The Knight's Journey to the Empire

In Baron Soren Lipton's White Bear Territory, the large-scale reclamation of wasteland in the entire territory is now in full swing.

Ever since Soran made an important promise in the name of the nobles at the last mobilization meeting, the production enthusiasm of all the people in the White Bear Territory has been ignited!

With the vision of a better life in the future, they, under the leadership of the Territorial Government Office headed by Wolfe, worked hard to reclaim the wasteland bit by bit.

The people understood that they had met an extremely kind and benevolent lord. They were now cultivating land for themselves and striving for a happy life in the future.

Therefore, under this strong belief, the efficiency of land reclamation is rising rapidly.

It is actually quite easy to reclaim the wasteland in White Bear Territory, and the procedures required are also relatively simple.

Because in winter, the grass in the wilderness has turned yellow, so now all you need to do is burn the dead grass on the ground, move some big rocks, or clean up some big grass roots, and that's it.

Because the land in White Bear Territory is very fertile and the soil and water conservation is good.

Therefore, the farming methods here are very different from the intensive paddy field farming methods in the southern part of the mainland.

The farming methods here are relatively casual and extensive.

For example, when the people were farming, they would usually take a wooden stick and poke a hole in the weeded land, and then put the cultivated wheat seedlings into the hole, and that was considered the planting.

In the future, you only need to pay attention to completing the processes of weeding, soiling, and pest control, so that you can basically have a good harvest by the time of harvest.

Otherwise, Sauron would not dare to promise to give each person more than ten acres of land.

One person cultivates more than ten acres of land, and an ordinary family of five may have to cultivate forty to fifty acres, without the help of animal power!

My God! Even the donkeys in this production team wouldn’t dare to do this!

Therefore, this reclamation team of more than 1500 people was divided into teams and spread out to various places. It was not a problem at all to open up to acres of arable land every day.

The Kingdom of Midburg is located relatively northward, the climate is generally colder, and the winter is relatively long.

This has resulted in the farming system here being limited to one crop per year.

But this cooking method also has both advantages and disadvantages:

The benefit is to preserve the soil and restore its fertility.

More than 90% of the arable land in White Bear Territory is extremely fertile and high-quality land.

Even these newly reclaimed farmlands do not require much effort to prepare. Just plant the wheat seedlings and ignore everything else. You will naturally get a harvest in the autumn.

Of course, how much we can harvest depends on fate!

However, the society of the Knight Continent now has a history of thousands of years, and the technology of intensive farming has also developed greatly.

Therefore, naturally no ruler would use this kind of extensive farming method of planting and not taking care of the crops to cultivate the land.

The downside is that less food is produced.

Wheat, barley and oats are the three crops that are commonly grown in the Kingdom of Midburg.

Despite thousands of years of cultivation and multiple generations of improvements by various countries or agronomists, the per-acre yield of these three crops is still not high, generally between 100 kg and 200 kg.

If certain special disasters occur, such as drought, flood, locust plague, etc., the harvest will be even less, or even nothing, thus causing large-scale disasters and famine!

Moreover, compared with other people's multi-cropping system, your single-harvest system means one season's output is missing.

As the saying goes: if production is not enough, make up for it with quantity.

And what Sauron is currently pursuing is actually exactly this idea.

The reason why he lowered the tax rate, levied relatively low taxes, and provided so many preferential policies was to liberate the productivity of the subjects and encourage them to cultivate more land.

Instead of letting them continue to be bound by high-pressure tax policies and be confined to the small piece of land that can only solve their survival problems.

In this way, when the autumn harvest comes, the people will have more harvests, or more income.

And Soran himself also had more tax revenue.

There are so many fertile lands that can be cultivated within the White Bear Territory. It would be a huge waste if we don’t develop them to create economic benefits!

And how could Sauron allow such a thing to happen!

He was not one of those short-sighted and corrupt nobles who stared at those pieces of land all day long, or thought about how to deprive his subjects and slaves of more benefits.

Although Sauron's social class now belongs to exploitative rulers, he is more inclined to reach a win-win situation of mutual assistance with his subjects!

That is to ensure that you can get enough tax revenue so that the people under your command can solve the problem of food and clothing, and even have a little money to improve their lives.

So when he led the people to participate in road construction projects, he would give them some money to help them ease the pressure of life.

Therefore, when reclaiming wasteland in the territory, he would make a promise to let the people of the territory work on their own and be self-reliant.

This time, the land reclamation mainly focuses on the wasteland on both sides of Barrett's Avenue of Prosperity.

With Barrett's Avenue of Wealth as the center line, the left and right sides extend 500 meters each, advancing all the way from Flanders Town to County Avenue.

Sauron silently estimated that if all this wasteland was reclaimed, there would probably be more than 20,000 acres of fertile land.

[Note: You can imagine it as a rectangle with a width of 1 km and a length of more than km, with an area of ​​more than square kilometers. square kilometers is roughly equal to mu. The author converted it based on modern units, so please bear with me.]

With such a large area, it is obviously difficult for the White Bear Territory's few people to complete the development before the spring plowing officially begins.

Moreover, even if we work overtime to open up the land, it will delay the suitable planting time, or even the land may not be fully planted.

Therefore, according to the reclamation plan formulated by the government, this land reclamation operation mainly revolved around three points: around the town of Flanders and around the two newly built villages.

Of the two planned new villages, the one in the middle is closer to the north, so Solon named it Kaobei Village.

The other one is located on the side of the County Avenue. Because it is close to the south and is equivalent to the gateway to the territory, Soran named it Sentry Village.

At present, many of the leaders' families have moved into these two new villages, but not many, perhaps only about ten households in each village.

Of course, the reclamation of wasteland in Flanders Town is in full swing, and the villages in the countryside are also in full swing under the leadership of their respective village chiefs.

They were also carried out around the village and on both sides of the country roads connecting the Flanders town.

However, compared with the large reclamation team in Flanders Town, their reclamation efficiency is slower.

After all, there are few people!