Chapter 14: Production
In the summer, Lawrence was worried about everyone's food problems.
If you are not allowed to eat beef, then you must have other meat supplements.
You can't eat without meat and drink without the cold land, or something will go wrong.
"There is so much pork every year, it's not enough to eat."
Lawrence patrols the Snowy Mountain Fort while worrying about the problems that lie ahead.
In addition to Catherine, who was riding a domme sheep, there was also Heidi, who had just arrived.
Heidi is also an archon and has several years of experience in governing and management.
In the fall of the fourteenth year of the new calendar, Lawrence and Heidi returned to Oak City, a few months after they had been away.
"The hosts! You are welcome back. Candace and Satice greeted the maids at the door of the Ring.
Even the monasteries, which are very well treated, can only eat fried chicken once a week, let alone pork and beef.
It's good to have skills, but if a coward with no ability lives a better life than them, these people will be jealous and burst into murderous intent.
Lawrence looked up at the snowy mountains in the distance.
There are three types of barbarians, the main food of the ice barbarians is fish and pigs and sheep raised by themselves, or they go hunting in the forest and farm very little.
Saliel saw that Lawrence didn't speak, and asked curiously, "Lawrence, did you get the wood elves pregnant again in Snow Mountain Castle?" ”
Of course, the saints and prophets of the ruling class do not need to worry about this kind of thing, and the current pork must be enough for the prophet's family.
"The group of people who are good at raising pigs are all in a mountainous environment, and I used to ignore this problem, always thinking that it is okay to let those who know how to raise pigs raise pigs."
Since Lawrence moved many ordinary people from the ring building to build houses on more peripheral land, he has given these people enough food and wages as compensation, and their food, clothing, shelter and transportation have been properly solved.
Sariel continued: "The breadworm you raised was killed by Hans Christian Andersen, and Andersen took a big rooster to eat the bread worm, and the big rooster scattered the box, and this Deren helped you learn a lesson. ”
The Snow Mountain Fort is not suitable for farming, except for fish and ducks, most of the rest of the things cannot be raised, and even the area that can be used as farmland is very rare.
Lawrence looked at his vast territory and thought about a solution to the problem.
No other way to guarantee it, but Lawrence wanted people in the Ice Lands and Snow Mountain Castle to eat pork at least once a week.
These pigs run between the valleys every day to eat and sleep, and their body's ability to resist diseases will be much higher than that of normal domestic pigs.
"No, not one, I'm busy with government affairs all day long, and I have to help with work and exercise, educate the people, how can you be so idle."
Heidi said, "You're not wrong, those people raise pigs very well, and most of our pork now comes from those towns in the south. ”
Heidi gave the most reasonable solution.
Raising pigs in the mountains can solve many things, the main one is the rational use of space.
"The master is the savior of the elves!"
The life of the Prophet's house is known to many, but not jealous.
There are places where there is water in the low lying, and there are naturally places where there is no water.
Snow Mountain Fort is located on the second floor, and the Elven Forest is located on the first floor, and this is the place between the second and third floors, and it is also the area where the large wild boar is active.
"Master, what does the world look like in your eyes?" Heidi was curious to see the world through Lawrence's eyes as she saw it.
From one person raising one pig and two pigs, to one person raising a group of pigs, or a couple raising dozens of pigs.
In order to prevent the piglets and pigs from breaking the nest, the pens need to be made stronger.
"From the first day, they shouted to see their masters, but Kharan only gave each of them the right to lick their plates every week, saying that it was to exercise their skills."
In the past, there was not much leftovers, and most of them were reluctant to feed the pigs with grain, so the best places to raise pigs were in the mountains and at the foot of the mountains, where the pigs could find food on their own.
Water is abundant here, and it can be used to build factories, live in them, and even connect the east and west through the river downstream into the wide witch swamp.
The barbarians of the plains would farm the land and also go outside to rob, and Lawrence had been planting the land for a long time at the earliest.
I was busy raising cattle, sheep and pigs all day long, and was busy with industrial and agricultural affairs, but as a result, this group of witches ate and drank nonsense in the rear, and they did some messy things all day long, and they couldn't even control the two children.
"Just like summoning my flock, the pigs can also summon at regular intervals."
"Yes, master, leave it to Heidi!"
If the production of pork increases, the meat problem can basically be solved.
Lawrence spent the summer digging many caves for the black pigs in various parts of the mountain, and took care of the wild ducks and fish upstream.
Pigs can be raised all year round, and the eternal night time here is very short, which is more suitable for farming than in the cold land.
"When you are gone," said Saliel, "Kharan and Dana will stop giving them meat and sugar, but will give them cabbage and turnips and squash and cold brown bread every day. ”
It doesn't need to be too deep, as long as you provide the piglets with a soil hole two or three meters deep that can shelter them from the wind and rain, these piglets can grow up smoothly.
This was something Lawrence allowed, as an added benefit to the nearby lords.
Sophia was very protective of Lawrence's majesty, especially in the presence of outsiders.
If you don't eat enough, then eat less and don't eat.
"As long as you set up a pig pen at the end of the canyon where I jumped just now, and then feed me regularly, the piglets raised here will come back to eat regularly."
"Pregnant sows are fed in pens, and the rest of the wild boars usually go to the mountains to play when they are full, and come back to eat when they are hungry."
"The news is even worse." Lawrence has been raising bread worms for more than ten years, and he is in a bad mood.
"I figured it out, the main thing that restricts our pig raising is the site, not the feed and disease issues."
Sariel and Sophia were also here, and Sophia ran directly to Lawrence's side, endured the excitement in her heart, and respectfully knelt down on one knee.
Now only monasteries and military households can eat eggs regularly, as well as some craftsmen who do heavy manual work.
Lawrence looked at Heidi's serious expression and felt speechless.
That's the prophet's house, it's the master's house!
Most slaves are not jealous of the superior life of their masters, but if there are the same slaves around them who can often eat good food, they will quickly become jealous and hateful!
Lawrence is still thinking about eating meat, and Heidi's thoughts are not on the same line.
"You don't have to worry about raising pigs, you can manage the Snow Mountain Castle well."
Heidi is happy with everything she has done now and wants to keep it that way.
While developing the productive forces, the spiritual construction of the barbarians also needs to be improved.
Lawrence did it as soon as he thought of it, and quickly asked people to prepare a dozen piglets, and he took a few people to carry a large amount of wood to build a pig shed for the piglets in the canyon.
"It's okay, there will be one later!" Sophia felt that this matter was very indifferent, "The owner used to often not let people get pregnant for three or four months, this kind of thing is normal. ”
Lawrence visually inspected it, and there was basically no flat ground here, which was suitable for making caves on the slopes and in the mountains.
The nearby hillsides and hills gave Lawrence countless pieces of imagination.
Sariel looked incredulous, "How can there be none?" ”
Lawrence tethered the Dom sheep to a nearby rock, and he quickly jumped down the canyon more than ten meters deep and landed firmly on the ground.
Eating the oak tree is not only about eating this, but the people here spontaneously believe that the oak tree is a sacred food and want to get blessings by eating the oak tree.
Even the nobles below can eat meat once a week is enough.
Farmers on the outskirts of Oak City are harvesting oak trees from nearby forests, drying them and grinding them into flour as a food.
Only by letting people who don't know how to raise pigs learn to raise pigs, and making places that are not suitable for raising pigs suitable for raising pigs, can everyone eat pork every once in a while.
The snow from the highest snowy mountain flows from the most suitable road in the mountains to the waterfall town, where it converges into a magnificent giant waterfall.
Raising pigs requires space and all kinds of sundries that are not food.
These people are satisfied with having some meat every week and a lot of cheap liquor to live by.
This person was not only nobles and wizards, but also warriors, artisans, peasants, and even hundreds of thousands of serfs.
"Really? What I see is also a very beautiful world, it shouldn't be too bad. Heidi nodded, accepting the current situation.
Lawrence only realized the problem when he wanted to expand production.
"Pig farming couldn't develop before, because most of our land was used for farming, even a small amount of vacant land was prepared for cattle and sheep, and the place for raising pigs was very small."
"That's right." Only then did Sariel remember that in the past ten years, Lawrence has only given birth to a child in these years.
The mountain barbarians live mainly on animals and the resources of the forest.
Lawrence didn't see a towering mountain, nor a grand ambition, just a canyon suitable for raising pigs.
Heidi was confident that Lawrence would be able to do this, "Master, we will certainly make those people work hard!" ”
After more than a kilometer of walking along the canyon, the cliffs on both sides of the canyon have turned into dirt slopes one or two meters high.
Not anymore.
Fortunately, basically everyone's demand is very low, and everyone never thought that they would be able to eat pork regularly.
The canyon in front of you is more than ten meters deep, with heavy rocks on both sides, and the bottom has not been flooded by a large amount of water due to the arrival of summer, and has always remained dry and moist.
It is more than ten kilometers away from the Snow Mountain Fort, and the terrain is much higher than there, and it belongs to the canyon on the mountain.
Rastana appeared in the group, looking at Lawrence with her bloated belly, her eyes full of reverence and fascination.
"Master!"
Lawrence sat in the valley doing the carpentry work, where there were no women's troubles or all sorts of trivial things, just to set the wood in the ground according to his own thoughts, or use iron nails to nail them together.
Even so, it is far from quenching the thirst, the piglets will need to be slaughtered next fall, and it will take a year to breed more piglets, and it will take two or three years to really solve the meat problem.
Chicken farms have been developing very well, and pig farms are actually getting better, but the slow development cannot keep up with the rapid growth of the population.
The technique of raising pigs is not unique to Pig's Trotter City, but it is actually the residents at the foot of the mountain near Pig's Trotter City who are in charge.
The mountains are like gods and Buddhas in the distance, like arhats.
Heidi looked in the direction Lawrence was looking, and looked for more than ten seconds without finding a solution.
"It's a bad thing." Lawrence sighed, "What else?" ”
Lawrence felt that the witches were really not human.
Heidi looks ahead, the mountains are picturesque, the forest is shining with the warm sun, and the snow-capped castle belonging to Lawrence is radiating bright brilliance between the green field and the sky.
Not only pigs but also chickens can be raised in the mountains.
The valley area with more vegetation belongs to the third floor, where the earth storm bears were once active.
And the wild boars that grew up together when they were children do not have such a strong sense of territory when they become adults, and as long as everyone's pig holes are nearby, it is difficult for one pig to drive all the pigs away.
Lawrence pondered more details and looked around the mountain.
Ahead is a wide, lush forest with plenty of weeds growing on the ground and tall trees that are rarely seen downstream.
Raising pigs in caves, it doesn't matter if there is not enough food on the mountain, it must be fed by hand.
"We can eat less meat and let those people eat it from once a week to once a month, so that we can eat enough."
Lawrence returned to Snow Mountain Fort with a few people, and began to look for a suitable position with the sand table that Delenn and Sariel had made here before.
After spending the night looking for a location, the next day Lawrence rode a domme sheep to a canyon upstream.
This is more efficient and can also solve some employment problems.
"And they often put them in cages, in windows, and we let them watch every day when we eat."
Lawrence rode the black unicorn towards the castle, and the maids nearby followed neatly.
"Nice place for pigs."
Lawrence nodded and said, "Thank you guys, has anything happened in the past few days?" ”
Roads are still being built, and a large number of workers are cutting down trees in the forest every day to clear the roads.
If only people who know how to raise pigs can raise pigs, then the increase in production will be very limited.
Sophia quickly spoke of the good news, "Since you left, Anyul and her sisters have been looking forward to your return every day and night, and after nearly a hundred days and nights of training, they have fully understood your kindness and greatness. ”
"I've figured it out!" Lawrence said earnestly: "I want to raise pigs in the mountains, not only at the foot of the snowy mountains, but also in the forests and many places!" ”
"Maybe, we can raise pigs here too."
Lawrence turned his head to look at the girl who was asking seriously, and smiled, "The world in my eyes? It's a world of all sorts. ”
Where the plains are suitable for raising pigs, it is more suitable for doing something else.
Sariel thought for a moment, "Andersen broke the tool rack you made when he was fighting with Green, and I've already taught them a lesson for you." ”
These words made Saril and the other witches feel ...... Kind of makes sense.
Only three of Lawrence's children are human, but in just one or two months of contact between Lawrence and the wood elves, dozens of elves have become pregnant!
"More elves at night! I don't believe it! Lawrence hasn't been on the party for a long time, and he directly recognized the title of this savior. (End of chapter)