Chapter 100 101 Busy Days

Chapter 100 101. Busy Days

The banquets at Shanlin Castle are very simple, just eating and drinking. Unlike some nobles who have music and dancing, here there are only old men who can't dance, so they can only focus on eating, drinking and bragging.

For this reason, Luo Ning paid for a pig, six sheep, a dozen chickens and ducks, and an unknown number of fish.

Fortunately, the militiamen only took some food and went back to their homes. If they had participated, Luoning would have been destitute.

Oh, by the way, Chahar has complained about the drinking problem in the castle more than once. Several barrels of sour beer have been consumed, and there are only less than a hundred bottles of medium beer left.

The territory urgently needs a winemaker. Otherwise, if there are a few more guests or a few banquets, the castle will have to spend money outside to buy wine.

Faced with Chahar's complaint, Luo Ning could only agree. It was a pity that he was not very interested in wine, otherwise he would have remembered this incident last time he went to Muma City.

After the banquet, Luo Ning took several buckets of baths comfortably. He had not taken a serious bath in the past ten days since leaving Shanlin Town, not to mention how comfortable he was.

Luo Ning, who had changed into loose clothes, returned to the study and saw Irene sitting on a chair nearby, holding a book in her hand and reading engrossedly.

Luo Ning glanced at the name of the book, quickly walked over in three steps and closed the book, which startled Irene, who was concentrating on reading.

But after seeing the person coming, Irene laughed in surprise, "Brother Luo Ning, it's over~"

"Well, it's over."

Luo Ning responded with a smile, and at the same time calmly took the book back into his hand and put it on the bookshelf again, "This book is not suitable for you. I will choose a book suitable for you."

Although the plot of this novel called "Princess Fina's Secret Garden" is acceptable, the male and female protagonists nibble together from time to time, and the description is quite in-depth, making it not suitable for little girls.

Luo Ning picked a history book from the bookshelf and handed it to Irene, "Read this "A Brief History of the Empire" more and gain insights."

"A Brief History of the Empire" records the affairs of the Orlant Empire, but unlike history books in the traditional sense, most of the records in it are miscellaneous things about the royal family and nobles, and even quarrels between two great nobles. All are recorded.

Although there is not much valuable information, at least it is more suitable for girls to read than the knight novel just now.

Eileen took the book doubtfully, her mind still stuck on the previous book.

She asked in confusion: "Why is that book not suitable for me to read? Knight Ivan is dueling for Princess Fina. Will he win?"

"Of course he will win, and in the end he will live with the princess forever."

Ronin smiled and revealed the story, "Okay Erin, Bella has prepared a room for you. She is waiting for you outside. Don't keep her waiting too long."

Erin's attention was brought back from the book, "Okay, good night, brother."

After saying that, he quickly left the study.

Luo Ning shook his head helplessly, and then began to review the documents handed over by Chahar and Wilson on the table.

This includes the production status of each team, the autumn harvest results of each village, and the food statistics of Shanlin Town, etc.

He looked at the latter two emphatically.

The total amount of barley harvested this time is about 830,000 jins, which is similar to previous years.

Excluding the seeds reserved for next year, if calculated based on the daily intake of one kilogram of staple food per person, it can support the people of Shanlin Town for nearly ten and a half months.

However, in fact, the staple food consumed by the serfs was less than one kilogram, which was often mixed with other "black technologies", such as wild vegetables and the like.

In other words, this much barley can fully support the people of Shanlin Town until the wheat and barley harvest next year, so there is no problem in getting through the year.

When fertilizer is available next year, planting techniques are promoted, and a lot of new fields are reclaimed, there will be no problem with food.

After breakfast the next morning, Luo Ning began his inspection on his Cloud-Taking Horse.

With his achievements and the consumption of attribute points accumulated by signing in in recent days, he has now entered the stage of a third-level transcendent.

[Level]: 3-Senior Knight (30/300); 3-Senior Magician (0/400)

Looking at the entire Shanlin Town, Luo Ning's strength has ranked among the top three. Now he does not need anyone to escort him when traveling. At most, he can bring Chahar, who is in charge of the feces collection team, and Gallon, who is running errands, as well as those who want to follow him. Visit Erin in Hillwood.

The first stop of this inspection for Luoning was the fertilizer base.

This base was planned when Luo Ning established the feces collection team. The location was chosen in the northwest woodland near the pasture, which is far away from the living areas of the residents and also avoids water sources.

Over the past few days, the construction team has set up a simple shed here. Although it looks rough, it can shield the rainwater and will not hinder the organic fertilizer in the mature stage below.

When the lord came to inspect the fertilizer base in person, the ten slaves who were digging through the piles stood aside in fear. Apart from greeting the lord at first, they didn't know what to say.

However, the valet Galen kept urging Luo Ning to leave this place quickly. After all, as a noble nobleman, it was really beneath his status to come to this place to cheer him up.

Irene had already pinched her nose. If she hadn't seen Brother Luo Ning not leaving, she would have turned around and ran away.

The manure collection team has been collecting feces for so many days and transporting them all to this place. The smell is naturally very unpleasant. If possible, Luo Ning would not want to come here.

But the composting technology is only in its infancy, and he needs to come here to guide it in person.

"Sir, according to your instructions, we have mixed useless hay, leaves, straw and other things with feces and piled them together. Now we will turn these manure piles every three days."

Chahar reported respectfully. He didn't like doing this job either, but he still completed Luo Ning's instructions meticulously.

Luo Ning looked at the dozen or so piles of organic fertilizers that were being decomposed in the fertilizer base and nodded slightly, "Remember to spread hay on them when composting, keep it moist."

Generally speaking, they need to prepare straw mats or cloth, but these two things are too wasteful to use here, so it's okay to use hay for the time being.

He walked to a pile of manure and moved his hand a little closer. The temperature was still quite high, indicating that it was still in the fermentation stage.

In the absence of a catalyst, this natural fermentation process will last a little longer, about 1 to 3 months.

After the temperature of the fertilizer pile stabilizes and the odor dissipates, the fertilizer can be used.

Roning talked with Chahar and the members of the manure collection team about some problems encountered at work. Except for Chahar, most slaves dared not express themselves. Only a female slave named Maxin asked a few questions.

From Chahar, I learned that this woman was serious about her work, paid attention to details, and was as strong as men.

So Roning appointed her as the second person in charge of the fertilizer base and reported to Chahar, which also reduced the burden on the housekeeper.

After all, the storage of grain in the castle alone takes a lot of energy to deal with, and later it is necessary to coordinate the distribution of grain with the three villages outside.

People like Chahar who have good literacy and calculation skills will naturally play a greater role.

After inspecting the fertilizer base, Roning went to William's iron and wood workshop and Kales's blacksmith shop to check the production of iron and wood equipment and the forging of curved plows.

This time, Roning brought back two carpenter slaves from Huitu Village. Mutar, who had good skills, was assigned to the Ironwood Workshop, mainly responsible for the production of ironwood armor;

The less skilled ones were asked to help Kales and his son make the plow body of the curved plow, and strive to build more curved plows for each village before spring plowing.

In the next few days, Roning inspected the situation of each production team, and asked the political officer Wilson to organize the idle farmers to cut trees in the north, and open up a road to Qingzhu Village as soon as possible.

Roning did not need to pay these people for participating in the labor, but unlike in the past, in order to stimulate their enthusiasm, Roning allowed half of the wood mined to be taken back home by the people to repair their houses, or to store dry firewood for winter preparation. He did not want the people to freeze to death in winter.

In addition, Roning also went to Tom's mother Leah's tailor shop, observed her spinning wheel and loom, and made a modified design based on this, and asked Pierre to make a small spinning wheel for spinning according to the model.

As for looms, most of them are waist looms.

If Roning wants to build a foot-operated loom, he needs more detailed design and experiments. He just tells William, Pierre and his slave Murta the principle and simple structure diagram, and lets the latter try it first.

There are still many trivial matters in the territory, such as some conflicts between the people who need him to arrange people to mediate or judge, some men and women of marriageable age want to get married, which requires Roning's approval, and marriage tax is also required...

Roning directly exempted the marriage tax, which is not conducive to population growth, and replaced it with a free day of work.

After being busy for several days in a row, he finally made all the arrangements.

On October 8, Roning took a few guards, traveled lightly, stepped on the morning sun, and embarked on the journey back to Wushan Fort.