"Since you've decided to use black sweet potatoes, Mister Qin, I'll make the arrangements right away and see how many black sweet potatoes State No. 12 still has, and how much land we can grow them on."
"Governor Kav, there's no need to go to all that trouble." Qin Siyang motioned for Kav to be patient. "Planting them now or taking a new inventory would waste too much time. Just requisition the pig feed from the Multi-Tusked Hard-Skinned Pig feed factories."
"Well... Mister Qin, you want to distribute pig feed as food?"
"Didn't Office Director Lü just say the pig feed contained nothing but water and black sweet potatoes?"
"That's true, but giving people pig feed to eat..."
Qin Siyang said, "Food meant for people passes through so many hands that there's no telling what might go wrong. But hardly anyone would pay attention to food meant for pigs, much less poison it."
As Kav and the other two listened, they couldn't help being impressed by Qin Siyang's nerve.
There was nothing this Mister Qin didn't dare imagine or attempt.
Still, they had to admit that Qin Siyang was doing this entirely out of caution.
"We'll still announce publicly that I plan to buy long-haired red rice from State No. 12 and distribute it for free in State No. 14."
Lü Boming's eyes lit up. "Mister Qin, you mean... make a show of doing one thing while secretly doing another? Brilliant!"
"Also, to ensure nothing goes wrong during distribution, we need to record and publish the Sequence Ability User IDs and photographs of everyone involved, to prevent impersonation."
Kav said, "Good. You've even considered security, Mister Qin. Very thorough indeed. But what if someone kills our workers, disguises themselves as them, and poisons the food? What would we do then?