To hire applicants based on their qualifications
Since you provide no options, i will list a couple of things that may affect their profit directly :
- The cost of seeds
- The cost of Fertilizer
- The cost of Labor that involved in taking care of the vegetables
This passage we can say is a direct response the critique of indulgences raised by the Protestant reform.
In other words this could be a direct answer to Martin Luther and his 95 thesis, in which the selling of the indulgences, that is the forgiveness of sins in exchange of money, was the main issue. The Church states that the Christ himself gave the right to them to sell the indulgences and that that is the time-honored tradition.
It would have been starved out because no food or supplies could have reached the fort, and the Civil War would not have started, because open hostilities had not began.
