If the agricultural surplus cannot supply enough for the industrial and urban population, then industrialization is out of the question.
From a political perspective, strengthening the economic power of farmers is to strengthen the power of Horn.
Because the true supporters of Horn are the three million Public Register Farmers and laborers of the Thousand River Valley, but currently, they have neither the will nor the ability to offer their support.
While Horn is not currently unlocking the shackles, it has at least loosened them and added fuel to the engine of alchemical and gear industrialization.
Switching to rice fruits and washing tuber roots requires cheap fuel, doesn't it? Then there's a market for peat.
Iron smelting vats and heating stoves need fuel, right? There still is a market for peat.
