One of the great advantages of being in a place where military strategists are indisputable is that the battle for the mainland has almost nothing to do with him. He can farm here with peace of mind. Occasionally, people may pass by him. There are also very few people who want to attack him directly.
, after all, it is too far away from my home. Even if it is captured, it will be too troublesome to manage. If it is trapped under the city wall for too long, logistical supplies will be a big problem.
Therefore, even if an army passes by here, at most it can only send some food as a temporary supply point, and then the army can be sent away. There is no place more suitable for farming than here.
And since you want to farm, you need to start with farming. Even if muskets have been invented in this era, agriculture is still the primary productive force. Otherwise, the countries here would not be fighting for land like they are now. Most of them
Some of the resources are contained in the land, and increasing food production often means increasing a country's overall national strength.
As for the ways to increase grain production, on the one hand it is careful workmanship, and on the other hand it is chemical fertilizers and scientific planting methods.
The former is actually unnecessary for this era. In the war, there are fewer people and more land. Especially in this area, which is still a wasteland, there is a lot of land waiting to be reclaimed. The problem is not the distribution of the land, but the distribution of the land.
Use more advanced methods to reclaim these lands for planting.
Therefore, the effects of methods such as composting proposed before are actually relatively limited. However, similar operations are not meaningless, because nitrate can be extracted by making certain improvements to the composting site while composting.
This thing can be said to be the most difficult material to obtain for making gunpowder weapons. In comparison, charcoal and sulfur are much less difficult to obtain.
Compared with other lords, most of them could only choose to mine natural ores, so in this era there were actually quite few gunpowder weapons.
This raw material can be quickly obtained in large quantities by stacking manure and nitrate. At present, it is absolutely sufficient to supply this city.
What remains is the transformation of various farmland equipment so that manpower can cultivate more land.
This aspect is actually not too difficult. The relevant mechanical structures are easy to design. The current level of craftsmen in the city is not too high, but with training and training, it can soon be improved enough.
The extent of building these equipment.
Cheng Ying climbed the technology tree from scratch, so he has a considerable understanding of these relatively primitive farming equipment, and can teach local craftsmen step by step how to build parts.
In this way, the industrial level will continue to improve. The output will also continue to increase as the workers become more skilled. There is really nothing that can be done about the population. It is one of the few problems that is difficult to solve in troubled times. In the melee, the population
It will inevitably decrease, but if there is a relatively safe place in the melee, a large number of refugees can naturally be gathered.
Chengying is not in a hurry to increase the population. If there are no outsiders, then he will wait for the people in his city to reproduce. After waiting for decades, the population will double several times. As long as this era
If productivity can keep up with the distribution system and is reasonable, then the population will grow very quickly.
While cultivating new fields, Cheng Ying also gave the next plan, which is to guide the surrounding rivers for irrigation. The harvest of fields that can be irrigated is much higher than the normal harvest. And irrigated fields often
Requires a lot of moisture.
This is the importance of water conservancy facilities. This kind of thing cannot be done by a single person or a few people working together. It must be hundreds or even thousands of people gathering together to complete a large project.
, before this, the lord did not have that level of prestige, nor that level of organizational ability, and similar projects had almost never been carried out. But now, after several previous agricultural reforms have achieved results, the local residents are very concerned about the new lord.
The level of trust has been greatly improved, and there is a relevant official training system, which has cultivated many capable grassroots managers who can be organized.
So the new water conservancy project was launched. While carrying out the water conservancy project, of course, the flood control treatment of the river will also be carried out simultaneously. This ensures that even if there is a flood in the future, it will not lead to a loss of food harvest in large areas.
Things like rivers have always been loved and feared by farming civilization. It is quite difficult for people under the productivity of this era to tame them.
Fortunately, the river flowing through their territory is not a particularly fast type, and the sediment content in it is not very high. The probability of flooding is relatively small, and there is no need to build too grand a dam to make it
An above ground river.
Nowadays, as people are organized, the irrigation system is gradually taking shape, the local people's support for the lord has further increased, and the construction process of various wind and water conservancy machinery is no longer hindered as before.
The most important thing is actually a water conservancy workshop built by the river. It took a lot of manpower and material resources to successfully build it. It contains a quite primitive water conservancy forging hammer, which can be used to process steel. If there is such a thing, the blacksmith can wield it.
The hammer can be omitted. You only need to constantly adjust the angle of the red-hot iron block and let the hammer hit it by itself.
Although this still requires manpower, the efficiency is much higher. After all, if a person keeps swinging a hammer to smash, it will consume too much energy. If he continues to consume like this, sooner or later he will not be able to hold on.
Chengying is also constantly teaching craftsmen to learn how to build more advanced mechanical equipment. For example, the lathe and other things that will be built next. With these, the ability to process steel has been greatly enhanced.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! There are still many problems in steel drills, so today's blacksmiths still need to forge steel to reach qualified standards.
But with the smelting of steel, the equipment there has also been continuously upgraded. In the future, steel can be directly smelted into qualified products. By that time, blacksmithing will become a completely different profession from now.
In this era, few people can see what the future will look like, but judging from the current trend, in fact, even if they do not occupy more space gates, if humans here continue to develop according to this momentum, there will be
The ability to unify the world, establish a new empire, or even a human kingdom with another system.
At present, the number of people is relatively small, and the power of industry has not yet been demonstrated. It is more used to assist the development of agriculture. When the population becomes larger in the future and industry gradually develops, some people will discover that agriculture produces
The wealth that came out was actually nothing compared to it. And it was not necessarily necessary to occupy so many portals to develop and prosper. The surrounding mines were gradually mined by them, and then they built roads one after another, and there were special roads next to them.
The tracks on which the track carriages travel. These tracks can greatly increase the load capacity of the carriages. In this way, a track train can even be established to transport a large number of items at one time.
Although the efficiency of such transportation is still not as good as that of teleportation gates, the gap has been greatly narrowed. It only controls one teleportation gate, but when there are roads, the distance that can be controlled is even further.
The construction of these roads still relies on cement. However, the cement in this era normally requires manpower to grind the powder through millstones, which takes an unacceptably long time.
As for the fact that cement can be used to build roads here, which seems to be extremely expensive, it is because everyone has seen the benefits of water conservancy facilities and built many similar facilities along the river. These things can operate completely automatically, that is,
It can be used to grind cement instead of humans. Since then, things that were originally expensive and were only used when building important facilities such as city walls have gradually become cheaper. Compared with the market price, they are still expensive.
But now it's barely acceptable.
The roads built in this way are much smoother than ordinary roads. The speed of driving on such roads can also be faster. Even on rainy days, it will not become muddy and will not affect transportation.
As more and more such roads were built, they penetrated the territory, one mine after another, and one farm after another. Gradually, a second city began to be built in the territory. The location of this city was located in a huge
The junction of coal mines and iron mines. A coal drying industrial complex is formed here. Although there is no portal, it is enough to build a city. After all, there are a lot of workers working here to transport the coal and iron ore here.
The location of the city requires a lot of manpower and material resources. If it continues to be transported like this, the transportation cost will be too wasteful. Therefore, after a decision, a large number of people moved here. Originally, this was just a steel smelting village, but as the number of people increased,
The more you get, the more security you need and you start building your own city.
So a city that seemed extremely strange in this era and was not built on portals at all appeared. But the people living in this city did not feel strange because of this. After all, they really had their own way of building the city.
Demand does not need to consider what their ancestors did. And the development of this city has exceeded their expectations. The surrounding coal mines and steel have made them a quite wealthy city, and a large amount of steel has been exported to major nobles in the outside world.
in hand.
The wealth that this process brought them was incredible to the people living in remote areas, and the steel they exchanged was just a drop in the bucket compared to the production capacity of the factory. It can be imagined that in their hands
What value do those iron-gray metal blocks contain?
The emergence of a large amount of steel and machine tools has actually gradually pushed the times forward. The first industrial revolution may be coming next. There is no rush in this. Technology is still being accumulated, and knowledge also needs to be further accumulated.
Not only do people need to be able to learn classical physics, but they also need to know more things. For example, advanced mathematics knowledge, astronomy knowledge, etc. These are all very useful, such as being used in navigation. In fact, for the first time
Before the industrial revolution, many profound mathematical theories had been proposed. Even if modern people travel to that time and face the top mathematicians of that era, they will find that they are just a group of gods. Most of what they say is that they have no idea.
something that cannot be understood.
After all, it is a science that does not particularly rely on productivity. Even if productivity is backward, as long as there is paper and pen, calculations can be done. Even if productivity is developed, the assistance for this subject is only the enhancement of computing equipment.
Brought by the powerful calculation rate of computers, it does not actually expand the idea much.
Cheng Ying is very dissatisfied with the intellectual literacy of the people in this era. Unlike the era of the earth, in this era, at least in his city, there are not so many mathematicians, and there are not so many people who like astronomy and geography. Interested in this
These things may be innate, but knowledge must still be learned, and some people must continue to delve into and explore in those fields.
Technology is technology, and science is science. These are two different things. At present, technology, not science, is developing rapidly in this city. Many people even have a negative attitude toward the many technologies emerging in this era.
The mentality of a miracle, from the perspective of a time traveler, this kind of pretentious behavior where everyone is watching their own magical operations is very satisfying, but if you look at it from a civilized perspective, people are very interested in a brand-new device.
I can't understand it and regard it as a god. In fact, it is a kind of sadness and a reflection of the backwardness of this era.
Chengying needs to let the people in his territory at least be able to pump water to the surrounding countryside without being thought of as some kind of monster that needs to eat people. He needs to let these people learn to think rationally, even if they are themselves
There is not enough knowledge to explain everything in front of us, and we need to use rational reasoning to find the true face of the so-called gods.
After the productivity gradually develops, there will be enough wealth to promote the popularization of education. After all, the popularization of education requires many people to be separated from production. Even if most of those who educate are children, in this era, this
Young children can already provide a certain amount of productivity. Even when farming in the farmland, they can produce more food than they eat. They are no longer a burden to the family. But I want to
To get something in return, you have to give first. People without organization would not be able to make this choice to give, but now they can.
