Chapter 121: The Harvest Begins
Autumn goes to winter, well, not so fast, or for the entire half-winter kingdom, between summer and winter, the short autumn is simply a blink of an eye.
Harvest Day, this great day, after a six-month hard sowing week, finally ushered in the harvest of the year.
At the end of August and the beginning of September, both yeoman farmers and tenant farmers, as well as the nobles in high places, put down their chores.
The children did not have to go to the school, the merchants did not go out to set up stalls, and the nobles put down their papers and weapons one by one and changed into simple clothes.
The leaves in the fields gradually turn yellow, and the land gradually loses its vitality as far as the eye can see, but if you look closely, you will find that there are many more busy figures bending over in the fields, and every time they work, their faces are full of joyful harvest.
"This is a good harvest!" Arthur cocked his tired back, although there was no way to make the harvest as easy as the earth, but the joy could not be hidden.
He was not short of money, but when he gently picked up the soil and pulled the bunches of sweet potatoes from the ground with the rhizomes, the joy was always the same.
"Lilia! Keep an eye on your little hired man, and don't let them steal too many sweet potatoes! Arthur raised his head and shouted as he looked at the absent-minded little succubus.
Compared to herself, the little succubus is much easier, she doesn't have to do it herself, and she only has her smart and powerful goblins, which is enough to withstand several laborers.
After more than two months of nourishment, these goblins' bodies have obviously swelled up, especially the smartest 'Goblin King', who has gone from being the weakest to surpassing the other goblins at once, and his strength is not even inferior to that of an adult.
Because of his low stature, his sense of smell to detect food is even more sensitive, and the goblins under Lilia's control are far faster than Arthur.
This directly saved Arthur a lot of costs for hiring farmers, and Arthur also chose to turn a blind eye to the goblin's behavior of wanting to put a sweet potato on his body from time to time.
Of course, good quality sweet potatoes can't be wasted by goblins, Arthur doesn't care about a few sweet potatoes, but if every good sweet potato is bitten by a little greenskin, this won't work.
Lilia stuck out her tongue, kicked the nearest little greenskin, and after a few scolding questions, she stepped in and started her work as the overseer.
"Alas...... Forget it, there is no shortage of this money this year anyway, and it seems that the goblins will not be needed for the summons used for harvesting. Arthur shook his head, he was not sad about the failed test specimens, seeing that he had earned a lot of money today, he didn't pay much attention to these sweet potatoes in the field.
After harvesting in previous years, Arthur usually stocked up enough sweet potatoes to last a year and a half, except for some of the grain that was bought and traded by the lord and sent to the north.
However, this year is different, except for a small number of sweet potatoes that are ready to be used for seeding, most of the sweet potatoes, Arthur thinks that they will be sold, and then replace the grain with flour, bacon and other crops, and no longer use the sweet potatoes that he has long been tired of eating as stock.
Patting the dirt off his body, Arthur harvested the last sweet potato to use as a seed, and the ground beneath his feet was different, this was the field he had been using as a test field.
Not only do the sweet potatoes have the best fertilizer, but they are also selected from the largest and most stem-bearing sweet potatoes in the selection of seeds.
In previous years, Arthur was not satisfied with the entire field at all, and even after supplying the Peter Rider family, he would have a lot more, and eliminate a large part of it.
Over the past few years, the seeds have been selected and strengthened, and the performance of the seeds has been getting better and better, and with the results of this year's harvest, the total weight should have increased slightly.
It is not as good as the results of intensive cultivation in previous years, but the quality of the seeds alone can already be harvested under natural conditions.
If compared with the aristocratic land on the other side of the river and ordinary farmers, Arthur's income per acre of land is at least 20% more, and if enough fertilizer and more care are applied, it is very likely that the yield will increase by another 20%.
Good seeds, good land, good methods, as long as these three points are achieved, the income in agriculture will naturally be higher than what cannot be done, which Arthur has proved with his own actions, and when Arthur completes a larger scale of sowing next year, such a planting method will also begin to be popularized throughout Morado.
"Arthur, have you harvested all your seeds? I'd like to come over and do you a favor. Uncle Vinock was carrying a hoe, and the two families were very close, and Arthur could be seen from a distance.
In contrast, his family's land is much larger, and this year there is a shortage of strong laborers, and the harvesting efficiency is much lower.
However, he didn't plan to come to Arthur to help him, because Arthur's manpower was much smaller than his family's, and most of the previous years were harvested by his family, and Arthur didn't even finish the breeding field.
"Yes, I didn't take good care of it this year, the harvest is a little less, and there is still such a large piece left, it seems that we will have to hire farmers to solve it at that time." Arthur looked at Lilia's efficiency, and said in his heart that it was estimated that it was enough, he didn't plan to spend this effort, and by the end of the autumn harvest, there would naturally be a lot of free manpower.
Uncle Vinok nodded, of course he knew that Arthur was not short of these sweet potato incomes now, and the magician still focused on learning, and it was cheaper to hire someone directly compared to the time delayed.
"Thanks to you, I didn't expect these goblins to be really useful, there are a lot fewer weeds, and the sweet potatoes have risen even better, and even your Aunt Ledna hasn't been able to get down to the ground much this year, and she has complained to me that she has nothing to do, and she has gained several pounds more." Uncle Vinnock joked.
Whether the little greenskin is good or not, who knows who uses it, even the townsfolk who started pulling weeds with goblins very late can feel a little different.
In the past, the grass in the field could not be pulled out at all, and after a summer rainstorm, it would grow densely after one night.
Anyone who has planted the land knows that weeds have to be pulled out as soon as possible, and if you really have to wait for them to grow to a height that you can lift at your fingertips, then the nutrients in the field will already be absorbed by them, let alone expect any good harvest.
Staring at the scorching sun and having to hunch over is not an easy job, it depends on whether a person is diligent or not, just by looking at the fields they plant.
If there are only crops in the field and there is not a single weed in sight, then it is not wrong to marry the daughter of the family with confidence.
But all you can see is a patch of land mixed with weeds and thin crops? Then I'm sorry, even if your family has money, it will be difficult to find a daughter-in-law