"Stay flat, there's 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 people caused by the low productivity of this era.
"How was the harvest this year?" Although Roland had the report 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.
Even if the land is vast and sparsely populated, farmland crops in many remote areas are even sparser than weeds...
"Uh...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 lives of these common people were good enough, but Roland saw the backwardness and poverty behind this seemingly prosperous country... Even the common people of Raglan were using their bran-laced black
Bread is the staple food, not to mention other civilians in places where humans gather. The quality of life of all humans in Middle-earth is probably 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, send the order! Order someone to collect human and animal excrement to accumulate 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 the farmers in Middle-earth. 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 did you start caring about this?" Nyx quietly came 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 are most concerned about most is whether they can collect taxes. As for the livelihood of these common people? As long as they 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 a king can do.
"I'm not blaming myself, I'm just sighing..." 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 were just about the same as 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 an 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 and is all about urban 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 only in the Middle Earth (human beings).
"Isn't everyone like this all the time? We don't have wood casters..." Nyx shook his head. Although Yun Feng is a wise man and can create various alchemical items, many of which can increase crop yields, there is no such thing as that.
Fapu, the farmland around Lagrand Kingdom depends on Yun Feng alone. I guess he will have to chop Roland with a knife again...
"We need 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. He couldn't really rely on the system to support him for his whole life.
"Oh." Nyx nodded as if he understood. Although Roland was a little strange today, as his wife and quasi-queen, 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 sweet 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.
In the wizarding 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, but according to the Smurf's temperament, Roland will be petrified with a breath of dragon breath.
It might be bigger.
Fortunately, the kingdom has now freed up its hands to deal with these matters. When there are no 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 and lives in the information world.
In this 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-yield grains. The planting technology was also a mess. If he didn't change things, he would probably be the first person to starve to death in the capital.