Summoning Total War

Vol 3 Chapter 90: The growth of Athens!

Full text and no ads Chapter 90 The growth of Athens!

377 of the Second Age, mid-July. (Free download of full text e-book)

The initial construction of the irrigation canal system in the city of Athens was completed. It took nearly a year and a half. Murphy finally completed the covering of the cobweb-like ditch on the 50 kilometers of land around the city of Athens, so that any piece of land can be completed from Nepal. Tributaries of the Doria River divert water to irrigate the land. At the same time, in the southern area of ​​Athens, Murphy also arranged a large amount of labor to build a dam, which can protect against droughts and floods.

It's early August.

Murphy ordered people to start cultivation in the second quarter and was also a preliminary attempt to plant and harvest the second season wheat.

Because the climate in the southern plains showed signs of gradual warming, winter did not arrive until mid-November, so it is entirely possible for the city of Athens to postpone the planting of winter wheat by one month and delay planting until the end of November. In this way, when harvesting in June and July next year, a long period of time will be available for planting in the second quarter.

Regarding the crops planted in the second quarter, Murphy is still sending agricultural experts to experiment.

First of all, it is impossible to cultivate all wheat because it takes a long time to cultivate wheat. In terms of current agricultural productivity, wheat cultivation in the second quarter is still somewhat difficult. However, Murphy did not completely give up, and selected some of them for the second quarter wheat cultivation experiment. In the past, at this time in Athens, they took advantage of three months of free time to plant a large number of crops such as corn and potatoes. However, these crops cannot be regarded as real food. Murphy must find more suitable high-yielding crops.

In such an era, agriculture is a very large system.

The evolution of historical civilization, after passing the era when it was only for food and clothing, the things needed for agricultural planting became extremely wide.

Take an analogy.

In addition to food to eat, humans also need oil. This oil is not only animal fat, but also a lot of vegetable oil. Because animal fats are expensive, ordinary people may not be able to afford it. So in this case, it is necessary to extract and press vegetable oil. This is actually very difficult at the current level of the times, but it is not impossible.

any solution?

That's peanuts! A crop with good drought resistance, good yield, and does not require much care, and has a natural oil content of up to 50%.

Where are peanuts better?

Both red soil and yellow soil are suitable for planting peanuts, but it is very difficult to grow other crops such as wheat and rice in these places. Simply put, the widespread cultivation of peanuts does not conflict with other crops.

However, the land in Athens is very fertile, and the crop is almost the same, so it is a bit wasteful to grow peanuts.

So where is it planted?

On the other side of the Nedoria River, the centaur now also occupies the land. There is a vast red land. As long as you cultivate a little, plant enough peanuts, and simply take care of it, you will be able to do so by this time in the coming year. gain something. The centaur is not suitable for farming by nature, but they can still take care of some simple crops.

Besides, they are good at fighting. It is good to catch some humanoids as slaves. Wouldn't the goblin slaves do some simple farming?

Athens can also help. Murphy's plan has plans to move people across the Nedoria River. There is fertile black soil there. Centaur can’t cultivate it. It’s too wasteful to ‘take the place and just shit’. He is planning to use a batch of peanut seeds and teach them how to cultivate in exchange for the land on the other side of the Nedoria River.

The only trouble is that a large batch of peanut seeds is more troublesome, because this half-elf also has some, but it can't satisfy Murphy's consumption.

Still have to think of something from the elves in Moonglade.

The elves advocate vegetarianism, their main cooking oil is not animal oil, but vegetable oil squeezed from these peanuts. It is even said that these high elves living in the Moonglade still have crops similar to sesame seeds, but these crops are so expensive that even some great nobles may not be able to afford them.

Now that we talked about crops, we have to continue talking. All text without ads

After all, the establishment of a kingdom and the establishment of a racial order is a huge process!

This is not only solved by fighting, but also by life and governance, a collective term that is more troublesome than fighting.

Avoid food crops, such as rice, wheat, corn, barley, oats, millet (commonly known as millet), sorghum, highland barley, etc. These food crops almost have corresponding variants in the world, but they are distributed in many In the hands of the wisdom race, not everyone planted the same. It is like human beings, because the geographical location is good, and the crops are wheat and barley that require higher land, but have better yields and richer nutrients. Other races, if they occupy red land and are not suitable for cultivating wheat, they can only ask to plant other crops instead.

Other Murphy doesn't know yet, but he knows that what the Orc Empire has grown extensively is a variant of a sorghum-like crop that is drought-resistant and very suitable for the orcs to live in.

What Murphy has to do is to select suitable crops from these crops, not only suitable for the second cultivation, but also crops suitable for soil and water conservancy in various places, and count them for planning in the coming year. These seemingly cumbersome things are actually the root of the growth of a territory, and these things are not something ordinary aborigines or citizens of Athens can do.

All of these must be determined by Murphy from the perspective of modern people, and an outline must be drawn up, and then handed over to the people under him.

Murphy did not have the energy to deal with everything in detail, but as a modern person, he has a vision far beyond this era and a more detailed view of the world, which must allow him to spare enough time. Make better plans and draw up the most important regulations and outlines. Only in this way, the people below know how to do it.

Otherwise, waiting for them to evolve naturally, I don't know how long it will take.

It is very difficult for an ancient person's world view to find a breakthrough in all aspects at once. If it can be found at once, it would be a monster!

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In the farming society.

Aside from the most important food crops, there are many other crops that are necessary.

simply put.

That is-food, clothing, shelter and transportation!

People can't just eat! Don't you have to pick up vegetables when you eat?

In addition to food, vegetable cultivation is also needed. Not only vegetables, but there are so many mountains near Athens. Planting a little fruit and the like is not wasted, right? Many fruit trees do not have a long growth cycle. You plant them now, and you can eat them when your son grows up. If you grow oranges or something, it will be faster.

But this is a trivial matter, don't bother Murphy himself.

But other than that, you have to wear clothes, right?

This is not modern, it can synthesize industrial fibers. In such a primitive era, more than 80% of the clothes people wear are grown from the ground.

What to grow?

Cotton, flax, hemp, etc...

In this era, because of the barren resources, ordinary civilians only need two clothes a year, one for the New Year, and one for the harvest festival. So now more than 80% of the intelligent species in the world wear patches on their clothes. Many people In winter, I dare not go out!

why?

chilly! No clothes to wear!

Clothes made of linen are not too warm in nature, and they are not easy to wear. Two pieces a year are needed. If you wear them out, you can save money to buy them.

Farming society, farming society.

Everything in nature is built on the basis of farming!

Take the city of Athens as an example. At the beginning of the initial planning, you can have a variety of flowers, flowers, and grasses, but after the establishment of the Principality, you need to have more valuable things in the specific planning?

Not so?

Can a country develop so quickly without starting from these most basic things?

Wait for it to develop naturally?

How long does it take to develop?

Just as a joke, even if there are many kinds of sunflowers in Athens, Murphy will be able to eat a few seeds at this time next year.

Melon seeds! ?......

Just pretend I didn’t say it... look up... look at the sky...

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Food crops are naturally the top priority!

But you can't just plant food and nothing else, right? In the past, Murphy had to do everything possible to improve its strength because the territory had just been established and there were a lot of threats outside. But now that Athens is stable inside, and the external threats are not too serious for the time being, Murphy has to find a way Everything that was missed was added. It is impossible for the Principality of Athens to develop into a deformed system in the future, where there are only food crops, but other crops will not come up.

This is not a joke.

If flax is not planted in large quantities, there will not be enough cloth to make clothes, and the supply of clothes will not demand, and the price will rise.

As civilians cannot afford clothes and wear, the entire economic system begins to chaos.

In the past, Athens had a scale of tens of thousands of people, and Murphy would be able to maintain it as long as he supplemented it in foreign trade. But now the Principality of Athens has hundreds of thousands of people. Such a huge population requires careful planning.

Otherwise, it will be completely messed up!

During the Ming Dynasty, there would be famine in Jiangnan area? why? It's because people don't grow food, they grow things that can sell money. This has led to the fact that there is not enough food in the land of fish and rice like Jiangnan. Too much is not enough, and vice versa. If Murphy’s crop planning is not balanced, then not only will there be problems now, but the future will be an important issue!

Agriculture-oriented!

In order to lay a solid foundation in such an era.

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Athens, Government House.

"Your Excellency! The recruitment of the Athens Second Army has been completed! The second phase of training can begin soon." Early in the morning, General Riodare rushed from the barracks to the Governor's Mansion and delivered a written report. Murphy's hands.

Murphy, who was in the office, raised his head when he heard the word and reached out to take it.

During this time, in order to deal with agricultural issues and various plans in the Principality of Athens, he was really busy!

Ordinary people do not have the vision of modern society, and many things must be done by themselves.

"The organization of 12,000! The Greek heavy infantry is 4,000, the Silver Shield Legion is 2,400, the Athenian longbowman is 3,600, the four fully organized ballista units, and the 2,000 Aboriginal Auxiliary Corps." Murphy looked at the recruitment statistics above, nodded with satisfaction, and said: "Good! Very reasonable establishment."

"Hurry up and train, we will have a big battle soon!" Murphy got up and patted General Rio Dare on the shoulder, expressing his reward.

The current size of the regular army in Athens has reached nearly 40,000, which is almost one-tenth of the total population of the Principality.

If the economy of Athens is not prosperous enough, it really cannot support such a large army. This is not counting the militias and reserve forces in various places. If even this is counted, the size of the Athens army can reach 100,000! (The number of reserve militia is huge)

Murphy's newly established order has strong cohesion, and the system of social status promotion also transforms the financial resources of the people into the power of the principality as much as possible. Without the exploitation of the aboriginal aristocratic class, a large amount of wealth has been condensed into the treasury of Athens. The efficient and clean governance system also prevents a large amount of wealth from being sacked by officials of all classes!

Under the farming war system!

The embryonic form of the Great Qin Empire has gradually taken shape in Murphy's hands. The cohesion produced by theocratic power and the royal power is quite terrifying! Perhaps this system may be loose in the future, but at least now the Principality of Athens has been built by him into a huge war machine!

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Murphy read the report sent by General Riodare, and asked casually: "How is the formation of the cavalry regiment going?"

In the Principality of Athens, the armored cavalry regiment has officially entered the scale. But what Murphy wants is not only that. What he wants to form is a complete cavalry army, an immediate force that can be taken out and can fight! In addition to the formation of the armored cavalry, there are also Macedonian elite cavalry, as well as the light cavalry as an auxiliary army, including the archer troops in training!

Humans living in the southern plains may not be good at riding and shooting, but under strict training, they can still establish an archer formation.

It's just that the combat effectiveness will not be too strong, and it can only exist as an auxiliary legion.

"At present, the total size of the cavalry corps has reached 4,500. I am afraid there will be a period of training." General Riodare seemed to think of something, and said: "The Governor! We must develop a horse-horse The grass field."

"Now the number of horses in Athens has exceeded the limit, and it has already placed a serious burden on our logistics!"

General Rio Dare was telling the truth. Murphy has always wanted to get more steeds from the centaur. But he forgot that the Principality of Athens was in the plain area, and a large amount of land was used for farming, and it was simply a luxury to use it for grazing. Five thousand people are not small for a meal, let alone more than five thousand horses?

War horses need activities and a training ground for Mercedes-Benz, otherwise the best war horses will eat and drink enough to become fat horses.

This requires more space.

"That's a problem!" Murphy rubbed his forehead, frowning and said: "I will find a way as soon as possible! See if I can borrow a piece of grassland from the centaur's hands to top it. If it doesn't work, just We can send troops abroad and open up a pasture!"

This was Murphy's mistake, because he hadn't expected that the huge horse group would produce such a large consumption.

The logistical burden of raising a war horse is not small at all!

General Riodare nodded slowly, and said in a deep voice: "It is naturally best to borrow a pasture for the time being. But Athens has such a large-scale warhorse, it still needs a pasture of its own!"

"Expanding to the outside world is inevitable!" General Riodare showed a frantic expression on his face.

As a general in Athens, he has an extremely persistent enthusiasm for opening up territory.

"Wait first!" Murphy shook his head with a bitter smile, and slowly said: "The better pastures are in the hands of the Centaur. As an alliance, we cannot **** them from their hands."

"If you want to occupy a pasture, you have to start with the mammoth."

"Now is not the time to fight them!"

The Centaur does not have much land now. The better pasture is in the Salma Basin. The Centaur is obviously not reconciled to hand over the land that has been inhabited for generations to the mammoths. It only needs a little training for one or two years to recover a little strength. They will obviously reopen the war against the mammoths and take back their land. At that time is the best time for Athens to expand abroad!

Otherwise, it is not a wise choice to use the power of Athens to fight the mammoths~www.readwn.com~ When the time comes, Athens can send troops to assist the centaur, and hand over the main battlefield to the centaur to reduce its own casualties. In return, Murphy can definitely propose that the Centaur tribe merge the land on the opposite bank of the Nedorian River and the nearby pastures into the territory of the Principality of Athens. In that way, Murphy's purpose can be easily achieved.

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After dealing with the complicated official duties, Murphy got up and headed towards the leadership temple.

After the high priest awoke that day, perhaps it was because Athena, the goddess of wisdom, used her body as a channel to personally descend on the material plane, so she has been in a recovery period ever since.

Murphy only briefly communicated with her during this time, and she spent more time resting.

This line.

Murphy was going to visit the high priest and see how the chief priest of the **** of war had domesticated the underground raptors.

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