Chapter 610 Ridge Farming System

Keren didn't know the rules of Elson City at first. When he got up early, he found a corner to solve it as before, but he didn't expect the guards outside the house to dissuade him and took him directly to a building called a "toilet", which not only has separate places for excretion , and provided three straw papers when entering the door to solve the cleaning problem.

This was something Karen hadn't thought about before. You must know that wiping his butt these days is basically done by picking some grass leaves or stones and rubbing it twice. Aristocrats may be more particular, using special ropes or wooden sticks, while "paper"... has become a lost invention after the age of the high elves.

The monopoly of knowledge is largely due to the problem of paper. The "parchment" used by most nobles today is made of genuine "sheepskin". One can imagine how expensive it is to record words or transmit letters.

Roddy actually realized the importance of "paper" very early on, but this thing can't be made all at once. The high elves did solve the problem of papermaking, but there is no "paper mill" option in Elson City. . So he could only let the "Elson Magic Research Department" try to make paper according to the ideas he provided. Fortunately, the mages are very smart, and they cut down so much wood in advance and it came in handy. After being issued in the form of 1,500 parchments, the second issue of the newspaper has begun to be uniformly replaced by paper with a log color, and the number has increased to 5,000. At the same time, the large-volume paper production has driven a production line, and the sales line has begun to spread to other parts of the country. It will not be long before Rody, who holds the manufacturing formula in his hand, can earn a large amount of gold coins again.

Karen didn't know the story behind the paper. The straw paper he just used was made of poor quality materials when producing paper. In order to save resources, Roddy put the rough paper that was simply processed in the "toilet "It is used to improve the quality of citizens. Obviously, being able to wipe clean buttocks is a very good experience for most people. The cleaning team that originally needed to patrol has never encountered a guy who urinates anywhere in the past few days.

Although the topic of "excretion" is indecent, this alone made Keren realize that Elson is a different city.

After using the toilet, he felt refreshed, but just after taking a few steps, he discovered that a carriage specially for excrement came to the toilet. The "dung pumping bucket" developed by the mages avoided the stench caused by the exposure of feces to the outside. After the horse cart finished pumping the dung, it quickly drove out of the city. Self-consciously strolling down the street.

After a day of leisurely strolling around, Karen unknowingly came outside the city in the afternoon. The nearby villages are not built along the river as in the impression, but directly along the sides of the road and the open land is full of grain. As a run-down nobleman, Karen actually knew about farming. He looked carefully, but found that there was not a single piece of fallow land in his field of vision.

"No fallow? Is it to give up after plowing?"

In inherent thinking,

If the land is not fallow, the crops will only get worse year by year. Thinking this way, Karen curiously walked to a farmland. When he squatted down to observe, he found that the vegetables, wheat, and oats in front of him were much thicker and fuller than his impression...

And the most important thing is that they are planted in the form of furrows into an unusually neat pattern. This kind of farming method is really unprecedented for Karen.

"This... is this because the land is so good?"

Karen pays attention to the crops mainly because he has personally counted the harvest data of the people in the field, and even went to the field to observe the growth of the grain. After all, he is not a big noble, and the grain harvest is poor. of.

As far as he knew, it was a recognized fact that the land in the northwest of the Karen Kingdom was relatively barren, so in previous years, it was always necessary to buy a batch of grain from the southeast for the winter. And these crops are growing well now, is it because they are neatly planted in vertical rows?

You must know that the traditional agricultural planting methods of the Karen Kingdom are very backward. Farmers really just "scatter" seeds on an acre of land and drop 20 to 30 catties of grain. After they grow out of order, they are mixed with the weeds in the field. At the same time, there is nowhere to go if you want to weed. Not to mention the food harvested all year round, the nutrients in the ground are basically exhausted. When you plant next year, you must leave this place to rest for a year.

But now? Keren found that this kind of concave and convex fields neatly separated the crops, and many farmers walked through them, pulling out weeds without stepping on the crops they planted at all. The breeze blows through, and the ventilation and heat conduction effect between the fields is very good.

"This farming method may really work..."

Karen pondered and was about to turn around and leave, but suddenly found a carriage "creaking" approaching not far away. After a closer look, he confirmed that it was the model for "toilet" pumping excrement. Karen thought it would be enough to find a random place to line up the feces, but he didn't expect that in the past few minutes, similar carriages gathered in twos and threes to several places outside the village, and then began to head toward several large pits in unison. dumped.

If it was just a simple landfill, Karen would not be surprised, but he saw at least a dozen farmers around him running over to help. While assisting in the dumping, they were excitedly throwing many other things into the pit, similarly pulling them out. The weeds grown, the stalks left over from harvesting oats, and some grayish-white soil that Karen couldn't name were all poured in, and then he was even more stunned to see a tall arcane puppet coming out of the next room, Then, under the command of a mage wearing a robe, he stretched the stick on his arm into the pit and stirred it up. After a few minutes, the farmers began to cover the pit with a pile of messy things, and then walked away jokingly. .

Karen unconsciously piled up a pile of stinky feces, what is there to be happy about? The curiosity in his heart made him reach out and stop a farmer who had just participated in filling the pit, and asked: "This... um, uncle, What were you doing just now?"

Naturally, the farmer who had just cleaned up the cesspit didn't have a good smell, and Keren couldn't help but take a step back.

This society is strictly hierarchical, no matter how poor Karen is, he only wears the clothes of nobles. The farmer didn't dare to fool him, and immediately replied: "My lord, we were composting just now."

"Retting... what?"