Chapter 207 Accidental Injury

Since January, the entire Wubei Territory has begun to prepare for spring ploughing.

If by early April, after these months of busy work, of the 100,000 acres of land that Wubei Territory has reclaimed, in addition to more than 30,000 acres planted with vegetables and flax and other crops, the remaining more than 70,000 acres are all planted with two grain crops, barley and wheat.

After the sowing is completed, it should have entered a relatively slack period.

However, Roning had already made a plan, and the people in the territory could not be idle.

Wilson, the head of government affairs, formed reclamation teams in Shanlin Town, Swamp Town, Black Soil Village and other places based on villages, and began the new land reclamation work in full swing.

Now, in addition to being equipped with curved plows and iron farm tools in each village, Roning also pulled a lot of black buffaloes from Swamp Town and distributed them to the village chief.

With these things, compared with previous years, the difficulty of reclaiming new arable land this year has decreased a bit, and the speed has naturally increased a lot.

On this basis, Luo Ning also formulated a reward and punishment plan:

As of early July, every family in the top three villages in terms of cultivated land area will be rewarded, and the village chief and team leader responsible for reclamation will be rewarded a little more.

These rewards include allocating land, giving food subsidies, allowing house expansion, giving monetary rewards to individual capable people, and even making exceptions to allow slaves with good performance to get rid of their slave status directly, etc.

There are rewards and punishments.

For the village that ranks last in reclamation data and has a gap of more than 3,000 acres with the previous ones, the village chief and team leader must resign, and at the same time, the tax of each household will be increased depending on the situation.

With sweet dates in one hand and a big stick in the other, under the two motivations, each village has entered the reclamation business in full swing, and even from time to time they send "spies" to each other to check the reclamation situation of each village, and there seems to be a competitive mood.

The heavy labor will naturally consume more food.

But Luo Ning is not panicking. He still has 3,000 gold coins in his hand, so it is no problem to buy two more 300,000 kilograms of food.

From the lord to the slaves, everyone in Wubei Territory is very busy, but the external environment is very comfortable.

No special situation happened in the territory, and the border of Wushan Territory was also surprisingly quiet. I wonder if the Bolant Thieves and the Black Gold Brotherhood were busy with spring plowing and therefore did not cause trouble?

In two months, Roning's magician training progress has exceeded a thousand. In just three weeks, he will be able to become a silver knight and chief magician.

Thanks to this attribute panel that can add points, otherwise, Roning would have to spend a lot of time on training every day, and would not have much energy to travel back and forth between several territories.

He has merged Qingzhu Village, Ziguo Village and Huitu Village into "Sanfang Town";

Heitu Village originally had more than a thousand people, and later allocated 600 slaves to it, with a population of nearly 2,000, so Roning renamed it Heitu Town.

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"Sir, this land has been planted with mulberry seedlings."

In the mulberry field of Ziguo Village, Horn was accompanying Roning to inspect the mulberry field.

Luo Ning sighed a little. At the beginning, only ten acres of land were planned for planting mulberry trees, but now it seems that it is too little.

But there is no way. How could he know that he would take over the Swamp Town and become the Lord of Wubei Territory in such a short time?

"How is the survival rate?"

Luo Ning squatted in front of a ridge, observing the small mulberry seedlings in front of him. Although it is only a cutting of about 20 centimeters, the three leaves on it are very vigorous. Obviously, this small mulberry seedling survived successfully.

"I checked it. Although there are many that did not survive, according to the layering method and cutting method you mentioned, we have made sufficient preparations. All the unsurvived ones have been dug out and replaced with new seedlings. Now the small mulberry seedlings in these ten acres of land are basically alive."

Horn sighed a little. It is much more convenient to use cutting and layering methods to propagate mulberry trees than to use mulberry seeds.

"Very good!"

Ronin smiled and said, "Next, you need to pay attention to watering the mulberry seedlings, and fertilize them again after thirty days."

"Don't worry, sir. I have asked people to compost the fertilizer according to Chahar's method. If it is not enough, I will transport some fertilizer from Swamp Town."

As one of the only three intermediate knights in Wubei Territory, Horn's combat effectiveness is lower than that of Kurami and Baburin.

Compared to improving his strength, he seems to be more willing to devote himself to the breeding industry.

"This year is the first year of silkworm breeding. Although it is mainly about trying and accumulating experience, it is also very important. You have to choose people who are thoughtful, obedient and patient."

Ronin exhorted, "I will let Leah bring her apprentices to settle here, and the loom manufacturing site will also be moved to Ziguo Village. You have people prepare the houses."

Ziguo Village is the future sericulture base. Arranging industries such as textiles and loom manufacturing here will save the trouble of moving things like cocoons.

The cotton opening, silk reeling and weaving were naturally handed over to Ms. Leah. After all, she not only had experience, but also successfully wove a silk scarf that Roning gave to Rulans as a gift.

As long as the cocoons were taken out, even if the loom of the craftsman Daen could not be put into operation, silk could be woven under the guidance of Leah, but it was just a little slower, more laborious and rougher.

After inspecting the mulberry land, Roning and Horn turned back.

On the way, he continued to teach the other party about the experience of raising silkworms.

For example, controlling the indoor temperature and light, cutting mulberry leaves into pieces and feeding them during the first and second instars, wiping the mulberry leaves clean of moisture, regularly checking for sick silkworms, regularly cleaning the silkworm room and removing silkworm feces, etc.

After all, he had really done this, so he was much more confident and detailed when he talked about it.

In the past two months, Roning began to explore papermaking.

The bark fibers that were being soaked in Shanlin Town were estimated to have softened. After returning this time, he could continue to try the subsequent steps of crushing and stirring. I believe that it should not be difficult to make paper.

When there is enough paper, Roning can write books on sericulture and leave his experience.

Even if he leaves Wubei Territory for something later, Horn and others can refer to and learn from him.

Along the country road, the two returned to the village.

Roning was about to ride the Cloud Horse back to Shanlin Town while it was still early, but he didn't expect the hurried sound of horse hooves to come from outside the village.

He and Horn looked over.

"It's Tom who followed the commander to sweep."

Tom has good potential. He has learned a lot from following McKen or Ridal for a long time.

After the matter in Swamp Town came to an end, he was pulled into his clearing team by Ridal and shuttled through the mountains and forests every day.

Ronin frowned slightly, seeing that the other party seemed a little embarrassed and panicked.

"My lord!"

Tom tightened the reins, stopped in front of Ronin, dismounted hurriedly, and knelt on one knee to report: "My lord, the commander is injured!"

Ronin's heart jumped suddenly, his face changed, and Horn beside him also showed an unbelievable look.

In Shanlin Town today, the silver-level knight Ridar is the top combat force.

He was just carrying out a sweeping mission, how could he be injured?

Could it be that he encountered a powerful monster during the sweep?

Ronin only thought of this possibility, but he felt it was not reasonable.

Because Ridar was responsible for the northern mountains and forests, not the Wushan Monster Mountain Range to the west of the Ironwood Workshop, which was in charge of the McKen team.

Comparatively speaking, the McKen team is more likely to encounter a powerful monster.

"What's going on?" Ronin asked in a deep voice. (End of this chapter)