Research Institute and Planting Center don’t cultivate and promote High Yi Element Spinach seeds. "Every base’s Pollution-free Spring Water and Yi Stones are scarce resources. The base’s Research Institute, Planting Center, breeding center, and hospital all fight tooth and nail for them. So, once they learned the Fiery Fire Team was focusing on High Yi Element Spinach, they dropped the project."

Xiaqing understood and continued, "After I harvested my first batch of spinach seeds in May, I traded 400 of them to Brother San. He told me a few days ago that my spinach has five generations of Harmful Element stability and four generations of Yi Element stability."

Yang Jin, who was holding the winnowing basket, shot to his feet. "Four generations?!"

"That’s right. In an open-air cultivation environment, without Yi Stones and using polluted water, as long as the soil and fertilization conditions are met, the spinach’s Yi Element only decreases by 0.1? to 0.2? per generation, while the Harmful Element only increases by 1? to 1.5?. For the first three generations, 80% of the spinach that survives to the seeding stage still qualifies as High Yi Element Green Light quality."

Seeing Yang Jin so stunned his mouth was hanging open, Xiaqing felt a great sense of accomplishment and confidence. "I’m not too surprised that Brother San came to this conclusion. The patch of spinach I planted in the greenhouse on my farmland, which was grown without Yi Stones or Pollution-free Spring Water, showed a significantly smaller drop in quality compared to my other Green Light vegetables."

After finishing, Xiaqing smiled and asked, "You were willing to pay 100 points per seed to buy my spinach seeds. Was that because you assumed they had two generations of Yi Element stability?"

Yang Jin nodded.

Xiaqing asked again, "Then how many points per seed do you think my seeds are worth now?"

"As far as I know, your spinach seeds are likely the most stable strain in the entire Hua Country. If you sold them in small quantities, you’d have no problem getting 500 points a seed."

That price was twenty-five times the cost of ordinary Green Light Seeds.

Yang Jin felt the spinach seeds in the basket were even heavier now. He sat down and asked, "Zhang San told you the results a few days ago, yet you were still willing to trade with me at 100 points per seed. Does this mean you’ve already decided how you’re going to use these spinach seeds? Did Brother San say anything else?"

"Brother San only told me about the seeds’ quality; he didn’t make any requests or suggestions." After answering Yang Jin’s question, Xiaqing started to outline her plan. "That pile of spinach seeds you set aside, there should be about twenty thousand seeds, right?"

Yang Jin provided the exact number. "6,721 seeds to cover your debt, 2,250 for your investment in the cordyceps project, 800 for 200 kilograms of Green Light Rice, 1,000 for 10 kilograms of the new nano-invisibility coating, payment for 1,000 Bullets... plus the cost of supplies and my broker’s fee, the total is 21,321 seeds."

"This terraced spinach field will yield a total of 28,000 Green Light Spinach Seeds," Xiaqing continued. "I have a plan that will not only let you make a huge profit next May but will also cut off the Fiery Fire Team’s current revenue stream. Are you interested?"

Yang Jin had already guessed what Xiaqing was planning, but he didn’t say it aloud, merely gesturing for her to continue.

Xiaqing picked up a handful of soil from the ground, crumbling it gently between her fingers, the motion revealing her love for the earth. "The spinach grown here is a first-generation crop. If we use Yi Stones, the quality won’t decline."

"We take all the seeds from this harvest, plant them in the terraced fields, and cultivate them with Yi Stones and my spring water. Barring any extreme, destructive natural disasters and accounting for a 1% failure rate, we can guarantee a harvest of at least 1,200,000 first-generation seeds. If we sent them all to the Holy Reputation Auction House, how many points do you think we could get per seed?"

Lan Jiu’s Holy Reputation Auction House was currently the most reputable and confidential auction house in Hua Country. Promoting the spinach seeds through them was the safest method Xiaqing could devise.

Yang Jin’s eyes lit up. "Auctioning that many seeds, even through Holy Reputation, will still lead to exposure. If you trust me, give the seeds to me. I guarantee I can sell them to every base across the country for at least 30 points each. Only by getting the seeds into the hands of every base can we achieve nationwide cultivation."

Yang Jin explained, "Even if I sold them for 200 points a seed, I could sell them all and make over two hundred million in one go. But at such a high price, the sales channels become too dangerous and it’s easy to get exposed. Then your special spring water would be revealed. The Green Dragon Team would not only become a juicy target for every team in the country, but we’d also become the target of the Fiery Fire Team’s rabid retaliation. For both of us, the potential gains wouldn’t be worth the losses."

Getting 30 points a seed for 1,200,000 seeds was already far beyond Xiaqing’s expectations. "30 points is fine."

"If we do this, the spinach will be widely cultivated by next summer. It’s very likely that by the summer after that, every flowerpot on every windowsill in every Safe Zone in Hua Country will be growing High Yi Element Green Light Spinach. By then, it will no longer be a rare plant. The price of Special Level Nutrient Liquid will plummet, and the spinach seeds and seedlings you grow won’t be valuable anymore."

"Are you willing to let that go?"

Yang Jin asked with a smile, "If you cooperate with me and we don’t distribute the seeds, adopting the Fiery Fire Team’s business model instead, you would earn far more points."