Farming Lord of Crossing

Chapter 27 27. Enrollment expansion and planting

After another three days, Sir Teranis, who had gone out from the expedition, returned, along with thirty horses full of trophies and about 100 male and female slaves.

After a simple night's rest, the resolute Sir Tranis decided to break camp and return to Wellington City, and report to Lord Viscount Mordo.

Early the next morning, Ross led the militia to see Sir Tranis and his party off in front of the original camp.

"This time, I am really grateful to Lord Viscount for his kindness, and I am even more grateful to Lord Sir for eliminating the hidden dangers around our Stan Village." Rose said respectfully and sincerely.

This time following Sir Tranis, he discovered that there are so many terrifying existences around the village. If Sir Tranis hadn't led the knights to sweep them away, they might be attacked and killed in their sleep one day net.

Sir Tranis accepted Rose's thanks frankly, and said with a smile: "Young man, you have done a good job. I look forward to your future performance!"

Then the Jazz pointed to a large number of metal weapons and armor piled up in a corner of the camp, and said, "I would like to thank your militia team for your help and support in this raid. These things are considered as rewards for you!"

Although these are all messy and tattered things looted from bandits and even orc camps, Sir Tranis doesn't like them, but they are not many good things for Stan Village at this time, let the blacksmith Curry repair them , Restructuring, can immediately raise the combat effectiveness of the militiamen to a higher level.

After expressing his gratitude again, Sir Tranis directly commanded the Cavaliers to set off without hesitation.

The Cavaliers are gone, and there are no outsiders in the village anymore, and it is time to implement their own ideas.

Ross once again gathered the whole village, including refugees and slaves, in the open space in the center of the village.

This time, with the addition of more than 200 refugees and more than 400 slaves, the number of people in the village exceeded the [-]-person mark unprecedentedly.Looking at the dark figures in front of him, Ross felt confident like never before. Population is the productivity.

"This year, thanks to our joint efforts, the grain harvest in Stan Village has been bumper. The most important thing is that the generous and benevolent Lord Viscount has exempted future taxes due to the large increase in the production of licorice.

This is the result of the hard work of everyone in Stan Village.From today onwards, we no longer have to live with our belts. "Loth first talked about this year's grain harvest and taxation. This is related to whether everyone can have enough to eat, and also affirmed the fruits of the villagers' one-year labor.

The villagers applauded vigorously when they heard these words, and at the same time said words of thanks and praise to the village chief.

A blush appeared on Rose's gentle face, and he hurriedly stretched out his hand to stop and continued: "Although we have a good harvest of food, we can plant more land and harvest more food after adding so many refugees and slaves .

But this time, when I followed Sir Tranis to sweep around the village, I found that our village was indeed surrounded by a pack of wolves.There are too many dangers, powerful monsters and fierce beasts around our village. If we are not careful, our village will be in danger of being destroyed.

Although Lord Viscount's Cavaliers helped us clean up all the monsters and beasts around us, we can't expect Lord Viscount to send knights to protect us every year.

The tragedy of last winter is very likely to happen again, so we must strengthen our own strength and protect ourselves. "

"Village Chief, what do you say! We believe in you!" Someone in the crowd shouted.

"Yes, we believe in you!" The villagers echoed.

Ross smiled gratifiedly and announced loudly: "My idea is to expand the militia."

"Expand the militia?" The villagers were taken aback.

"Yes." Luoswa's blue eyes shone brightly, and he explained: "Now we have more than 200 refugees and more than 400 slaves, which means that our village does not lack labor.

I plan to expand the size of the militia to 8 squads or 96 people.Therefore, this one will recruit 46 people into the militia. Of course, the militia will give priority to the qualified citizens before selecting among the refugees. "

Those eligible families who heard the news were immediately excited. Joining the militia is the dream of every villager in Stan Village this year. You must know that the treatment of the militia is really good.Not to mention being able to eat enough, there will be rewards from time to time. The gold coins rewarded are much more than the harvest of the whole family farming in a year.

Soon, 16 qualified citizens were selected. After all, Stan Village only has more than 300 people and more than 120 households. After the tragedy last year, there are not many families where one member of the family joins the army and can leave a middle-aged man.

Ross selected the 20 strongest people among the refugees, and 10 people among the slaves, and then redistributed the 96 people into 8 teams according to the old and new combinations, plus 12 people in each team with the captain and deputy captain.

Moreover, Los officially appointed five people including Thomas and Bruce, who had completely surpassed ordinary militiamen after three months of training, as captains, and at the same time decided to let all captains and vice-captains also begin to receive warrior training.

In fact, another reason for Ross's expansion of the militia is to strengthen the management of refugees and slaves.After all, their number is now nearly twice that of the official residents of Stan Village.

In case someone lives a little more comfortably, and then has a little something that should not be thought, if he is not there at that time, the village will not have enough force to control it.

After the matter of the militia was confirmed, Ross began to pay attention to the things in the farmland while training the militia.

At this time, after a large number of refugees and slaves joined, the harvesting efficiency of crops increased by three or four times, and all the potatoes and corn had been harvested into the granary.

It was only at this time that Ross noticed that it was the end of summer, which meant that the land would be left unused between now and before the snow fell in winter.

What a shameful waste!
In fact, it is no wonder that the villagers of Stan Village, basically the entire land of the Kingdom of Lorraine are like this.Speaking of which, this is a good thing. After three or four months of rest, these lands can recover their fertility, and they can be cultivated again next year. Unlike some areas, the so-called rotation cultivation is really a one-year rest period.

But Rose doesn't think so, because he has better options.

That is to grow soybeans and peas.

The growth of legumes will produce associated rhizobia, absorb nitrogen in the air to produce nitrogen fertilizer, and can increase land fertility by a small amount without consuming land fertility.

Although ordinary planting produces very little nitrogen fertilizer, Ross was a researcher at the Academy of Agricultural Sciences in his previous life. Why not do it if the income of the land can be increased and the fertility of the land can be increased.

In addition, soybean and pea stalks are good feed for cattle and sheep, while soybeans and peas mixed with corn can be used as the staple food of slaves.

After Luo Si said this idea, the villagers who had completely convinced him readily agreed. After half a month, tens of thousands of acres of farmland were filled with soybeans and peas. Fertilizer, as a rhizobia culture base.

After planting legumes, Lowes turned to fruit trees.This is the best time to grow fruit saplings.

After careful selection and consultation with Pastor Holp, Ross chose three fruit trees with high water content, crisp taste and rich sugar content, namely Ya pear, shuixiang fruit and fire spirit fruit, as the key cultivation objects of Stan Village in the future. .

Each kind of fruit tree has four mu of land. After applying organic fertilizers and planting them at intervals of ten centimeters, take good care of them. After one autumn and winter, they can grow to at least the thickness of a thumb. After spring plowing in the following year, they can plant at least ten thousand mu of orchards and arrange slaves. If you take good care of it, you will be able to produce sporadic melons and fruits in the third year, and a large amount of output in the fifth year. By then, Stan Village will have another pillar industry.

(End of this chapter)