Chapter 610 Ridge Farming
At first, Kron didn't know the rules of Elson City. When he woke up early, he found a corner as before and prepared to solve the problem. However, the guards outside the house were dissuaded and brought them directly to a building called the "toilet". Not only were there independent locations for excretion, but he also provided three sheets of straw paper when entering the door to solve the cleaning problem.
This is something Karen had never thought about before. You should know that in the past, you will basically pull some grass leaves or stones to rub it twice. The nobles may be more particular, using special ropes or wooden sticks, while "paper" became an invention lost after the age of the High Elf.
Knowledge is monopolized to a large extent because of paper. The "parchment" used by most nobles now is the real "skin" of "skin". You can imagine how expensive it is to record texts or convey letters.
Roddy actually realized the importance of "paper", but this thing was not something that could be made in a short time. The high-elf period did solve the problem of papermaking, but there was no option for "paper mill" in Elson City. So he could only let the "Elson Magic Research Department" try papermaking according to the ideas he provided. Fortunately, the mages were very smart and cut so much wood in advance and came in handy. After the first issue of Karen's era was released in the form of 1,500 parchment paper, the second issue of newspapers had begun to be replaced by paper with wood-colored paper, and the number increased to 5,000. At the same time, large-scale paper production led a production line, and the sales line had begun to spread to other parts of the country. It would not take long for Roddy, who held the manufacturing formula, could earn a large amount of gold coins again.
Kren didn't know the story behind the paper. The straw paper he had just used was made of poor quality materials when producing paper. In order to save resources, Roddy put these rough papers that were simply processed in the "toilet" to improve the quality of citizens. It is obvious that being able to wipe the butt is a very good experience for most people. The cleaning team that originally needed to patrol has never encountered a guy who urinated or defecated anywhere in the past few days.
Although the topic of "excretion" is indecent, this alone made Kron realize that Elson is a different city.
After going to the toilet, he felt refreshed, but just after walking a few steps, he found that a carriage specially treated feces came beside the toilet. The "feces pumping bucket" developed by the mages avoided the stench caused by the exposure of feces. After completing the feces pumping work, the carriage quickly drove out of the city. Kron was amazed, and then he didn't take it to heart and walked along the street.
After wandering around so leisurely for a day, in the afternoon, Karen came to the outside of the city without realizing it. The nearby villages were not built along the river as they were as I remember, but were planted with food directly along both sides of the road. Karen, as a devastated noble, actually knew about farming. He looked carefully and found that there was no fallow land in his entire vision.
"No fallow? Is this giving up after preparing to plow?"
In the inherent thinking, if the land is not fallen, the things planted will only get worse every year. Kron thought so, curiously walked to a farmland. When he squatted down to observe, he suddenly found that whether it was vegetables or wheat, the oats in front of him were thicker and much more plump than he thought.
And most importantly, they are planted in an extremely neat way in the form of ditches. This way of farming is truly unprecedented for Karen.
"Is this because the land is too good?"
Karen is concerned about crops mainly because he personally counted the data on the harvest of people's farming, and even went to the fields to observe the growth of grain. After all, he is not a great nobleman, and the grain harvest is poor, so his life is really hard.
As far as he knows, it is recognized that the land in the northwest of the Karen Kingdom was relatively barren, so in previous years, a batch of grain was needed to buy from the southeast for the winter. But now these crops grow well, is it because they were neatly planted in vertical rows?
You should know that the traditional agricultural planting method of Karen Kingdom is very backward. Farmers sow sowing just "scattered" acre of land and threw down twenty or thirty kilograms of grain. After it grew out in a mess, they mixed with the weeds in the field. They had nowhere to do if they wanted to weed. Not only did they get a lot of food they harvested all year round, but the nutrients in the field were basically exhausted. When farming next year, they must be spared for a year.
But now? Kron found that such concave and convex fields separated the crops neatly. Many farmers walked through them, pulling out weeds and still would not step on the crops they planted. The breeze blew, and the ventilation and thermal conductivity between the fields was extremely good.
"This farming method may really work."
Kron thought about it and was about to turn around and leave, but suddenly he found a carriage coming from a distance. He looked closely and confirmed that this was the model for the "toilet". Kron thought it would find a place to row the feces in a row, but he didn't expect that in just a few minutes, similar carriages gathered in groups of three or three to several places outside the village, and then began to fall into several large pits.
If it were just landfill, Karen would not be surprised, but he saw at least a dozen farmers around him coming to help. While assisting in the dumping, he threw many other things into the pit with excitement, similarly pulled weeds from the ground, harvesting the straw left over the oats, and some grayish-white soil that Karen could not call, poured in. Then he was even more stunned to see a tall arcane puppet walking out of the room next to him. Then, under the command of a mage in a robe, he put the stick on his arm into the pit and stirred it. After a few minutes, the farmers began to cover the cessation pit with a bunch of messy things, and then walked away with a joke.
Kron unconsciously piled up a pile of scented feces together with something to be happy about. The curiosity in his heart made him reach out to stop a farmer who had just participated in filling the pit and asked, "This, uncle, what were you doing just now?"
The farmer who had just finished the cesspool naturally had no good taste, and Kron couldn't help but take a step back because of the smoke.
This society is very strict, and no matter how poor Kron is, he wears clothes that only nobles have. The farmer dared not fool him and immediately replied: "Sir, we were fertilizing just now."
Chapter completed!