"Are you really going to grow prickly kidney beans?"

Victor arrived at Rose Manor yesterday afternoon, and he informed Sylvia of his experiences during this time, including the introduction of prickly kidney beans. It's just that the two of them are newlywed, and they have a lingering relationship, and they didn't have time to talk about the strategic adjustment of the hills. It was only now that Sylvia began to ask about the prickly kidney beans.

"The hills are short of food, and the kidney bean is a high-yielding crop with a yield of 3,000 pounds per acre. Why are you so disgusted with prickly kidney beans?" asked Victor, puzzled.

"Didn't you knowingly ask?" Sylvia glared at him, and said angrily, "The kidney beans occupy valuable farmland, and the crops grown can only be distributed to the homeless for free. Who is the owner of the territory? are we? or are we outcasts?"

"Of course we are!" Victor said, "According to tradition, all the resources of the territory belong to the lord, and the spiny kidney beans are no exception. The prickly kidney beans I grow are my property, and even if it is not easy to preserve, I can sell it to the homeless people at a low price, can't I?"

"That's right. It is customary for the consul to donate the spoiled food to the church, and the food must not be wasted. The freedmen in the south-central kingdom are accustomed to enjoying free spiny kidney beans, and even if you set a low price, they will not pay for them, just wait for the church to come to the rescue. Sylvia sighed and said helplessly: "The reality is that planting prickly kidney beans occupies farmland and pastures, and it harms the interests of our lords. ”

Sylvia's attitude towards prickly kidney beans is the same as that of other lords, which reminds Victor of the "sheep eat people" movement in his middle school history textbooks.

From the 15th to the 17th centuries in Europe, with the discovery of the New World and the opening of new shipping routes, as well as the success of global shipping, England's foreign trade increased year by year, further stimulating the development of the woollen industry. The price of wool rose rapidly by 300%, and sheep farming became a lucrative industry. Often 10 acres of pasture yields more than 20 acres of arable land. The feudal aristocracy in England began to occupy land and convert farmland into pasture, causing a large number of tenant farmers to lose their jobs, and landless peasants either left their lands or wandered everywhere, falling into a state of extreme misery.

However, the enclosure movement conforms to the historical trend and has an inevitability. The feudal lords pursued the profits of the wool trade, abolished the open land system with low production efficiency, enclosed land for sheep, opened a large number of factories in the cities, and the landless peasants concentrated in the cities and became workers, while the feudal aristocracy completed the primitive accumulation of capital and transformed into capitalists. In the end, the sun never sets on an empire that dominates the world.

The human world where Victor lives is backward in terms of productivity, lack of food, and poor trade, and is still 108,000 miles away from big industry. Although the existing productive forces in the other world are not enough to promote the transformation of production relations, the essence of the pursuit of profit by the lord group is the same.

As it stands, the exiles have no sense of belonging to their territories and kingdoms, and in the eyes of the lords, they are indispensable, but they are not their own people. Planting thorny kidney beans is an outsider, and it is itself that is harmed, not to mention that the lord is not happy, and the registered people of the family will also strongly oppose it.

However, Victor did not have time to slowly cultivate vassals and vassals, and he abandoned the pure vassal system according to objective conditions, and changed to a system of combining land lease and manpower employment for supporters, helpers, and supporters. In a tene-hire system, displaced people can also be turned into supporters, and growing high-yielding prickly kidney beans is an important part of this strategy.

"My dear, growing prickly kidney beans may not be able to make a direct profit for the family, but its hidden value is immeasurable!"

"Well, I'm listening. ”

Sylvia looks at her lover expectantly, and Victor always surprises her.

Victor thought for a moment and said, "I have made agriculture, forestry, fishery, animal husbandry and gathering the primary industry. Mining, handicrafts, construction, and manufacturing are called secondary industries. The primary industry lays the foundation for the secondary industry, that is to say, the primary industry can be developed before the secondary industry can be developed, so as to create more value. Although the kidney bean is not valuable, it can promote the development of the secondary industry..."

"Wait!" Sylvia blinked her charming eyes and said dissatisfiedly, "I don't understand! Can you put it simply?"

"Uh... All right. "For example, there are 150,000 people in my territory, and because of the low food production in my territory, 140,000 people need to be engaged in farming, gathering, animal husbandry, fishing and hunting. Now, I grow high-yielding spiny kidney beans, and I can feed 15 people with 70,000 people engaged in food production, and the remaining 80,000 can be engaged in mining, smelting, weaving, making wood, repairing roads and castles, making armaments, receiving military training, and improving the combat effectiveness of the army. ”

"Yes, growing kidney beans reduces the number of cattle and sheep and the yield of wheat, but I can make up for it by selling wood, bricks, textiles and ironware. Since I have a large number of craftsmen, I can purchase raw materials such as hides, minerals, and wood, process them into products, and sell them to the outside world. I'm creating wealth with the resources of other territories. Isn't this more cost-effective than waging war and opening up territory?"

"Kidney beans, on the other hand, were freely available to freedfolk laborers. When I sell supplies to freedmen, do they go back to me? If I raise the price of daily necessities a little, the seemingly free prickly kidney beans will also bring me money. ”

Victor laughed, "Actually, instead of harming my family, I have cultivated a large number of craftsmen, built many villages, roads, and castles, built excellent armaments, and armed more armies. This is the primary industry driving the secondary industry. ”

The political and economic theories that are familiar to modern people are completely new to Sylvia. In fact, it is no wonder that the core strategy of the church and the knights and nobles is only one, that is, to defeat the orcs and reclaim the rich northern wilderness.

In order to compete for living space, the church spared no effort to implement limited internal strife and unanimous external guiding ideology. For thousands of years, this kind of thinking has permeated all levels of the human world, and even the Duoduo people who were beaten by the Sassan Empire did not dare to cut off the trade routes to Sassan.

Under the pressure of the orcs, the knights and nobles were busy polishing their fighting spirit, breeding bloodlines, training elite soldiers, and promoting the spirit of bravery. Scholars and aristocrats devoted themselves to architecture, monsters, and blacksmithing. Commoners are good at building houses, and they can build a castle in a few months. So, in this world of low productivity, humanity can build magnificent fortresses, build military heavy crossbows with a range of 400 meters, and equipment of various alloys emerge one after another, while philosophy, sociology, political economy, and, crucially, the science of agriculture and animal husbandry are stagnant and almost undeveloped.

Archbishop Lazarus once told Victor that as long as the northern wilderness was brought down, no new farming and pastoral system would be worth mentioning! The Duke of Wellington, as a master scholar, had touched the edge of the social division of labor, and he had retracted decisively, eager to eradicate all the prickly kidney beans in his territory. This shows how much influence the idea of military priority has on human society. Of course, this is also because the human kingdom is in danger of being attacked by orcs, and humans have no room for compromise.

Sylvia is the leader of the human elite, but she is also limited by the education of the nobility, and how to understand the theory of social division of labor, she is almost bypassed by Victor. However, Sylvia possessed wisdom that was hard to reach by ordinary people, and soon discovered the fallacy.

"What you said was done by the Duke of Wellington. However, the Wellington family is trying to eradicate the kidney bean, but due to pressure from the church, it has not been implemented. Sylvia looked at Victor suspiciously and asked, "The Duke of Wellington has always wanted someone to take over the prickly kidney beans, you won't be fooled by him, will you?"

Victor nodded: "Passing through the Duke of Wellington, I found that the roads there are smooth and wide, the fortress is majestic, there are many craftsmen, and the agriculture and animal husbandry and handicraft manufacturing are very developed. The city of Vestock is no less prosperous than the royal capital of Blinor. Facing Sylvia, Victor said, "With the prickly kidney beans, we have plenty of manpower to build fortresses and water conservancy projects. Aren't these all things that are urgently needed in the hills? Isn't bringing in population a good strategy for us?"

Sylvia said categorically: "We need population, but we don't need prickly kidney beans!"

"Growing prickly kidney beans proved to be a mistake on the part of the Wellington family. ”

"The free food attracted a large number of displaced people to the Mid-South to make a living, and they relied on the Duchy of Wellington, only in and out, and multiplied from generation to generation, and the population grew, and the Wellington family had to expand the area of prickly kidney beans and reduce pastures and farmland. Otherwise, they will have to import grain. ”

"The House of Wellington does have a lot of artisans who use their own wood, ore and leather to process goods, consuming the resources of the territory and making profits for the caravans. As for the purchase of raw materials, processing goods. Hehe, the other families are not fools either, the price of raw materials is very high, and the Wellington family has almost no profit to speak of. ”

"The Wellington family was feeding the Church, sharing the population pressure for the royal family, producing goods for the Chamber of Commerce, and earning profits for other lords to open mines and log wood. The prickly kidney beans made them the laughing stock of aristocratic circles. I don't want to repeat that mistake. Sylvia said seriously, "Honey, I don't want to force you. But you have to understand that we are one, and I can't sit idly by and watch the influx of displaced people into Randall's territory! In fact, even if there are water conservancy projects, our arable land is precious, and this is a hill after all, not a plain in the south-central region!"

"So, I won't allow you to grow prickly kidney beans!"

"That's why I didn't do it on my own. ”

In any case, Victor is a lord of the Centaur Hills line, and if he really wants to leave Sylvia aside and regard himself as an independent lord, it is definitely a head. Before Victor can promote prickly kidney beans, he must first convince his backers.

"Honey, I've already told you about the benefits of growing prickly kidney beans. As for its drawbacks...... Didn't you find that the prickly kidney beans are perfectly suited to the situation in the Centaur hills?"

Sylvia's heart moved, and she said, "Wild boar?"

Victor laughed: "Yes, prickly kidney beans cannot be fed to cattle and sheep, but they can be fed to pigs, and they can also be eaten by civilians. ”

"Sweet potato leaves can also be used to raise pigs, there is no need to waste arable land. Sylvia shook her head slowly.

"Who said they were going to take up arable land?" Victor explained with a smile, "The kidney beans themselves are shrubs and can be planted on hills!"

Sylvia's mind turned, and she said angrily, "You must have thought about it all, don't sell it." ”

Taking the jade finger on the soft flesh of the waist ribs, Victor confessed honestly, "I plan to cultivate terraces on the hills and grow spiny kidney beans. Due to watering, the yield of prickly kidney beans will definitely decrease, but it will not take up arable land. In addition, I have made an agreement with Baron Schultz to exchange charcoal for bricks, so that I don't have to worry about running out of fuel even if I shovel the bushes on the hills. ”

"As for the influx of displaced people due to the prickly kidney beans, it is not because the prickly kidney beans are free, but because the church is leading the way in providing relief. ”

"That's true. Sylvia agreed.

In fact, if it weren't for the church's use of donated kidney beans to help the displaced people and harvest their faith, the Wellington family would not have been able to collect a small fee from the homeless hired laborers. Wouldn't the farmers on earth dump milk, drown millions of live pigs, and burn more than 50,000 acres of cotton than help the poor, just to stabilize prices and avoid bankruptcy?

"So, as long as I leave the church alone, I can solve this problem!"

Victor held the soft bean around his waist and said righteously: "I want to plant spiny kidney beans, and I will also provide them to the homeless hired workers for free to eat as a wild resource!"

Sylvia's blue eyes rippled with brilliance, and she sighed, "Victor, you are indeed a genius!"

Kidney beans are planted on the hills as a wild resource and are owned by the lords. However, Victor stated that this wild crop was free for the people to eat, so it did not need to be harvested and put into storage, and naturally could not be donated to the church. Since the prickly kidney beans have been made available to the people for free, the church has nothing to say. However, the freedmen's unions in the villages resolutely resisted the homeless people's gathering of prickly kidney beans on the hills, which belonged to them!

Ostensibly, Victor gave the prickly kidney beans to the freedfolk hired workers, but in reality, the freedfolk hired workers were under the control of the village chief, who was at the behest of the lord. Whether the prickly kidney beans are used to raise pigs or people, Victor has the final say.

There is no way for the Church to organize a large-scale almsgiving, and there is no mass influx of freedmen into Randall's Territory. The scale of the population movement is still under Victor's control. In this way, the disadvantages of prickly kidney beans are completely solved, and the benefits are undoubtedly highlighted.

"Hehe, the Duke of Wellington is in your hands. ”

Sylvia smiled happily, and Victor said, "Honey, you agreed?"

"Of course!" Sylvia offered a fragrant kiss and said, "You do it, I support you!"

"What about the other lords?"

"Well, let's see the effect first!"

Victor shook his head and smiled, knowing that Sylvia would not promote prickly kidney beans in other territories. Randall has always been a testing ground for the York family, and successful experience will be introduced, and failed attempts are Victor's business. This also reflects the differences between the two sides on the strategy of the large corps.

Victor cultivated the prickly kidney beans in order to recruit soldiers among the freedmen and form a large professional army. The House of York disagreed with this plan, believing that the traditional defensive tactics constructed by the fortress, knights, elite soldiers, and militia were sufficient to withstand Ant-Man's attack. Freedmen can act as laborers, but they cannot be expected to defend their territory.

Changing perceptions doesn't happen overnight, and Victor isn't sure if the Armion is really a good fit for the world.

"Okay. I'll try it out at Randall first. Victor shrugged his shoulders.

"Plant the prickly kidney beans as soon as possible. Sylvia's attitude changed a hundred and eighty degrees, and she said, "Next year, I will mobilize 20,000 young men to build the Southern Fortress, plus 10,000 Phinex, a total of more than 30,000 people." My logistical pressure will be very high, and I hope you can help me with the supply of 20,000 people. ”

"I see. Victor nodded and said, "I'll sell you prickly kidney beans at a low price." ”

"What about the free ones?!" Sylvia said angrily.

"I gave you 150,000 gold soles! Purple cane wine was also given to you, and as a result, I have to pay 20,000 annuities a year!

"The purple cane wine is not for you, and the green wheat supplied to you accounts for fifty percent of Randall's food consumption!"

"It's 30 percent now, and the population of Randall has reached 12,000 people. Moreover, the value of purple cane wine is much greater than that of green barley. "Victor must be beaten.

"Sophia's profits were taken away from the purple cane wine, and she took my purple cane wine to call the wind and rain in Naville, and also got in touch with the barbarian tribe. I ask you, whose wife is Sophia, and who should you ask for the fine?" Sylvia began to argue.

"What does Sophia have to do with me? She has gone to the kingdom of Borui and met her lover, can I ask her for money?" Victor was indignant.

Sylvia clasped her hands to her chest and said sneeringly: "Hehe, didn't the 150,000 gold sol you gave me to Sophia give you?

Victor was speechless and dumbfounded, he kind of understood, Sylvia is a god knight and a woman, as long as she is a woman, don't expect her to be reasonable.

"Well, Sophia went to the Borui Kingdom for another secret, it is said to be related to the barbarians, but there is no conclusive news......"

Seeing that Victor was sullen, Sylvia thought that he had not forgotten his feelings and had the heart to comfort him, but Sophia must go to see Andrei, and she had nothing to say in the end.

Victor spread his hands inexplicably and said innocently: "It's none of my business!"