Chapter Twenty-Nine: Ploughing the Ox
Having captured more than a hundred bison, Suren did not continue into the wilderness, intending to bring them back to the camp first.
These more than 100 bison, even if only half of them can be turned into ploughing cattle, is a huge progress for the agriculture of Sulun's territory, as for the cattle ploughing does not have the advantages of fast ploughing and ploughing more than horses, Sulun is now poor and can't afford to buy horses, so he is a fart horse ploughing. Besides, horse ploughing is fast and ploughs a lot, but horses are much more difficult to raise than cattle.
Whether it is a military horse or a horse, the requirements for breeding are very high, horses are very delicate animals, and they are also easy to damage, a qualified military horse in the city of Carthus at least thirty kinnar, a little better will cost forty or even fifty.
Moreover, these military horses need to be fed concentrate feed, and they have to be fed at night, and it can be said that the feed of these horses is better than that of many people, so that the food consumed by a military horse every year is at least ten gold nars. Although the horses don't need to be fed so well, they also need at least three gold nars a year, and many civilians only have about five gold narls a year.
In contrast, the cost of raising cattle is much lower, and there is only one horse skin when the horse dies, and the meat of the cow can be sold for money when it is old, not to mention that the horns can also be used to make bows, so it is naturally more cost-effective to plough cattle.
These bison brought back by Su Lun are irritable and untamable, and it is not easy for ordinary people to want envoys, and many times they will hurt themselves, but for barbarians, these are not problems. The barbarian tribes of the northern wastelands basically hunt bison for feeding. Domesticating bison is the basis for them.
What's more, Suren also has an ultimate way to tame bison, which is to pierce the nostrils of the cow. The nose of a cow is very sensitive, and after wearing the ring, the short-tempered bison will become an obedient and well-behaved baby. As for the strength of an adult ox to wear the ring, two barbarian warriors can easily press it to the ground.
When he returned to the camp, Suren counted the bison and found that there were ninety-seven adult bison, of which forty-two were bulls, and the rest were cows, and twenty-one calves were about one year old.
These buffalo Suren were going to let the barbarian women and children feed and farm, and they were the most suitable in the current camp.
It's been a month since Suren arrived in the wilderness, and the camp is changing every day after the hard work of more than a thousand goblin kobolds and gnolloll slaves.
The docks at Hongsha River have expanded a lot, from just three fishing boats to seven now, and the port's berths have been expanded fivefold to accommodate more vessels loading and unloading cargo at the same time.
Downstream of the river, a row of four waterwheels towered over the river, these waterwheels were all hydraulic machinery of the blacksmith's shop, two of which were hydraulic forging machines, one hydraulic blower, and the other was a crusher for crushing ore or scrap iron, but there was no iron ore in the territory at present, and this machine was not running.
The walls of the camp have all been turned into stone walls, five meters high and one meter thick walls enclosing the entire camp, although these walls are far worse than Correnta City, and even Black Rock City is far inferior, but it is enough to defend against goblins, kobolds, and gnolls.
With this layer of walls, the safety factor of the territory is directly increased by fifty.
In addition to the city walls, many roads in the territory were also opened, from the city to the lumberyards, ports, and farmland, many of these roads were paved with stones, and on the river beach, a large number of polished and smooth pebbles were scattered, and Suren specially let goblins and kobolds use bamboo baskets to transport them basket by basket to pave the road.
The construction of this kind of road first flattened the earth, then sprinkled with water, after pressing the pebbles into it, and then rolling back and forth with a stone mill, and finally the road was smooth and solid, even on rainy days it would not become muddy, and on sunny days it would not be dusty, it can be said that just in terms of roads, Suren was already stronger than many large cities of human beings in this period.
On both sides of the road, there were drainage canals about one meter wide and half a meter deep, according to Su Lun's vision, the entire camp must have perfect drainage facilities, which could discharge all the domestic sewage of the entire city, and he could not bear that his territory was also like other cities in this era, shrouded in a smell of fermented feces and urine.
Outside the city walls, not far from the river, more than five hundred goblins and kobold slaves were using tools to reclaim the farmland under the supervision of several human mercenaries, and a team of overseers was urging them to work hard. These overseers are not humans, they are also goblins and kobolds.
After a period of enslavement, there are some nimble goblins or kobolds who take the initiative to take refuge in humans, Su Lun agreed after thinking about it, anyway, there is a serious shortage of manpower in the territory now, and these goblin overseers can be supplemented.
As for the goblin overseers releasing water, this is not the case at all, because the goblins are selfish, arrogant, and timid, and they are even more ruthless than humans when they become overseers. If they don't do well, Suren won't punish them, just throw them back, and those oppressed goblin slaves will treat these guys well.
Suren also discovered a problem, that is, those slave overseers were actually recognized by the system.
[Goblin Overseer: Improve the efficiency of goblin work by 20%. Slave stabilization is reduced by 10 percent. It was originally a member of the goblins, but in order to be able to eat better food every day, it decided to be loyal to Suren, and with a good talent for language, it has learned some human languages, can communicate with humans, and is familiar with goblin habits, and can better command goblins to work. 】
In addition to goblins, kobolds and even gnolls are willing to serve as overseers, which greatly alleviates the problem of understaffing in the camp.
Accustomed to the clean and tidy urban layout of his previous life, Suren demanded the same from his own territory, and in his urban planning, the roads were neatly arranged, with dug drainage ditches on both sides of the roads, and even flower beds reserved on both sides of the roads.
In the gaps between the roads are neatly divided plots of land, which are either houses or shops, giving people the impression of being clean and tidy, and public toilets are set up in the same places on every street, if it is really built according to Suren's design, then this city will definitely be the cleanest and tidiest city.