Douluo See You For a Long Time

Vol 2 Chapter 320: From farming to farming

One of the great advantages of being in the indisputable land of the military is that the battle for the mainland has almost nothing to do with him. He can farm here with peace of mind, and occasionally someone may pass by him. Few people want to attack him directly, after all, it is too far away from their own home, even if they are attacked, it will be too troublesome to manage. What if at the city wall

So even if there is a large army passing by here, at most it will 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 as they are now. Most of the resources are stored on the land, and can improve Grain production often means improving a country's overall national strength.

As for the way to increase food production, on the one hand, it is meticulous work, and on the other hand, it is chemical fertilizers and scientific planting methods.

The former is actually unnecessary for this era. The war is a state of less people and more land, especially in this wasteland area, there is a lot of land waiting to be reclaimed. The problem is not the distribution of land, but the land. Use more advanced methods to cultivate these lands.

Therefore, the methods such as composting proposed before have relatively limited effects. But similar operations are not meaningless, because while composting, certain improvements to the composting site can be used to extract nitrate.

And this thing can be said to be the most difficult material to obtain for making gunpowder weapons. In contrast, charcoal and sulfur are much less difficult to obtain.

Compared with other lords, most of them can only choose to mine natural ore, so that there are actually quite few gunpowder weapons in this era.

This kind of raw material can be quickly obtained in large quantities through the method of composting dung-based nitrate. From the current point of view, it is absolutely sufficient to supply this city.

All that remains is the transformation of various equipment for cultivating land, so that manpower can cultivate more land.

In fact, this aspect is not too difficult. It is easy to design the relevant mechanical structures. The current level of craftsmen in the city is not too high, but with training and training, it will soon be able to improve enough. The extent to which these equipment are built.

Chengying climbed the technology tree from scratch, so he has a considerable understanding of the farming equipment needed in these relatively primitive times, and he can teach the local craftsmen how to make parts.

In this way, the industrial level will continue to improve. Production will also continue to increase as workers become more proficient. There is really nothing to do about the population. It is one of the few difficult problems in troubled times. In the melee, the population will inevitably decrease. However, if there is a relatively safe place in the melee, it will naturally be possible. Gathered a large number of refugees.

Chengying is not in a hurry to increase the population. If there are no outsiders, they will wait for the people in their own city to reproduce. After a few decades, the population will double. As long as the productivity of this era can keep up with the distribution system and the distribution system is still reasonable, then the population growth rate will be very fast.

While reclaiming new fields, Chengying 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 require a lot of water.

This is the importance of water conservancy facilities. And this kind of thing cannot be done by a single person or a group of several people. It must be a large project that can be completed only when hundreds of people gather together. Before that, the lord did not have that level. The prestige of the local residents has not had that level of organizational ability, and similar projects have hardly been carried out, but now after the previous several agricultural reforms have achieved results, the trust of the local residents in the new lord has been greatly improved, and There is a relevant training system for officials, and many grassroots managers with sufficient capabilities can be organized.

So the new water conservancy project was launched in this way. When the water conservancy project is carried out, of course, the flood control treatment of the river will also be carried out simultaneously. It is guaranteed that even if there is a flood in the future, it will not lead to a large area of ​​food harvest.

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 that flows through their territory is not particularly turbulent, 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 magnificent dams to turn it into an above-ground river.

Now, with the organization of personnel and the gradual formation of the irrigation system, the local people's support for the lord has further increased, and the construction 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 rather primitive hydraulic forging hammer, which can be used to process steel. If there is such a thing, the blacksmith can save it by swinging a hammer. 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 already much higher. After all, if people keep swinging hammers to smash, it will consume too much energy.

Chengying is also constantly teaching craftsmen so that they can learn to build more advanced machinery and equipment. For example, things like the lathe to be made next. With these, the ability to process steel has been greatly enhanced.

At present, there are still many problems in steel drills, so the current blacksmiths still need to forge steel to meet the qualified standards.

But with the smelting of steel, the equipment over there has also been continuously upgraded. In the future, steel can be directly smelted to produce qualified products. By that time, blacksmithing will be a very different profession than it is now.

Few people in this era can see what the future will look like, but judging from the current trend, even if they don’t occupy more space doors, if the human beings here continue to develop according to this momentum, there is still room for them. The ability to unify the world, establish a new empire, or even a human kingdom with another system.

The number of people is still relatively small, and the power of industry has not yet been displayed. More is used to assist the development of agriculture. When the population becomes larger in the future and the industry gradually flourishes, some people will find that the wealth produced by agriculture is actually nothing compared to it. And it doesn't necessarily need to occupy so many portals to develop and prosper. The surrounding mines are gradually mined by them, and then roads are built, and there are tracks beside the roads for rail carriages. These tracks can greatly increase the load capacity of the carriage, so that it is even possible to build a rail train to transport a large number of items at once.

Although the efficiency of such transportation is still not as good as that of the portal, the gap is greatly narrowed, and only one portal is controlled, but in the case of roads, the distance that can be controlled is farther. These roads can be built, relying on cement, but the cement in this era normally requires manpower to grind through a millstone, and the time required is really long to an unacceptable level.

As for the ability to build roads here with cement, which seems extremely expensive, it is because everyone has seen the sweetness of water conservancy facilities and built many similar facilities by the river. These things can operate completely automatically, and they can replace human beings to grind cement. In this way, the originally expensive things that were only willing to use when building important facilities such as city walls gradually became cheaper. Compared with the prices in the future market, they were still expensive, but now they were barely acceptable.

The road built in this way is much smoother than ordinary roads. The speed of driving on such roads can also be faster. Even if it rains, it will not become muddy and will not affect the transportation.

As more and more such roads run through the territory, one mine after another, one farm after another. Gradually, a second city began to be built in the territory. The location of this city was located at the junction of a huge coal mine and iron mine. A coal-dried industrial complex has been formed here. Although there is no portal, it is enough to build a city. After all, there are a lot of workers working here, and it takes a lot of manpower to transport the coal and iron ore here to the location of the city. Material resources, if transported like this all the time, the transportation cost will be too wasteful, so after a resolution, a large number of people migrated here. Originally, this was just a village for smelting steel, but as the number of people increased, there was gradually a need for safety. Start building your own city.

So, sitting in this era, which looks extremely strange, cities that were not built on portals at all appeared. But the people living in this city are not surprised by this. After all, they really have their own needs in building the city, and they don't need to consider how their ancestors did it. And the development of the city has also exceeded their expectations. The surrounding coal mines and steel made them a very wealthy city, and a large amount of steel was exported to the hands of the nobles outside.

The wealth exchanged for them in this process has already made these people living in remote areas feel unbelievable, and the steel they exchanged is simply a drop in the bucket compared to the production capacity of the factory. What kind of value do those iron-gray metal blocks contain?

The emergence of a large number of steel and machine tools has actually gradually pushed the times forward, and the first industrial revolution may occur next. All of this is not in a hurry, technology is still accumulating, 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. For example, advanced mathematics knowledge, astronomy knowledge, etc., are very useful, for example, for navigation. In fact, before the first industrial revolution, many advanced mathematical theories had been proposed. Even if modern people traveled to that time, facing the top mathematicians of that era, they would find that most of what they said was a group of gods that they could not understand.

After all, it is a science that is not particularly dependent on productivity. Even when productivity is backward, as long as there is paper and pen, it can be calculated. Even if the productivity is developed, the assistance to this subject is only brought about by the powerful computing rate of the computer after the computing equipment is enhanced. In fact, there is not much expansion in terms of thinking.

Chengying is very dissatisfied with the knowledge and literacy of the people in this era. It is different from the era on Earth. In this era, at least the city he lives in does not have so many mathematicians~www.readwn.com~There are not so many people who like astronomy geographical people. Interest may be innate, but knowledge must still be learned, and some people must continue to study and explore in those fields.

Technology is technology and science is science. Those are two different things, and it's technology, not science, that's driving the city so far. Many people even have a mentality of watching miracles for many technologies that have emerged in this era. From the perspective of a traveler, it is very cool that everyone is watching their own fairy operations. But from the perspective of a civilization, people can't understand a brand-new device and regard it as a god. In fact, it is a kind of sadness and a manifestation 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 villages, so that they will not be regarded as some kind of monster that needs to eat people. For these people to learn to think rationally, even if they do not have enough knowledge to explain everything in front of them, they still need to pass rational reasoning. To find the so-called god. true face.

After the gradual development of productivity, there will be enough wealth to promote the popularization of education. After all, the popularization of education can only be carried out if many people are separated from production, even if most of those who are educated are children. Children at this age can already provide a certain amount of productivity, and even when farming in the farmland, they can produce a little more food than they eat. It is no longer a drag on the family. But to get something in return, you have to give first. Unorganized people couldn't make this choice to give, and now they can.

【To be continued】

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