I Created Scientific Magic-Chapter 608 - 521: It is the custom of this world to lock guests in cages!

Although they had anticipated a shortage of grain after the recovery of the empire and had begun to stockpile in advance, feeding a population of twenty million was not an easy task.

The reserves they had prepared were simply not enough, and even if all the Elemental Wizards in the council were to perform the bread-making spell, it would be hard to fill such a deficit, unless the council was willing to use their precious reserves of nuclear fuel to create food.

“How can there be only so little? The empire shouldn’t be lacking that much grain, should it?” Vittorio frowned involuntarily.

“That’s true, but those damned remnants of the Church and nobles burned all the food and machinery they couldn’t take with them when evacuating the cities. Some even set fire inside the cities to obstruct our pursuit…” Tisha said with a sense of helplessness.

“Have those bastards been caught yet? They must be severely punished, hang their bodies at the city gates, and imprison their souls to torment…” Alade, who was quick-tempered, could not hold back and roared aloud.

He believed that the council’s strategies had been too lenient in the past, thinking if people knew they would face a punishment a million times more terrifying than death if they opposed them, then surely no one would dare commit such vile acts.

“Not yet, but these people probably won’t be able to run for much longer,” Tisha replied, shaking her head. Even if these people were all caught, it wouldn’t make up for the loss since the grain was already burned.

“It seems we need to accelerate land reclamation…” Lynn pondered and asked for a special terrain map to be brought over, directly circling a 200,000-square-kilometre region around a major river in the central plains of the empire.

This vast area was fertile and was originally the empire’s granary; half was directly administered by the imperial royal family, and the other half the territory of a powerful Duke, which now of course all fell under the council’s control.

Lynn planned to turn this region into a dedicated agricultural zone, consolidating all the fragmented farmlands to implement mechanized and magical cultivation and harvesting.

If well managed, this single region could solve the entire empire’s food problem!

“We should strive to complete it before this year’s autumn planting season. That way, as long as we get through a few months and wait for this batch of wheat to mature, our food problem will be completely solved!” Lynn said encouragingly.

“This is too extensive…” Tisha, the member, looked at the large circle drawn by Lynn and couldn’t help but feel a tingling in her scalp.

The entire empire, including the barren north, only covered less than seven million square kilometres, and now they were planning to transform two hundred thousand square kilometres all at once; it was a pipe dream!

Forget this year, in her view, it would be good if they could make it for next year’s autumn planting, or even the spring planting the year after that!

“It only looks big. As long as planning is done well and multiple areas start developing simultaneously, we’ll accomplish it. You underestimate the power of machinery and magic,” Lynn said with a smile.

They did not need manual labor for land cultivation; the era of farmers using hoes to break new ground was long past, as the Kingdom’s Alchemy Research Institute had already developed the third generation of agricultural land machines.

Not to mention, the council had previously produced a large number of armored vehicles; with the current state of war with the empire, there was no need to use these machines on the battlefield. They could transform all idle vehicles, pull the entire army to reclaim land, and by way of training, flatten the several annoying hills in the plains!

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“Allocate another four thousand Elemental Wizards to help out. After they finish reclaiming the land, have them stationed there to protect this grain-producing area and regularly cast magic to increase the fertility of the land…” Lynn spoke again.

On this planet, the Wizard was the greatest productive force, especially when doing delicate work, as Wizards with atomic-level control were much more efficient than machines.

In this way, they should barely manage to finish the cultivation before the autumn planting—if they could even complete half of the target, the wheat produced would be enough to relieve the food shortage.