The declaration Xu Yi issued on behalf of the Xinfei Merchant Guild spread to every country on the Sains Continent at the fastest possible speed.
In just one month, as many as thirty-five countries, large and small, expressed through various channels their willingness to cooperate with the Xinfei Merchant Guild and build a foundation for magic industry according to its standards.
For these countries, cooperation with the Xinfei Merchant Guild offered every benefit and no drawbacks.
The Xinfei Merchant Guild had promised to help its partner countries establish basic magic industry systems and carry out the most fundamental industrial reforms. First and foremost among these was the industrialization of agriculture.
The Xinfei Merchant Guild provided a concrete standard for agricultural industrialization: enabling these countries to rely entirely on farmland magic machinery for land reclamation and harvesting, and to process agricultural products industrially.
At the same time, the Moon Shadow Merchant Guild would work with the Xinfei Merchant Guild to establish fertilizer processing factories in these partner countries. These factories would supply fertilizer specifically to their host countries, ensuring substantial increases in grain production.
This was an enticement that almost no country on the Sains Continent could resist.
On this continent, productivity was so low that any country capable of ensuring all its people had enough to eat could already be considered an excellent nation.
Even with the Sains Continent currently enjoying relative stability, more than half its countries suffered from famine year-round.
Now, however, the Xinfei Merchant Guild had shown people that it possessed the ability to give them enough to eat. Naturally, almost every country welcomed it.
That alone was enough to make a great many countries scramble to cooperate with the Xinfei Merchant Guild.
Of course, not every country possessed enough arable land to meet this basic condition.