Devil's Son-in-Law

Chapter 51 Turn Waste into Treasure! The Miracle Powder

Chen Rui read through the information and understood the fight between Joseph and Kanita. After pondering for a while, he finally nodded and said, "This is indeed a good opportunity. Kanita should be someone that we can make use of."

"An enemy's enemy might not be an ally." Shea frowned and said, "Even if it's Kanita who is coming to the Dark Moon, his purpose is still to complete the mission of controlling the Dark Moon by the capital."

"That's not how the computation goes, Princess Royal," Chen Rui shook his head. "Joseph's economic control on the Dark Moon is almost perfect. Unless the old family forces that support Princess Royal, like the Saiful family defects to the Red Spirit, otherwise, our situation will not get worse. On the contrary, Joseph's strength in Dark Moon's is one of the important assets he uses to compete with Kanita. So, Joseph will never let Kanita take over the forces that he worked hard for. Even if Kanita truly comes to the Dark Moon, he is bound to suffer tremendous resistance or even trigger more counterattacks by Joseph. We can take advantage of this opportunity to secretly undermine and get rid of the Red Spirit's economic control."

Shea kept nodding while listening and Old Gauss looked admired, "Princess Royal is right. It's wasting your talent to be a secretary."

"Sir Gauss, you have overpraised me. Actually, the secretary position is already high enough." Chen Rui certainly didn't want to walk on stage and attract attention. He quickly shook his head and said, "I'm still a human after all. Being able to provide some tiny ideas behind the scene and help Princess Royal is satisfying enough."

"That is not just a tiny idea. Your wisdom and ability are undisputed." Shea's beautiful purple eyes were full of burning radiance. "I don't like to make empty promises, but if there is a chance, I will never treat you wrong."

Chen Rui did not put much attention on those words as things constantly changed. He had seen lots of examples of betraying and not keeping promises. His objective wasn't on this so he didn't bother now.

Old Gauss moved the conversation back to the main topic. Actually, Shea had long prepared to undermine and get rid of Red Spirit's control that Chen Rui just said. Although almost half of the Dark Moon's commerce was controlled by Joseph, Joseph's half actually included the Mellon family's part; the other half was in the hands of the Saiful family and several old families. These forces were deeply rooted, and most of them supported Princess Royal. Besides, the Mellon family was an opportunist. They only wanted to rely on the big force, Red Spirit, but it wasn't truly loyal toward Joseph.

One of the most critical issues at the moment was food. The Dark Moon was rich in herbs and minerals, but it had always been lacking food. The demons' food was mainly crop and supplemented by meat. Due to the special soil quality of the Dark Moon Estate, the crop yield had always been difficult to increase. Even during the most prosperous time of the year, most of the food was purchased from other estates.

Through several years of hard work, the Saiful family and several other families had cultivated a large number of pigs and cows. The source of meat had been greatly alleviated, but the more important crops still couldn't be improved. They could only rely on the supply and support from the Red Spirit Estate. Chen Rui once heard Shea mentioned that as space equipment was extremely rare, and its capacity was too small; it couldn't store a large amount of food. So, she could only rely on caravan transportation. The food-purchasing caravans to the south and west that she sent were all robbed and killed by the so-called 'thieves'; she suffered heavy losses. Thus, if the food problem could be solved, the Red Spirit's control over the Dark Moon would be greatly weakened.

Food, crops... Chen Rui frowned and did not say anything. He had too little knowledge of agriculture. Besides, the Demon Realm's geographical conditions were special, so the Earth's agricultural knowledge might not come in handy...