Chapter 610: Ridge Cultivation System (3 Shifts/4 Shifts Limited)
At first, Clen didn't know the rules of Elson City. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info When he got up in the morning, he went straight to a corner to solve the problem as usual - but he didn't expect that the guards outside the house were dissuaded and took him directly to a building called a "toilet", which not only had a separate place for excretion, but also provided three pieces of straw paper when he entered the door to solve the cleaning problem.
This is something that Clen hadn't thought about before, you must know that wiping her ass these days is basically a casual pull of grass blades or stones to finish the work. The aristocracy may be a little more elaborate, with a special rope or stick, and "paper" ... It became an invention that was lost after the era of the High Elves.
Knowledge is also monopolized to a large extent because of the problem of paper. Nowadays, most aristocrats use "parchment", but the material is genuine "parchment", so you can imagine how expensive it is to write down words or send letters.
Roddy was a very early adopter of the importance of "paper", but it wasn't something that could be made all at once - the problem of paper was indeed solved during the High Elf period, but there was no "paper mill" option in Elson. So he could only let the "Elson Magic Research Department" try to make paper according to the ideas he provided, fortunately the mages were very smart, and the amount of wood cut in advance also came in handy, and after the first issue of "The Age of Cullen" was released in the form of 1,500 parchments, the second issue of the newspaper began to be replaced by paper with the color of wood, and the number increased to 5,000. At the same time, the mass production of paper has led to a production line, and the sales line has begun to spread to the rest of the country, and it will not be long before Roddy, who has the manufacturing formula, can make a lot of gold again.
Clen didn't know the story behind the paper, the straw paper he had just used was made from the inferior quality materials used to produce the paper, and in order to save resources, Roddy put the rough paper, which had been simply processed, in the "toilet" to improve the quality of citizens - and it was clear that being able to wipe off the butt was a very good experience for most people, and the cleaning team that had to patrol had not encountered a guy who defecated in the open in the past few days.
Although the topic of "excretion" is indecent, this alone makes Clen realize that Elson is a different city.
After going to the toilet, he felt refreshed, but as soon as he took a few steps, he noticed that there was a carriage next to the toilet that specialized in handling feces. The "manure buckets" developed by the mages avoided the stench of exposed manure, and the carriage drove out of the city soon after the manure pumping work, and Clen was amazed, and then took it to heart, and strolled down the street on his own.
After a day of wandering, in the afternoon, Karen unknowingly came out of the city. Instead of being built along the river, as you might think, the nearby villages are planted with grain in the open fields along the sides of the road. As a dilapidated aristocrat, Karen actually knew about farming, and he looked closely, but found that there was not a single fallow land in the entire field of vision.
"Don't fallow the plow? Is this going to give up when you're done plowing?"
In the inherent thinking, the land is not fallow, and what is grown will only get worse every year. Thinking like this, Karen walked to a farmland curiously, and when he squatted down to observe, he found that the vegetables, wheat, and oats in front of him were much thicker and fuller than he had in his impression...
And most importantly, they are planted in the form of furrows in an unusually neat pattern, which is really unprecedented for Karen.
"It's... Is it because the land is so good?"
Karen paid attention to the crops mainly because he personally counted the data of the harvest of the people, and even went to the field to observe the growth of grain for this reason - after all, he was not a big nobleman, and his life was really difficult when the grain harvest was poor.
As far as he knew, it was a well-established fact that the land in the northwest of the Karen Kingdom was relatively barren, so in previous years it was always necessary to buy a batch of grain from the southeast to survive the winter. And now these crops are growing well, is it because they are neatly planted in vertical rows?
You must know that the traditional agricultural planting method of the Karen Kingdom is very backward, and the farmers are really just "scattering" when they sow - twenty or thirty catties of grain are thrown down on an acre of land, and after growing out in a disorderly manner, they are mixed with the weeds in the field, and there is nowhere to put their feet if they want to weed, not to mention the grain harvested all year round, and the nutrients in the field are basically exhausted, and they must vacate this place for a year of rest when they cultivate next year.
But now, what about the uneven and convex fields that neatly divide the crops, and many farmers walk through them, pulling weeds without stepping on their own crops. The breeze blows, and the ventilation and heat conduction between the fields are unusually good.
"Maybe this way of farming can really work..."
Clen pondered and was about to turn away, but suddenly noticed a "crunch" carriage coming not far away, and looked at it and confirmed that it was the model that pumped feces for the "toilet". Clen thought that he would find a random place to arrange the excrement, but he did not expect that in just a few minutes, similar carriages would continue to gather in several places outside the village, and then began to dump in several large pits.
It would not have been strange if it was simply a landfill, but he saw at least a dozen farmers around him running over to help, helping to dump and throwing many other things into the pit with excitement on their faces - like weeds pulled out of the field, The straw left over from the oatmeal harvest and some gray-white dirt that Clen couldn't call for was poured in, and then he was even more stunned to see a tall arcane golem come out of the next room, and then under the command of a mage in a robe, he put the stick on his arm into the pit and stirred it, and after a few minutes of this, the farmers began to cover the dung pit with a mess, and then walked away with a joke.
Karen unconsciously piled a pile of smelly feces together, and the curiosity in his heart made him reach out to stop a farmer who had just participated in filling the pit, and asked, "This... Uh, uncle, what were you doing?"
The farmer who had just finished the manure pit naturally didn't smell good, and Karen couldn't help but be smoked and took a step back.
This society was very hierarchical, and no matter how down-and-out Karen was, he wore the clothes of the aristocracy, and the farmer did not dare to bluff, and immediately replied: "My lord, we were making manure just now. ”
"Tsuki... What?" (To be continued.) )