The tung chestnut plantations covered a total of six hundred thousand mu. After subtracting the land occupied by the large trees the elves refused to let anyone cut down, roughly four hundred thousand mu remained.
An estimated three hundred thousand mu had already been grafted, and the trees grafted a few years earlier had begun producing flower spikes. That meant Quel'Danil City might well become self-sufficient this year.
After all, even counting the dwarves, Quel'Danil City had fewer than twenty thousand residents. In another two or three years, it might be able to export food. The meeting soon reached a decision. No one could possibly ignore such an enormous granary.
Construction in Quel'Danil City would have to be postponed. The construction crews would be transferred to the Mountain Valley to build elf villages. At least sixty villages would be needed there, each allotted ten thousand mu of breadfruit trees.
All the trolls planting trees, building roads, and working on irrigation in the Harbor Plain would be transferred to the Valley Entrance to build a fortress. Overseers would be selected from among the older dwarves at the Harbor.
To protect the Wildhammer Dwarf overseers, the City Lord Guard would also move to the construction site at the Valley Entrance. At least three Troll Police squadrons would be transferred there as well to help manage the work.
Six hundred thousand mu sounded intimidating, but it was actually only four hundred square kilometers-an area twenty kilometers long and twenty kilometers wide. Compared with the more than five thousand square kilometers of Quel'Danil Mountain Valley, it was only a small fraction.
Still, Quel'Danil had never had many people. For such a small population, the harvest would be truly staggering if all those breadfruit trees bore fruit. Gathering it would probably keep everyone busy for