In terms of time, it is not reasonable to take stock of the development of Sardinia and other islands at the end of the 1495 plot. However, for the sake of a general overview of the harvest in Sardinia, Corsica, the Canary Islands and other islands, we will talk about them until now.

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As mentioned earlier, this year's net profit is a little more than 10 million ducats.

In Sardinia, the area under cultivation of wheat and buckwheat did not expand further in 1495. Because this is the end of the Middle Ages after all, although I have mastered the farming techniques of the Ming Empire, I have not yet had a lot of experience.

The bumper harvest of 1494 was actually due to the fact that the water and heat conditions were relatively good, with less dry weather and pests and diseases.

Even so, when European farmers planted in 1494 with a new method, they showed a little problem.

The 3,000-square-kilometer Oristano plain on Sardinia has already been reclaimed, and if it continues to be cultivated on a large scale in the second year, it is inevitable that the yield per mu will decline.

In the future, Sardinia will be a long-term intensive base for industry and agriculture, and it will also be an important military base, and further expansion of farmland will reduce industrial land and military bases.

The effects of soil erosion from over-deforestation have not been taken into account.

As a result, the production of grain in Sardinia, mainly wheat and buckwheat, remained more or less unchanged. It is still close to 40 million quarts.

Further reclamation was planned to take place in 1496-1497, with the prospect of another 300 square kilometers of arable land.

A lot of food is not necessarily a good thing, such as farming methods, fertilizers and other secrets, there is a possibility of leakage.

In 1495, food was produced in Sardinia, on the one hand, to support the First Italian War, and on the other hand, to sell and relieve the Iberian Peninsula. Some of them are sold to European countries, and some are stored.

These are all routines that have already been played in 1494. And in 1495, Ferdinand found a new way to consume wheat, which was to raise pigs.

Spain, in later generations, enjoyed the reputation of the European pig country. The country has a long history of pig farming, and in Grenada, Andalusia, and Extremadura, the strong wild boars or free-range pigs in those woodlands have created the fame of Spanish hams such as Granada ham and Extremadura!

Balboa, who discovered Panama, came to Hispaniola in the New World, and the top priority was to raise pigs without hesitation! until bankruptcy.

The glorious pig tradition and passion of the Spaniards, both at home and abroad, has always been the same!

Now, Ferdinand instructed Sardinia to start developing this traditional Spanish pig industry, in which pigs were given wheat bran as fodder at the cost of castration.

They can then be kept in captivity, sleeping all day and night, growing a body of fat, and their manure can be used as fertilizer for crops.

In the end, the pigs were gloriously slaughtered to feed the people of Sardinia and Spain with their meat.

This also made Ferdinand's "Spanish Catering" chain have more cheap meals and flourish all over Spain, and "Spanish Catering" is naturally not only a restaurant, but also a hotel and hostel.

At the same time, it is also Nidhogg's intelligence gathering and delivery network.

Niederhogg can't be called the "Niedhoven Group" anymore, this intelligence organization is now growing rapidly and expanding in size.

In addition to chain stores, a number of post stations and secret intelligence posts were established throughout the Iberian Peninsula, and a surveillance network was initially established in the country, which would play an increasingly important role in dealing with the Moors and the Castilian aristocracy.

After all, this was the first official large-scale intelligence service in a European country since the Middle Ages.

The department is also currently headquartered and focused on Sardinia. In Sardinia, a place where there is no aristocracy and no democracy to speak of, there is only absolute kingship, absolute order. Some foreigners, whether unintentional or with any purpose (there are no specialized foreign spies at present, only a few private individuals or small organizations who are too suspicious and idle) are tortured to extract confessions, and no one can leave the island alive.

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In terms of light industry, the textile industry in Sardinia has also developed rapidly, with a sharp increase in the speed of spinning and weaving. This also poses several problems.

One is that cotton cultivation can't keep up. The only way to do this is to open up the source of land in Sardinia for cotton cultivation and supply it locally. In addition, cotton cultivation is encouraged and promoted in Spain. In the New World, the Louisiana region and the Alabama region are also planned to be important cotton growing sites.

Another question is the use of these cotton fabrics. Ferdinand was not in a hurry to sell it, first cotton cloth was made into quilts, sold to the workers and peasants of Sardinia, and then supplied to the army, especially the army still fighting in Italy.

The cotton cloth and its products were then sold to Castile and Aragon, and then exported to England, Flanders, Germany, and other places. There were also some cotton cloths that traveled across the ocean to the New World to supply the reclamation corps and government-organized immigrants, and to fool the Indians, who would surely be cheated of a lot of good things when they saw the cotton cloth. It can't be called a pit, cotton cloth is originally a means of subsistence......

Finally, there is a question that touches on the eve of modern times - motivation! Of course, this problem is not yet apparent, but it will become more prominent in the future.

The Isabella (Jenny) spinning machine, which has greatly improved its efficiency, has not gotten rid of the situation of relying on manpower, and has not yet had too many problems in distributing the application in the homes of farmers in Sardinia.

The reel spinning machine and the spindle worsted spinning machine (mule machine), they are powered by water power, therefore, at present, they are mainly concentrated in the mouth of the Tiersso River and along the coast, the factory has only been developed for two years, naturally it has not reached any bottleneck, and the development space is still very large, but after five or six years of development, the problem may gradually be revealed.

It's not just a matter of lack of power, factories are confined to the banks of rivers, which both occupies land, affects agriculture, and may leak secrets in the future. If you go out of Sardinia and expand the advanced light industry to other places, relying on water-powered looms, it will be even more problematic.

Well, these questions all bode well for an exciting prospect, the steam engine!

Ferdinand had completed the drawings of the Newcomen steam engine and the Watt steam engine, and now planned to build the Newcomen steam engine before conquering the Watt steam engine.

Although it would be foolish to use the Newcomen steam engine for spinning and weaving, and only for coal mining (the bad news is that there are no coal mines in Spain), with the advancement of the steam engine, the entire industrial sector will benefit from its surging power.

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