As soon as Byron's mind moved, the huge three-dimensional map in front of him began to change.

While the rest of the city shrank, the vicinity of Tayapan quickly zoomed in, revealing in an instant the scene of a black cultivated field outside the city.

Not long ago, it was a woodland, and after the fire, the ground was covered with a layer of grass and wood ash.

A group of indigenous farmers came to the edge of the field to get ready, bags containing carefully selected corn seeds, iron farming tools, and farm manure prepared in advance using composting technology

Compared to the slash-and-burn cultivation of indigenous city-states in other places, this is already the "top technology" ahead of the entire era.

In particular, they are also clustered around a novel device pulled by a cow, which is the best of the best.

The people live on food! If you want to completely win over the hearts of the people, let the bulk empire unite as one, and let them have a full stomach, it is naturally the top priority.

Byron did not hesitate to take out the treasure at the bottom of the box and conduct a pilot in his own direct jurisdiction.

Corn on the island of Yucatan is generally sown between April and May, and in the southern part of the former Taya Empire, it can be slightly delayed until June.

It will be piloted by Tayapan first, and then extended to the whole territory after success.

As the vanguard of reform at the forefront, this is the true "Taya standard", not to be proud of their bloodline.

"Let's get started."

Hearing Catherine's order, the farmers respectfully obeyed and were about to get to work.

Phew——!

Suddenly, a gust of wind blew, blowing a dark cumulonimbus cloud over the city of Tayapan and the cultivated fields.

Then a light rain fell.

Rustle

It wet the farmers' clothes and the land.

It can only be said that the weather is not beautiful, and under normal circumstances, when it rains, it cannot be sown in any case.

However, this is not the case.

Within the core territory of Tayapan and the current "Holy Golden Empire", he Byron Lancaster is the Heavenly Lord!

Catherine reacted faster than Byron, grabbing his astral body and slamming it into the sky as if she were brandishing a scepter.

A golden light that was rare for mortals to see rose up, instantly connecting all seven crystal skulls under their rule, as well as the various guardian spirits that belonged to them.

No. 1 Crystal Skull [Celestial]; No. 3 [Corn God]; No. 5 [Sun God]; Number 6 [Moon Goddess]; Number Eight [Quetzalcoatl]; No. 12 [Polaris God];

plus a second crystal skull [Mother Earth Goddess] Mano, which Uxmal City offered to him.

The seven skulls resonated strongly, and they had never been so connected since the collapse of the Taya Empire.

And now it is different from the past, and the Golden Law has been extended to unite them into a whole.

The law is the vein, the seven gods are the nodes, and the guardian spirit arches and guards the side, covering all aspects of this animistic land.

Catherine's power as the "Executive Emperor" instantly covered various fields such as agriculture, celestial phenomena, cloudy weather, and medicine.

Management is no longer just the kingdom of the earth, but also covers the entire natural world of heaven, earth and man.

At the same time, she whispered softly:

"Decree: It's sunny and rainless in Tayapan today!"

Suddenly, a strong wind blew, and the cumulonimbus clouds, which had not yet fully formed, were suddenly blown away to sea and disappeared without a trace in the blink of an eye.

The third-order core ability of the Law Mage [Law Order] that was "traded" from those three assassins had already been given to Catherine.

In addition, even the supreme dignified "god" was held in the palm of her hand at will.

Within the coverage of the Golden Law, it can be said that there is a constitution in the mouth, and the law is followed.

"Alright, go ahead."

Naturally, the peasants had heard Catherine's edict, and where had they seen such an astonishing battle?

Just one word can command heaven and earth, so how powerful should the [Lord of Heaven] have?

After thinking about Dihua, he couldn't help but bow down in the direction of the pyramid before continuing to work.

"Moo~"

The ploughing oxen, which had traveled thousands of miles from the Old World, stepped forward, dragging behind them a strange device held steady by a native.

This novel scene immediately attracted many residents of the city-state, as well as the transcendents and soldiers of the "cathar army".

"Is this farming? How is it completely different from before. ”

"Looking at the ashes of the plants and trees on the ground, it should indeed have been burned once, shouldn't it be directly sown seeds at this time?"

"That's right, don't you just find a guardian spirit to sacrifice after sowing seeds, we've all done this before."

More and more people gathered, but no one knew what they were doing.

In the end, even the great shaman of Uxmal City, Sivatel, heard the news and rushed to the scene, and the [Giant Bear Spirit], who used black magic to communicate with his own soil attributes, vaguely saw a clue.

Theoretically, in the tropical rainforest, the whole year is high temperature and rain, the water and heat conditions are very sufficient, and the agricultural production period is long, which can fully meet the needs of three crops a year.

But rainforests grow exceptionally vigorously and absorb large amounts of nutrients from the soil.

Coupled with the rainy climate, the leaching effect of the soil is very strong, and most of the nutrients of the entire ecosystem are in the body of various vegetation on the surface.

As a result, the soils in the rainforest are very poor.

To compensate for this, indigenous farmers have used a very primitive method of milpa farming since ancient times:

"Cut down all the trees, wait for a while to dry, and then set them on fire before the rainy season arrives, and use plant ash as fertilizer to cover the barren rainforest soil.

Burn one stubble at a time, and then fallow for 1-3 years, and in some places even up to 6 years, and then burn and replant after the grass and trees grow more lush again. ”

When the population is small, it is fine, but when civilization flourishes and the population grows greatly, the pressure on agriculture increases, and the indigenous people destroy forests more widely and at the same time shorten the fallow time as much as possible.

As a result, rain is more likely to wash away fertile soil, causing soil fertility to continue to decline and corn yields to decrease.

Coupled with the destruction of vegetation by farming, which leads to a massive loss of nutrients from the system, fragile rainforest systems are prone to collapse.

In many cases, they had to abandon their city-state homes where they had lived for hundreds of years and retreat to more primitive mountain forests.

The current decline of the Taya people, in addition to the snooping of the old gods, also has a lot to do with the continuous collapse of basic agriculture.

"A little wider, different vegetation requires different furrow widths"

At this time, under Byron's guidance, the farmers ploughed the furrows with suitable spacing, one high and one low, in the fields that had burned the wasteland and carefully removed stones, tree roots, and other debris.

And he planted the seeds of corn on the ridges of the fields, and put three in each pit.

This method of cultivation may not seem magical, but it is actually one of the most advanced agricultural techniques available today – ridge farming.

Ridge tillage not only solves the problems of light, ventilation, irrigation, and traffic in farmland, but also saves a lot of labor.

What's more, when it rains a lot, the relatively high ridges and crops will not be flooded, and the interspersed ditches will perfectly complete the task of storing and draining water.

Ditches can also be used for irrigation during droughts.

Unless there is force majeure such as drought and flooding, farmland production will not be too reduced.

This type of cultivation is especially suitable for the rainy environment of the Yucatan.

Most importantly, the ridges and furrows are swapped every year, and every year when the crops are harvested, the farmer plows the entire plot over again, and the next year the ridges and furrows are swapped for alternate fallowing.

It can ensure that the soil will not become barren due to continuous cultivation, and ensure sustainable production capacity.

It can also monitor and balance the acidity and alkalinity of the soil as a whole, so as not to cause nutrient imbalance.

Year after year, the tillage and fertility of the soil can be continuously improved, so that the natural soil (raw soil) can gradually be transformed into fertile cultivated soil (cooked soil) suitable for crop growth.

Only in this way can a field gradually turn from a wasteland into a high-quality mature field over the years, and the grain production will be higher and higher.

Instead of repeating the cycle between burning and arriving.

With just one change in the ridge tillage method, it is definitely not a problem to quadruple or five times the yield on the basis of slash-and-burn farming!

Ridge ploughing is the goal, and the curved plough is the best means to achieve this end at present.

Moreover, it is also a step to skip the "straight yuan" and step into the more advanced "zigzag".

The depth of the ploughshare into the soil can be adjusted by using the plough bell; Equipped with a plough wall, it can freely break the soil, loosen the soil and ridge the acre;

It can also push the raised mound to the side, reduce the resistance of the plow, increase the speed of ploughing, and operate dexterously and lightly.

It can be easily operated by one person with just one cow.

With each plough of the curved plough, a golden point of light burrowed into its body.

After ploughing a total of ten furrows along the way, it looked like a field was finally getting a little bit of what it should be.

Clang! Clang! Clang!

Not surprisingly, with the distant ringing of a bell, a dazzling golden light suddenly soared straight into the sky from the curved plow.

Then Byron, Catherine, and all the onlookers, seeing the curved plough of pure gold, suddenly broke free from the restraints of the plough and the farmer.

A translucent golden bull appeared in front, and a translucent silver horse appeared in the back, the golden bull dragged the plow, and the silver horse held the handle, running all the way forward, running fast.

Every ten ploughs, the two oxen and horses swapped places by themselves, and continued to pull one by one.

Line after row, in the blink of an eye, the field was ploughed neatly, and even the corn seeds that had been prepared were planted.

Everyone couldn't help but be stunned when they saw such a scene.

"Fully automatic ploughing plow?"

Byron and Catherine couldn't help but applaud softly for its performance.

"Ox batch, a mature plowshare, should learn to plow the land by itself."

[Second Grade Relic: Quyuan Plough]:

"As just shown, different farming modes can be activated according to different crop types, automatic soil crushing, soil loosening, ridge formation, and sowing, and now thousands of acres can be cultivated per day.

It can also make the fields it has cultivated to the most perfect growth state, and increase the basic yield by two percent.

In addition, with the widespread popularity of the Quyuan plow, its work efficiency will gradually increase, and there will always be a day when it reaches the first-level holy relic. ”

After seeing the power of the curved plow, Byron immediately thought of its best use:

"The amount of farming time that needs to be cultivated in a place every year is very limited, and if you miss it, you have to wait another year.

Even if you can plow 10,000 mu or 100,000 mu a day, the speed is not enough.

But if I have an empire on which the sun never sets, the climate in the north and south is different, and the time when the crops are planted will naturally be different.

This allows it to run from north to south, or from south to north.

If you have three crops a year, you only need to make three round-trips.

In this way, you can make the most of the power of the cow and horse, the plowshare, all year round.

I'm such a good boss who goes out of his way to keep his employees' jobs. ”

The Great Shaman Sivatel had no idea what was going on in his mind, nor did he realize that the "street lights" of the world seemed to be starting to shine violently.

Kneeling on the ground and kissing the earth, with tears in his eyes:

"My lord is merciful, our people will no longer starve to death, and they will no longer have to take the initiative to commit suicide!"

If it is said that believers also have ranks.

The great shaman, a woman who has dealt with the land all her life, has undoubtedly transformed into a fanatical believer at this moment.

Byron relied on this technology, which was enough to live countless people, and easily pushed the contribution of civilization by a large margin, and this major shareholder, emperor, and god deserved it!