Because of tea, Lawrence and the senior priest of the Agricultural Church had a good chat. Then Lawrence introduced the circular agriculture theory that he and the agricultural school development groups on New Saul Island made. The priest was even more excited.
She nodded repeatedly, and even called her students to come and listen together.
As a result, this chat made everyone forget about time. Just when Lawrence explained the general framework of the circular agriculture theory clearly to the people present, the church bells rang. After hearing the bells, the high priest
He raised his head and told Lawrence that it was already lunch time and that everyone could continue the discussion after eating.
It is different from the western dining tradition of the Old Continent. The Erysion Empire, which inherited the ancient imperial civilization, is more popular in communicating about some things at the dinner table. In this regard, this country is not like their neighbors in the western part of the Old Continent.
It's more like the style of those people from Cathay, thousands of miles away.
At the dinner table, because everyone was relatively relaxed, Lawrence and the others also learned a lot of other news. For example, the high priest named Octavia was born in the mountainous area in the middle of the empire, because that place was very poor.
For some reasons, she was abandoned by her helpless parents, but fortunately she was adopted by a priest passing by the village.
However, there are still a few lucky ones like her. More abandoned babies did not wait for someone who could save them, so they disappeared quietly into the wilderness. Many travelers passing by the mountainous area in the middle of the empire were able to
The remains of these poor children were found on both sides of the road.
In fact, as a parent, who is willing to abandon their children? But because the land is so barren, the locals can only live on the corn that can grow tenaciously on the hillside, even in the best years.
They can only barely eat enough. In this case, many people's homes can be said to be destitute. This makes them sometimes have to abandon those newborns so that others can survive.
Because of this background, when Octavia grew up, although she did not want to find her parents who abandoned her, she still hoped to make her hometown rich so that the tragedy that happened to her would not happen again. This
That's why she was so excited when she heard that Lawrence and the others had brought new methods for processing tea.
Although previous planting experiments have shown that the local climate and terrain are not very suitable for the growth of tea. Just now, Octavia took out some samples collected in the church for Lawrence and the others to check. As a result, Nora passed by
After careful inspection, it was confirmed that no matter how these tea leaves are processed, it is impossible to compare with the quality of the tea leaves on New Sauer Island.
But these were not problems in the eyes of Priest Octavia. After tasting the tea leaves with milk and sugar, she realized that the taste of these things was more susceptible to the local people than the green tea from the distant east.
With its popularity, it can at least easily capture a large share of the beverage market in the New World.
She also admitted that the taste of the black tea produced on New Saul Island is indeed very top-notch. It can be regarded as the best of the best. Once launched, it will definitely be welcomed by everyone. But the area of the hilly areas in the center of the island where tea can be grown is doomed.
The output cannot be too high. This inherent flaw prevents him from monopolizing the black tea market in the future.
Lawrence also clearly realized this, so he did not blindly expand the tea planting area, but declared that the entire island would not give up food cultivation in agriculture in the future, and even aimed to become a food supplier to the surrounding islands in the future.
Under this circumstance, the tea production of New Sauer Island is bound to be limited.
According to Lawrence's idea, he will make the tea on the island a luxury product. Because only in this way can he obtain as much profit as possible under the limited tea planting area. Now his identity and the close relationship with various churches
The connection made his idea very likely to become a reality.
Priest Octavia obviously saw this, so she thought she could get Lawrence to cooperate with her and the Agricultural Church behind her. After all, unlike Lawrence's island, the hilly area in the middle of the empire was very large, and it was enough to
This new variety of black tea is produced in large quantities.
But on the other hand, the hydrothermal conditions and topography in the central part of the empire mean that the quality of the tea produced here is simply not comparable to the quality of the tea produced on New Sauer Island. Therefore, it is impossible to compete with the tea produced by Lawrence and the others. Instead, it can be obtained from some kind of
To a certain extent, cooperation between the two parties can be said to be beneficial without any harm.
It is for this reason that after eating, Lawrence first made a report on circular agriculture to these young priests as originally planned and gained a good reputation, and then, under the guidance of Octavia, they met
When we got here, the person in charge of the cathedral: High Priest Varro.
Next is the content of the cooperation after discussion between the two parties. Because Lawrence had a good history of cooperation with the Agricultural Church before, and even received the gift of the Goddess of Agriculture. So Lawrence quickly discussed it with Mr. Varro in a relatively harmonious atmosphere.
A draft was drawn up on how to cooperate on tea in the future.
According to the provisions of this draft, Lawrence needs to inform the Agricultural Church of his previous observation report on tea trees on Chashan Mountain and the tea processing methods and principles he summarized later, and provide a batch of tea tree seeds for the Agricultural Church to conduct experiments and small-scale research.
Planting.
The Agricultural Church needs to do its best to promote black tea as a new drink and highlight the taste of New Sauer Island black tea. In addition, in subsequent research, any discoveries about tea cultivation and processing on the Agricultural Church need to be
Tell Lawrence's side truthfully and promptly.
In short, this is a contract that is mutually beneficial to both parties. The details are left to the professionals of both parties. According to the agreement between the two parties, Lawrence will return to New Saul Island this time to collect all the information he collected previously.
A batch of tea saplings and seeds were sent here in the name of the Earl of Sauer and the Agricultural Church of Sauer Island. The church then found a few experimental plots in the mountainous areas of the central empire to start experimental planting.
In addition, after the first batch of tea leaves comes down on the island, part of it will be sent to the Agricultural Church here. Part of it will be dedicated to the goddess of agriculture as this year's New Year's sacrifice, and the other part will be used for the church's reception.
Provide supplies to entertain the dignitaries.
After solving the problem about tea, High Priest Varro enthusiastically discussed the issue of circular agriculture with Lawrence. From the discussion that lasted for more than 40 minutes, Lawrence felt that the elder was interested in what he had proposed before.
attach great importance to the concept of circular agriculture.
It's normal to think about it. Agricultural production must change nature, and in traditional concepts, this change is often negative. But on the other hand, the nature of the agricultural church makes it absolutely impossible to break with nature. Therefore,
Over the years, the agricultural church has been very troubled.
Fortunately, before the development of industry, agriculture did not damage nature so much, so the contradiction was not very big. But in modern times, this contradiction has become more and more intense.
Fortunately, the clergy and staff of the Agricultural Church found some ways to ease the contradiction between people and nature in their daily production and life, so the fragile balance between developing agriculture and protecting nature has been maintained to this day. But
This contradiction continues to affect the entire church.
Although the theory of cyclic agriculture and the material cycle of the entire world proposed by Lawrence is very rough, it summarizes the previous efforts of the agricultural church and provides a solid theoretical basis for these efforts. Therefore, these clergy can