MTL - Lords Trying to Survive: Strategizing from a Rundown Yard

Survival of the Lord: Starting from the Dilapidated Small Courtyard Chapter 1039: Zong Shen's Utopia 【Subscription】

Land reclamation, breeding, training agronomy apprentices.

This is Zong Shen's previous task request to Salome Lin Yu.

If the territory wants to develop farming on a large scale, it must explore agricultural technology.

According to the actual situation, find a set of applicable and efficient farming methods.

In the Endless Continent, there is no concept of intensive farming, and even agronomists have become a very small number of technical occupations.

Because of the vast land and magical magic, studying the laws of nature is far less simple and crude than directly using magic.

Even without using magic, the current food output in various places is in a relatively stable state.

The free people in the villages in various places, that is, the villagers, only need to pay a tax on the output of their cultivated land, and the rest belongs to the individual.

Some areas adopt spring and autumn taxes, while others directly collect grain and property taxes. The specific policies are completely determined by the nobles of the local ruling class.

Except for the Sultan of Sarande, the human kingdom of the Endless Continent has a part of the customs of the aristocratic system that is followed by the middle-class aristocratic system in Europe.

First of all, the kingdom itself is a main body, extending down to giant cities, state cities, villages, and settlements.

Depending on the area and the level of urban development, each kingdom basically has hundreds or even two to three hundred giant city-level units.

The so-called giant city is relatively broad in concept.

Among them, there are not only super giant cities like the imperial city, but also ordinary giant cities located in various places.

However, even the smallest giant city has at least tens of millions of people, which is almost comparable to the core prefecture-level cities with a high concentration of population and functional areas in the earth.

Low unit productivity + vast land + magic power finally formed this "deformed" pattern.

If it is purely at the level of the European Middle Ages, it is almost impossible to feed a population of tens of millions in the region, let alone a population of one million.

The rise of Europe and New America on Earth is inseparable from the increase in productivity brought about by the Industrial Revolution.

Before the industrial revolution, hundreds of years of colonial development and slave trade accumulated primitive capital in the sea of ​​corpses and blood, so that the foundation of the industrial revolution could be laid and the "advancement" of the next century could be achieved.

Many problems are actually caused by historical factors, and they did not just appear out of thin air.

So don't look at the customs and culture of the human race in the Endless Continent similar to the European Middle Ages on Earth, but the two are completely different in essence.

The earth is not big, and there is no magic, but it has science and technology that studies and summarizes the laws of things.

The Endless Continent is huge and has magic, but few people here try to explore the natural laws of things.

Different factors have caused the two worlds to diverge completely. They have the same "appearance" but not the same "soul". They are completely different worlds at the root.

Each giant city has several to dozens of state-city vassals within its jurisdiction.

And the city below governs more than a dozen to dozens of villages and several settlements.

In this way, a step-by-step regional unit is formed.

It can be understood that dozens of villages support a state city, and a dozen state cities support a giant city.

Among the dozens of giant cities, there will be one or two super giant cities.

In the end, dozens of giant cities support an imperial city within the kingdom. In conversion, it can be understood that it takes tens of thousands or even more than a hundred thousand villages to support such an imperial city.

In terms of the functional division of administrative regions, only Jucheng and Bangcheng have administrative capabilities.

Jucheng governs Bangcheng, and Bangcheng governs villages, and each has certain autonomy within its jurisdiction.

As for villages and settlements, as the last level, they are under the jurisdiction and protection of the state city to which they belong.

The population in the village is roughly divided into two categories, namely free people and serfs.

Free people only need to pay taxes on time, while serfs are equivalent to the private property of local nobles.

Most nobles will designate several special villages within their jurisdiction to house serfs and cultivate the land.

In contrast, the enthusiasm of the freemen is much higher. They keep enough of their rations and pay enough taxes, and the rest can be sold to caravans in exchange for dinars.

Then use dinars to buy other materials you want, thus forming an economic cycle,

As for those serfs, they basically depended on the sky for food.

They farm and graze for the nobles, and there is no corresponding indicator at all. All the output needs to be handed over after deducting the consumption of rations, so there is no enthusiasm at all.

The accompanying agricultural governors were also very lazy, and everyone was just dawdling.

Such a situation has led to a situation where the per capita arable land area of ​​Endless Continent is not small, but the average yield per mu is very low.

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Therefore, Zong Shen must not copy the farming methods of the aborigines, otherwise, even if he waits until the year of the monkey, the territory will not be able to be self-sufficient in food.

Of course, the lord has the privilege of loyalty, and the people under his command will certainly not be as passive and sabotage as the serfs.

This is also a manifestation of the lord's privilege. Strictly speaking, as long as the loyalty of the lords is over 90 points, it is basically equivalent to having serfs who will not complain. If it is over 95 points, the lords will They will consciously work with a high workload.

If the loyalty is raised to 100 points, then the citizens will even resolutely die for the lord.

As long as Zong Shen is willing, there is absolutely no need for him to carry out any reforms of the free people, as long as he provides enough food to restore hunger and satiety every day, and then arranges tasks.

Under the protection of the loyalty mechanism, the lords can squeeze the subjects under their command as much as they want.

It is no exaggeration to say that this is an enhanced version of the "slavery" model.

Moreover, he is still a "slave" who will not resist and rarely complains. After all, apart from loyalty, Endless Continent is still a world with a huge gap in individual force. The strong can suppress all unstable factors with their own strength.

But Zong Shen didn't want to do this, the simple and rude way was very convenient, and it didn't bother him or his brain, he just needed to pat his head and move his **** to give the order.

However, it may not conform to the law of optimal development of productivity.

What he needs is a vibrant territory, the necessary class, and a relatively stable economic cycle.

Make use of the individual differences of each leader to differentiate into new classes.

We must know that the so-called absolute fairness is a paradox.

From an individual point of view, everyone is a completely different individual, a brilliant spark among countless flashes, whether it is personality, character or abilities in all aspects.

Since everyone is different, fairness itself is bullshit.

Those who are flexible in mind, strong in body, and dare to fight hard to complete the initial accumulation, why should they talk about equality with those who are weak in body and dull in mind?

Suppose Zong Shen works day and night, and still drives the plug-in, but the final development level is the same as that of the lying party, then how fair is it?

So real fairness is not about pulling everyone to the same level.

Instead, try to improve the lower limit of everyone's survival and popularize people's livelihood and welfare.

Minimize the distance between the top of the pyramid and the bottom of the pyramid.

This is the real fairness.

Chopping up the strong to feed the weak is a monstrosity.

It is also abnormal to let the weak fall to the dust and lack the guarantee of survival.

In Zong Shen's eyes, the best possible social class structure is not cylindrical or pyramidal, but spindle-shaped.

The spindle is thick in the middle and thin at the top and bottom.

This is Zong Shen's ideal.

As for the Datong of everyone, unless he can become a god, it is all empty talk.

The individual differences and thinking differences of intelligent life doomed this to be impossible to come true.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. If you want to build the ideal country in your mind, you have to start with the farming of the territory in front of you.

His arrival did not disturb anyone.

The surrounding breeding fields are full of busy farmers and peasant women.

Salome Linyu herself was observing something in the sweet potato field.

The cyan wheat field undulates in the breeze, tomato vines hang along the wooden poles, and from time to time you can see butterflies flying among the green vines.

Zong Shen didn't disturb them, but walked towards the sweet potato field.

These agronomy apprentices still need to be trained for a period of time before they can graduate.

At least a dozen seasons of crop harvesting experience needs to be accumulated.

In the process of personally cultivating crops and harvesting, knowledge and action are integrated, and relevant agronomic knowledge is mastered.

After all, these agronomy apprentices are all proper "experts", unlike Salome Lin Yu, who is an experienced Drew Yin of the Department of Natural Sciences.

These 500 agronomy apprentices will become the "seeds" of the era of large-scale agriculture in the Territory. They will learn more professional farming knowledge, and then cooperate with the [Special Knowledge School]. The Territory also offers grazing, poultry/livestock breeding and other subjects.

In this way, the superficial farming experience in the heads of farmers is covered with more professional and efficient knowledge.

Only in this way can we build a solid foundation for scientific farming and intensive farming.

Meals have to be eaten one bite at a time, and the road has to be walked step by step.

Using agronomy and related disciplines as a springboard, a preliminary round of knowledge popularization and ability improvement will be carried out first.

In the future, it will be much easier for Zongshen to learn from the experience of intensive cultivation that has been tested by reality on the earth and promote it, because the acceptance of the people has increased.

Strolling here, even the air is filled with the fragrance of crops and plants.

As soon as you smell this smell, you will feel a sense of harvest. It reminds Zong Shen of the paddy fields in his hometown in summer when he was a child.

When Zong Shen walked to the side of the sweet potato field, Salome Lin Yu was holding a stalk in the middle and watching intently.

The sweet potato field in front of me is about 30 mu, occupying an area of ​​tens of thousands of square meters.

The stems extending from the ground are gratifying, and the green sweet potato leaves grow towards the sun.

At first, he only got a sweet potato vine, and gave it to Salome Lin Yu to open up the first seedling field in the yard of the lord's fortress.

Up to now, the defense challenge has been over for five days, and more than 30 acres of sweet potato vines have been cultivated!

The region where the Kingdom of Avalon is located is in the eastern part of the Endless Continent, with a pleasant climate.

There are neither too drastic weather changes nor ups and downs of the four seasons.

The temperature change has always been maintained in an interval suitable for crop growth.

Compared with the bitter cold of the northern border, it is simply an excellent land for farming.

But the environment here will also have an impact on those tropical crops.

In general, Zong Shen is quite satisfied with the location and climate.

Also satisfied with this is Salome Linyu.

"Ahem!"

After someone from Dang Zong coughed a few times, this guy was finally awakened from his selfless research state.

I saw Salome Lin Yu standing up slowly.

He holds a thin wooden knife in his right hand, and carefully holds a freshly cut sweet potato vine in his left.

Then he turned around and took a look, and when he saw the lord coming in person, he quickly bowed slightly and saluted.

"My lord, you have finally come to inspect the fields in the territory."

"It just so happens that I also have a lot of things to report to you!"

Salome Lin Yu yelled at the top of her voice, and strode out of the sweet potato field to Zong Shen.

A certain person in Zong just nodded slightly. Seeing that Salome is so self-motivated, he is in a good mood!

He didn't praise until Salome got close.

"I see the future of the territory here."

"The food problem that strangles the neck of development will no longer be a problem."

"You've done a good job. The growth of this sweet potato field is gratifying. Maybe soon there will be sweet roasted sweet potatoes on my table, and all kinds of corresponding by-products will also appear."

Zong Shen's praise did not make Salome smile.

He has always maintained a respectful but not flattering expression, with the problem of arable land in mind.

"Your vision and mind are still so broad."

"But I have a few questions to report to you."

Salome Lin Yu bowed again, and Zong Shen raised his eyebrows, beckoning him to continue.

"We need more water!"

When he asked the first question, Zong didn't say anything, and pretended to be listening patiently.

When necessary, the lord should also be a qualified listener.

So Salome Lin Yu barely paused, and spoke in one go.

"The water source of this breeding field is the nearby stream that flows out of the northern mountains and valleys. UU Reading www.uukanshu.com"

"Even if a canal is opened for drainage, the water flow of the creek can only barely meet the irrigation of this breeding field."

"In the future, if you want to fully popularize farming in the territory, water irrigation will be a big problem."

Hearing this, Zong Shen frowned slowly.

The creek near here is the nearest source of living water to the north of the territory.

The water cellars in the territory also draw water from here, and then store it after purification and toxicity testing.

Moreover, in addition to farmland irrigation, livestock drinking water also comes from here.

It is important to know that livestock drink much more water than humans.

This creek may hardly meet the development and expansion needs of the territory.

Zong Shen has to find a new water source!

Either try digging a well, then find a way to widen the runoff, or get water from that little freshwater lake to the south.

Anyway, the water sources around here are very clean.

Seeing that Zong Shen was silent, he was thinking.

Salome Linyu also returned to silence, and did not immediately ask the next question.

Suddenly, Zong Shen seemed to have thought of something, and clapped his hands violently!