The harvest numbers came in on a Wednesday.
Doros brought them.
He came to Lysander's office in the mid-morning with two tablets — the current season's yield records from the western farms and the comparative figures from the previous three seasons — and set them on the table with the specific satisfaction of a man delivering good news that he has had a hand in producing.
He said: *"Look at the western figures."*
Lysander looked.
The western farms had been the focus of the rotation reform — the new planting sequence that distributed the soil load differently across the season, the additional fallowing schedule that Lysander had proposed based on what he knew about sustainable agriculture and what Fylon had known about which fields had been pushed hardest in recent years.
The yield was up.
