By the time Lan Tian flew back to Blue Sky City from the Northern Border military camp, evening had fallen.
He landed outside the City Lord's Mansion and first made a round of the Medicine Field in the eastern district.
The vast Medicine Field glowed with a gentle green in the dusk. The workers were heading back to their dormitories, walking toward the residential area in twos and threes as they chatted and laughed.
Faint smoke still rose from the Pill Workshop's chimney. Fifty workers operated it in shifts, and the day's Pill production had already been put into storage.
He also checked the northern district's warehouse. The stored medicinal herbs and Pills were neatly stacked, and several workers at the logistics hub were counting the goods bound for the Northern Border the next day.
Everything was running as it should.
When he returned to the City Lord's Mansion, Louise was already waiting for him in the council hall.
She handed him a brief report on the contract negotiations over the past few days. Lan Tian sat down at the table and read through it.
Boss Sun of the Hundred Herbs Hall had formally replied to confirm the deal, raising their market share in Heaven Dou City from one-third to two-thirds.
The long-term purchase contracts with three earldoms had also cleared the process, and the first shipments had already gone out.
Supply contracts with several small towns around Nuoding City were all in place. Carriages came and went from the logistics hub every day, and the transport routes were gradually settling into a fixed pattern.
"How are things at the Northern Border Medical Camp?" Louise sat across from him and opened another ledger.
"The system's in place, and the supply of medicinal herbs and Pills is connected."
Lan Tian closed