Chapter 285. Expansion of residential and cultivated land
The Battle of the Swamp is over, and the seemingly short war has come to an end, no matter how the panicked nobles in Grey Mist City and Sama City guess, the current Cape Town has indeed chosen to continue to develop. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
In addition to the expensive silver ornaments and thousands of large silver coins, the magic items engraved with mysterious ornaments were also found by the Barbary pirates who were good at searching, and they also became an indispensable energy value in Levi's system.
With 18,000 energy points, the Ketufu River thieves who are entrenched in the Swamp and have hooked up with Sama City and Gray Mist City, but there is no shortage of good things, and for Levi, so many energy points are enough for Cape Town to develop by leaps and bounds again.
Rows of traditional dwellings were built, and hundreds of Spanish displaced people appeared in Cape every day, to be resettled by Gasquel, the justice minister in charge of policing.
Originally, a traditional house usually had to be crowded into about 8 households with about 30 residents, and all people's lives were crowded, but now with the construction of a large number of traditional houses, the two-story small building-style houses are about 15 people living in four households, which not only relieves the increasingly tight housing space, but also allows everyone to enjoy personal privacy.
This is indeed a good construction plan, at least at present, the civilians of Cape Town are very enthusiastic about having privacy, and even in their busy work and leisure time, there are also talking and laughing about it.
The entire Cape Town was already full of buildings, and now it seems that the concept of a town is finally there, although it is still small compared to Grey Mist City, at most the size of an Outer Harbor District, but it is also much larger than Bal Town.
There are not many empty areas in the current city walls of Cape Town, most of which are built of brick and stone mixed with wood, with a traditional Spanish appearance and a few graceful baroque traditional houses, forming three large blocks, which are also full of civilians and soldiers.
The northern block is adjacent to the Yuqiao River, which is the main place for farmers to live, and it is convenient to reach the north of the Yuqiao River to carry out a lot of farm work, after all, the self-cultivated farms from the system involve the rules of the system, except for the winter when everything sleeps, it can be harvested once a quarter, which is equivalent to three crops of land and crops a year!
The central block is built around the sheriff's residence, and most of the people living in it are army units, which is equivalent to the headquarters of the barracks, and if there is a situation, whether it is the town militia or the Barbary pirates, they can support as soon as possible.
The southern neighborhood is adjacent to the fishing grounds and Cape Hill, where naval sailors and fishermen lived, and was also an important commercial place in the planning, so many traditional houses have been converted into taverns and inns, distributed in a commercial street that has been specially flowed out, and even arranged a street where the market is located.
If you want to choose development, then Cape Town can't be left alone, after all, this is a nautical world, and the resources and potential of an island are limited, and open trade is a necessary option.
In the future, after Haijiao Town chooses to open to the outside world, the southern block will be an important commercial block, attracting a large number of immigrants and businessmen to come, increasing the degree of foreign trade of Haijiao Town, and because the sailors and some fishermen live together, they can also get a lot of information and information they want, which can be regarded as one of the eyes and ears of Li Wei to collect intelligence.
As for the original temporary camp, it was also completely demolished when the traditional houses were built in Haijiao Town, and even the more than 2,000 pirate captives in it have been released to the north bank of the Yuqiao River to be re-guarded.
At the time of the construction of Cape Town, not only the traditional houses were built, because a large number of Spanish displaced people arrived, transformed into thousands of Spanish civilians, and the daily eating, drinking, chewing was a huge expense!
This is mainly to prevent the food problem in Cape Town, which will become the current weakness, so that it will be controlled by Gray Mist City and Sama City, and become a situation that makes Levi more spicy.
After all, bread made from barley flour is a staple food in the daily diet, and once you can't fill your stomach with enough bread, close to some fish and red meat from hunting, it is obviously a bit impractical for Haijiao Town, which has a growing population, and it can't meet everyone's requirements at all.
Although more than 30 yeoman farms have now been built on the north bank of the Yuqiao River, and the barley that can be ripened once in three months a season can basically meet the needs of Haijiao Town, it will take two months before the next harvest.
Three crops a year is considered later, at present, Levi's purchase of Gray Mist City and Sama City is still mainly food, after all, in this two-month vacuum period, the civilians and soldiers of Cape Town need to eat, so with the aftermath of the victor, they can barely deter the group of nobles, and can buy a lot of food to tide over the difficulties.
And once a long time passes, they still buy a lot of food, and it is estimated that the nobles in the Gray Mist City will also be able to figure out the current food shortage in Haijiao Town.
After the two sides tore their faces, they became the confident side, after all, with the help of the wider and higher walls of the inner city, once they extended the war for more than a month, then the town of Haijiao, which lacked food, could only choose peace talks.
At present, there are 30 self-cultivated farms, more than 3,000 acres of land, and three crops of grain a year, which can meet the needs of cities and towns with less than 20,000 people, which is completely sufficient for Haijiao Town, which currently has more than 5,000 civilians and more than 4,000 soldiers.
The sandy land on the east coast may have been extremely barren in the past, and the effect of cultivating farmland was the worst, but after the system changes, although it is still barren land, it can grow crops and obtain good harvests.
Three crops a year, compared to the fertile land of Samar City, which is one harvest a year, and even the harvest is higher, after all, the native world that watches the sky and eats has no rules from the system!
At the same time, in order to make up for the poor yield of the yeoman farm, Li Wei has also exerted the wisdom of his previous life, and the canal from the Yuqiao River has been dug in all 30 yeoman farms, half a meter deep and half a meter wide, fully ensuring the water intake of crops.
In addition, toilets in the traditional houses of Haijiao Town have been dug to connect the toilets, and five huge septic tanks have been dug in an area north of the Yuqiao River to ensure fertilizer for crops.
Of course, three crops a year also means three times a year of fertilization, close to the manure into fertilizer is still a little insufficient, so the nutrient-rich sludge in the swamp has become a good thing for the current agricultural development, and the light galleon warship is also quite convenient to act as a cargo ship, and barrels of sludge are transported downstream and dumped in the septic tank to become fertilizer for farmland.
There is a lot of mud in the swamp, and the plants that rot into it for a long time are also the best fertilizer, and after laying a layer on the poor soil of sandy land, it can also reach the harvest level of ordinary land.
This will undoubtedly increase food production, and the slaves of the water thieves, who dump buckets of fertilizer mixed in septic tanks on the land of their homesteaders, now have a large labor force, and these water thief slaves are the worst and most tiring of the work as defeated prisoners.
At present, the more than 2,000 water thief slaves owned by Cape Town are basically concentrated in the area of homesteaders and swamps, responsible for digging up mud and fertilizing the land, and the rest of the work is the responsibility of Spanish civilians.
In particular, in the silver mines, many huge timber has been cut down on a large scale by lumberjacks composed of many Spanish civilians, centered on religious seminaries.
Because the port outside Cape Town needs a lot of timber, especially the wooden pier deep into the sea, which needs to be used as the most basic skeleton, around which the wood is nailed into the seabed and laid with stones, so that a simple pier can be built on the south side of Cape Hill, next to the city wall.
This is still a temporary pier without trimming the breakwater, and it is estimated that it will take at least half a year for this kind of building without system support to be successfully built.
Therefore, a large number of logs can only be cut down at the silver pit to serve as the pillar of the current temporary wharf, if Levi can upgrade Cape Town again, then after the local fishing ground is upgraded to a simple port, there will be more wharves that can be docked, which can alleviate the embarrassing situation of relying on temporary wharfs at present.
The main point is that the portal at the silver pit is still not closed, and a large number of undead skeletons still appear in the foggy undead plane opposite.
If it weren't for the defenders stationed at the silver pit keeping an eye on the passage at any time, it is estimated that the entire silver pit would be completely occupied, because with the increase of time, Priest Zachari has also reported more than once that there are more and more skeleton soldiers appearing in this world on the other side, and they are also showing a stronger and stronger trend.
At the beginning, there were only two or three bronze-level undead skeletons among a hundred ordinary skeleton soldiers, and now they have even reached more than a dozen, and the pressure on the silver pit is huge.
Even the last time the undead skeletons appeared, in the early hours of last night, hundreds of skeleton soldiers rushed out in a swarm, and the Spanish spearmen who were in charge of guarding the night were killed by more than a dozen people, and only with the help of the town militia who rushed to completely defeat this wave of attack.
In this regard, Levi has also been completely solemn, and when he doesn't know how to close this portal, he also has to ensure that his territory is not violated.
At the same time, since the Ketufu River thieves in the Swamp have been defeated, it is the top priority of the current work of Cape Town to continue to use troops on the undead plane, borrow enough troops from their current position, conquer in that mysterious plane, and obtain more energy points, and at the same time, it can also exercise the actual combat ability of the troops!
(To be continued.) )