Chapter 54 54 Farmland Plan

Chapter 54: Land Plan

The day before the planned trip to the Horse Ranching City, everyone was a little busy.

McKen and Tom made plans for David's next territory deployment and patrol. Elron rode through the town on horseback, showing Ronin's kindness.

Chahar was tinkering with the castle toilet plan, and Wilson, after completing the statistics, got into the matter of dividing villages and groups.

Ronin was not idle either.

After reading the knight novel in his hand, he rode to the edge of the southeast to see how serfs and tenants reclaimed wasteland.

Farmers have choices when reclaiming wasteland. They don't just find a piece of land and start tinkering. They usually choose places with relatively flat terrain and soft geology, and try to avoid sandy and rocky land.

Fortunately, there is a large relatively flat area in the southeast of Shanlin Town, which has brought a lot of arable land to the town. If it continues to be reclaimed, it will probably be no less than 40,000 to 50,000 acres.

In addition, there are also areas that can be reclaimed in the northeast, and more than 10,000 acres of land that are in fallow. The arable land area of ​​Shanlin Town is estimated to be about 80,000 acres.

This does not include the dangerous west...

Roning was shocked by the data he got after such an analysis.

A town has so much arable land, can it be said to be barren?

Roning only needs to reclaim all the uncultivated land and increase the per-acre yield of grain a little bit, and Shanlin Town should be able to feed 20,000 to 30,000 people by self-sufficiency.

This only counts the output of barley and wheat. If carrots and cabbages are added, the number of people who can survive will probably be a little more.

"It makes sense for Prince to force the people to reclaim wasteland every year."

Roning did not rashly ask the farmers to stop reclaiming wasteland. It would be a waste if such a large area of ​​arable land was not reclaimed.

However, the speed of the farmers' reclamation is a bit too slow.

He rode his horse around the cultivated land, making the serfs and tenants think that the lord came to supervise their work. They were trembling with fear and worked hard, fearing that the lord's whip would fall on some unlucky person.

As an outsider, Roning would not easily point fingers at the existing technology and working methods, and he did not have the leisure to supervise how the people worked.

The reason for walking around was mainly to collect available information.

After observation, he found that although the farmers worked non-stop, the speed of reclamation was not ideal. The reason was the lack of tools.

Whether it was oxen or horses, they were not used on a large scale in land reclamation. More of them relied on manpower, so the speed was naturally not fast enough.

Moreover, Roning carefully observed the few oxen that were not only thin, but also used light plows, which could only turn over a limited layer of soil and could not plow deeply.

In addition, the design defects of the plow and yoke lead to a great waste of manpower and ox power, especially when turning around after plowing.

Promoting ox plowing and improving the plow and yoke can increase the speed of land reclamation.

After asking, Ronin learned that these cows belonged to the private property of the tenant farmers. If others wanted to use them, they had to pay a certain amount of labor or food.

In the past, when Prince was here, he would lend two or three cows to those in need, but he would also charge a fee. Of course, for Prince, more cows are used for eating.

Ronin has seen black buffaloes. After all, he personally inspected the thirteen cows that Sean sent to Shanlin Town.

This kind of buffalo is larger in size, half a circle larger than the buffalo of the flower growers. Their strength can be imagined. (っ◔◡◔)っ

However, although these guys are large in size, they are relatively docile in temperament. Especially under the training of the cattle herders of Sean, they can understand people's commands and are rare laborers.

Ronin has a total of 24 black buffaloes that can be used for ploughing, which is not a large number.

He plans to distribute the oxen after Wilson divides Shanlin Town into villages.

Of course, they are mainly used by serfs. Free tenants still need to pay a certain fee. Compared with Princet, he can reduce it as appropriate.

The problem of oxen can only be solved in this way at present. There are too few of them.

As for the plow and yoke, Ronin can improve them.

As a modern flower grower, he not only knows about the curved plow in history books, but also tinkered with plows and big black bulls in the fields when he was young.

Ronin plans to draw the style of the plow and then give it to the town's Karles blacksmith to make a pair to try. There should be no problem.

...

While Ronin was busy improving the agricultural technology level of the territory, most of the nobles in the entire Wushan Territory were preparing for the upcoming grand party.

On August 28, Earl Orson Hyde of Black Python City celebrated his 70th birthday.

For ordinary people, fifty is equivalent to entering old age; for nobles, fifty is just the end of middle age.

For this golden knight, even at the age of seventy, he is still strong and powerful.

The skin and internal organs of the golden knight have been tempered by fighting spirit for a long time, and their functions and strength are already several levels ahead of ordinary people.

For extraordinary people of this level, if there is no disease or pain, they will not enter the decline of physical functions until they are eighty years old.

So in the next ten years, Orson Hyde will still be strong.

The Hyde family was already strong, and now that the Earl's grandson has the right to inherit the Wushan Territory, the Hyde family's reputation has grown even higher.

So this birthday party will be grander than ever before, which is why Baron Leisen will set off for Black Python City so many days in advance, because it can indeed generate a lot of communication.

In Wushanpu, Lulans, as Orson Hyde's lord, would naturally not go off to celebrate the other party's birthday in person.

However, as the earl of Wushan City and the son-in-law of that guy Orson, his son must go on this trip.

But the earl was quarreling with his wife in the castle at the moment because Wiggins didn't want to go to Black Python City.

When he was young, he was keen on attending various banquets. The more nobles there were, the more he liked them.

But as he got older, especially in recent years, he began to hate attending such banquets more and more. He felt sick when he saw the nobles changing glasses, smiling on the outside, but not knowing what to say about him behind his back.

Diane was going crazy at the moment. How could a son-in-law not attend his father-in-law's birthday party?

She kept questioning Wiggins, asking him what he was afraid of!

The quarrel lasted for a long time until the incident alerted Lulans who was resting in the back courtyard.

When the old man sat in front of the two of them on crutches, both Wiggins and Diane could only hide their flags and turn off the fire.

"There is no reason for you not to go to Orson's birthday party this time." Rulans made the final decision loudly.

Wiggins suddenly felt that he was so tired. It was too tiring to be this shabby earl and the heir to the marquis. If possible, he could not wait to use his own life to exchange for the rebirth of Grimes.

"Father, can't we just let Diane take Brayton?"

He was still a little unwilling to give up, "Just tell the outside world that I'm sick and not feeling well. Can't I rest at home?"

After Lulans heard this, he suddenly felt like he was a year older. He didn't want to say anything more, he just stared coldly at the son in front of him.

Soon, Wiggins was defeated, "Okay, I'll go!"

Rulansi sighed inwardly, "Let Tolu lead the team to accompany you this time."

Tolu Vinal is a disciple of Rulans, a canonized knight of Wushan Castle, and the leader of the First Knights of Wushan Castle.

Toru claimed that he only had peak silver-level strength, but he had broken through not long ago. However, this matter was not publicized and only Rulans knew about it.

Wiggins was shocked, "Father, Tolu is responsible for guarding Wushan City. He went with me. What should you do?"

"Are you worried about my safety?"

Lulansi chuckled, his face suddenly condensed, and the crutch in his hand hit the ground heavily.

The floor tiles shattered into pieces, and the hot fighting energy formed a whirlwind and rushed towards Wiggins on the opposite side. It actually blew the opponent, tables, chairs, and sofas away and bombarded the wall.

Diane on the side couldn't help but be shocked, she didn't expect that the old man's momentum was still so strong!

"Ahem~"

Lulans coughed twice, looked at his son who was being taught a lesson, and felt a little relieved.

He stood up and walked outside, "Your father is just sick, but not dead. There is no one in Wushan who can take my life for the time being."