Chapter 426 Bad Agricultural Technology

"Stay flat, no need to be polite." Roland got off his horse and helped him up.

"Thank you, Your Highness..." The farmer quickly bowed deeply.

"As long as these things are useful to you..." Roland looked at this young farmer with a face full of vicissitudes of life and was filled with emotion. The luxury of aristocratic life still could not cover up the poor living environment of ordinary civilians caused by the low productivity of this era.

"How's the harvest this year?" Although Roland had reports from his subordinates, he still wanted to hear what the people had to say.

"Your Highness the King, this year's harvest is very good. It is a bumper year..." The farmer looked at Roland cautiously.

"That's very good. By the way, I see that many of you fertilize the farmland. Why?" Roland suddenly asked, because according to the feedback from his subordinates, few farmers use farmyard manure in the fields, and most of them just use grass. After all, even because of the vast land and sparse population, farmland crops in many remote areas are sparser than weeds...

"Um...how can that kind of pickled stuff be used in the fields?" the farmer asked in confusion.

"..." Roland blinked and was speechless.

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"What's wrong?" Nyx asked looking at Roland who was not very interested. She was sensitive to the change in Roland's mood.

"It's okay, I'm just feeling a little emotional..." Roland shook his head and said nothing. Some things are destined to be changed only by himself. After all, the influence of thinking and values ​​makes Roland incompatible with the aristocrats of this era...

For the nobles of Middle-earth, the life of these common people was good enough, but Roland saw the backwardness and poverty behind this seemingly prosperous country... Even the ordinary common people of Raglan were using their bran-laced black Bread is the staple food, not to mention other civilians in human gathering places. The quality of life of all humans in Middle-earth is probably only as high as that of hobbits.

But the most powerless thing for Roland is that he can't even change the internal conditions of the kingdom now. This is even when Roland took out a farming artifact like the Quyuan Plow... As expected, this primitive situation has no chemical fertilizers or anything. The yield under farming is impressive...

"The fertilizer thing is relatively easy to solve... as long as it is collected from human and animal feces, it is the best fertilizer." Roland lowered his head and thought.

"Come here, give me the order! Order someone to collect human and animal excrement and accumulate it as fertilizer." Roland said, he now felt

"Uh?" The knight who heard the sound froze on the spot and looked at Roland at a loss.

"Yes, and ordering civilians to use this kind of fertilizer when farming can effectively increase production!" Roland affirmed. After finally freeing up his hands, Roland discovered the rough farming techniques of Middle-earth farmers. Roland could only talk about it. Farming is still the top technology of the Blue Star Celestial Dynasty. The backward farming technology of the people in Middle-earth... is just to scatter the seeds and then water them. The most common things they do in the fields every day are weeding and catching insects...

"Why do you start caring about this?" Nyx quietly leaned over and looked at Roland curiously. After all, a warmonger suddenly started to care about people's livelihood, etc. This puzzled Nyx. After all, there are very few nobles. Even when kings care about these things, what they care most about is whether taxes can be collected. As for the livelihood of these common people? As long as people don't starve to death, it's not a problem.

"Alas..." Roland sighed and said nothing. He now understood why so much land in the entire Lagrand Kingdom could not be supplied to the army. It turned out that it was not only the low yield of unoptimized crops, but also the reason for agricultural technology. The reason for the inferiority is inside. Isn't this the same virtue as the European Middle Ages... But the only thing that is better is that the sanitation in Rapid City can be a little cleaner.

"Don't blame yourself too much. You've done a good job..." Nyx comforted her. In her opinion, Roland was extremely kind. Calling him a benevolent king was not an exaggeration at all. In such a harsh environment in the north, Being able to work hard to protect the people under such circumstances is the best that a king can do.

"I'm not blaming myself, I'm just feeling..." Roland was a little helpless to complain. Roland, who had been busy with the military and neglected government affairs, now realized what a mess the people's livelihood in his kingdom was. The farmers in the kingdom could barely do anything except slash-and-burn farming. According to this If you want to feed the army at the level of cultivation, it will take years and months.

Now Roland understands why places as big as Rohan and Gondor can muster such a small army. With such productivity, who can raise a full-time army except the orcs? There is a reason why the Shire is living a good life... (The Shire has no army, it is all about town autonomy.)

"Everyone will starve to death if we continue to cultivate this field..." Roland shook his head. He really didn't know what to look at and was shocked. In the magical world, the level of farming is so low that it is probably middle-earth (human beings).

"Isn't everyone always like this? We don't have wood spellcasters..." Nyx shook his head. Although Yun Feng is a wise man and can create various alchemical items, many of which can increase crop yields, that thing doesn't work. Fapu, the farmland around Lagrand Kingdom depends on Yun Feng alone. I guess he will have to chop Roland with a knife again...

"We have to change. We need to find ways to increase food production. My reserve resources are not unlimited." Roland shook his head. Although the system's military rations were cheap, Roland had no money. You can't really rely on the system for your whole life.

"Oh." Nyx nodded in understanding. Although Roland was a little strange today, as his wife and queen-to-be, Nyx still decided to support all Roland's decisions.

How could a mere Middle-earth know that Blue Star’s crazy food production and that lovely old man from the East brought rice into a new era? In addition to rice, wheat, corn, and two-piece sets of sweet potatoes and potatoes from previous generations of time-travelers put Middle-earth They are all worthy of being called gods.

But Roland has nothing now. He can only see if the system will provide high-yielding food seeds in the future. As for biotechnology in the magical world... Roland said that he is not a great biologist - Saruman. It’s a magical world, isn’t it nice to have problems that can be solved with magic? Another way is to let the elf dragon Smurf act as a dragon-shaped fertilizing machine, using natural magic to promote crop growth. However, depending on Smurf's temperament, Roland may be petrified with one breath of dragon breath.

Fortunately, the kingdom is now free to deal with these matters. Without external enemies, Roland can deal with the kingdom's internal affairs instead of leaving everything to Yun Feng and the others. If not, Roland is a time traveler who lives in the information world In the era of explosion, at least you should know advanced management experience.

Roland discovered a big problem in farming after only two steps outside. The grain varieties were not good, even if they were not high-yielding grains. The planting technology was also in shambles. If nothing changed, Roland would probably be the first to guard the capital in the future. The starving king.