The two harvest seasons each year were the most important times for the Lampari Kingdom and Bunta City.
This year's spring plowing seemed even more important than in previous years. When the fields on Viscount Leslie's estate were harvested, almost every noble in Bunta City who owned an estate came to watch. Even the city lord attended in person and gave a speech praising the abundant harvest on Viscount Leslie's land.
Beyond them, the most unexpected group of spectators was a gathering of ordinary farmers from the villages outside Bunta City.
Some of these invited farmers had visited once before. Although they were still a little nervous, they were no longer as stiff and uneasy at the sight of so many nobles as they had been on their first visit.
The others, who were visiting for the first time, kept their eyes fixed on the fields, their faces full of admiration.
These farmers had spent their entire lives working the land, yet they had never seen fields so uniform and orderly that they looked as though someone had drawn them.
Now that those fields were filled with golden ears of wheat, the sight before their eyes was all the more beautiful.
The reason so many different people had gathered here today could be traced back to last year's autumn harvest.
Last year, at Xu Yi's suggestion, Viscount Leslie had used the Farmland Magic Machinery produced by the Xinfei Merchant Guild to extensively reshape all the fields on his estate. He had also reclaimed land that had previously been left uncultivated because of a shortage of workers.
After the autumn harvest, large numbers of Farmland Magic Machinery had worked nonstop across the estate, completing what many people considered an enormous undertaking in a remarkably short time.
Now it was time to