Although Lant accepted the portal blueprint handed over by Susie, he did not agree to her cooperation proposal. Lant had no interest in the prosperous royal capital. In his eyes, the complex relationship in the royal capital was not as good as his own Yeqi City. Comfortable.
Susie was already prepared for Lant's attitude and did not force it. "Lord Viscount, I must remind you that if you want to own a territory as large as Galloping Horse Plains, it is not enough for the great goblin of blood, level and magic. You also need knights, magicians and territorial citizens, not just ordinary demon holders. Or not demons, but people who have blood ties with you."
Rant had a kind of disdain for Susie's words from the bottom of his heart. There are some differences between humans and animals. You can't just rely on marriage to solve everything, right? However, Susie had no intention of continuing the discussion with him.
The great knight's departure was as chic as her arrival. She jumped from the watchtower and was caught by the griffin and flew away, leaving only the unwilling roar of the fire in the yard.
Because Taniya longed to return to the ruins of Yeqi City, for her, that place was both a comfortable throne and a source of strength. Lant didn't want to stay in Roth Castle for a long time, so he took Tenia back to the city quickly on the afternoon of the 9th.
As soon as she arrived outside the city, the big goblin wanted to go straight to the underground ruins, but Lant pulled her to build a dock in the east and south of the city before letting her go.
The south of the city is Rand's planned agricultural planting area, and many granaries have been built within the city walls. Now that the weather is getting warmer, some demon-lovers are leading the demon-free people to reclaim the land.
Since the current staple food is relatively secure, Lant requires that the first batch of vegetables be planted. The growth cycle of vegetables should be shorter, and the grass-type fairies can continue to improve varieties.
Lant himself did not have any knowledge about farming. He only appointed a person in charge of demons and two non-demon stewards. After working in the sun for several days, the skin of the three people has been tanned to a bronze color.
"Sir, I still think we should plant some grains." Zhuo Hele, who was in charge of planting, was just an ordinary demon supporter. He was an out-and-out farmer before being kidnapped to the salt mine. "The land here is better than that in my hometown. You can’t get enough of these vegetable leaves.”
"Don't worry about grain this year. 4 or 5 ships of grain will be shipped soon. In the future, there will even be this amount of grain every month." Based on the scale of the transaction between Lant and Viscount Elk's family, 3,000 gold coins of grain is enough for the people of his territory. After eating for several years, "But people can't just eat grains. If they eat more vegetables and meat, the grain consumption will be slower."
"By the way, when you grow food in your hometown, will you use magic or magic to promote growth?" Lant knew that Zhuo Hele was originally from the interior of the kingdom, and his family had hundreds of acres of fields. It was completely unreasonable for him to be abducted to the salt mine. Abandoned by the family.
"The seeds every year are blessed by the lord's magic fairies, and will be distributed to us according to the area of our farmland," Zhuo Hele kept recalling, "In addition, the lord has a special construction mage who is responsible for taking everyone on the mountain ridge. Build water conservancy projects”
"Mountain ridge? Don't you farm on flat land?" Lant was aroused by Zhuo Hele's words, "My hometown is a large plain."
"Yes, but mainly in mountain fields." Zhuo Hele looked at Lant's very curious eyes, "Sir, you haven't heard of mountain fields, have you? Master mages will use the mountains to dig out fields. Let each field have a 3-5 meter high fence next to it."
"You mean, you not only abandoned the plains, but even used the mountains to build fields? What is this?"
"According to what our school says, the high ridges around the fields can gather magic elements and promote the growth of grains, so the best fields are mountain fields, which have enough magic elements and water conservancy facilities. It's just that more people need to be arranged to farm the land. ." Zhuo Hele said that he was sorry for the last point, because in his school, the need for more labor from the subjects is not a disadvantage compared to the increase in food production through magic.
"You still have a school there?" Lant remembered that according to the Blue Dragon School, only big cities have schools specifically for demon possessors.
"Yes, if we want to inherit the fields at home, we need to go to a special school. The person who teaches us planting is an intermediate mage. He will teach us about seeds, pests and weather knowledge. There will also be exams before we inherit the fields. .”
"How to take the test? Answer sheet?" The more Zhuo Hele said, the more interested Lant became.
Since he came to this world, he has never paid attention to farming. Although his Benma family farms, the harvest is very poor, so the fields are mostly vegetables. Lant has been thinking that if the land on the plains of the world cannot feed the population, then where will the food come from? I had talked with the young master of Viscount Elk’s family before, but that knight Kevin couldn’t explain how food was grown in the southern territories. Lant did not expect that farmers in this world would be so professional.
Lant kept asking questions, and Zhuo Hele kept answering: "There is indeed the written test you mentioned, but there is also a farming test, which requires one year to cultivate a square plot of one acre."
"You have to study in a school for a year? The cost of teaching is quite high." In Lant's eyes, spending more than a year educating and assessing farmers for farming is really a long time.
"Sir, it's not one year. It takes us 2-3 years from school to the field. Once we finish studying, each of us will have to take at least 20 demon-free people to take care of more than a dozen fields. Major things in the fields We have to deal with all the little things. In order to be able to take care of the fields smoothly in the future, during our exams, the mage master will release some magic at any time, such as locusts, dryness, floods, etc., and let us deal with it to see whether the land can produce food in the end. It’s not too important. What’s important is that we protect the land in the right way.” Zhuohele scratched his head and grinned, “
"Then have you ever learned about composting?" Lant saw that Zhuochele didn't understand the word. "It means burying feces and water in a certain ratio and fermenting it to make natural fertilizer."
"No, the priests of the God of Agriculture will bless the land every year to ensure a good harvest."
"Did the planting course teach you that the roots of soybeans can promote the growth of other plants, how to keep the distance between crops, how to breed fish and crabs in rice fields, the role of earthworms in the fields, and the postpartum care of sows?"
"...I haven't learned anything you said, sir." Zhuo Hele was confused by Lant's question. "My family's fields are planted with oats, so the content of the study and examination is to plant the oats well and what to do after harvesting." Drying, threshing, storage, we have heard about crops other than oats, but we don’t know how to serve them.”
"I understand, but will you use some sowing and harvesting machinery to assist planting?"
"I heard that there is a church of the God of Crafts. There is a kind of livestock powered by magic, which can replace human labor. But for us, magic crystals are too expensive, much more expensive than those without magic."
Lant understood and transformed the mountains and rivers into a magical building. He used magic, magic circles, and magical elves to comprehensively strengthen the soil, seeds and even the air. He also filled in professional farmers to make farming more refined. It can be seen that this world is agriculture. I clicked on Tut's technology tree, but how high-yield can the food produced in this way be?
"Then what is the yield per acre of the fields you planted?"
"In our case, we have three seasons a year. The highest yield per mu is 3 tons in the first season, and about 2 tons per mu in the next two seasons." Zhuo Hele answered honestly, "But we grow oats, and some Locally grown cereal varieties have higher yields.”
Well, Lant also admitted that the method of farming in Zhuohele's hometown seemed to have no shortcomings except for the labor cost, and the labor costs could also be subsidized by the empire.
(End of chapter)
