Sophia named the area of land directly managed by the fort "Twilight Plantations", which accounted for half of the land but employed only about 6,000 farmers.

According to the plan of the fortress "Minister of Agriculture", the output of these 6,000 people is more than enough to feed the entire Twilight City of 50,000 people, which ensures that even if the rest of the farmers do not harvest all year round, there will be no famine.

Famine is a terrible thing.

Surrounding territories and nations sell ore and fuel, but are rarely willing to sell grain, especially in large quantities.

Because the real landlord's family has no surplus food.

All lords would count the number of serfs according to the output of the land, and once the population exceeded the capacity of the land, they would decisively discard the surplus serfs. Even if it is a great lord above the earl, the stored grain must be prepared for possible shortfalls in the next few years.

According to Sophia's proposal to the lord, after the food reserves in the fortress reach a certain amount, the number of free farmers can be gradually reduced and the number of industrial people can be increased, she knows very well how short the lord is now, but at the same time finds that Colin Vane is a very conservative lord, even if the plantation can now ensure that everyone is fed, there are still more than 30,000 people engaged in agricultural labor in the whole of Twilight.

The lord repeatedly emphasized that food was the foundation of everything, that the agricultural population must be kept above the minimum, and that in the future when food would be so abundant that farming would no longer be a means of subsistence, it would be transformed into an economic industry - she understood it in general, but not very well.

Sophia doesn't wear her flamboyant aristocratic clothes to work, and she likes the work clothes that are now distributed on the plantations - simple, dirt-resistant, inexpensive, but too ugly, and it is said that the lord himself designed them.

The lord is good at everything, but he is an aesthetic maverick.

Several magic looms in the workshop were running day and night, but even then, it would take a few months for everyone on the plantation to uniformly dress, and the same thing happened in places like the alchemy workshop and the logging team and the construction team, and Sophia loved the way everyone was in line with the work, and it felt very empowering.

The new round of planting was completed two months ago, and according to today's growth, it is expected that this year's production will more than double, which is not an unimaginable thing, after all, last year was short of manpower, most of the time it was sown haphazardly, and it was rarely cared for.

Sophia was already able to foresee the appearance of insufficient granaries in the fortress.

She plucked a wheat seedling at the edge of the field, carefully observed the root system, threw it aside, and stood on the ridge of the field, looking into the distance.

From this vantage point, you can clearly see the entrance to the fortress.

I saw a carriage leading a convoy out of the fortress.

It was a convoy led by Roy, a good friend of the lord, who came to the fortress every two months, and Sophia had brought things from Thunder City a few times.

Thunder City is bustling, Sophia lived there for a while before going to the West Continent, and in her capacity, she can stay there, go in and out of fine dining restaurants every day, go to concerts once a week, and occupy a good seat at the King's Celebration every year.

But that was not the life she longed for, and she preferred to spend her days on the plantation, with the soil and the wheat seedlings in the company.

……

Inside the carriage.

Roy looked at his friend in front of him with a distressed expression: "You really went secretly like this?" What if there is something important about the fortress? ”

Colin looked out through the cracks in the curtains, and the construction of Winterfell was in full swing, and he no longer needed his constant attention.

"Don't worry, I've arranged everything, and I'm just going to Thunder City to meet the teacher, and then I'll return to the fortress 'quickly'."

……

Tessa, as usual, would come to work for an hour in the garden not far from the Mage's Tower at five o'clock in the afternoon, and she loved the way she relaxed.

The garden has been renovated, and now it is once again full of all kinds of flowers that she likes, and when she sees the flowers, she thinks of her little brother, and when she thinks of her brother, she thinks of those terrible ryegrass.

The vitality of that kind of grass is simply amazing, after eradicating it a few times, it will grow out of the horns again, and finally I asked the teacher to use the powerful earth magic to turn over the soil, so that it is now full of vitality.

Thinking of this, Tessa patted her chest, still palpitating.

The next moment, however, she heard footsteps behind her.

When he turned around, he saw Colin Vane standing not far away, and instantly covered his mouth in shock.

"Senior sister."

After more than a year, seeing his senior sister again, Colin had mixed feelings.

If you have to judge the person who is closest to him in this world, it may not be the teacher, not Roy, not even Veronica, but Tessa in front of him.

The senior sister couldn't help him much, she couldn't count on academically, and she had long lagged behind her in magic, she just told him to eat every day, prepared a change of clothes for him, urged him to go to bed early, gave him pocket money, and helped him turn over his collar when he went out......

But Colin just felt like he couldn't live without her.

During this time in the fortress, the last thing he was used to was that he didn't have his senior sister by his side.

I think that my senior sister should miss him very much.

Colin happily walked to the garden, ready to give a big hug.

However, before he could get closer, he saw that the senior sister, who had always been gentle, suddenly stretched out her hand to stop her, and shouted, "Stop, don't enter the garden." ”

Colin was stunned.

Tessa flew up, landed in front of her, and hugged him.

While Colin nephrite was warm and fragrant, the first thought was: Senior Sister's light fluttering technique has regressed again......

……

Walking side by side on the way back to the Mage's Tower, Tessa babbled about the details of the parting, the content was nothing more than some trivial matters in life, and the teacher always mentioned Colin in the chat, as the eldest disciple of Roman Sagan, she was a little jealous, etc.

At the same time, after taking a few steps, he had to turn sideways to sort out Colin's clothes and accessories, and constantly complain about his clothes.

In fact, until now, the clothes on Colin's body are still prepared by his senior sister and Veronica when he left, which is very high-grade and has high taste, but after someone's matching, it looks nondescript.

Colin enjoyed his sister's nagging very much, and occasionally talked about what he saw and heard at the fortress.

As he approached the Mage Tower, Colin suddenly felt a throbbing in his heart.

The tall and majestic tower did not change anything, except that in front of the tower stood a white-haired old man with a pipe in his mouth.

In Colin's memory, the teacher was always sitting in his study smoking a cigarette, and he could barely recall how he walked out of the magic tower.

This is the first time I have seen it.

Roman Sagan had apparently been aware of his disciple's arrival.

Colin took a deep breath and walked quickly to the teacher.

The face of the nearly 100-year-old magister did not have the joy he imagined, but a solemn expression.

After a few moments, he removed the pipe from his mouth.

"You succeeded?"

There was an imperceptible tremor in the serious voice.

The headless words made Colin extremely comfortable. Of the people he knew, only the teacher could keep the same thinking frequency as him at all times, and to put it bluntly: everyone else was too stupid.

"Yes, teacher." Colin bowed deeply: "I succeeded. ”

(End of chapter)