As the carriage continued onward, Xu Yi became increasingly aware of just how abundant the Stantin Duchy's natural resources were.
Not only were all kinds of tropical fruit trees scattered along both sides of the road as though they cost nothing, but along the way, Xu Yi also spotted large numbers of coffee and cacao trees. More importantly, there were rubber trees everywhere!
At this sight, Xu Yi did not even have time to marvel at why all these tropical plants, which grew in different regions on Earth, could all grow together in the Stantin Duchy. He was too busy feeling shocked and puzzled.
With such abundant natural resources, why was the Stantin Duchy so poor?
Before coming to the Stantin Duchy, everything Xu Yi had read in books about the continent's geography, everything he had heard from others, and even the account given by Angklu, who knew the duchy best, had conveyed exactly the same message: the Stantin Duchy was an extremely weak and impoverished country.
Before arriving, Xu Yi had prepared himself to see a country perpetually ravaged by hurricanes and tsunamis, scarred by devastation wherever he looked.
Yet he had never imagined that the Stantin Duchy's land would not be barren at all. In fact, it was far richer than he had expected.
Such abundant natural resources were nothing less than the most precious gift heaven could bestow on them!
On Earth, a country like this might not necessarily become wealthy, but no matter how one looked at it, it should not have been described as impoverished.
Yet along the way, Xu Yi had also seen scattered ordinary citizens of the Stantin Duchy through the carriage window. Judging by their ragged clothes and equally dilapidated wooden houses, their lives were indeed deeply impoverished.
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