This is the first time Edward has seen a group of people kneeling in front of him without reservation, even if he has seen thousands of people kneeling down to the emperor on TV, but he feels that this is the first time!

It's a wonderful feeling, and it gives Edward the thrill of being in complete control of the fate of others! This feeling is very peculiar, and people are addicted to it unconsciously!

But for a moment, Edward felt this way

detachment.

Could this be how the ancient Chinese emperors felt in the face of their subjects? No wonder so many people are scrambling to sit in that position, it's really fascinating!

Edward followed Howard, the housekeeper of the manor. Charles walked past the serfs crawling on the edge of the mud step by step, thinking slowly.

Butler Howard. Charles is the second son of a knightly nobleman, not only lost his inheritance rights since he was a child, but also his body was too thin to be a wandering knight, so he could only engage in the profession of housekeeper to gain status and survive.

Howard. Charles is relatively thin, the hair on his head is shiny, meticulous, relatively moderate, his eyes are in a line, his cheeks are slightly concave, and he looks like a shrewd character!

Edward and Howard walked in front, followed by sisters Elizabeth and Luna, and of course Baron Smith and twenty knights.

Why did Elizabeth come along? According to her explanation, it was to protect Edward, and this sentence made Edward speechless, but when he remembered that she was often stuffy in the palace, Edward's heart couldn't help but soften and agreed!

So when Elizabeth jumped up excitedly, Edward had a three-chapter covenant with her.

First: You can't go out without Edward's approval!

Second: Listen to Edward when you go out, and don't be disobedient!

Third: Don't tell anyone what happened outside the home!

If Elizabeth violates any of the above three rules, she will be sent back to Windsor Castle immediately and will not be allowed to leave for one year.

With Elizabeth's lips curled in anger, Edward made this deal with her.

"Your Majesty, our Windsor Manor currently cultivates about 1,200 acres!" Howard's voice was magnetic, "Not only do we have 53 adult laborers and 56 children under the age of 14, but we also have twenty-four horses and 136 sheep!" ”

"And the mill on the estate earns £100 a year by crushing wheat for the nearby villagers every year!"

At this time, it was impossible for ordinary farmers to own a mill, so they could only go to the house of the person who owned the mill and spend money to use it. For example, Newton accompanied his grandmother to the mill and saw the windmill mill, so he built a small mill of his own.

At this time, the people who owned the mill were either nobles or local gentlemen, and ordinary petty gentlemen and yeoman farmers were not in a position to run their own business.

"And we produce a total of £1,500 a year, except for the food and drink for the serfs!" Howard's voice was full of pride.

Edward could understand Howard's pride, because at that time, a manor of this size could only make a profit of 1,200 pounds a year, and he stubbornly raised it by 300 pounds, which was enough to prove his ability!

"Then Mr. Butler! How much grain can we harvest in a year? "Edward is now immune to money, but he is short of food, so he can't help but raise the problem of food.

"Your Majesty, 100 acres of wheat have been planted at present, and about seven hundred bushels have been harvested; Eight hundred acres of rye were planted and 11,200 bushels were harvested; 200 acres of oats were planted and 1,200 bushels were harvested; 100 acres of soybeans were planted and 458 bushels were harvested! Suddenly, a large number of numbers popped out of Howard's mouth like a machine gun.

In England, 1 bushel is equal to 8 gallons, which is equal to 4 petagrams (the British unit of measurement for volume), which is equivalent to 36.3688 liters (metric).

To put it bluntly, one bushel is equal to 36.3688 kilograms, which is about 73 kilograms when converted to a measurement that we are familiar with.

Take the most productive rye, for example, about 1,100 catties per acre, which is the net yield and the highest yield on record at this time.

According to the calculation that one mu is equal to six acres, one mu only yields about 170 catties, and the yield per mu in Shaanxi in the barren Ming Dynasty reached 300 catties, and the yield per mu in the Jiangnan region at that time even reached 500 catties, which is a figure that makes Europeans desperate.

Due to England this grows this low yield is scary! The crop time is generally to plant barley and other grains in autumn and harvest them again in the summer of the following year, spanning most of the year.

So this is because the population of the entire European continent is less than that of the Ming Dynasty, and the area of arable land is more than that of the Ming Dynasty, but the price of food is high, and there is not enough to eat.

Edward came to Windsor Manor today to guide the work, so when Elizabeth returned to the villa in the manor to rest, Edward braved the scorching midday sun to the edge of the farmland.

When he came to the edge of the farmland, it was only about a kilometer, and Edward was already very tired, although his body was not good, but Edward could only endure it silently in order to maintain the majesty of the king.

Edward looked at a vast field, the two fields were different, one was already filled with the smell of green straw, and the other was still bare and overgrown with weeds. Edward knew that this was the two-garden farming method that was popular in Europe.

The two-nursery system is one of the popular rotation methods of cultivated land in Europe since the Middle Ages. It was prevalent in Europe before the 18th century. The method is to divide the cultivated land into two plots, one for cultivation and one for fallow every year, and change them year by year to retain the soil capacity, and the crops are also rotated.

And Edward looked at the wheat field silently, and his heart was full of emotion, I came here today, that is, knowledge determines fate, and knowledge changes history!

Edward turned his head to look at Butler Howard who was following behind him, and said, "Howard, have you heard of the three-garden system?" ”

"Ahh Your Majesty, I have never heard of this term, does it have anything to do with the two-garden system? "Butler Howard was a little confused by Edward's words.

The three-nursery system is that it divides cultivated land into three cultivated areas: fallow land, spring sowing land, and autumn (winter) sowing land, which are roughly equal in area. Crops are also rotated in the districts, with spring crops or barley or oats or legumes, and autumn (winter) crops or wheat or rye. Cultivated land and crops are rotated year by year, with a three-year cycle.

In the feudal manor, the three-garden system was enforced. The cultivated land owned by the peasants was in the form of long and narrow strips of land, which were scattered in various cultivated areas with the land owned by the lords. The types of crops planted and the time of farming are mandatory and uniform each year, and farmers have no right to arrange them; Fallow land and cultivated land after harvesting are used together as public pastures.

Compared with the two-nursery system, the three-nursery system can be harvested twice a year, and the area of fallow land is reduced from one-half to one-third, which is not only conducive to reducing the risk of agricultural disasters or harvest failures, but also conducive to the improvement of cultivated land and labor utilization, so the level of agricultural production is higher than that of the two-nursery system.

"Howard! I've decided to do it here," Edward said something that surprised Howard.

"But Your Majesty......," Howard was about to say something, but Edward interrupted him.

"Don't say anything more, my land listens to me!"