Zhang Tie's trip to Peaceful River County had stirred waves that reached far beyond the entire county, affecting nearly the whole Northeast Protectorate.
Almost exactly two days after Zhang Tie returned to Torch Dragon Territory and had just settled into the warm-kang life of wife and children, the aftershocks and tremors from his trip to Peaceful River County gradually became clear.
Everyone was saying that Thousand-Mechanism True Person Zhang Tie had left three treasures behind in Peaceful River County, three treasures sufficient to solve the county's food crisis.
The first of these three treasures was soybean seeds, the second was earthworms, and the third was sealed inside a box—no one knew what was in it.
As for the soybean seeds, no one had seen Zhang Tie gathering soybeans in Torch Dragon Territory or You Province these past days. Many therefore guessed that he had prepared them beforehand, or had brought them from the Sacred Ice Island Kingdom. No one doubted this. Many who had seen Zhang Tie use the Blood Sacrifice Furnace knew that he carried an immensely powerful spatial equipment item. Those soybean seeds could easily have been stored inside it and carried on his person.
The soybean seeds came from Castle of Black Iron. They were a mutated, high-yield soybean cultivated by Heller in Castle of Black Iron over the past years, which Zhang Tie had named Number One Soybean. Number One Soybean was a high-yield variety, capable of producing around 750 kilograms per mu. Not only was it productive, but it was also rich in nutrients, with spiritual energy far exceeding that of ordinary soybeans. When Peaceful River County encountered this food crisis, Zhang Tie took out the soybeans stored in Castle of Black Iron to put out the fire at the brow.
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