After leaving school, Arthur didn''t hurry back to the castle, but headed for the farmland in the northwest.

    He is going to see the growth of wheat and the reclamation of farmland.

    Any beautiful and great vision must first solve the problem of filling the stomach, so land and food are the top priority.

    Last winter, in order to boost morale, Arthur emptied almost all the grain stored in the castle despite the dissuasion of Thorne and his vassals. Although he successfully resisted Warcraft, he also plunged Lingfeng castle into a food crisis.

    At present, the amount of wheat that Lingfeng Castle needs to take out every day exceeds thousands of kilograms. The only grain left in Lingfeng castle has already been eaten up.

    If you''re not in charge, you don''t know how expensive oil, salt, firewood and rice are. At present, lingfengbao''s food needs completely depend on foreign businessmen.

    Food is related to territorial stability, and it is the most important war material in wartime. Arthur is determined to completely solve the food problem of Lingfeng castle.

    We should not only increase food production so that everyone can fill their stomachs, but also have surplus food for storage and processing.

    After the land reform, the cultivated land area under Lingfeng fort has exceeded 10000 mu.

    In the three villages, each person needs to cultivate about 78 mu of land on average.

    And as slaves were freed, the area of cultivated land was growing.

    For every slave who gets freedom, Arthur will give them the status of a farmer, assign them to the land and let them start a new life.

    However, the area of cultivated land alone is not enough. In order to improve agricultural efficiency, Arthur ordered the foundry to build all kinds of iron agricultural tools, first of all sickles.

    Arthur''s request is to make at least 500 iron sickles before this wheat harvest.

    Sowing can be slow, but the wheat harvest often takes four or five days, and more than one month is the wheat harvest season.

    As for large farm tools such as Qu Yuan plow and columbine, they are still being manufactured. Arthur''s requirement is that each household can have at least one Qu Yuan plow and columbine before sowing next year.

    As for livestock, horse farming is used when there are not enough cattle.

    According to Arthur''s estimation, it is not difficult to achieve the goal of filling everyone.

    Shanghe collar may be the most suitable place to grow wheat in the whole danze kingdom.

    To the south of the Tunguska mountains and to the west of the Qingfeng mountains, in addition to a large area of flat and fertile land, the water system along the upper river is also very developed, and various streams crisscross, so there is no need to worry about irrigation.

    Moreover, due to the existence of the Tunguska mountains, shangheling is a place with almost two seasons. The transition between winter and summer is often only more than ten days.

    Once winter is over, the temperature in Shanghe collar will quickly warm up, and the wheat sown at the end of winter can mature in only three months.

    Arthur conservatively estimated that based on the 10000 mu cultivated land of Lingfeng fort and the yield of 250 kg per mu, the wheat harvest in two seasons can obtain 5 million kg of wheat a year!

    Five million catties, such an output in China in the 21st century, it can''t compare with a county.

    But this is a huge leap for Lingfeng castle.

    Although the former lingfengbao also had a large area of cultivated land, due to the implementation of the three nursery system and other reasons, the actual annual cultivated area was no more than 3000 mu, the yield per mu was only 200 kg, and the annual output of wheat was only 1.2 million kg.

    Such output, after removing seed grain, is simply not enough for thousands of people a year.

    The free people living on the river can still buy food from the outside world, but the slave farmers on the farm can''t eat at all.

    Pure wheat bread is a luxury food for serfs. Most of the time, they can only eat bread mixed with wheat bran and beans. In winter, they can only eat black bread mixed with all edible food and difficult to swallow. As for meat, it''s rare to eat once a year.

    Five million kilograms of wheat, although not much, can at least ensure that 6000 or 7000 people in Lingfeng castle can fill their stomachs. With other kinds of food, there will be a lot of surplus in a year.

    As soon as Arthur''s team arrived in the wheat field, the peasant women who were busy topdressing in the field saluted him one after another.

    "My Lord, the ears of wheat grow well and are much fuller than in previous years." there will be no danger in this field. Thorne and all the Knights also looked at the oil-green wheat field in front of them.

    Looking at Thorne, Arthur joked, "why, don''t you think it''s watered with dung?"

    "You''re right. Dung water works like meat for these wheat."

    Arthur drew a corner of his mouth and said solemnly, "Sir Thorne, if it''s a joke, please tell me in advance. If you''re talking about a metaphor, it''s disgusting. You should ask IRU or Mr. Boye for advice when you''re free."

    "Yes, sir." Thorne nodded solemnly.

    "I hope I can see your change. Don''t lose to your disciples." Arthur encouraged.

    Because of the arrival of the bachelors, Arthur not only established the hope school, but also promoted education in the castle and the first army.

    Arthur went all the way north. After inspecting the wheat field, Arthur inspected several farms in turn.

    After the abolition of the farm, the livestock of the original three farms were also classified and concentrated, and farmers familiar with breeding were hired for large-scale breeding.

    Chickens and ducks breed fast. Now there are hundreds of them, nearly 100 pigs and sheep, and dozens of cows and farm cattle.

    The benefits of centralized breeding are obvious. In addition to convenient care and labor saving, it is also convenient to collect livestock manure.

    Recently, although Lingfeng castle is in the dilemma of food shortage, neither Lingfeng Castle nor the first army has lowered the food standard at all.

    On the contrary, due to the increase of egg production and the existence of excellent hunters such as ghost faced eagle, the food standard has been improved.

    Castle guards and soldiers of the first army can eat Warcraft meat every day except eggs!

    According to Arthur''s inference, the reason why Warcraft meat can promote fighting spirit cultivation is probably because Warcraft meat has high nutritional value.

    Strong physique is the key to cultivating fighting spirit. Maybe the reason is so simple.

    After inspecting several farms, Arthur looked in the direction of the castle and planned to return to Lingfeng Castle after seeing the horse farm at the foot of Qingfeng mountain.

    Shanghe is rich in water and grass and high-quality war horses. Before the iron mine was excavated, the horse farm was the most important industry of Lingfeng castle.

    When the scale was the largest, more than 200 adult horses collapsed in the vast horse farm at the foot of Qingfeng mountain!

    When lingfengbao lost control of the iron ore mountain and was constantly squeezed by the campes and green families, it relied on selling horses in exchange for a large number of gold coins.

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