It took Mac and Sean a full day and night of standing in line before they finally received their land purchase application forms—the sheer number of people buying land was overwhelming, and even with clerks working fourteen hours a day, the Saint-Domingue Government could barely keep up.
However, after they submitted their application to purchase 110 acres of farmland, everything proceeded smoothly.
The Saint-Domingue Ministry of Agriculture assigned someone to assist them. From bank settlement to land surveying, the entire process was completed in less than ten days.
Then Mac Grant took a stroll around the docks and returned with more than eighty sturdy Blacks, all of whom had previously worked on plantations.
They only needed to be paid 2 francs per month, along with three meals a day—only because the Saint-Domingue Parliament had set a minimum wage. Otherwise, these people would even have been willing to work for free.
Next came the purchase of farm tools and sugar cane seedlings, followed by a frantic rush to plant them.
What Mac Grant had not expected was that after he led the workers in completing the planting, people from the Marian City Government came to see him. They said that for an experienced planter like him, the government could provide an interest-free loan to help him purchase another sixty acres of land.
It was practically a pie falling from the sky!
What Mac Grant did not know was that the Crown Prince of France had promised President Auge of Saint-Domingue that if Saint-Domingue's sugar cane output increased by 50% this year, he would grant the latter a noble title.
Auge was now in an extreme state of excitement. Every day, he personally sent people to inspect the newly established plantations and inquired into the supply of farm tools, sugar cane seedlings,