Halfway through the banquet, a palace attendant led Xu Yi to a private chamber, where His Majesty the King granted him another audience alone.
Compared with their first meeting, the king's smile when he saw Xu Yi was brighter and more sincere.
As he had said when praising Xu Yi at the banquet, the Xinfei Merchant Guild's farmland magic machinery had played the greatest role in the Lampari Kingdom's bumper autumn harvest this year. Naturally, the greatest credit went to Xu Yi, who had invented it.
For the Lampari Kingdom, or indeed any country on the Sains Continent, ensuring that its people had enough food and clothing was the foremost concern.
The Lampari Kingdom had previously faced enormous difficulties in this regard. Now, with the help of farmland magic machinery, it had almost completely solved the problem in just a year.
According to the Agriculture Bureau's assessment, if they continued vigorously promoting farmland magic machinery until it could be used on every piece of farmland in the kingdom, the Lampari Kingdom might not only meet its own demand for grain, but even have a surplus to sell to other countries!
With such wonderful news, how could the king not give Xu Yi a bright, sincere smile?
"The Agriculture Bureau thinks grain can be exported?" Xu Yi was somewhat surprised. "Your Majesty, forgive my impertinence, but isn't that decision rather ill-considered?"
"Oh? Tell me what hasn't been considered." The king looked at Xu Yi with keen interest.
"First, apart from the farmland magic machinery allowing us to cultivate more land, another important reason our kingdom enjoyed a bumper harvest this year was that there were no natural disasters throughout the year to reduce our yields. But that's something we have to account for. If I remember correctly, the unrest over a