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Chapter 32
After seeing the convenience and superiority of the table, Lucis noticed that the numbers and symbols used by Ella in calculations were different from their usual ones, but they were also very simple and easy to use.
In fact, Kabbah reported this matter to Lucis, and even showed him the scratch paper discarded by Ayla when calculating, but because he couldn't understand the symbols, Lucy just regarded them as Ayla's countryThe words used did not attract his attention.
Now watching Ella write and draw with these words and symbols on the papyrus, and the result can be calculated in a few seconds, the feeling is very shocking, which is much faster than their calculation method, and the accuracy rate is very highhigh.
In just a moment, Lucis thought that if this calculation method can be promoted, the work of financial officers can be improved a lot, and it can also prevent people from making false accounts to a large extent.
Sathya's numbers are represented by vertical lines, from one to nine are one vertical line to nine vertical lines. This writing method is very easy to modify, and it is easy to cheat. If it is replaced by EllaIf the accounting method is used, it is much more difficult to cheat, and it is easy to find flaws as long as you check carefully.
The more Lucy watched, the more interested he was in this method, but seeing Ella's concentration, he didn't make a sound to disturb her.
Calculating in a familiar way can indeed save time, but the workload is too large, and it still takes Ella a whole day to complete them.
While working, Ella gained a deeper understanding of Sathya's agriculture.
Due to the flood season in Sathya, all crops are sown during the cultivation season (October to March of the following year) and harvested before the flood season, which is very different from the cultivation time known to Ella.
However, there are actually very few types of crops in Sathya. The main crops are barley, wheat and flax, and there are many types of vegetables, including cabbage, onion, garlic, celery, radish, lettuce, beans, lentils, chickpeas, peas,Leeks, etc. In addition, expensive spices are also the main economic crops.
Wheat, barley, flax and various spices are grown on the royal land.
Apart from other things, the yields of barley and wheat are very similar. If the land area here is converted into mu, then the yield of wheat harvested this year is about 80 kilograms per mu.It is almost the same as having no harvest, but at this time it is already considered a great harvest, especially the royal land is the best fertile land, and slaves carefully tend it to obtain such a yield. Generally, the yield per mu of land cultivated by commoners reaches five or six.Ten kilos is not bad.
This is the limitation of agricultural technology in this period. Even in the fairy tale world where Ella was reincarnated, the yield of wheat per mu is similar to that of Sathya.
However, given the land conditions of Sathya, the planting yield is the same as that of a fairy tale world where the land conditions are much worse. Such a yield per mu is unqualified.
The Sathyas were originally nomads. They have settled on this land for hundreds of years, but agriculture has only begun to develop in the past hundred years, and everything is still in the stage of exploration.
Sathya has always been favored by the Inrula River. This unique gift makes them not need to work hard to plow the fields, nor worry about the fertility of the land, but at the same time it also cultivates SathyaHuman "laziness".
The Sathyas can really be called simple and rude in farming.
After the river recedes, the farmers will take their domestic animals—chickens, ducks, geese, pigs, sheep, and donkeys—to their fields for a run to soften the top soil, and then sprinkle the seeds, thus sowingEven if it is over, their work will only be watering, weeding and catching insects regularly, and then waiting for the harvest.
This oversimplified sowing method will affect the final land yield, not to mention that although the river mud is fertile enough, it also contains a large number of insect eggs. The disaster caused by the hatching of these insect eggs is even greater. If you plow it, you can still use sunlightKill most of the insect eggs, but not only do they not know how to plow, but also there is no effective method of killing insects. Every time insects grow on the crops, they can only catch insects manually. If the efficiency is slow, it will develop into an insect disaster if you are not careful.Causes a scene of no harvest.
However, the situation this year seems to be good, no pests have occurred, so the harvest of most of the land is above the average of previous years.
Of course, Ella currently only sees the situation of the royal arable land, and she is not very clear about the harvest of the common people's land.
She worked so hard that she didn't realize it was lunch time until Lucis interrupted her loudly.
Ella's lunch was with Lucis.
Since working for Lucis, they have eaten lunch and dinner together, and unlike before, the food is no longer delivered in duplicate from the kitchen, they will eat the same food, and it's been like this since Ella invited Lucis to dinner.
Lucis used to eat alone, even if he ate with other people, he would eat his own food, but now he has silently changed this habit. Except for the staple food, the rest of the dishes are shared together, but he only wants toSharing delicious food with Ella, others are not qualified.
There is a lot of seafood in today’s lunch. The delta is at the mouth of the sea, so there will be no shortage of seafood. However, the seafood that Sathya people eat is only sea fish and shellfish. Crabs, lobsters, octopus and squids are not in their recipes.
Today's staple food is cumin mutton risotto and white rice. Ever since Ella made curry chicken rice, rice has become Lucy's favorite. The rice bought by Ella is reserved for sowing, and it is impossible to take it outEat, but when a king wants to eat something, if it can be bought, there will be no lack.
Although the quantity purchased is not large, a meal once in a while can still last Lucis for a long time. Of course, since Ella and Lucis eat together recently, they can naturally enjoy this treatment.
However, unlike Ella who likes to eat white rice with stir-fried vegetables, Lucis prefers a variety of flavorful fried rice, risotto, and stewed rice, so the head chef Najido has to cook different staple foods for the two of them every time. Fortunately, EllaThe white rice is very simple to make, and it can be cooked by finding a careful apprentice to cook it. Najido only needs to concentrate on preparing the staple food for His Majesty.
Lucis asked while eating: "Your calculation method is very convenient, especially those numbers are very special, are they written in your country?"
Ella swallowed the food in her mouth before replying, "No, this kind of number came from other countries a long time ago."
Lucis: "Would you mind if I wanted to spread your statistics?"
If it were someone else, Lucis would not ask, but would just order to promote it directly, but with Ella, he couldn't do it so confidently.
Ella nodded: "Of course I don't mind, this is not my exclusive knowledge, anyone who wants to use it is fine."
She also knows the disadvantages of Sathya's numbers. It is difficult to write and easy to make mistakes, and their calculation method is still at the simplest stage. There are only addition and subtraction without multiplication and division, so the calculation speed is very slow. If it can be promoted, it will be beneficial to everyone.It's a good thing for people.
"Do I need to teach them?"
"I will find a few suitable candidates to learn from you, and hand them over to others after they have learned well."
Lucis doesn't want Ella to be exposed to too many strangers, especially when her safety is at stake.
Thinking of this, Lucis couldn't help but think of the temple incident.
With the intervention of Lucis, the investigators found the person who had seen the fake priest in the temple, and found the fake priest according to the description of the other party, but it was too late when they found it, and the other party had already become a person.corpse.
But it was precisely because of the death of this false priest that they realized that the holy water used for Ella's purification must have been tampered with, and it was a big problem.
After realizing this, everyone was afraid for a while, especially the temple. After all, it was their dereliction of duty to let an outsider sneak into the temple. If Ella really had an accident, the priests in the entire temple would be severely punished for it..
Moreover, no one knew whether this incident was also a conspiracy against His Majesty. After all, if the princess contracted the disease, Lucis, who was staying with her at that time, might also be infected. Fortunately, the situation was not that bad.
So now not only Lucy's side, but even the people in the temple are looking for the identity of this woman.
But they also faintly felt that this matter might not be easy to investigate. Judging from the signs on the woman, she is likely to be a slave, and private slaves, especially those sent to do dangerous things, most likely have no identificationYes, I want to find out her origin, unless someone who knows her jumps out by himself.
So Lucis issued a reward order, as long as someone provides clues, they can get a huge reward, but so far no one has come to accept the reward.
Everyone else was worried about Ella's safety because of this incident, but Ella herself was not so worried. She felt that since the other party wanted to harm her, there would always be a next time if the other party failed, and as long as the other party made a move, she was on guardWith a heart, she will always catch the opponent's fox tail.
The two were eating, and Lucis suddenly asked her: "I'm going to go hunting in two days, do you want to go together?"
Lucis is not a workaholic, he knows how to combine work with rest, hunting is the most common form of entertainment for the nobles, and they go there almost several times a month.
Ella frowned: "Will I also participate in hunting if I go?"
Because of being able to communicate with animals and being influenced by the laws she learned in her previous life, Ella dislikes hunting very much. Of course, she knows that she can't persuade others not to hunt, but she will not take the initiative to do so.
In particular, Sathya is a country developed from nomads. The whole country knows how to hunt from top to bottom. Especially during the flood season, the land is not harvested, and ordinary civilians rely on hunting and fishing to make ends meet..
Lucis asked Ella to go, of course not to let her participate in the hunt, even in Sathya, most of the noble women would not hunt by themselves: "Generally only men will participate in the hunt, and women will choose to be more gentle.recreational activities such as fishing."
Hunting is the main recreational activity of the nobles, but it is more a matter that the male nobles are keen on, and the reason why the female nobles are present is mainly to appreciate the heroic appearance of the men when they hunt.
Lucis has to admit that he has some small thoughts in it. He just wants to show his strength in front of Ella. This is probably a kind of performance desire that all men will have when they meet the person they like.
Ella is not interested in hunting, but she can still try fishing, and if she goes together, she can also see what plants are in the wild here, maybe she can find some useful herbs.
Lucis also added: "Didn't you want to buy land? The hunting location will pass by the cultivated area. You can visit the cultivated land on the way."
Ella originally wanted to wait for Lucis to come back and choose her own cultivated land, but now she has to help count the harvest of the field, and there is no time left, so naturally she can only postpone the time to look at the land, now listen to LucisWith that said, of course he agreed to his invitation.
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Although Lucis said he was going to hunt, he didn't mean to go immediately.
He made arrangements very quickly. He said that he wanted to promote Ella's statistical method, and he found a few suitable candidates to study with Ella that afternoon.
There were a total of five people who were called, and except for Kaba, whom Ella was familiar with, the remaining four were all young women.
Kabbah was chosen because he taught Ella before, and he is the most familiar with the numbers and symbols used by Ella, and he has more or less mastered them, and she is a translator.If it is expressed in Dia language, he can convey it on his behalf.
The four women are about twenty years old, and they are all maids from the palace. These court maids are all ranked. Tetis originally belonged to the first-class female official, but now she is equivalent to being a personal maid beside Ella.Yu was demoted one level, and these four were only third-class maids, but they were selected by Lucis to study with Ella, which can be said to be very lucky.
After seeing the four sent maids, Ella and the maids all had weird expressions. Ella was helpless, and the maids all looked ambiguous.
——His Majesty's thoughts are too obvious. He doesn't want other young men by the princess's side at all. If it weren't for the palace without female guards, I'm afraid Norris and others will be replaced.
Because she wanted to take students, Ella and Lucis asked for a separate "office"—because this Lucis was a little unhappy—and took five people to work on the other side.
Ella wrote a comparison table of Arabic numerals and Sathya numbers, and wrote a nine-nine multiplication table for them to be familiar with. After they memorize it, will take them to draw table statistics directly. Practice can make it betterGet a good handle on these.
The abilities of the five people did not disappoint Ella. Not to mention how smart Kabbah, a translator who can speak multiple languages, is, and the memory of the four maids is also good.If they learn something here, they will be able to get promoted and raise their salary immediately, and it is very possible to change jobs to become clerks.
Although being a maid in the royal palace is also an enviable job, but they are just ordinary civilians, and they are third-class maids, and they are not too young. Unless there are special encounters, it is almost impossible for them to rise to serve the nobles.Second-class maids, and scribes are formal officials, and almost only nobles can be employed. If they are not among the few maids who are literate and able to calculate, such a good thing will not happen to them.
If they don't work hard enough, there are always others willing to take their place.
In order to seize this opportunity, they studied almost desperately. Originally, Ella gave them ample time to familiarize themselves with Arabic numerals and memorize the nine-nine multiplication table. As a result, it only took them half a day to memorize them., Afterwards, Ella taught them how to do the vertical formulas, and the calculations were easy to make mistakes at the beginning, but after a day, there were basically no more mistakes.
Even Kabbah lamented that he was not as good at learning as them, but in Ella's view, this was modesty. The old gentleman's learning ability was not inferior to them at all, although there were also reasons why he was familiar with these numbers long ago.
After confirming that they all mastered the basic calculation methods, Ella directly arranged for them to count the data together. With the help of five people, Ella's workload was suddenly reduced and the work efficiency was greatly improved. It might have taken a month to completeThe amount of work now may not even take ten days to complete.
"Your Highness, this is a dress made according to your request, would you like to try it on now?"
Although she was busy with work, Ella, who was asked by Lucis to still take a lunch break, returned to her room to rest after having lunch with him. Just about to lie down, Debbie took the clothes she brought back from the palace tailor to Ella.In front of La, he added another sentence: "It has been washed and dried according to your wishes, and there is no scent."
The clothes were cleaned and dried by Debbie herself, because the culprit has not yet been found for the incident in the temple last time. The maids are very strict about the things close to Ella.Those who do it themselves should watch others do it well, and never give others a chance.
Ella picked up the clothes and examined them, making sure there was nothing wrong with them, just a warm smell from the sun.
This set of clothes was prepared by Ella for hunting. Unlike the long robes and skirts worn by Sathya, she customized very modern tops and pants.
The top is similar to sun protection clothing - of course, whether it has sun protection effect is debatable - linen material with long sleeves and a hood. The loose top is cool and comfortable to wear. There are no zippers and buttons are used instead. The cuffs and slightly longerThe hems are slightly tightened; the trousers are wide-legged and narrow-cut trousers, and a rope is worn inside the trousers instead of a belt and elastic, and they are specially dyed brown to resist dirt.It is convenient to move in the field.
Of course, because the linen clothes are a bit see-through, Ella also matched a small suspender. This small suspender was made together when Ella was making underwear before, and it just comes in handy now.
Sathiya people do not wear underwear. The loincloths worn by men here have a crotch design. When wearing robes, there is a vacuum inside, and women think it is beautiful to show themselves.With the development of the ancient country, the fashion of Sathya women's clothing is likely to develop to the extent of topless, breastless, and breasts in the near future. Although it has not yet reached that level of exposure, most noble women like to wear translucent clothes.The clothes, the key parts are looming, people don't know where to put their eyes.
Of course, Ella couldn't be as open as them, and she was also used to wearing underwear—of course not a corset, but the kind similar to modern underwear—so she made several sets of underwear by herself when she moved into the palace.Wear it instead.
The maids around Ella have also imitated her from being unaccustomed to wearing the underwear she made herself. Although it will be hotter to wear this underwear, not only will the figure be more beautiful after wearing the underwear, but also the action will be more comfortable.Convenience, these advantages quickly conquered them.
In addition to the clothes, Ella also asked a straw weaver to weave a straw hat with wheat straw. Although it was the first time for the straw weaver to make a straw hat, under Ella's careful explanation, the craftsman quickly understood the key points. Try it outAfter a few times, a wide-brimmed straw hat was woven for her, with a thin black ribbon wrapped around it and decorated with a bow, which was both beautiful and practical.
Oh, and she also needs a pair of shoes for the field, but Ella has them in her shoe closet, so she doesn't need to equip them.
Ella tried the finished clothes. The styles of Sathya's clothes are very simple. Sometimes they even wrap a piece of cloth directly around the body and tie it with a belt. They hardly need sewing skills, but they can become court tailors.Naturally, the craftsman has two brushes. The clothes and trousers are safely made according to the drawings given by Ella, and the size fits very well. The belt is tied together, which makes the waist thinner and the legs longer.
Tetis, who has a somewhat old-fashioned personality, can't accept this kind of clothes she has never seen before, but she has to admit that Ella looks very good in this way, and she looks a lot more capable.
Ella was also very satisfied, and turned to tell the maid to tell the tailor to make a few more pieces for her.
"Your Highness, Uncle Najdo sent someone to ask you, what food do you want to take with you on the day of hunting?"
The wild where the Sathyas hunt is very dangerous, so they will not spend the night in the wild if it is not necessary. They always go back in the morning before dark. During the day, everyone is busy hunting, so they always bring some food that can last for a long time.Stomach, when the hunting is over and the sun is about to go down, they will gather to enjoy the prey they have caught. That's why Najido asked Ella what she wanted to eat.
This is also helpless, His Majesty is too difficult to serve, Najido is very worried that His Majesty does not like the food he prepared, but it is impossible for him to ask His Majesty, so he thought of asking Ella, she has many ideas and often givesNajido brought surprises, and Najido has long discovered that as long as it is food proposed by Ella, most of it is in line with His Majesty's appetite, and a small part (such as vegetables) His Majesty will not be angry even if he doesn't like it, so I askedShe couldn't be more right.
"Other foods are not easy to preserve, so let's make some scones. The crust should be thin, and vegetables and meat fillings should be added inside. I will write out the filling recipe and ask him to take it to Naguido."
The staple food of the Sathyas is bread, but in fact they also try to eat scones. It is even said that a slave accidentally fell asleep while baking the scones, which caused the scones to over-ferment, and after baking, they turned bad.became bread.
Bread is not as convenient to carry and store as scones, so when going out, people are more accustomed to eating scones.
However, the crust of scones is very thick, and most of them have no fillings. They taste dry and hard, which is naturally not as pleasant as soft bread.
After Ella wrote out the filling recipe, she thought about it and wrote down the recipe of the pie crust, so that they would not have to try a few more times to waste materials.
"Let Uncle Najdo prepare for the rest."
One cake is enough for her to eat a meal, but Lucis has a huge appetite, and the king's ostentation does not allow him to eat only one kind of food for a meal. As for how much she needs to prepare, she should let the professionalsThink for yourself.
Ali took the scroll with the recipe written on it and went outside to talk to someone from the kitchen. Ella changed into her new clothes and took a nap before leaving the room to go to work.
The five assistants don't have time for a lunch break. They were already at work when Ella came over. The numbers on the newly drawn form are written in two languages, which can reduce the possibility of fraud. Now Ella has to doIt is to check whether the content in the form they fill out is correct and there are no mistakes or omissions.
There are many fields in the royal family, but with their help, after so many busy days, the statistics have come to an end.
After the statistics are over, these people will be able to leave the army, and Ella will be able to retire at that time.
Although her ability has been affirmed by Lucis and many people, the royal property belongs to Lucis's private property, and he can ask Ayla to help, but the calculations about taxes after that involve all aspects of Sathya.It is suitable for Ella, an outsider who has not yet identified his identity, to intervene. If he asks Ella to help, the subordinates will not remain silent like they are now.
Then came the day to go hunting.
The hunt this time was just for Lucis to relax himself, and he didn't intend to invite other nobles to participate, so the only ones who came out with Lucis, except for Ayla, were the attendants and guarding soldiers.Lucis knew that there were many people who wanted his life, both at home and abroad, and the assassination was always coming one after another, so he never relaxed the protection around him.
Of course, hounds are always indispensable when hunting. This time, there were no less than twenty hounds in the team, all of which were Lucis' hunting assistants.
The location that Lucis decided to hunt this time was a swamp, in the same direction as the farming area that Ella was going to visit.
It's hard to say that he didn't choose this hunting area on purpose.
At this time, the water level of the Inlula River has risen very steadily. Although the water level will rise a little every day, it will not affect the boats.Convenient, this time they have to go by land.
Originally, Aila thought they should change their means of transportation. After all, this was hunting, and the sedan chair was not convenient for travel, but in the end, it was still a sedan chair that was placed in front of Ella.
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Ella wanted to ask why she didn't take the car, but she swallowed the words again.
Sathya has no horses, and there are no camels suitable for walking in the desert. It seems that no one has domesticated the former. Even Debbie from the Mio continent does not know this animal, while the latter has not yet been passed down.Entering Sathia, some countries around Sathia seem to have camel breeding, but the desert area in Sathia is too large, there are almost no oases, and the environment is too dangerous for people living around the desert to dareIt is easier to step in, but it is much easier to enter Sathya from the coast and rivers, which also affects the introduction of species such as camels that are suitable for desert survival into Sathia.
Now the Sathyas keep cattle, sheep, pigs and donkeys as domestic animals. Besides the papyrus boats, donkeys are the most important means of transportation. However, people who have donkeys just ride their own donkeys or put their goods on the donkeys.The vehicle frame has not yet been invented.
This is largely due to the fact that the Sathya people rely more on boats for travel, so they don't pay so much attention to land transportation.
After being on the same boat, Ella had the experience of being in the same sedan chair with Lucis again.
The king's sedan chair was as big as a small room, and the decoration was the most luxurious. It required more than a dozen strong slaves to carry it. Although this time it was privately formed, the sedan chair chosen was already the smallest among all the sedan chairs of Lucis.But after Lucis and Ella sat in, there was still a lot of free space in the sedan chair, and it would be no problem to put a few more maids in, but for Lucis, only Ella was qualified to be with him.Take the same ride.
A small square table was placed in the sedan chair, with fruits and drinks on the table. The two sat on both sides of the table, one on the left and one on the right. The distance between them made Ella feel more secure than when they were on the same boat.
Lucis is looking at Ella's outfit today. The hat on her head and the clothes on her body are styles that Lucis has never seen before. Searching through the memories of any country he knows, he can't find a similar dress.
So, where did she come from?
This question hit Lucis again, but the more Aila exposed, the less Lucis believed who sent her as an assassin. Too dazzling and too many flaws, this is definitely not what a qualified assassin would do.out of things.
And to be honest, it’s hard for Lucis to believe that anyone would be willing to let such a beauty be an assassin. More importantly, Ella is not only beautiful, but she also knows a lot of things unexpectedly.It is definitely more cost-effective to assist him by his side than sending him out as an assassin.
"What's wrong?"
For the convenience of wearing the straw hat, Ella saw that Lucis sitting opposite her had been looking at her silently, and it was inevitable that she was a little worried that something was wrong with her.
Lucis leaned lazily on the cushion, and raised her hand to touch the clothes on her body: "Very special clothes."
"It's more convenient and cooler to go out this way, and it's too hot to wear a cloak all the time."
Ella smiled and tugged at her braid: "Does it look good?"
In order to make it easier to wear the hat, she specially asked the maid to wear two braids. The innocent braids are paired with a white top and brown trousers. She looks like an idyllic girl. When she smiles, her purple eyes are bright and moving.Sweet and innocent with a touch of playfulness, it is a side she has never revealed in the past.
Lucis was dazed by her smile, paused for a moment before nodding in affirmation: "It looks good."
Although it looks a bit weird, it is really beautiful.
His eyes stopped on her: "This kind of clothes can also be worn by men?"
Looking at Ella's trousers in an age when men wore robes doesn't make Lucis limit it to being worn by one gender only, the main thing is that it does look handy, much better than a loinclothIt is also convenient.
"This is trousers." Ella pulled the loose trouser legs: "It is true that both men and women can wear them. It is much more convenient than skirts, and the length can also be changed, and there are many styles."
Listening to her introduction, Lucis suddenly asked, "Have you embroidered your belt this month?"
At the beginning, when Lucis discovered that Ella was assigned the same job as those princesses in the harem, he wanted her not to do it, but after receiving the belt from the supervisor, Lucis silently gave up this idea.
"Huh?" Although it was strange why he asked this suddenly, Ella answered truthfully: "I've been busy recently, so I haven't started to do it yet."
She has been busy recently, thinking that anyway, the time has postponed the embroidery, and she is helping Lucy to settle accounts recently, so she has no time.
Lucis: "Then make me a suit like this instead."
Ella was speechless when she heard his request: "My clothes are made by tailors, you can let them do it if you want, and don't you think I'm counting the field harvest for you now, you should spare me the work of making beltsIs it? After all, you didn't pay me a salary."
Lucis said: "I can give you the wages you want, and you don't have to do the work in the harem in the future, but I only want clothes made by you."
He said the word "hands-on" very seriously.
Compared with embroidering a belt, it is much easier to make a suit of clothes. Ella is not too busy to spare time to make clothes. She will not ask a tailor for help with this dress, so if you can exchange a suit of clothes for a belt, it is not impossibleCan.
But making clothes for a single man who has no relationship and obviously has ideas about himself is a very ambiguous thing in itself.
Ella struggled a bit, and finally said, "I'll think about it."
Lucis observed Ella's expression and found that although she was entangled, she did not show many signs of rejection, and there was a high probability that she would agree to the proposal in the end.
Thinking of this, he also raised the corner of his mouth slightly.
Aila noticed his smile, and changed the subject uncomfortably: "The sedan chair is too slow to sit up. Why don't you make a cart and use donkeys or oxen to pull the cart, which can carry both people and goods. Of course, if there are horsesIt's even better if you pull the car."
Lucis didn't know if he was really attracted by the new topic or if he saw her embarrassment and deliberately cooperated, he followed her words and said, "The car? What does it look like?"
There was no papyrus in the sedan chair, and naturally there were no writing tools. Ella dipped her hands in some melted water in the cooled ice basin, and began to draw on the low table in front of her.
After drawing the carriage, she thought about it and drew another cart.
"It's probably like this. The front one is a carriage, and the back one is a cart. The carriage is more suitable for carrying people, and the cart is more suitable for pulling goods. But I only know the general structure. I don't know much about the key structures such as wheels and axles., the choice of wood is also particular, and these probably need to be studied carefully by the craftsman."
When Ella was in the fairy tale kingdom, she would take a carriage from time to time, but she didn't pay attention to the structure under the carriage.
Lucis looked at the two simple but clear paintings and thought, while asking: "What is a horse?"
"To be more precise, it should be called a wild horse, an animal that looks a bit like a donkey, but is taller and stronger than a donkey, and has more uses. They are very smart and have a better load-bearing capacity than a donkey. Even if they carry one or two hundred cattiesIt can run very fast and go far, and it is very docile and human after being tamed.”
Ella casually drew another horse on the table.
Lucis pondered after looking at it: "I have seen an animal that is very similar to the horse you painted. They are covered with black and white stripes all over their bodies."
"That should be a zebra. Wild horses and zebras are very similar in appearance, but they don't have stripes. Of course, it's more suitable to find other wild horses if they want to be domesticated."
Ella doesn't know whether zebras can be domesticated into mounts, but since it has not been domesticated on a large scale, there must be a reason, so it is more reliable to find wild horses.
Lucis is very interested in horses and carriages. Although Ella didn't mention a word, Lucis vaguely feels that these two things have a greater role on the battlefield.
Men who love war are always particularly perceptive in this regard.
They discussed the new means of transportation in the sedan chair, and the hunting team has been advancing steadily, through the city, out of the city gate, and into the farming area.
When Ella was chatting with Lucis, she was also paying attention to the outside situation. The gauze curtain could block the eyes of the outside world but would not obstruct the vision of the people inside the sedan chair.· Dew land.
The color of the land in Sathia looks like reddish loess, which seems to have little nutrition, but in fact these are sedimented river mud, and the nutrients are no worse than black soil. Of course, this is after they have been soaked by river water.After cultivation, most of the nutrients in the land have been absorbed by the crops, and new nutrients are needed.
At this time, most of the land in the cultivation area has been flooded by rivers and turned into large swamps and lakes, and the rest will be flooded in the following days, and the flooding of the land did not make the farmers idle.They still work in the fields, but they used to be farming, but now they are fishing in sedge boats. During the flood season when the fields cannot be planted, fishing and hunting are their main sources of livelihood.
Of course, this is not their only job. During the flood season, Sathya will impose corvée on a city-by-city basis. Every household needs to send people to repair rivers and dig lakes for water storage. The state will not pay them wages, but they can be exemptedpart of the tax.
The king's procession passed on the unflooded road, and seeing the banners flying in the procession, the common people and slaves, whatever they were doing, now knelt down, and did not dare to rise until the procession had left.
Ella: "Is there much land flooded during the flood season?"
Lucis: "A lot, two-thirds of the delta will be submerged, leaving mostly populated towns and villages, with some higher-lying woodlands."
The lack of wood in Sathia mainly refers to the wood suitable for making ships and furniture. Although there are not many types of trees, there are also many, so there are naturally woodlands, mostly palms, dates, and fig trees. Wait until the fruits mature, the nearby civilians and slaves will go to pick it, which is also their main source of fruit.