Chapter 33: The Great Reform of the Territory (1)
Three days passed quickly.
"Over here, I've measured this side too. Alan shouted to the busy crowd on the ridge now.
Two days after Allen's order, Will completed the task without losing his duty, so on the third day, Allen gathered people to come over to measure the fields, and even the knights were pulled out, of course, to add money, of course Arrin agreed, for his future brother-in-law, Yarlin very generously agreed to Allen's request.
With the participation of the knights, the process of surveying the land was greatly accelerated.
In less than a day, more than half of the fields had been measured and divided, and the acres that Viscount Amos had sent to divide the fields at that time were removed, and the fields were redivided according to the units of length that had just been established, and every six hundred square meters was one acre.
After less than two days of measurements, Alan had the exact number of fields in his possession.
There are about 20,000 acres of cultivated fields in the territory, but the high-grade fields are the least, only more than 2,000 acres, the most medium-sized fields, more than 11,000 acres, and the inferior fields are more than 7,000 acres.
According to the inference, the size of the entire territory should be about 30 square kilometers, about half of which has not been developed, and it is also because the world has not yet used animal power, so the field that a family can cultivate is very small, and the average amount of land that can be cultivated by each person should be about 100 acres.
As I said before, the grain production in the territory is only more than 7,000 tons.
Looking at the two contrasting numbers, Alan rubbed his head with a headache, which direction to start?
First go to Yarlin to see how much currency you have in the territory and if you can, you can buy a batch of cattle, and ask the price of cattle by the way.
"Uncle, I was about to go out? Why are you here? As soon as Alan arrived at the entrance of the castle, he saw that Yarlin was about to go out, "I'll come and show you something, you see, by the way, how much money can be used in the territory?"
"Huh?" Yarlin, who was confused by Allen's question, took the plan written by Allen with his hand, "I don't know this very well, or I'll take you to see it." Arrin was about to go out to find Alice, but who knew that he would wait for his brother-in-law, so he had to say to Allen.
As Yarlin walked to the castle's "vault", there was a "squeak!" as the gate opened.
Well, I thought there was a thousand golden lights inside, who knows what the black one looks like.
"Ahem, hehe, after all, I come here once a year, just to save money. Arrin laughed.
A knight was called to bring an oil lamp, and Alan, who had an oil lamp in his hand, entered the "vault".
The faint light of the oil lamp flickered in the dark room for a long time.
The first thing I saw was seven or eight large boxes, which had not been opened, and on the side were a bunch of smaller boxes, all of which were locked.
Arrin stepped forward, took out a stack of keys, and was the first to open one of the seven or eight large chests.
A burst of golden light came out, ahem, of course it wasn't.
"It's just a copper coin, I thought it was a gold coin. Arrin cried out in disappointment.
Alan didn't pay attention to this funny "brother-in-law", and didn't want to think about it, is it possible to have so many gold coins?But he found that Yarlin has evolved more and more in the direction of comic recently, maybe killing his brother made him a little escapist, and there were some problems in his mentality, so he became more and more funny??
After thinking about it for a while, Alan looked at a box of copper coins and estimated that there were about five or six hundred copper coins in a box, and there were only five or six hundred gold coins when converted. (1 Gold = 10 Silver = 1000 Copper)
Those small boxes should be silver coins, and I didn't open them one by one, but I opened one, and found that it was indeed silver coins.
"Alas, uncle, come and see, there's a box of gold coins here!" called Arrin crouching in a corner.
When I looked at it, there were probably more than 2,000 gold coins.
Go out and call someone to come and count how much money there is, and under Alan and Arlin's eyes, the four slaves who have read the book have finished counting in one more hour.
Looking at the "report" handed in, there are currently 3,128 gold coins in the territory, which is a little more than Allen estimated, and this is because Allen relied on the Black Bear Village to take away 1,000 gold coins, otherwise there would be more than 4,000.
There are more silver coins, after all, the knights' "salaries" are paid in silver coins, a total of 56,483 pieces, and the storage of silver coins is still okay.
There are even more copper coins, more than 3.86 million copper coins, which is simply too much to kill people.
"By the way, Arlin, do you know how much a cow costs?" said Alan after reading the record in his hand, and said to Arlin who was in a daze.
"I think my father said before, it seems to be 100 silver coins, I bought a cow to eat meat at that time, I have to say, beef is delicious, what, uncle, do you want to eat beef......? Hey, don't go!" said Arrlin, as if thinking of something, licking his lips with his tongue.
Alan ignored the "spring" Yarlin, who had already got what he wanted to know, and turned around and left.
A cow 100 silver coins, I remember the previous life inadvertently seen, a cow seems to be able to plough two acres of land a day, according to the spring ploughing is best completed within a month, the main thing is to plough, but also to make a plow, this is difficult, simply from the spring ploughing there is still a period of time, this time, strive to prepare the ox and the plow.
When he returned home, Alan thought about it, and began to turn over his memory, the most suitable plow, just use the Quyuan plough invented during the Tang Dynasty, the Quyuan plough is different from other ploughs, in which the plough evaluation and plough construction are added, such as advancing the plough evaluation, the plough arrow can be made downward, and the ploughshare is deep into the soil. If the plough is raised, the plough arrow is upward, the ploughshare into the soil is shallow, and the plough wall can not only break the soil, but also can push the ploughed soil to one side, reduce the resistance of the plough forward, the curved plough structure is complete, light and labor-saving, it is the advanced plough at that time.
Because there were pictures in the history books, which were memorized by Allen, this was able to be drawn completely.
Looking at the finished plough, "Perfect!" Alan exclaimed inwardly.
He gave the map to the carpenter in the realm, as the blacksmith was needed, and Bill's father, Burton, returned home with Uncle Burton's thanks. (Because of that knight college recommendation letter)
Alan then approached Arrin and asked him who was usually responsible for transporting goods and buying them from outside.
It turned out to be Will, but I didn't expect that a slave could hold such an important position in the territory, but he had two brushes.
Call in to Veil and tell him what he thinks, "How many cows do you want to buy, my lord?" asked Veil.
"Three hundred!" said Allen, who lay down and counted for a moment.