Release that Witch

264. Chapter 264 Harvest

    The first batch of wheat planted by Border Town finally ushered in the harvest day.

    The serfs, with the scorching sun, cut the straw with a sickle and bundled it up and transported it across the river.

    Roland knows that it is a very cumbersome process from wheat to wheat. Before mechanical tools and combine harvesters are yet to become popular, wheat grains need to be manually separated, cleaned, screened, and aired. Now, he has witnessed this process again.

    After the straws are shipped back to the camp, the serfs spread them flat on the ground and then use various tools – there is nothing to use: wooden sticks, stones, and scorpions all in one, repeatedly tapping the straw and wheat ears, let Ying If it leaves the outer shell, this process usually lasts for three or four days. In the romance of Roland, the countryside uses cows or scorpions, pulling the stone mills to press in the valley, which not only saves a lot of effort, but also has a much better shelling effect than the beat.

    I have to say that the agricultural level of small town is really too backward.

    After the game is finished, it is the same. It is also used for smashing. If there is no fork, use a wooden stick instead, or use the boss hands to grab the straw and throw it into the sky, just like cooking in a pan. After the previous tapping, most of the shells of the caryopsis have been broken, and this process separates the fruit from the ears of wheat.

    The threshed wheat straw actually has many functions. After smashing, it can be returned to the field. It can be used as livestock bedding, and it can also make feed and paper. However, Roland has no time to develop the green industry, so I have to watch the serfs pile the wheat straw into the river. On the side, the unified unity burned the fire. In the next few days, the gray smoke fluttered throughout the small town, which was comparable to the previous cement powder pollution.

    At the same time, the two spindle islands of the Scarlet Water Bridge have been cleaned up and the retaining wall construction is being carried out as planned. The foundation pier uses the same prefabrication method as the main bridge. First, the concrete column containing the steel and steel bars is poured out in the open space, and then the “weight reduction lifting” is carried out. Finally, the lotus is responsible for sinking it into the soil, only the half is exposed. Steel plate, waiting to be connected to the bridge.

    So this week, Roland basically swayed between the Scarlet Water Bridge and the valley, and the skin was sunburned a lot.

    When the straw is forked, there is only one layer of grain and chaff left in the valley.

    The serfs swept them together, piled up into small hills, and then stood on the mountain bag, shoveling the mixture with a shovel and throwing it toward the open space ahead. Because the chaff is much lighter than the fruit, the distance from the wind is farther away, so the grain is scattered under the feet, and the shells and fragments are in the distance – everyone is going through this method step by step. The food is collected.

    Of course, it would be impossible to clean the chaff completely, and the process would allow the grain to be mixed with mud and gravel, so Roland made up his mind that he had to prepare a batch of machinery and tools in advance of the harvest day next year–combine harvester is not expected to be built, But the shelling machine is quite easy to achieve, but instead of grinding the stone into a grinding disc, and in the lower part of the screen, and use the blower to separate the chipped chaff.

    When a full grain of wheat is evenly laid on the valley, it seems to have dyed the entire shore of the entire Scarlet Water River with a layer of gold. Looking at these golden fruits, Roland is filled with a sense of accomplishment. Regardless of the harvested food enough to fill the stomach of more than 10,000 people, at least for Border Town, this is a memorable day.

    From today, the food in his territory will gradually shift from self-production to self-sufficiency.

    Three days after drying, the wheat entered the bagging and weighing stage.

    “His Royal Highness, this time is a big harvest!”In the afternoon, Barov rushed into the office. “According to City Hall’s preliminary statistics, the yield per mu of the responsibility field is at least four times that of the previous one. The highest level is currently six times, so count this year. The harvest is enough to fill the stomach of the citizen.”

    “Yes,” Roland couldn’t help but smile. “It seems that the new granary in the castle area is not always empty.”

    “Do you know what it means?”City Hall Premier Minister looks more excited than him. “Small town only needs to add another 2,000 farmers to meet the food consumption of 50,000 or 60,000 people! This is incredible, small town can be expanded into the largest city of Greycastle, no…”He paused, “the most magnificent city on the mainland!”

    The city’s population has not improved in this era. The main reason is the low food production capacity. The big city of 20,000 people like Kingdom Capital has already needed food from dozens of villages around it. Each village has a population of about one or two thousand. If half of it is engaged in agricultural farming, it is almost 20,000 people to raise 20,000 people. That is to say, the food produced by a farmer, in addition to feeding himself and his family, will supply at most one city resident.

    The so-called intangible restriction of productivity is here. I am afraid Barov can hardly imagine that when mechanized planting is popularized, the output of one person alone is enough to feed tens of thousands of people. Border Town achieved such a bumper harvest in the absence of a promotion and development of agricultural technology. The main credit is the “Golden No.” reformed by Leaf. 1″ up.

    It is Roland’s strategy from the very beginning to feed more people with as few farmers as possible, to liberate the human natural resource from farmland and to invest in industrial production. Now the Ministry of Agriculture has obtained the best planting process, and with the next year there will be iron farm tools and machinery to participate in farming, and the per capita output will inevitably become higher and higher.

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    In the evening, Roland gave a bonfire speech at the Scarlet Water River – time seemed to return to the dusk four months ago, the same bonfire, the black crowd, and the last glimmer of reflection on everyone’s face. The only difference is that everyone’s look is more than the fear and uneasiness of the first time, and now their faces are full of joy and unpredictable expectations.

    Roland reached for a downward wave and the scene calmed down. Everyone held their breath and waited for the prince to fulfill his promise.

    “I know what you want to hear,” he did not follow his usual practice, first put his name and title in front, but said straightforwardly, “–I can tell you without a doubt. The previously announced promotion rules are still valid today and will continue to do so!”

    This sentence alone detonated the atmosphere of the scene, and everyone could not help but scream out, many people squatted down and praised the prince’s kindness. “Feudal lord Long live for adults! “”Long live His Highness the Prince ! ”

    “When the weighing of the food is over, the promotion list will be announced,” Roland said. “The arrangement after becoming a free person will be handled by City Hall. You can choose to continue farming or in small town. He has another job.”

    “In addition, from next year, as long as the harvest meets the promotion criteria, even if the output is not in the forefront, it can become a free person. In other words, as long as you work hard, you will be able to get rid of the identity of the serfs – as I said, labor creates wealth and labor changes fate. ”He paused for a moment and looked around. “I hope that in the future, Border Town will no longer have a serf, everyone can be my real citizen.”

    Roland’s voice just fell, and the cheers of people rang through the Scarlet Water River for a long time.