Chapter 119: Darnell's Observations (Asking for the first order, asking for a monthly pass, and the second watch)
The journey back to the mountains was also smooth, thanks to the elite knights led by Alvilia, who were small in number, but all of them were regular knights armed to the teeth.
The small-scale rout of the rebel army is not enough for them to charge, as long as their brains do not make a mistake, they will definitely not take the initiative to come in front of them.
In addition, there is an unexpected person in the team - the former head of the Sword of the Holy Aether, the wandering missionary, the mastery-level warlock, and the champion knight Darnell Hebrew.
It wasn't that Sean invited him, but that he heard that Sean was leaving, like a dogskin plaster, stalking behind his ass, and had to go back to the Andes Mountains with him, which gave Sean a headache.
Although the other party has all kinds of dissatisfaction with the Holy Aether Holy See, after all, he has not really broken away from the Holy Aether Holy See, and the Eternal Night Legion is in a state of great development at the moment, and now the power in its hands is different, and many things that were once conceived have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain.
Who knows how receptive this former Master of the Sword of the Holy Aether is?
Once something touches him and makes him a professional criminal, raise the holy sword and judge him, no one in the Legion of the Eternal Night can stop him, and there will be no place to cry when the time comes.
But the question is where is the strength of the other party, although people have never used force to suppress people, but when you talk to him, there are always some scruples, it is difficult to get tough, grit your teeth, and finally agree.
Judging from the contact and getting along during this time, Darnell is a relatively open-minded person and has a strong ability to accept new things.
It can be seen from the new medical techniques that Darnell has shown a strong interest in dissection in front of Sean, intentionally or unintentionally.
Unless his brain is watered, Sean will admit that he has ever dissected a corpse, let alone take Darnell with him.
However, in the doctrine of the Holy See, it is clearly stated that it is not allowed to destroy corpses without authorization, let alone study souls, which they consider to be the realm of God, and it is the greatest blasphemy against God for mortals to study it.
However, along the way, Sean still went through the things that the Eternal Night Legion had recently researched in his mind, mostly in terms of agricultural technology innovation, and there should be nothing to keep secret and taboo.
The real good things were not placed in the ancient river of Jacob, but were arranged into the depths of the mountains, such as iron-making and steel-frying tests, black powder configuration, and so on.
Agricultural technology innovation, Sean is not prepared to keep it a secret at all, if it can be spread through the hands of Darnell, it will be a good thing of great merit.
After all, only with the improvement of overall farming technology can more wealth be created.
As long as the wealth is created, Sean has countless ways to loot them into his own hands.
If the whole world is in a poor environment, his business talents will be useless.
Many of the techniques in this area are not plagiarized by Sean from another world, don't underestimate the wisdom of the working people in this world, such as waterwheels, water mills, and wind mills...... This world exists.
Sean even found a detailed plan of the construction of a watersaw timber cutting mill in an ancient Andis Empire book, which details how to skillfully use the flow of water and turn it into kinetic energy to cut large pieces of wood with a hundred times more efficiency than manual labor.
But now, it is rare to hear of such a modern processing plant, obviously due to time, war and other reasons, there is a fault line in knowledge, and some good things have not been handed down.
Not only that, but most of the wisdom crystals such as waterwheels and wind mills were only circulated and used in a small area, and were not popularized on a large scale.
This is directly related to the structure of the Byron alliance itself, internal divisions and hostilities, making it difficult for them to achieve technical exchanges, without a strong government to promote, only low-level civilians to promote spontaneously, extremely inefficient, it takes an incomparably long time as a background, and it often takes several generations.
All the Legion of the Eternal Night needs to do is take these ready-made things, improve them, and use them on themselves.
In particular, the windmill wind mill is the main direction of attack of the Eternal Night Legion.
Although the water of the ancient Jacob River has shrunk, it is the largest outlet, and two-thirds of the time of the year, all kinds of winds blow here.
With such natural conditions, it is natural to make full use of them.
When Sean returned to Andes Mountain, he was greeted by a forest of windmills and wind mills, like giant soldiers, standing silently in the mountain passes, mountain slopes, and valley passes...... Anything suitable for building them.
Although the progress of the construction of the Eternal Night Legion was learned from the mountain eagle summons, the things on paper were empty after all, and they were far less shocking than the real thing.
The pace of construction of the Legion of the Eternal Night is even beyond Sean's imagination.
The Legion of the Eternal Night is not even a government now, at most it is an independent legion, and many things are typical of the army, and it may not be the best in terms of management, but in terms of efficiency, it is definitely one top one.
Especially since they are still in the nascent stage, they are the most simple, and it is difficult for everyone to work together to create miracles.
Sean, who was prepared, was still like this, not to mention Darnell, who was a newcomer, and he didn't close his mouth along the way.
"Is this really Andes Mountain, not the Plains of Asia Minor?" said Darnell, who had asked the question for the first time.
The missionary who has traveled all over the continent of Ashan, not without seeing more magnificent human structures than this, he has even visited the ruins of the so-called giants of the ancient century.
It's just that the contrast between the current situation and the cognitive rumors is too great.
In his imagination, the Andes Mountains should be a wild place, and those mountain people, if not more than a bloodthirsty life, must be poor, and it is not impossible to live in caves.
In addition to being influenced by the rumors in the Manyu military territory, he was also influenced by his many years of travels and observations, and he had traveled to so many places, and the only one who could live decently and as a human being was in the plains of Asia Minorβthe nobility was not counted, no matter how barren the land, this group of high-ranking people lived a life of relative luxury and wealth.
In addition, whether it is other territories or the Orcs of Odin, the living conditions of the low-level people are not flattering, and as for the barbarians of the Kentana Ice Field, after they fought with them in the ice and snow and almost became their rations, Darnell did not evaluate it.
A race that is forced by an extremely harsh environment and dares to eat anything, if it does not have its own unique cultural heritage, it is no different from a beast.
Andes Mountain should also belong to the poor mountains and bad waters, although there are people like Sean, it is also a very rare phenomenon, after all, there are people in any race, and they have cultivation and knowledge far beyond the normal living environment of this race, which cannot change the overall difficult situation of the Andes people.
In the light of the current situation, he could not have been more wrong.
If it weren't for the endless mountains around him, he would have thought that he had reached the plains of Asia Minor, where he had only seen such a dense windmill and wind mills.
"That's right, it's almost to the ground. Sean said with a reserved smile.
"What are you doing with so many windmills? Do you have so much wheat here to hull and grind flour?"
Darnell has a curiosity that doesn't match his age.
"Go further and you'll know. Sean was vague, and he didn't know the bottom of his mind now.
When I crossed a small hill, the situation changed dramatically.
Between the two mountains, there is an endless field on which countless people are busy.
The woman held the reins in front of her, and behind her pulled a strong, four-horned high-backed mountain ox that was more than a man tall.
The strong man wielded a long whip behind him, holding the plough hanging from the ox, and the ground was two feet deep in the place he passed.
The ground was swarthy, full of fallen leaves that had not yet completely rotted, and the air smelled of earth.
This is followed by a group of children, driving flocks of chickens and ducks in search of food in the ploughed land, and from time to time there is a cry of surprise, apparently in which they have found a nest of hibernating snakes or voles.
The former itself is the best reward prize, as long as their internal organs are cleaned up, chopped into pieces, thrown into the pot and cooked, plus a little wild onion and garlic and a pinch of salt, it is a pot of good snake soup, the taste is fresh and tender, it is the late winter and early spring, the children in the mountains have a rare opportunity to eat fresh meat, even the seven or eight-year-old Andes children will do.
The latter will be difficult to catch unless they have a good hound, but touching their nest will be a big bonus.
The voles and squirrels in the Andes Mountains are distant relatives, and both have the habit of storing large amounts of food for the winter, and a pair of voles store up to a dozen pounds of nuts and seeds in their granaries.
When it is cooked in a pan, it is an excellent snack.
In particular, the Eternal Night Legion has introduced a variety of eating methods such as salty stir-fry, five-spice stir-fry, and sand stir-fry, and the taste is more comprehensive, not only the Andis people are willing to eat, but also foreign caravans are willing to buy in large quantities.
Many children have their eyes on the treasury of these little things, and this winter has plagued them a lot, and many little children have bulging pockets and become the richest people in the family.
However, this kind of wealth is usually snatched away by adults for a long time, and it is called safekeeping, and it will be given when it grows up, and the result of crying is just to give it to his ass and eggs.
In this regard, parents of all races in that world have a lot in common.
However, these little children are all going to be educated by the teachers sent by the Eternal Night Legion, although it is only a year and a half, but they have all become monkey spirits, and they have suffered several losses, and they have fought wits and courage with the adults in the family, and every time they go home, they are not only not showy, they always look dejected, and the better ones also take the initiative to hand over three melons and two dates to the home, and the stingy ones are said to have no harvest, in fact, they all have their own small treasury.
At present, there is no way to swallow the harvest of this kind of collective labor, but it is also satisfying to be able to share a little snack from it, and children are the easiest group of people in the world to satisfy.
"This ...... This ......"
This time, Darnell had no way to compare the Plains of Asia Minor, because the cultivation situation in front of him had never been seen even in the Plains of Asia Minor, not to mention that the people who cultivated were all Andesian faces, and the identification marks were relatively high.
"I heard that the four-horned high-backed mountain cattle in the Andes Mountains are notoriously irritable, with a saying of one pig, two cows and three bears, and they are often seen in the gladiatorial arena, and even the knights have to retreat, how do they manage to use them for farming? Why are they so docile?"
"You're talking about bulls, if the cow is raised from the time when it just opened its eyes, the temperament is relatively docile, the mountain people have a history of captivity for hundreds of years, but most of them are used to slaughter and eat meat, and the bulls used to plough the land are castrated since childhood, and the temperament is more docile than the cow, plus the cow nose ring, which is similar to those cattle that have been domesticated for many years. β
"The method is a good way, but the method is a little more cruel!"
Darnell raised his eyebrows, and didn't say anything more, no matter how broad the doctrine of the Holy Aether Holy See is, it is limited to people, and this person also refers to the Byronic people, whether it is Andys or Odin orcs, not to mention livestock.
"Are you cultivating too deeply? The efficiency is too low, and according to this method, how much land can a cow plough in a day? How many acres can a cow plough in a day? If I remember correctly, in the plains of Asia Minor, a horse can plough more than 20 acres of land a day. β
Of course, the deeper the cultivated land, the better, and deep ploughing is conducive to storing water and gas, and providing a better living environment for crops! Do you think this is a place where horses can be raised in large quantities? Not to mention that mountain cattle are not as expensive as horses, as long as they are given enough forage, they can be alive and jump, just give them a few mouthfuls of fine fodder when they are working! What kind of livestock to use, there is no better, only more suitable. β
"I'm taking it for granted! I remember that wheat should have been planted in the winter and harvested in the summer, and now it is not too late to plow?"
"What you said is winter wheat, the Andes Mountains have a special climate, the winter is long and cold, not to mention, the spring climate is dry and rainless, not suitable for planting winter wheat, they are now planting spring wheat, spring planting and summer harvest, drought tolerance, wind resistance, short plant and large ears, short growth cycle, that is, the taste of the flour is worse than that of winter wheat, but in this year, some eat well, not so much exquisite. β
"It's well said, being well fed is the biggest thing in life. Darnell nodded approvingly.
"Sure enough, everything is learned, I didn't expect there to be so many words in farming, this time I came to the right place, in just a few weeks, I harvested more than I gained in a year from traveling to the mainland, I knew that your kid still had something in his stomach, and he was not wrong. β
"The children are walking behind the fowl, do they have something to say?"
"In the spring, everything recovers, ploughing the ground and loosening the soil also brings out those insect eggs, driving the poultry around a few times, pecking at those hibernating insects, insect eggs, and grass seeds, and when the spring wheat begins to grow, reducing weeds and insect infestation, and saving the food to feed the poultry, isn't it the best of both worlds?"
"It makes sense, no, it's not a truth, it's a knowledge, I've seen thousands of farmers, but I've never seen such a comprehensive farmer, this must have been what you taught them, right?"
Darnell's opinion of Sean was even higher, and he felt that he was not facing a teenager, but a bachelor from the Silver Federation Warlock Alliance.
No, many scholars are boasting about other generations, always saying something that sounds tall and complete, but in fact it is useless, that is, fooling those noble lords, and the real use is very limited.
And what came out of Sean, whether it was a new type of medical technology or this seemingly novel farming technology, was a good thing for the benefit of the country and the people.
Such a person is born in the mountains, and the end is buried.