"That's not barley, it's grass! You don't even recognize alfalfa? Lyudmila glared at the female ninja. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Veronica stuck out her tongue in embarrassment, "I'm sorry, I've never seen alfalfa grass growing in a farm!" ”

Nikita secretly wiped a cold sweat, she is also a daughter who does not distinguish between grains, fortunately she didn't make a sound just now.

"Ronnie, alfalfa is a good thing, this leguminous plant can not only feed horses, but also improve the soil and increase the fertility of farmland." Roland said with a smile.

"Huh? You haven't farmed before, how do you know so much? Veronica jumped down from the windmill and asked curiously.

Roland made an excuse lightly: "When I was in Vale Village, I consulted with Tonya and Miss Valentina about agricultural production. ”

Veronica nodded, continued to walk a short distance, and found a towering water tower, and suddenly her eyes lit up, and she climbed up.

"Are you a monkey? When you see a high place, climb up! Lyudmila said angrily.

Veronica turned her head and grimaced at her, deliberately scratching her ears and cheeks to imitate a monkey.

"Yo! There's a lot of wasteland in front of you, so why not plant some wheat or pasture? ”

Roland looked at the wasteland in front of him and told her with a smile: "It is a plot of land that has been deliberately abandoned, and it has been cultivated to restore soil fertility. ”

The farmland in the North Bay area is cultivated in three crops, one for cereals, one for pasture or legumes, and one for abandonment, which is a relatively scientific way of farming at the current level of agricultural productivity.

"This shows that there is no local Druid community in the Green Fields," Lyudmila concluded: "If there is a druid in charge of agricultural production, there is no need to abandon the farmland." ”

The Green Druids are not only good at using magic to promote the growth of crops and repel pests and diseases, but also use alchemy to allocate fertilizers to improve soil fertility, so the yield of farmland under their guidance is much higher than that of ordinary plots.

Roland thought of something from Lyudmila's words, and said softly: "There are not no druids in the area, Valgentina wrote back to me that there is an elder in the 'Harvest Ring' in the North Bay area, but this elder lives on the island and does not interfere in local agricultural production. ”

A road divides the field into east and west and leads straight to Hakugume Port.

Roland also followed Veronica's example and climbed the red brick water tower, standing on a high place and looking in the direction of the harbor. On the blue coastline, there are twelve large and small silver balls of light, like a huge pearl necklace, and the strong arcane fluctuations can be clearly felt from dozens of miles apart.

Roland knew that those silver balls of light were the embodiment of the "Lost Lock", and the intense silver light was undying day and night, both as a beacon to guide ships on the sea, and also to block all detection spells from outside the city-state.

The 12 orbs of light represent the 12 large and small city-states of the North Bay region, and these city-states are united to form the so-called "Bend League", and the largest and brightest ball of light is the White Gull Harbor Mystery Lock, which is a visual way to show the leading position of the White Gull Harbor among the city-states of the Bend Alliance.

Before Roland arrived, he asked Beowulf and Natasha about the political landscape of the North Bay region, and the Bend League, a huge organization that encompassed the city-states of the North Bay, was of course the focus of his understanding.

The word "bund" originally meant "wharf", and later referred to trading ports, and by extension, the Trade Port Union.

The so-called "Bend Alliance" refers to the commercial alliance formed by the twelve city-states of the Gulf in order to avoid vicious competition, enhance defense capabilities, and expand the scale of ocean-going trade.

Based on the terms of the alliance mentioned above, Roland is not reminded of the Hanseatic League, the commercial union of the northern city-states of Germany on Earth, which was in fact the prototype of the modern "confederation" (e.g., the European Union).

Based on his pre-travel history, he could even make a prediction about the Bend League in the North Bay: the loose alliance would not last long, either falling apart and going its own way, or transforming into a more centralized form of government with a powerful city-state as its capital.

"Uncle Mikhail, have you ever heard of the man Fleman Edric? He is a disciple of Lady Valentina, one of the elders of the Harvest Ring, and is said to have lived for generations in the Edric family on an island near the North Bay and is the lord of the area. ”

Before leaving Kitland for the North Bay, Roland sent a letter to Tonya about his upcoming itinerary. Soon after, he received a reply, in which Tonya relayed a message from Lady Valentina from the Astral Plane, in which she relayed two main contents:

One is to tell Roland to pay attention to safety, especially to be wary of the pirate group entrenched in the North Bay, the pirate queen Kraken Furmore is said to be Grande's mother, if the news of Roland's killing of Grande reaches the ears of the female demon king, he may face bloody revenge;

In the letter, Valentina also suggested that Roland contact Fryman Edric as soon as possible after arriving in Baigull Harbor, the Edric family is quite influential in the local area and can provide some guarantees for Roland's safety, and Fleman Edric, as the elder of the "Harvest Ring", can also assist Roland in negotiating business affairs with the Yanbo family.

In addition, Valentina also needed Roland to do something for her, and sent a special letter to represent the seal of the chief druid of the "Harvest Ring": a wooden plaque carved with a circular pattern of wheat ears, and blessed with her own divine sigil.

Roland held this seal, which was equivalent to Valentina's own plenipotentiary agent, on behalf of the "Harvest Ring", to negotiate with Ms. Lyuboff Yanbo of the Yangbo Chamber of Commerce, on the one hand, at the request of the Yangbo family to negotiate the grain export trade, and on the other hand, to try to import the newly cultivated corn and potato varieties from the New World through the channels of the Yangbo Chamber of Commerce.

The Harvest Ring has been promoting these two high-yielding crops in the Far East for many years, but it has not been going well.

Hearing that the new varieties of potatoes and maize recently bred in the New World could overcome these shortcomings, Valentina planned to acquire some of the breeding experiments in the Far East, hoping to take the opportunity to cultivate high-yielding potatoes and maize suitable for large-scale cultivation in the high latitudes of the Far East.

However, the Green Field Druid is only a local civil society in the Far East, lacking experience in both foreign trade and diplomacy, and has no dealings with colonial city-states such as Wilnoa and Grabelen in the New World, and cannot buy good seeds that are strictly kept secret and prohibited from export by the colonial authorities through normal commercial channels, let alone the details of breeding technology, so she hopes to solve this problem with the help of the Yangbo family's connections in the New World, and accordingly, the Harvest Ring is also happy to carry out long-term cooperation with the Yangbo family in the field of grain futures.

Valentina left all of this to Roland, and the Edric family of the North Bay provided all the convenience for his activities there. (To be continued.) )