Now that the topic of farming has come up, Gavin followed the lead and said: "Our current model of relying on imported food is also a temporary solution. It is always dangerous to hand over your basic livelihood to others.
It is easy for others to get stuck on things. It is urgent to launch our planting industry. The next ten days will be an excellent time for farming. It will definitely be too late to cultivate land now.
There is no way to cultivate intensively, so we will plant coarsely and wildly. When the next caravan arrives, there will be several wagons filled with grain seeds. Goss, you have to pay attention to distinguish them clearly and don't eat them as coarse grains. Then how many teams of people will you bring?
, follow me to the mountains and bury seeds. As long as the seeds are dropped, there will always be a harvest."
Gavin didn't do this on a whim, but had a detailed plan.
The rocky land is just a complex terrain, not a wilderness.
Like the plains, there are no large areas of floodplain land, but those relatively gentle slopes and valley floodplains can still create many small pieces of farmland.
The kobolds and goblins themselves do not cultivate at all. The Black Well Tribe has its own cultivated land in the small river bank.
It's just that compared to the intensive farming of humans, they are typical of rough farming. They only sow seeds, irrigate, weed, and eliminate insects. The final harvest depends on the weather.
Under the current conditions, Gavin can only adopt the kobold farming method, but the area needs to be expanded, not only to plant all the hills around the Black Well tribe, but to plant as many grain seeds as he can collect, anyway.
In Borderland, who knows how many people the Black Well tribe will have this winter.
What Gavin planned to plant was not cereals that required relatively high land requirements, but vine vegetables and root crops such as potatoes and sweet potatoes.
These crops have a unified characteristic, that is, they have large yields, are easy to survive, and have low management requirements. As long as the weather is not too bad, the harvest is usually relatively stable, they can be used as food or vegetables, and they are easy to store, especially in kobold mines.
It is also an excellent storage environment, and it will not go bad from this summer to next summer.
Gavin knew that they couldn't provide much advice on this matter, so he just passed by, his eyes still falling on Zach.
Zach shook his head hurriedly and said: "Master Chief, these are the only two points I can think of at the moment. Why don't you ask other people first and I'll think about it."
"Okay." Gavin also knew not to grab someone and squeeze him, and his eyes passed over the faces of the others one by one, "Where are you guys?"
"I...I...I have one...I don't know if it counts." The young pastor raised her hand cautiously. Due to her nervousness, her old habit relapsed.
"Oh?" Gavin raised his spirits, his eyes fell on Anna, and said with great interest, "Let's talk and listen first."
"I...I want to build a church...I...Ilmat's church...I want to lead those interested kobolds...to the path of faith in the God of Suffering." Being stared at by so many people,
The young pastor became even more nervous, and beads of sweat began to roll down her round forehead.
"The God of Suffering accepts believers from other humanoid races?" Gavin asked with some surprise.
"Ilmat is a benevolent god. As long as you believe in his way, he doesn't care about racial origin." When talking about faith, Anna's nervousness became obviously much lighter. "We can't use our narrow vision to
Guess the mind of the gods."
Thinking of the changes in faith that had just occurred last year, Gavin quite agreed with the girl pastor's explanation.
The strength of the gods no longer directly depends on the priesthood, but is directly linked to the number of believers in the material plane.
Simply put, the more believers it has, the more powerful the god will be, and vice versa. If there are no more believers in the material plane, the god will die.
It is too late for the gods to actively develop believers, and of course they will not care about the race of origin of the believers.
Gavin did not answer Anna directly, but turned his attention to the four kobolds and said, "What are your opinions on this matter? Does it conflict with your original beliefs?"
"No conflict, Kurtumak is just our guardian, not entirely our belief."
"Belief is personal freedom and we will not interfere with it."
The faces of the four kobolds didn't look too different, and they obviously had no resistance to this matter.
"In this case, just go ahead and do it. The church is simple. Just do like me and dig a cave. As long as you are religious and pious, even if it is a small statue, the God of Suffering can listen to you.
Pray." Naturally, Gavin would not object to this matter. Ilmat is a well-known lawful good god. Most of the people trained in this church are medical priests. He can never have too many of these priests.
Turning around, Gavin gave Anna a new task, "Since teaching them doctrines and prayers requires the use of words, why don't you just open a literacy class in your church to teach those young kobolds
lingua franca.”
"If Mr. Gavin didn't say anything, I would have done it." The young pastor was a good teacher and was very interested in this kind of thing.
"Not only young kobolds, but other adults also need to read and write Common Language, especially you guys. From now on, after work, you will also have the task of reading and writing ten common words. I will check it regularly."
"As commanded."
When they hear that they need to learn to write common language, some people are excited and interested, while others are droopy.
"Including you, roar, your tasks are getting heavier, twenty per day."
"Ah..." When he heard his name being called, the half-ogre stood up instinctively, drooling half a foot long from the corner of his mouth, and said with a blank expression, "Sir, what's the matter?"
Gavin's eyes twitched and he repeated his order, "After training, learn twenty common words every day, and Anna will teach you."
"Ah? Ah!" The half-ogre's eyes widened, and he touched his bald head in confusion and said, "Why should I learn to read?"
"If you are asked to learn, you will learn. If you learn one less, you will lose a bowl of rice." Gavin was not prepared to explain at all.
"As ordered." The half-ogre sat back with a tangled face, staring at the goblin warlock who was still puffing out his cheeks. Thinking about it, they knew him, and he didn't know their common words, and he lost sleep at all.
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"Who has the next topic?"
"I, I do." Cangya said unable to hold back.
"explain."
"I think we should tame the ferocious ferrets and form a ferocious ferret cavalry." Cang Ya naturally started from the military field he was most familiar with.
"It's a good idea, but where did this ferocious weasel come from?" Gavin certainly knew the value of cavalry, even if it was more expensive, it was still worth it.
"This..." Cangya obviously hadn't considered this issue and replied hesitantly, "We can go to the wild to find and capture them and bring them back to tame them."
"Although it is a method, it is not very efficient." Gavin shook his head and said, "When you are training in the field, pay attention to see if there are ferocious ferrets around. Don't force it. I will contact the human merchants and take a look.
Is there any channel, but I hope it won’t be too high. Dire ferret mounts are not popular among humans. Instead, they are ponies. It is not difficult to buy them in bulk. If you compromise, I will find a way to get a batch of dwarfs for you.
Stallion, you train first and see if you have a chance to acquire Dire Weasel in the future."
Due to their burrowing characteristics, kobolds and ferocious weasels have very compatible temperaments and are natural partners.
The Dire Weasel Cavalry is a unique unit of the kobolds.
Few goblins ride dire weasels, just as few kobolds ride wargs.
It's just that there are so many kobold tribes who have come to seek refuge, and not a single ferocious ferret has been seen, which shows that this area is not very productive.
If you want to get it, you have to find a way from other kobold tribes, whether it is annexation or trade.