Brave Generals Are Easy to Find, Commanders Are Not

Over the course of more than half a year, the construction of the kelp nursery ponds and the vast amount of data collected during the seedling stage were compiled into hundreds of volumes by the Agricultural Researcher team. Lan Tian brought them all back to Guangzhou, intending to publish and print them after careful editing and proofreading.

Lan Tian sat before a stone table in the small courtyard, with several baskets placed beside him for sorting through the materials.

He categorized the records from those books into four groups: effective, useful, pending, and invalid. He went through them page by page, marking them, tearing out the relevant sections, and placing them into their corresponding baskets. After this initial screening, a second round of filtering was required before he could finally proceed to correction, layout, and printing.

Because of his rigorous approach to scholarship, Lan Tian did not feel comfortable handing the task over to outsiders, especially in his own field of agriculture. He planned to take his time to proofread them slowly; after all, the kelp farming still required one more season of testing. Only after two seasons of successful harvests would this Kelp Cultivation Techniques be published.

Watching Lan Tian's focused expression, Lu Lingqi and Lan Qing sat on his left and right, silently observing the man before them.

Once he became busy, time flew by.

Lan Tian looked up to see the sun setting and calculated that his guests would arrive soon. He asked the maids to tidy up the data and set up a larger square table in the courtyard; he preferred dining outdoors, as it felt more free and relaxed.

While waiting for the guests, Lan Tian suddenly remembered Lan Yuan and couldn't help but ask Lu Lingqi, "I heard Boyang has been auditing medical classes