Food, Part 2

Besides, sweet potato vines and wheat bran were harmless to the human body. In fact, they were somewhat nutritious and helped people feel full.

Why not do something that benefited everyone without harming anyone?

Earl Elliot thought it over for a long while before finally naming his prices: "Seven copper coins per kilogram for sweet potato flour and soybean flour, six copper coins per kilogram for potato flour and millet, eight copper coins per kilogram for cornmeal, and nine copper coins per kilogram for wheat flour."

Sweet potatoes yielded a large harvest, but their high fiber content made them difficult to digest and prone to causing bloating. They couldn't be used as a staple food, so their price was generally low.

Before the Demon Disaster, sweet potatoes could fetch at most two copper coins per kilogram. Even when ground into flour, the price rose only slightly.

What Merman hadn't expected, however, was that this cheapest food in Gannan Province could sell for a fortune in Pangtuo City.

He immediately regretted it. If only he'd known, he would have fed the livestock potato flour and millet instead.

What he didn't realize was that sweet potatoes' very indigestibility, which made people feel full, made them ideal for Pangtuo City's current food shortage.

Soybeans counted as a staple food. Though their yield wasn't low, they were unusually rich in protein and kept people full for longer, so they could now sell for seven copper coins.

Before, they'd been worth no more than two or three copper coins per kilogram.

Potato flour and millet were fairly ordinary, with no particular advantages or serious drawbacks, so six copper coins was just right.

As for cornmeal and wheat flour, these were the foods most valued by the people of the Kingdom of Arthur. They tasted good