The family harvested 3.2 million pounds of wheat, 15 million pounds of sweet potatoes, more than 8 million pounds of nuts, beans and wild vegetables, 500,000 pounds of pickled fish and 5 million pounds of hay. There are 805 beef cattle, 277 dairy cows, 184 cultivated cattle, 2,789 goats, 10,981 wild boars and 173 horses. ”

Lilia's debriefing caused a slight agitation.

"I harvested the crops myself, and I harvested more than 400 pounds of wheat per acre, and we only sowed 70 pounds of wheat seeds!"

"What a miracle!"

"No! it's all a great thing!"

The village chiefs talked a lot, and Victor was a little proud. Randall led only 600,000 pounds of wheat seeds, more than 8,000 acres of wheat fields, with an average yield of 400 pounds of wheat per mu, and a planting-to-harvest ratio of nearly 1 to 6.

Victor knocked on the table, and the village chiefs immediately fell silent, and Lilia continued to report.

"At present, Randall's population is close to 8,000 people, of whom 5,000 are young and strong. There were 3,500 people living in the estuary village, 1,200 in Lord Nelson, 600 in the brick kiln village, and the rest in six other farms. We had to pay 8,000 people 500 gold soles a month, and of course that money ended up in the big canteen. But buying vegetables from their own land became a major expense for the family. ”

"Randall's land is close to 1,000 acres, and we spend more than 200 gold soles a month on vegetables. This is the income that freedmen can save, and it is also the net expense of the family. With that, Lilia glanced up at Victor, her eyes hiding worry.

Randall led the sale of purple cane wine to the Yorks, but the Yorkists could not afford to pay the money for the time being, and they paid for it with rye and beans. Randall's real income came from the trade in Pinewood, where Victor sold Mithril, potions, bricks, snow sugar, and coffee to the Chebmans, and bought pure gold, cattle, sheep, horses, wheat, salt, linen, and cow and sheepskins, and the profit from the trade was 1,200 gold soles per month. Randall's expenses were almost 500 gold soles. As a result, Randall's monthly net income is only 700 gold soles.

Lilia is in charge of Randall's finances, but she only has 9,000 gold soles. This amount of money is too little for a viscount, not to mention that Victor still owes the kingdom 5,000 gold soles, and this year's annuity is only indispensable. The thought of this gave Lilia a headache.

Lilia's troubles, of course Victor knew. Victor wasn't that poor in the first place, but he invested a lot of money in the construction of mercury and freeman caravans, which was the reason for the financial strain. However, Victor had just made a windfall, and he had recovered 198 Borui Purple Gold Coins worth 160,000 gold soles from the Assassin Ace, but he did not tell Lilia.

"Everyone already knows the situation of the family. Victor looked around and said slowly, "Although this is a great harvest, it is not yet time for us to cheer. Because Randall's population is growing, and we're not yet self-sufficient. ”

"I hope that by this time next year, Randall will have a capacity of 12,000 people and no longer need to buy food and supplies. This is an impossible task for ordinary pioneers, but we can do it! ”

Victor made plans for next year's agricultural production by increasing the area of wheat to 40,000 acres and allocating 60 pounds of wheat seeds per acre. The sweet potato does not need much care, and it is directly expanded to 100,000 mu, and 45 pounds per mu are sown. Victor also demanded that 20,000 acres of farmland be reclaimed for planting soldier beans, coarse beans and rye. According to the plan, Victor will consume 2.4 million pounds of wheat seeds and 4.5 million pounds of sweet potatoes, and is expected to harvest 14 million pounds of wheat and 40 million pounds of sweet potatoes next year.

In terms of animal husbandry, the more cattle and sheep the better, but the survival rate of captive wild boar cubs is too high, and the big pigs can eat it very well, which has become a big burden. Victor decided to keep only the breeding pigs and young pigs, and to slaughter the rest of the adult wild boars, and the pork would be pickled, sold or eaten.

In addition, Victor also put forward the request of dividing the pigs into the household, that is, entrusting the wild boars to the farmer families to raise, and each family raised three piglets. When the time comes to slaughter the wild boar, the farmer family gets half a wild boar. Pigs can not only save the wages of raising wild boars, increase the income of farmers, but also avoid the risks brought by centralized breeding.

After the pigs are divided into the household, the industry enters the village.

Victor's original development idea was to first concentrate on the development of agriculture, first to achieve self-sufficiency in grain, and finally to reserve a huge amount of grain to provide logistical support for the operation of the large corps. Therefore, Victor completely handed over the professional village to the alchemy humans. There is no doubt about the ability of alchemy humans, but their number is limited after all, and they have to build armaments, and the output of daily necessities seems to be somewhat insufficient. Victor used to buy a lot of linen and leather goods, for which he was cut by the Chebman family.

This harvest gave Victor great confidence, and he began to consider becoming self-sufficient in daily necessities, while training skilled workers to pave the way for the employment system of the lords.

The brick kiln village has been taken over by ordinary villagers, and nearly 200 alchemy militia have been liberated. Victor decided to put the production of flax and woodwork in the hands of the villagers as well. However, Randall's current focus is still on the development of agriculture and water conservancy, and it would be a bit out of place to continue to adopt the professional village production model. Victor's solution is to bring industry into the village.

In fact, the entry of industry into the village was the beginning of the employment system for the people. Victor had 6 farms under his command, and he asked 2 farms to build carpentry workshops, 2 to build linen workshops, and finally 2 to build leather workshops. Each workshop is arranged with 2 alchemy auxiliaries, who usually teach the villagers the skills of division of labor and cooperation, after the farm receives the production task, the village chief is responsible for recruiting manpower, organizing production, alchemy auxiliaries provide technical support, and finally Victor pays the payment.

"The villagers under your command are mainly engaged in farm work, and all kinds of production are their side jobs. But you must urge the villagers to receive training in the division of labor and cooperation, and don't think about the matter of keeping their own land all day long. I'm not going to continue allocating land for myself. If anyone is passive and slack, I will take back his own land. Do you understand?" said Victor to the village chiefs.

"My lord, we see. ”

"Don't worry, my lord. Learning a trade and making money is a good thing that no one will refuse. At the beginning, in order to learn the carpenter's trade, I worked for the master for five years!"

Victor nodded in satisfaction and asked, "Do you have any questions?"

The village chiefs shook their heads one after another, indicating that there was no problem. Only Nelson raised his hand and said, "My lord, what is going on with my territory?"

"I'll arrange it for you, you can just train the guards with peace of mind!" Victor said angrily.

"Oh. Nelson lowered his arm contentedly.

Victor shook his head and continued, "Since there is no problem, let's discuss the matter of building a village. ”

After the family's internal affairs are dealt with, it is necessary to solve the problem of people's protection from the cold. A few days earlier, Victor had asked the village chiefs to prepare for the mobilization of 4,000 men to build houses for the hired workers over a period of three months to survive the cold water season. Now that the task of harvesting the crops has been completed, it is time to start the project.

The village chiefs looked at each other, and Morin raised his hand and said, "My lord, we have a suggestion. Building the cottage in Randall will allow those people to move in, and when the water season is over, they will go back to work, and the village will still be ours. ”

Victor smiled: "Very good advice, this is the meeting I want to see." Although, I can't agree with this suggestion because once they stay, they won't go back. Who made us Randall so attractive?"

The village chiefs smiled proudly, and Victor continued, "We helped them today, and they will help us. When the first reservoir is finished, I will mobilize the young hired men to dig two stream reservoirs for Randall. Although the rain in the water season is abundant, the stream reservoir is only 80 acres in size, and more than 10,000 young people can dig it in only ten days. That's the reward for building our cottages. ”

"A cottage cannot be built from a shack. The shack was too small, the number of people it could accommodate, the amount of materials it consumed, and the time was too late. I designed a kind of large long house, which is rectangular, 30 meters long, 6 meters wide and 2 meters high, which can accommodate 30 people. The large long house is made of logs, mud for the wall, and hay for the roof, not for beauty, but must be strong. Can you do it?"

Maureen patted his chest and said, "No problem!"

Victor said: "In three months, build a cottage for 12,000 people, others will definitely not be able to do it! But our Randall family will definitely be able to complete it!"

"Let's go back and prepare!

When the village chiefs had left the meeting room, Victor asked Lilia, "How's the sheepskin jacket purchased?"

Lilia shook her head and said softly, "We only bought 2,000 sheepskin jackets. The town of Pinewood said that if we still want sheepskins, the price must go up, and three sheepskin jackets cost one gold sol. ”

Victor sighed, with the Randall's mobilization and organizational skills, it was not very difficult to build a cottage for 12,000 people, but the sheepskin jacket to protect against the cold could only be purchased from the Chebman family. Under normal circumstances, 1 gold sol can buy 12 sheepskin jackets, but the Chebman family has increased the price by 4 times! This price can be accepted by Victor through gritted teeth, but I am afraid that these materials cannot be bought with money.

The shortage of warm clothing is about 14,000 pieces, and the Chebman family can't make up such a large amount, so they can only buy from other families, and the price increase is also the meaning of the topic. But the problem is that even if other families are willing to sell and want to scrape together the remaining 12,000 sheepskin jackets, most of them will have to wait until next year.

Fortunately, Victor had already prepared, and he asked again, "How is the wool and linen purchased?"

Lilia nodded and said, "There is no problem with coarse linen, 20 truckloads of coarse linen can be shipped over tomorrow." Something went wrong with the wool, and the town of Songlin asked for the exchange of green bricks for wool, and two carts of green bricks for one cart of wool. They also asked, "What do we want wool for?"

Victor smiled, "You want to know too, right?"

"Hmm!" Lilia snorted coquettishly.

"Sheepskin scrolls were an important industry for the southern lords, who made sheepskin scrolls out of goatskins, and goatskin hairs were thick and short, so they were useless when they were cut. The southern lords burned their wool every year during the water season, and it is said that the abandoned wool piles were piled up like hills. ”

"We bought the wool and sewed a garment out of two layers of linen, and then stuffed the wool into it, and it was a piece of clothing to keep out the cold. ”

"Huh?!Is that okay?"

"What's not to do? As long as you can keep out the cold! The big long room and the wool jacket are the ideas I came up with. Victor said proudly.