Richard wanted to find a plant similar to sugar cane, and he couldn't do without the sheep-headed people of the territory.

The sheep-headed people are natural botanists, they know almost all the plants in northern Xinjiang, and they can also distinguish the medicinal properties and toxicity of plants.

When sick, sheep-headed people usually seek wild herbs to cure their illnesses.

Through the herbs that the sheep-headed people searched, Richard could also gain experience and develop botanical medicine.

The development of this field will not only benefit the humans of the Dawn Continent, but the cultivation of herbs can also form an industry and provide more resources for the territory.

Through Bernard's translation, the sheep-headed knew that Richard was not prepared to slaughter them.

Hearing this, the sheep-headed man behaved very happily.

Among the captive sheepheads, there were two first-order professionals, one named Anu, who was captured by Richard to defeat the sheep-headed squadron of the Tsarmok brigade, and the other named Larsey, who was a slave captured by Richard and the noble alliance into the orc empire.

The sheep-headed man has a gentle personality and has a kind of habit that is at ease with what happens.

The IQ of this group is average, not comparable to that of kobolds, equivalent to twelve or thirteen-year-old children.

The lifespan of the sheep-headed people is only in their twenties. If the life span is too short, the accumulated knowledge will not be enough. Therefore, it is rare for a good magician to appear in the sheep's head.

In the Orc Empire, the species of herbivores are basically at the bottom.

Although there are many shortcomings of the sheep-headed man, the herbalistic knowledge accumulated in the sheep's genes is very important for the development of human beings.

In the thousands of years of history of the Dawn Continent, some nobles have also studied a lot of botanical knowledge, especially magical botany, and have studied very deeply, and developed the doctrine of potions.

But magicians don't care about ordinary people at all, and the direction of research is mainly magic plants, magic pharmaceutics.

The focus of the investment is on the evolution of individual power.

The botanical knowledge accumulated by the sheep-headed people is not valued by magical researchers at all.

Most aristocrats only regard ordinary people as objects of exploitation and oppression, and do not care about the health and longevity of ordinary people.

After Richard settled the laborers and drew a map of the city, he put his second uncle Powell in charge of the construction of Fort Sophia, and his energy was mainly focused on the sheep's head.

Translated by Bernard, every day Richard had many questions to ask the sheep-headed man.

After a long time, he even learned the sheep-headed language and spoke to the sheep-headed man himself.

By talking to the sheep-headed people, Richard not only discovered some herbs, but also learned that there are two plants in the Eagle Mountains that taste sweet.

One is similar to the beet Richard had seen in his previous life, and the other was a rare tree.

Beets are considered a type of vegetable, and the cultivation of vegetables is very water-intensive, and it needs to be cultivated from the best paddy fields.

The two territories of Richard and William have relatively few paddy fields.

And the security of food in the territory needs to be in the hands of hands, and large-scale sugar beet cultivation is not feasible for the time being.

But Richard had already arranged for the slaves to dig up some beet seeds. Prepare small quantities of cultivated sugar beets and study the process of sugar extraction from sugar beets.

In his previous life, Richard had seen a video of the ancient method of making sugar, and it was very simple in terms of technology. Basically, there are processes such as cleaning, evaporation, crystallization, honey separation, and drying.

The tools required for the ancient sugar making process, in addition to the difficulty of making the large iron pot, the remaining sugar making tools can be made in the Harland territory.

Through Richard's years of observation, it was found that the development of the productive forces in the Dawn continent was basically the same as that of the European Middle Ages.

Some crafts are better than those of the Middle Ages, and some of them are not as good as those of the Middle Ages.

Especially in some remote areas, the economy has been in a relatively rough and primitive state for a long time, the degree of development of handicrafts and commerce is very low, and the level of craftsmen is not high.

For example, a blacksmith can make a blade for beginners, and only a few skilled blacksmiths can make armor and iron pots for an experienced one.

Richard asked the blacksmiths trained in Haaland's territory, and now two of them can make armor, but they still have no confidence in making iron pots.

You must know that the iron pot manufacturing technology did not mature until the Song Dynasty, and the Mongols at the end of the Qing Dynasty did not have the ability to make iron pots.

Of course, the Mongols did not forge iron pots, and in addition to the craft, fuel was also an important reason.

Iron smelting requires the use of coke, and coal-to-coke is the pre-process.

There is no coke, only charcoal can be fired from wood. Without sufficient forest resources, it is difficult to develop iron smelting technology.

There are not many forests on the Mongolian plateau, but there is a lot of coal. The coal has a high sulphur content and is of poor quality for iron making, so it can only be barely used as a weapon.

Richard is full of forests, and there is no shortage of forest resources.

After the Haraland family obtained a hereditary fief, Richard established a wood distillation kiln to produce charcoal suitable for iron smelting.

The fuel problem has been eliminated, and now if you want to make a large iron pot, you need skilled craftsmen to sum up their experience and use their brains.

Although there are ironsmelters in Heihe Fort, Richard is not good at bothering people every time.

This time he is ready to train his own people.

In order to bring out the ingenuity of the blacksmith, Richard decided to set a heavy reward for the blacksmiths, and Richard rewarded them with a bounty of thirty gold coins for those who could make a qualified large iron pot.

Thirty gold coins is equivalent to ten years of salary for ordinary citizens, and a farmer who has been farming all his life may not be able to save a huge amount of 30 gold coins in addition to the expenses of food, clothing, housing and transportation.

Even for the main legionnaires, it will take two and a half years to get this salary.

The main legionnaires need to be selected at various levels, and they also need to go to the battlefield to fight for their lives.

The blacksmith only needs to make a large iron pot to get this huge amount of money.

The huge sum of thirty gold coins is enough to tempt the craftsmen.

In addition, Richard also stipulated that blacksmiths who succeeded in making large iron pots could also be assigned to a house and become freemen.

He also serves as the manager of the leading subwayman. From the identity, directly entered the middle level of the territory.

In October, a blacksmith named Thomas Webb completed his mission, received a reward of thirty gold coins, and became a freeman in the realm of Haaland.

This man was appointed by Richard as the head of the blacksmith squad.

If Thomas Webb can continue to make breakthroughs in iron-smelting, Richard will also elevate his status and give him more bonuses.

Successfully manufactured a large iron pot, the process of squeezing sugar is not difficult.

In addition to beets, another plant with a high sugar content is a type of tree.

This type of tree is not common and has not yet appeared in human life.

There are a large number of magical beasts living in the Eagle Mountains, and there are many orc tribes in the north.

Ordinary people in the Haaland Kingdom, unless they are forced to become bandits, ordinary people do not dare to operate in the Eagle Mountain Range at all.

Even the hereditary earl of the Grant Kingdom, a seventh-order magician, lost his life in the Eagle Mountains.

The sugary trees that grow in the Eagle Mountains are naturally unknown.

(End of chapter)