War is the root of the world. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Although there are a lot of boring people who are refuting and saying that the so-called war is nothing but a continuation of politics......

However, no one can deny that war must be the final destruction of mankind.

From quarrels between husband and wife to wars between countries, these are all manifestations of war; According to the unreliable statistics of a certain newspaper, there have been only 20 years in the history of mankind in which there has been no war at all.

Four thousand years of history, twenty years of peace.

This is the nature of human beings, brutal, bloodthirsty, destructive.

But let's put this damn war aside for now! Put down the sword and gun, put down the bow and arrow, and hold the nail rake again with the hand that has become accustomed to holding the sword, so that the body that has been accustomed to being stained with blood is covered with sweat again, and the hope of new life is sown in this warm spring.

Just because it's spring, the holy and great truce.

"Hey, you guys, you have to divide it carefully, you have to divide it into equal quarters!"

In the estate of the former Duke of Brittany, Magnus is directing a group of serfs to work.

Serfs, the sad beasts at the bottom of the Middle Ages.

It's a brute, not a human.

No one will treat serfs as human beings, they are born without any rights, and they have no rights after death, their life and death belong to their masters, and without the orders of their masters, they can't even die!

Not only themselves, but also their children can only be slaves.

There is no hope in sight, there is only eternal despair in front of you, this is the life of a serf.

Horses had to eat hay every day, cattle had to gnaw green grass every day, and serfs only had to eat black bread with cow dung and stones, which was the perfect labor force for animals.

With my personality, I can guarantee that the above is true, and it is not the worst.

In the face of such a miserable person, as long as there is still a little conscience, he will sympathize, but Magnus, he has no plans to improve the treatment of slaves for the time being.

The main reason is that the times, half a step ahead is a genius, one step ahead is a madman, and if a thousand years ahead, it is suicide.

It was not until the eighteenth century that the 'conscientious' capitalists of England first improved the conditions of the workers, whose status was similar to that of slaves.

For the first time, the workers were well fed.

Although the bread was still full of maggots and stones, for the first time, the workers could eat to their heart's content.

That was enough to bring tears to their eyes.

As for Magnus, he simply gave the serfs the leftover white bread he had eaten, and immediately gained their 100% loyalty.

…… But it didn't work.

Magnus sighed in his heart, if a knight and a soldier were 100% loyal, then Magnus would be very excited; Even if it's just a farmer's loyalty, he masturbates; But the serfs, who were so scrawny and so broken that even if they were given a sword, they could not be worthy warriors - in fact, if the chain mail of the Praetorian Guard was put on the serfs, they would probably be crushed at once.

If you want to make a serf's body like a normal person, it will take a lot of material resources, and it will take two or three years.

Therefore, the serfs could only be used for farming, and they had to be whipped with whips.

Not now, however, because Magnus had a very simple request, he found four serfs of exactly the same height as the width of the step, and asked them to start from one point and go in four directions at the same time, until the specially set aside farmland in the manor was divided into four equal parts.

――Speaking of manors, that's another topic. In fact, the manor was the main source of income for most of the medieval aristocracy, and the lords relied on the food or other products produced here for most of their income.

But this is a later story, and we can talk about it later, and now we will talk about the fourth part of Magnus.

Or it is called the four-nursery rotation method.

If you continue to grow wheat on a piece of land, the soil quality will gradually deteriorate, and modern people know that this is because of insufficient fertility and need to be fertilized; But for the people of the Middle Ages, they did not know what fertility was or what fertilizer was, so they had to abandon it.

Plant for a year, abandon the land for a year, and wait for nature to exert its 'magic' on the land again.

This is called the two-garden system.

Later, the three-garden system appeared.

That is, a piece of land is divided into three parts and planted in rotation, namely spring field, autumn field, and field that is fallow for one year; Rotated in a three-year cycle, each plot of land could be left fallow for one year after two years of continuous cultivation, increasing the utilization rate of the land from half to two-thirds at once - a great feat!

The person who invented this three-garden system did not leave a name, otherwise he would have been sung by hundreds of generations.

However, because of the deplorable speed of information transmission in the Middle Ages, even if the three-garden system was invented as early as the eighth century, it would not be widely used until after the twelfth century.

In the fields of Brittany, for example, the two-garden system is still used.

And now, Magnus has decided to take ****** big stride, skipping the three-garden system and going straight to the four-garden system!

Be careful of taking too big a step and pulling the egg.

But Magnus had full confidence, because agriculture was no more than anything else: in the era of artificial fertilizers and genetically modified organisms, all the technologies that could increase agricultural production had been practiced by countless people -- the unqualified ones had long been eliminated by the peasant uncles.

And just to be on the safe side, even Magnus himself only plans to open a small experimental plot, and only uses three nurseries in rotation on the other manor land.

Don't underestimate the rotation of three nurseries, even if the three-nursery system only increases the land utilization rate by one-sixth compared with the two-nursery system, but in agriculture this is equivalent to feeding a few more people.

If you turn all the fields in the manor into a three-garden system, the amount of food will add up, and the final grain production will be so large that it is staggering!

As for the peasants - 'free peasants' in writing, correctly - Magnus decided to leave them alone for the time being.

New things are always suspicious, not to mention farming, which is related to the life of a family. If Magnus had to force the peasants to change, whip them with whips, and threaten them with swords, good things would have turned into bad things, and the officials would have to fight against the people, and the Earl of Brest, who was watching the play, would have laughed off.

In any case, he had already lent the peasants oxen and iron farming tools, which were enough to make up for the labor gap caused by the large number of young and middle-aged people who died in battle, and there would be no reduction in grain production this year.

I've survived so many years, and it's not bad for such a year.

The peasants were the most sensitive to the problem of grain, and as long as Magnus's estate had a good harvest, the peasants would lick their faces and come up with their own faces.

One is to work hard to teach, and the farmers may not appreciate it; The other is like the moon in the hearts of all people, others beg you to remember your kindness......

Why not?