Chapter 82 Brown Sugar Tree

Richard wanted to find plants similar to sugarcane, and he couldn't do without the sheep-headed people in the territory.

Sheep-headed people are natural botanists. They know almost all the plants in the northern border and can distinguish the medicinal properties and toxicity of plants.

When they are sick, sheep-headed people usually look for wild herbs to treat diseases.

Through the herbs found by sheep-headed people, Richard can also accumulate experience and develop plant medicine.

The development of this field will not only benefit the humans of the Dawn Continent, but also form an industry by planting herbs, providing more resources for the territory.

Through Bernard's translation, the sheep-headed people knew that Richard was not going to slaughter them.

Hearing this news, the sheep-headed people were very happy.

Among the captured sheep-headed people, there are two first-level professionals, one named Anu, who was captured by Richard when he defeated the sheep-headed squadron of the Shamok Brigade, and the other named Laerxi, who was a slave captured by Richard when he entered the Orc Empire with the noble coalition.

Sheep-headed people have a gentle personality and a kind of easy-going nature.

The IQ of this ethnic group is average, not as good as that of dog-headed people, equivalent to a twelve or thirteen-year-old child.

The life span of a goat-headed person is only in his twenties. The life span is too short, and the accumulated knowledge is not enough. Therefore, there are few excellent magicians among the goat-headed people.

In the Orc Empire, the herbivorous species are basically at the bottom.

Although the goat-headed people have many shortcomings, the herbal knowledge accumulated in the genes of the goat-headed people is very important for the development of mankind.

In the thousands of years of history of the Dawn Continent, some nobles have also studied a lot of botanical knowledge, especially magical botany, and have studied it very deeply, and developed the theory of pharmacy.

But magicians don’t care about ordinary people at all. The research direction is mainly magical plants and magical pharmacy.

The focus of investment is the evolution of personal power.

Magic researchers don’t value the botanical knowledge accumulated by the goat-headed people at all.

Most nobles only regard ordinary people as objects of exploitation and oppression, and don’t care about the health and life span of ordinary people.

After Richard settled the laborers and drew the city construction map, he asked his second uncle Powell to be responsible for the construction of Sophia Castle, and his energy was mainly focused on the goat-headed people.

Through Bernard’s translation, Richard had many questions every day to ask the goat-headed people.

After a long time, he even learned the language of the sheep-headed people and talked to them in person.

By talking to the sheep-headed people, Richard not only found some herbs, but also knew that there were two plants in the Eagle Mountains that tasted very sweet.

One was similar to the beets that Richard had seen in his previous life, and the other was a rare tree.

Beets are a kind of vegetable. The cultivation of vegetables consumes a lot of water resources and requires the best paddy fields to be cultivated.

There are relatively few paddy fields in the two territories of Richard and William.

The security of the territory's food needs to be in hand, and large-scale planting of beets is not feasible for the time being.

However, Richard has arranged for slaves to dig up some beet seeds. Prepare to cultivate a small amount of beets and study the process of beet sugar extraction.

Richard had seen a video of ancient sugar making in his previous life, which was very simple in terms of process. There are roughly processes such as cleaning, evaporation, crystallization, honey separation, and drying.

The tools required for ancient sugar making, except for the difficulty of making a large iron pot, the remaining sugar making tools can be made in the Harland Territory.

Through Richard's many years of observation, it was found that the development of productivity in the Dawn Continent was basically on par with that in the Middle Ages in Europe.

Some crafts are better than those in the Middle Ages, while others are not as good as those in the Middle Ages.

Especially in some remote areas, the economy has been in a relatively rough and primitive state for a long time, and the development of handicrafts and commerce is very low, and the level of craftsmen is not high.

Take blacksmiths for example. Beginners can make weapons, experienced ones can make armor, and only a very small number of highly skilled blacksmiths can make iron pots.

Richard asked the blacksmiths trained in the Harland Territory, and now two of them can make armor, but they still have no confidence in making iron pots.

You should know that the iron pot manufacturing technology was not mature until the Song Dynasty, and the Mongolians in the late Qing Dynasty did not have the ability to make iron pots.

Of course, the Mongolians could not forge iron pots. In addition to the technology, fuel is also an important reason.

Iron smelting requires coke, and coal-to-coke is the pre-process.

Without coke, charcoal can only be burned with wood. Without sufficient forest resources, it is difficult to develop iron smelting technology.

There are not many forests on the Mongolian Plateau, but there is a lot of coal. These coals have a high sulfur content, and the quality of iron smelting is very poor, so they can only be used as weapons.

Richard's territory is full of forests, and there is no shortage of forest resources.

After the Harland family obtained the hereditary fiefdom, Richard built a wood distillation kiln and produced charcoal suitable for iron smelting.

The fuel problem has been eliminated. Now if you want to make a big iron pot, you need skilled craftsmen to sum up their experience and use their brains.

Although there are iron smelters in Heihe Fort, Richard can't bother them every time.

This time he plans to train his own people.

In order to bring out the wisdom of the blacksmiths, Richard decided to set a heavy reward for the blacksmiths. Whoever can make a qualified big iron pot, Richard will reward them with a reward of thirty gold coins.

Thirty gold coins is equivalent to the salary of an ordinary citizen for ten years. A farmer who has been farming for a lifetime, in addition to the expenses of food, clothing, housing and transportation, may not be able to save a huge sum of thirty gold coins.

Even for the main legion soldiers, it takes two and a half years to get this salary.

The main legion soldiers need to be selected at all levels and need to fight for their lives on the battlefield.

The blacksmith only needs to make a big iron pot to get the huge sum of money.

The huge sum of thirty gold coins was enough to tempt the craftsmen.

In addition, Richard also stipulated that the blacksmith who successfully made the big iron pot could be assigned a house and become a freeman.

He would also serve as the manager of the blacksmiths in the territory. From the status, he directly entered the middle level of the territory.

There must be a brave man under a heavy reward. In October, a blacksmith named Thomas Weber completed the task and received a reward of thirty gold coins, becoming a freeman in the Harland territory.

This person was appointed by Richard as the head of the blacksmith team.

If Thomas Weber can continue to make breakthroughs in iron smelting technology, Richard will raise his status and give him more bonuses.

After successfully making a big iron pot, the process of extracting sugar is not difficult.

In addition to beets, another plant with high sugar content is a tree.

This tree is not common and has not appeared in human life.

There are a large number of monsters living in the Eagle Mountains, and there are many orc tribes in the north.

Ordinary people in the Kingdom of Harland, unless they have no choice, have become bandits. Ordinary people dare not move in the Eagle Mountains at all.

Even the hereditary earl of the Grant Kingdom, a seventh-level magician, lost his life in the Eagle Mountains.

The sugar-containing trees growing in the Eagle Mountains are naturally unknown.