In July, the warm summer wind blows slowly, and the central part of the kingdom once again welcomes the joy of harvest.
Spread over hundreds of thousands of square kilometers, there are endless yellow and orange wheat fields arranged vertically and horizontally. With the joint efforts of magic and hundreds of thousands of workers, more than 300,000 hectares of land in the central region of the kingdom have been transformed into a kingdom. granary!
This place alone is enough to supply nearly 80% of the entire Magic Kingdom’s food and livestock requirements!
Five years ago, Beate was just a farmer in a territory directly under the royal family. Although the taxes in the territory were relatively low, he could still have enough to eat when the harvest was good, but once a drought or When war breaks out in the kingdom, life becomes extremely difficult.
However, since the wizards captured the royal capital and occupied the entire kingdom, Beate's life has undergone tremendous changes.
When the wizards first proposed to collect scattered land and implement concentrated and mechanized planting, they were met with spontaneous resistance from countless farmers. After all, for the kingdom’s citizens who have been farming for generations, fields are the most precious property. , to some extent, even more important than life!
As long as the land remains, at least the minimum living needs can be guaranteed.
Most people simply do not believe that the wizards who are promoted by the church as doomsday and spreaders of evil god believers have such good intentions, so they are extremely resistant to the so-called agricultural reform plan.
It's just that a group of farmers are unable to fight against the casters who have mastered the magic miracle.
Fortunately, the parliament did not intend to engage in mass murder. Instead, it chose to reclaim wasteland first, and used words and benefits to induce some less determined territorial residents to participate in management.
Beate undoubtedly seized this rare opportunity, responded to the so-called big farm plan of the wizards, and became a large farmer managing thousands of acres of land around him. He also saw magic beyond his imagination. Fully automatic farming magic.
Turning the soil and planting do not require manpower or animal power at all. As long as you drive a huge alchemical creation, only a few people can easily cultivate thousands of acres of fields.
Even watering and fertilizing are handled by specialized elemental wizards. Casting a magic called [Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Potassium Yield Increase Technique] once a week can greatly increase the wheat yield in the coming year.
The most important thing they have to do is to cooperate with the wizards' agricultural reform experiments based on past experience.
Of course, these high-ranking wizards were all very busy and did not waste much time on 'little things' like planting crops. After surviving the most difficult first year, they stopped assisting them in planting. Instead, they provide a kind of alchemical powder in batches that can increase the fertility of the land and reduce insect pests.
Beate, who has enjoyed the convenience of fully automated planting, even had the idea to use all his savings to rent an airship for daily watering and fertilizing work.
After all, it is hard to recruit farmers now. The prices offered by various magic workshops are frighteningly high. In the past, they firmly resisted the agricultural reform plan and wished they could die in the fields. All the farmers who lived and died with the land have entered the workshops to smelt iron and make glass. .
Therefore, renting an airship was a helpless move. It was precisely because of these magical alchemical creations that their family was able to properly manage thousands of acres of farmland.
However, Beate is not without worries. What worries him most is such centralized planting. If a large-scale drought or flood breaks out, the entire kingdom's food supply will be ruined.
But in the past few years, Beate was surprised to find that her worries seemed to be unnecessary. Those wizards seemed to have the ability to predict celestial phenomena. In the past year, it has been even more strange. Even wind and rain have been Timed and quantitative.
Some time ago, a wizard apprentice sent them a questionnaire, asking them how much rain they need each season, how many sunny days they need, and which day is more suitable for rain...
After reading the questionnaires, Beate was at a loss. She didn't quite understand what the purpose of filling in these questionnaires was. The above even detailed the measurement of each rain. Could it be that they just needed to fill out a report and the sky would Will it rain regularly?
However, things were obviously more exaggerated than he imagined. After collecting questionnaires from hundreds of large farmers in the entire eastern region of the kingdom, he directly made a four-quarter barometer. After a full year of observation, Beate was surprised to find that the weather in the entire area was exactly the same as what was filled in on the form.
Beate secretly asked a wizard who managed the farm and found out that this was a domain, an ability only possessed by very powerful wizards.
In fact, not to mention the kingdom, the entire continent is under the control of the magic star. If it is sunny, it will never rain, and if it is windy, it will never thunder.
After learning the news, Beate installed a statue of a magic star at home overnight. In his opinion, this is no longer magic, and only the omnipotent God in the Bible can do such incredible things. .
Moreover, under the rule of the empire in the past, they had to go to the church for worship every week. They had already formed a habit, but now that it suddenly stopped, they were really not used to it.
Therefore, even if the parliament expressly objects, many citizens of the kingdom still retain the habit of praying, but the object has been replaced by the magic star from the moon god.
In short, no matter whether it is useful or not, there is nothing wrong with saying goodbye!
In the evening, Beate, who had finished harvesting a thousand acres of wheat fields, led his wife and three sons to earnestly complete the routine prayers, and then began to enjoy today's dinner - five pieces of white bread, a bottle of honey wine and a palm-sized piece. of beast of burden meat.
This is already a rich meal. If it were five years ago, those little nobles might not be able to eat these good things every day.
While Beate was mentally calculating how much money she could earn from this season's wheat grains, she listened to her youngest son recount the gossip and anecdotes he heard in the Wizarding Academy.
For example, the wizards built a flying magic city, and there is a thing called a video stone that is popular in the royal capital recently. It is very magical and can record the past events.
The last and most mysterious thing is that it is rumored that the Parliament is recruiting a group of pioneers at a high price in the kingdom to build an outpost on the moon.
Beate couldn't help but pause while biting the beast's meat. She looked at her youngest son in shock, almost wondering if he was joking, but the latter quickly swore that he was listening to his mentor. One of the wizards said that the council even offered a monthly salary of twenty silver coins!
Beate looked up at the bright moon in the sky with hesitation, feeling that he could not understand the world more and more.
…
Just as the Beate family talked about, after more than a month of trying, Linn successfully opened the portal between the Eternal Star and the moon.
At this moment, the royal capital also became lively because of the recruitment order issued by the parliament.
Going to the moon is undoubtedly a novel and unknown concept for the citizens of the kingdom. As the saying goes, there must be brave men under heavy rewards, and the kingdom has no shortage of people with adventurous spirit.
In just one week, the five thousand people who initially went to the moon were gathered together.
In fact, what the Parliament needs to build is not just an outpost, but a fortress of war!
Since the last decisive battle with the Lord of the Dead directly destroyed tens of thousands of miles of land, Lin En had already decided that he could no longer place the battlefield inside the Eternal Star in the future, otherwise he would not be able to stop the fight. The aftermath is enough to cause a devastating blow to all life on the entire planet!
The moon, which is not too far from the Eternal Star, has undoubtedly become the most suitable choice.
Although there is no atmosphere here, it is wrapped by the Moon God Realm, which serves the function of the planet's atmosphere to a certain extent. As for the gravity problem, it can also be adjusted by setting up a force field array.
Once the lunar outpost is completed, coupled with the two galaxy-level battleships that the parliament is currently building, it means that they have stepped onto the threshold of interstellar civilization!
Lin En can also take advantage of the situation to expand his divine domain to the moon, until all the remaining power of Diana is wiped out. In this way, the former Moon God will no longer have room to stand up!
"So you have found a way to locate a foreign land?" In the conference hall of the royal capital, Harrov couldn't help but asked as he listened to Lin En's preparations for the war.
"Not bad!" Linn nodded, thanks to the remnant soul of the Moon God they had discovered on the moon.
After being dead for thousands of years, the remaining memory of the other party has become extremely confusing, but he still successfully extracted some useful information, such as the high-dimensional coordinates of the foreign land, and the method of locating there.
This requires a medium, and it just so happens that the remnant soul of the Moon God has a weak connection with the foreign land.
"In that case, it's our turn to attack!" Anthony said with great anticipation. Before, they were trapped on the Eternal Star, dealing with the undead army emerging from several portals. It's frustrating.
Raphael even suggested that last time they prepared a large number of nuclear weapons to deal with the Lord of the Dead, but the war ended too quickly, and they were fighting in their own territory, so they couldn't let go.
This time they directly engage in a foreign war, and they can launch a wave of nuclear bombs first.
Lin En turned to look at Vittorio and asked. "How long until our new warship is built?"
"Two more months will be enough!" Vittorio responded thoughtfully.
Linn nodded. Two months would be enough to establish an outpost on the moon.
Although it would not be a problem to continue to postpone and integrate the resources of the mainland and the moon to build a few more galaxy-level warships, Linn was a little worried that the main world would find the foreign land first.
Just like how he could find the coordinates of a foreign land from Diana's remnant soul, if Ella is captured, the location of the Eternal Star may also be exposed... It is always better to strike first than to strike last!
(End of chapter)
