A few hours later, Tong Hua wrote the following in his income and expense ledger.
League Calendar, year 112, spring, March 17. Clear. Income: Moomoo Milk +4,800, crops +276,500, fish +5,000. Total savings: 666,600 League Coins.
Yes, in just six days, the second batch of crops had brought the ranch 280,000 in income.
There had been so much produce that Hitomi had needed to make two trips to haul it all away.
Even so, ignoring the drop in yield caused by soil exhaustion and lost fertility, they could only manage another ten harvests before summer arrived, even under ideal conditions.
280,000 times ten still left their income a long way short of the twenty-million goal.
Honestly, that was already pretty incredible. But Tong Hua had learned from Jessica's Planting Notes that the Ranger Union had long maintained official policies supporting farming and animal husbandry.
In fact, the Ranger Union still had to import food from other regions every year, which was why it had introduced policies such as fixed market purchase prices and the Ranger Base's farm pickup service.
Tong Hua had also discovered that strawberries and potatoes were the most profitable spring crops.
Given the ranch's current workforce, increasing income by expanding the growing area wasn't very realistic in the short term.
For now, Grotle, Orthworm, and Bounsweet handled most of the fieldwork, while Miltank produced milk and the Bibarel family caught fish.
As for Vespiquen and her family, who had only moved in yesterday, they still seemed to be adjusting to their new surroundings and probably wouldn't produce anything in the short term.
Tong Hua hadn't shipped out the berries harvested from the Orchard. He wanted to keep some to eat himself, and he also wanted to try making wine.
After hearing Jessica share a few