Chapter 853: The Magic Fungus Workshop and the Magic Beast Meat Supply

Horn did not comment on Acatlan’s conjecture.

However, he still asked Zhongsi to pass a note to Lubyanka and ask them to investigate.

According to the longevity of vampires, given Serfaye’s current age, he should be only around forty years old.

King Jiji has just taken the throne and there are not many people around him. A careful investigation should be able to find out the identity of the person soon.

Even based on the intelligence Horn himself had seen, there should be several suspects.

Looking at the sky, Horn waved his hand to Acatlan and said, “We will give you the blood after a while. You should just do your job of removing poison with the demon hunting potion first.”

After sending Acatlan away, Horn did not continue the previous topic, but touched his stomach and said, “It’s already evening, if you have anything to say, let’s talk while eating.”

Passing through the archway made of rough stone, there is a long table next to the stepped terraced garden.

Senior executives like Sissi, Martial, Boussac and others were waiting here early.

As upstarts, Chuck and Witt were naturally a little nervous as it was their first time attending such a private meeting.

Currently, Chuck is the head of the Night Watch of the Holy See, and Witt is the mayor of the Holy See.

Seeing Horn pushing Shilov towards them, the two of them stood up first, and the others stood up slowly.

“Everyone, take a seat.” Pushing the wolf girl to her seat, Horn pulled out the chair and teased, “You two are so unfamiliar with each other. It’s not like you haven’t eaten together before. Why are you so nervous?”

Chuck and Witt remained silent. How could it be the same?

The last time Horn ate at the same table with Chuck, he was the leader of a group of refugees trapped by the flood.

The last time Horne had dined at the same table with Witte, he had been little more than the leader of a peasant rebellion.

After the fall of Meliati, Horn is now the only sun of the Holy Alliance of the Thousand Valleys.

The Duke who occupied a county had to call even his old friends “Master”.

Horn was the ruler of twelve counties, and before the Hundred Years’ War, his power was equivalent to that of a king.

If the Hundred Years’ War had not broken up and reorganized the empire’s various claims and territories, a county could have established a kingdom.

Raising his glass, Horn looked around: “Today was originally just a light meal, but I made an exception and drank to celebrate a beautiful event.”

Busak, who was the most eloquent, immediately responded: “What a wonderful thing, Your Majesty.”

“Our Dean of the Natural Theology Academy, Her Excellency Shilov, has developed a technology to mass-produce Holy Favors. In the future, I don’t need to be there in person to ask the Holy Father to grant Holy Favors.”

“Hey, hey!” Madeleine was the first to raise her glass.

The rest of the people raised their glasses and expressed congratulations and praise.

Xixi’s heart tightened. He looked at Shilov tentatively: “I wonder what the output is? How much investment is needed?”

“It’s still being cultivated in the laboratory, so the output is only around 500 per month. If it were to be produced in a workshop, it would probably triple.” The wolf girl’s ears perked up, “It won’t be more expensive than the R&D costs.”

Sissi breathed a sigh of relief.

Triple it and it will be eight times, which is about 4000 per month.

But when Horn thought about it, he found that there should be no upper limit to this thing.

There are plenty of slimes and alchemists, so why is there a limit on production?

Could it be that Shilov cheated the funds?

The wolf girl seemed to have guessed Horn’s doubts and continued, “Do you think the demon-eating bacteria don’t need nutrients to reproduce? They also need to eat monster flesh.”

Horn nodded slightly, but rubbed his brow in distress: “If we rely solely on hunting, will there be enough monster meat?”

The appearance of monsters is not like other monsters, their appearance is very random.

If we want to raise them, the church actually has left behind a lot of relevant technologies.

Apart from anything else, the killer rabbits on the Holy Grail Mountain were a scientific research product of the church.

Judging from the existing information, the Witcher Castle and the Church both have monster breeding farms of varying degrees in various places.

These technologies are all left over from the Hundred Years’ War. Otherwise, why aren’t there any wars going on? But now the high-ranking knights of the Empire are far superior to those during the Hundred Years’ War? Do you really think they are more hardworking than the knights during the Hundred Years’ War?
They rely on “technology” such as monster flesh and blue blood wine to improve their own strength.

Of course, there are also some monster breeding methods that are not so cruel as to require human flesh and blood. Some omnivorous monsters can also be raised, but the effect is not as good.

The problem is that Horn has explicitly and implicitly justified witches and magic.

But regarding “monsters”, he is in denial.

Because the monsters have been doing evil for too long and their crimes are numerous, they have penetrated into the lives of ordinary people.

Magic and paganism were far away from them, but demons were close.

According to public opinion surveys, people have a strong resistance to raising monsters.

So in the official narrative, Madeleine added “The Holy Grandson Killed the Giant Killer Rabbit of Holy Grail Mountain with a Branch.”

In the consensus of the Thousand River Valley Holy Alliance, “actively raising living monsters” is considered a denied and disgusting behavior.

This resulted in the Holy Alliance encountering more or less boomerang obstacles in their efforts to raise monsters.

Horn heard a different answer.

“It’s enough.”

But Busak reminded: “We can buy it from the Fran merchants.”

Horn couldn’t help but wonder: “Where did they get so much monster meat?”

During this period, Horn has been focusing on military affairs, while the Holy See’s Imperial Convent has been in charge of internal affairs.

As for business and diplomacy, it was Busak of the Gospel Court who was in charge.

Seeing that he could show up in front of Horn, Busak immediately spoke: “The Franks will raise monsters on overseas islands, and sail boats to feed and kill monsters every once in a while.

Separated by the vast ocean and with only four-legged animals as their prey, they would not swim back to the mainland.

One of the main reasons why the Franks were able to form extraordinary cavalry was because they mastered this island grazing technology. “

Horn nodded as he listened. He seemed to have thought of something. His expression became serious and he grabbed Madelan who was still talking nonstop: “Warcraft meat is in high demand, right? Are they willing to sell it?”

Busak cleared his throat and said, “That’s because our goods are in even greater demand. Your Majesty, the Mithril Refining Workshop in Black Snake Bay has already started production.”

No wonder, it turns out that the monster meat was exchanged for mithril.

The price of Warcraft meat, especially low-level poisonous viscera or rotten Warcraft meat, is still lower than that of Mithril.

But for the demon-eating fungi and slimes, they are all done for, there is no difference.

Horn then suddenly realized.

However, the problem of monster meat must be solved.

If I keep buying from outside, what will I do if the French stop selling it one day?
Even though Warcraft meat is not a problem now, it does not mean that there won’t be problems in the future.

“We can start the project of replacing monster meat or raising it harmlessly.” Horn turned to Shilov and said, “We can try the summer green hot vaccination method to see if it works on ordinary animals.”

Anyway, the research on the magic-eating bacteria has come to a temporary halt, and there just happened to be some extra research funds.

Tadashi and the Privy Monks nearby all wrote down Horn’s instructions in their notebooks.

Xixi’s face turned sour. He was still waiting to use the money to pay off his debts.

Horn knew Sissi’s distress, patted his thin back and said with a smile: “As long as the interest can be sustained, don’t worry too much about the fiscal deficit. If the scale of credit for economic growth is higher than the debt, then debt equals money.”

And as long as we can win this battle, it will be equivalent to establishing our international status.

With the current system and profits of the Thousand River Valley Holy Alliance, it is bound to draw a large amount of capital from the imperial market.

If you can’t pay it back in the future, you can still use armed force to resist the debt, so foreign debt is not considered a debt.

Horn’s calculations were shrewd.

(End of this chapter)