Ordinary observers in fast time travel

Chapter 970: Battle of wits
Shi Jia was eventually summoned to the base office building by Yuan Lei.

Seeing the crowd arguing heatedly, Shi Jia frowned and looked at Secretary Chen, "Brother Chen, what's going on?"

Secretary Chen glanced at everyone and said, "The cultivation base is now firmly opposed to lending vegetables to the Yandong base."

"But the two base commanders, as well as other high-ranking officials, have already agreed to lend the vegetables."

Shi Jia nodded, agreeing with the base commander's decision. The fate of the Yan Dong base was interdependent; if the Yan Zhong base fell, the Yan Dong base would inevitably suffer the consequences.

"Why not? Isn't the base fed enough food?" Shi Jia asked. Although she didn't know how many vegetables the cultivation base could produce each day, she estimated that it shouldn't be much.

However, such a large base cannot be without any food reserves; it should be no problem to spare some for a day or two.

"Yes, that's what the breeding base says. However, the base director has already decided to use the stored grain, but the breeding base still disagrees," Secretary Chen said.

Shi Jia frowned. This breeding base was really something!
"They angered the base director, who is now considering a major overhaul of the base's management." Secretary Chen shook his head.

"Huh? Aren't they afraid?" Their confident demeanor made it seem as if they were certain the base commander couldn't replace them.
Secretary Chen nodded. "Since the establishment of the breeding base, its influence has become deeply entrenched, and the base director and his team are indeed unable to deal with them for the time being."

Shi Jia frowned. "If that's the case, why are they still arguing here? Are they just acting like elementary school kids having a verbal battle? Whoever wins gets the credit."

Secretary Chen glanced at her.

"Is it related to me?"

Secretary Chen nodded and then shook his head. "The reason why the people at the breeding base are so arrogant is actually because they have complete control over the seed breeding laboratory."

"You should know that growers cannot produce viable seeds."

Shi Jia nodded, a sudden thought flashing through her mind, and said, "So, Uncle Han suggested that the planters awaken their spiritual power and learn how to accelerate seed growth? And then these people strongly resisted?"

"Yes!" Secretary Chen nodded.

Shi Jia understood. This explained why they were so emotional. Once wood-type ability users mastered the breeding methods, the seed cultivation laboratory would be unnecessary, and the cultivation base would be unable to control wood-type ability users.

After a while, Shi Jia asked, "When will they finish arguing? I need to hurry back to plant vegetables!"

Shi Jia's voice wasn't loud, but it reached the ears of everyone in the conference room.

The man who had been cursing so vehemently immediately shut up and glared at Shi Jia with hostility.

Shi Jia didn't care and looked at Han Shanyue and Yuan Lei in the main seats, "Dad, Uncle Han, what do you want to see me about?"

"Xiaxia's here! Come quick!" She waved hurriedly, as if she had seen a savior.

Shi Jia smiled as she looked past the menacing stares and approached Yuan Lei.

“Xiaxia, it’s like this.” Yuan Lei and Han Shanyue exchanged a glance. “I’m afraid I’ll have to trouble you with the matter of borrowing vegetables from the Yandong base that I mentioned to you before.”

Shi Jia looked surprised. "Huh? The breeding base has so many superhumans, and they can't even produce that little bit of vegetables?"

The management team at the breeding base immediately flew into a rage, shouting, "Little girl, what are you saying!"

"Insanity!"

"ignorance!"

A new war of words is about to break out, but the problem is, the other side is cooperating.

Shi Jia completely ignored them and said, "It's not that I can't provide it, but I can't take out 20,000 catties of vegetables at once."

“It doesn’t need to be 20,000 jin. I’ve already asked the Lou family. They still have about 9,000 jin of potatoes. Plus the 16,000 jin of lettuce you sold to the Lou family yesterday, they gave up 6,000 jin. You just need to provide another 5,000 jin of vegetables,” Yuan Lei said.

"Five thousand catties? The cultivation base can't even produce that much? I remember there are quite a few level 4 or 5 planters at the cultivation base," Shi Jia said again, surprised. This made the cultivation base's higher-ups present glare with anger.

"Ahem." Han Shanyue's eyes were filled with laughter. "Xiaxia, don't misunderstand. The breeding base also has its difficulties. Their seed supply has always been insufficient."

"The seed problem? I do have a solution," Shi Jia said with a smile. "How about we have the planters come to my farm to learn? Then they can grow their own seeds."

The senior management of the breeding base changed their expressions drastically. "No way! Who knows if your method of stimulating seed growth will affect the growth of the crops or their natural reproduction in the future?"

"Perhaps, in the future, crops will only be able to produce seeds through supernatural abilities, instead of naturally saving seeds."

Shi Jia ignored them, and Han Shanyue and the others ignored them too? They had said similar things countless times, and they were tired of hearing them.

"You see, they don't agree, and there's nothing we can do," Han Shanyue said helplessly.

Shi Jia frowned. "If we always rely on laboratory breeding, the agricultural industry will decline sooner or later."

“Yes, so we considered it and decided to have the planters from the Yandong base come and learn from you.” Yuan Lei finally revealed the purpose of today’s visit.

They originally wanted their planters at their base to learn from Yuanmu Xia.

“The Yandong base is large in scale, with a population more than three times that of our base, and its demand for food is many times greater than that of our base. Moreover, Director Fu of the Yandong base also has this intention.”

"Therefore, after discussing it with the base manager, we decided to let their planters try it first. This way, we can quickly solve the food problem at the Yandong base and also put the minds of all the senior executives at the breeding base at ease." Yuan Lei looked at the various expressions on the faces of the senior executives at the breeding base and smiled. "Everyone, am I right?"

Before they could answer, he looked at Shi Jia and said, "However, since it was your method that you developed, it depends on whether you are willing to accept it."

“Okay, let them come over.” Shi Jia had no objections. To her, everyone in this world was the same, except for the Yuan family; everyone else was no different.

"Good, good, I knew Xiaxia was a well-rounded, insightful, righteous, and exceptionally intelligent young woman of the new era," Han Shanyue said excitedly.

These words once again made everyone at the breeding base turn pale.

They lack vision, perspective, and a sense of righteousness; are they also foolish?!
Before they could even ship the goods, Han Shanyue ushered them out, saying, "Everyone, I have something to discuss with Comrade Yuan Muxia, so I won't keep you any longer."

Han Shanyue quickly led the group out of the conference room and into the office.

The group that remained had gloomy faces, as if they had eaten feces.

"Did we do something wrong?"

"Hmph? We did nothing wrong."

"Do you really want to watch your hard-earned empire be handed over to someone else?"

"But……"

"But what? Are the people at the Yanzhong base starving? Aren't they doing just fine? Not many people have died this year. Isn't that thanks to us...?"

The gifted individuals, with their keen hearing and sharp eyesight, shook their heads upon hearing the sounds coming from the conference room behind them; there was no hope.

Since there's no hope, there's no need to save them!

"Uncle Han, let's get straight to the point, my farm is really busy."

“Alright, although I agree to let the planters from Yandong Base come to learn, we can’t give up on the planters from our base.” Han Shanyue explained his plan, which was very simple. In short, it was to produce results first, then publicize them extensively, while secretly helping the planters awaken their spiritual power and learn new methods.

Shi Jia agreed, "Okay, but I need ten mental power awakening devices. When the people from Yan Dong Base arrive, they can go directly to my place to awaken them."

"it is good."