The stewards reported to Ella all the details of the recent situation in the field. After speaking, was a little regretful that this batch of wheat could not be harvested in time for His Majesty the King’s birthday, otherwise it could be used as a surprise gift for His Majesty the King.Well, if that's the case, maybe His Majesty will give you a reward if he's happy.

It's a pity, but the current situation is not bad.

Ella was very satisfied with the situation at the original ranch, because the steward beat and scolded the slaves before and attempted to embezzle the rations of the slaves. When the steward was sent to take over later, Lucis also placed surveillance people inside, and theseLater, the stewards who were elected were all honest and responsible people who had a certain understanding of farming. They would not steal, rape, or cheat.There are not many problems with these stewards. After the field is harvested, they will be assigned to a larger land to manage and teach more people this new planting method.

Not only these stewards, but also those slaves and tenants who performed well and mastered the current planting methods will also be dispatched. If they can seize the opportunity, they have a high probability of breaking away from the current slaves, sharecropper status, becoming a commoner or even a steward.

As far as today is concerned, these planting methods proposed by Ella are the most advanced in the two continents of non-Romeo. Those who have mastered these technologies will naturally become technical talents, and they need to be rewarded and protected.

This plan was discussed by Ella a long time ago when she told Lucis that she wanted to grow wheat, and it was agreed by Lucis.

Ella did this mainly to give slaves and sharecroppers the opportunity to change their future destiny, have a better life, and improve their work enthusiasm.

And Lucis would agree, of course he didn't care whether these people could live better in the future, his idea was more practical.

If Ella's planting method can succeed and bring more food to Sathya, Lucis certainly does not want these technologies to spread and strengthen other countries, at least not in a short period of time, and even if they want to spread, no matter what.Those countries have to get something in exchange.

So this plan was set up very early, and the managers knew from the beginning that if they did a good job this time, they would be able to get promoted and raise their salaries—that’s why those managers would bribe them for this seemingly tiring and hard job.Shangfeng joined in—so everyone worked hard.

Also working hard are those slaves and tenants who joined later. These people didn’t know what kind of opportunities they faced at the beginning. They worked so hard because of the food and rewards for the daily meals set by Ella.Work, or the new batch of managers saw that they did a good job after working for a period of time, so they revealed something in private. Now everyone who works on the ranch knows about it, and they work hard every dayFuck, wish could sleep in the ground at night.

Under the circumstances, it was no surprise that the wheat grew better than the ones in Ella's own fields.

In fact, in addition to these slaves and tenant farmers, Lucis also thought about including and controlling the farm laborers in Ella.

After followed Ella to see the harvest of those crops in her field, if it weren’t for the fact that the farmers who planted the land were all Ella’s people, Lucis must have wanted to control them immediately and not allow themThen disclose any information about the planting.

But also because they were Ayla's farm laborers, Lucis didn't do this after all, but was told that they were not allowed to leak any more information, and secretly sent people to monitor them.

Of course, because Ella had tacitly allowed her farm laborers to use what they had learned in their own homes or teach others, Lucis’s exhortation was actually a bit late, but fortunately, the farm laborers had mastered the new knowledge at that time.It's not thorough enough, and I have to worry about not doing it well when I use it in my own field, and I don't dare to teach it to others, and things like retting, which are a bit technical and take a lot of time, are all because there is not enough time.I haven't produced it in private, let alone submit it to others.

However, such technical things as how to prepare insecticides and medicines for treating various common diseases of plants have always been in the hands of Hartnett and a few other managers. They kept the formulas very secret.Shareholders and slaves don't know how to prepare these medicines at all, so this really useful technology is not afraid of being passed on.

And it's not the time to grow wheat, so none of the farm laborers' relatives, friends, or neighbors have a chance to learn about wheat growing.

And after receiving the warning from His Majesty the King, the farm laborers also kept their mouths shut and never mentioned the matter of wheat to others, which was regarded as a secret.

Of course, the time to keep it secret doesn’t need to be too long. After the river recedes, it will be the planting season of Sathya wheat. At that time, the new planting method will naturally be advertised, and Lucis may even borrow it from Ella.Those farm laborers asked them to go to various places to help teach new planting methods. At that time, Ella had to hire another group of people.

Therefore, Lucis's secrecy is mainly aimed at the current situation where foreign agents are everywhere in the capital. After the new planting is fully rolled out and achieved results, preventing foreign spies is the task of Nuomahe everywhere.They do a good job, even if people from other countries know about the meticulous planting operations, it is difficult for foreign spies to inquire about the drug formulas for repelling insects and treating plant diseases.

After sending off the two stewards who came to report to work, the maid told Ella, "Harnett is here."

Harnett rushed to Boyman from Tanis immediately after receiving Ella's summons, and when he entered the palace to meet Ella, he also brought a special gift.

Harnett held handfuls of golden wheat and rice in her hands.

They are bunched together with slender grass leaves tied at the bottom to look like a special bouquet.

These wheat and rice were specially selected by Harnett. The best plants in the field not only had many ears, but also the grains of wheat and rice on them were plump and pressed down heavily.

In addition, Hartnett also brought a load of sun-dried wheat and rice, and several big round and golden pumpkins.

"Before you came back, the wheat and rice in the field had been harvested, and the yield was very high."

Harnett handed the special bouquet to the maid, and asked the latter to teach Ella, and then took out the notebook that recorded the harvest and began to report.

He suppressed his excitement and first reported the wheat harvest.

The piece of wheat in Ella was planted in order not to waste the land, so not much was planted, about 5 sharts (about 20 acres), and this batch of wheat did grow well as they expected before,Although it is not the highest value, it has reached an astonishing data of 176 kilograms per mu.

Unlike before, this year, the best harvest in the royal wheat field is only about 80 kilograms per mu. The harvest of Ella's wheat has not only doubled successfully, but also more than doubled.

When Harnett reported the number excitedly and proudly, all the maids beside her almost stared out of their eyes in astonishment, except for Ella who remained calm.Wrong expression.

However, the reports that made them doubt their lives continued.

Harnett went on to report on the rice harvest.

Ella's current rice field is about 18 square meters, which is about 72 mu in conversion, and the rice seeds used for planting at the beginning are the rice varieties she replaced, which is much larger than the batch she bought from the grain store in the market.Fuller and higher survival rate.

And this batch of rice seeds did not disappoint her. Although the final harvest could not compare with the harvest of several thousand kilograms in modern times, it also reached the standards of Ming and Qing Dynasties, with an average yield of 180 kilograms per mu.

In other words, her 70 mu of land finally harvested 27,360 kilograms of rice.

The yield of 176 kilograms of wheat per mu had already shocked the maids to the point of stupefaction. When the yield of rice per mu came out, their loss of composure became even more obvious. Even Tetis, who was usually the most stable, exclaimed,Not to mention the others.

The reaction of the maids alarmed the guards outside the door, and Norris knocked on the door and asked, "Your Highness, is something wrong?"

"No, nothing happened, I'm fine."

Ella replied, and then looked at her maids helplessly: "Everyone, restrain yourself, don't scare Norris and the others."

Those who didn't know their reaction just now thought they were assassinated here.

The maids who reacted hurriedly silenced their voices with embarrassment, but they still couldn't hold back and said to Harnett: "Harnett, are you right? Are there really so many output? Are you wrong??”

How does this make them believe that the yield of wheat is already so astonishing, a terrifying figure they have never heard of, and rice, a crop that has never been grown from a foreign country, can outperform the amazing yield of wheat?More than twice as much?How can this make them believe?

When Harnett was reporting, he had been paying attention to Ella's expression. He found that from the beginning to the end, the princess was very calm and was not surprised at all, as if she had expected the harvest he said.the result of.

He felt a little regretful that he didn't see the princess's surprise, but he admired her even more.

Harnett has been excited since he knew the yield of rice and wheat until now. The farm laborers who were in charge of weighing and measuring with him at that time even danced and cheered around the harvest.Is to jump out.

And in order for Her Royal Highness to be the first person to know the shocking good news except for the farm laborers who were in charge of harvesting and weighing, he made an agreement with everyone not to share the news, not even the family members.Without sharing this joy, it will be difficult to release that mood.

It's like the maids around the princess, but the princess herself is so excited, which makes him feel that his excitement seems a little unsteady.

"That's right, this is the output, Your Royal Highness, you can take a look!"

Harnett handed the record book to Ella, his eyes full of admiration.

These planting methods taught by the princess are really useful. The doubling of wheat production is the best proof. At the same time, he feels that the rice can have such a huge yield, and it must be because of Her Royal Highness.

If rice had such a high yield in the first place, it is impossible for them to know nothing about this crop before that, even if it comes from a distant country, and a country with such a high-yielding grain cannot allow rice to flow out of the country so easily and be regarded asMerchants sell it to other countries at will.

So it must be because of the princess that these rice plants can have such a huge yield.

Even a small person like Harnett can foresee how much change it will bring to the country when rice is everywhere in Sathya in the future.

Perhaps in the future no one will starve to death due to lack of food, children will grow up smoothly, and the population of Sathya will experience explosive growth.

And everything was brought by the beautiful princess in front of me.

Ella flipped through the notebook recorded by Harnett, and the four maids also leaned over behind her and looked at the contents above.

In the book, the output of each of Schart's lands was clearly recorded, and the final figures were indeed as reported by him.

He was right. Rice is so productive. A piece of land of the same size can produce four to five times as much rice as the Sathyas used to grow wheat!

"My God!" They exclaimed and sighed, but this time they remembered to suppress their voices so as not to disturb the guards outside.

After reading it again, Ella found that there was no record of pumpkins, so she asked, "Are the pumpkins in the field still unharvested?"

"Yes, Your Highness, the pumpkins in the pumpkin field are just ripe, and you said before that you want to save the seeds, so we haven't touched the pumpkin field for the time being."

In fact, the work of reserving crops is no stranger to farm laborers. They also reserve seeds after the harvest every year. Even though many of the fields in Ella are varieties they have never seen before, they have planted similar crops., and Ella also explained what they should pay attention to, so they can handle it well by themselves when it comes to saving seeds.

However, not all the pumpkins in the pumpkin field can be used to save seeds, so after knowing that Ella came back, Hartnett picked a few pumpkins immediately, and brought them along with some newly produced rice and wheat.

Harnett: "Now that the wheat and rice have been dried and bagged and piled up in the rented warehouse, do you think they are going to be sent to the palace?"

After discovering that the yield of rice was so high, Harnett was particularly worried about the safety of the harvested rice. He not only sent a few people to guard the warehouse day and night, but also went to check it from time to time., He even wants to live in the warehouse and guard those precious seeds.

There is no rice in Sathya. For the later planting, the newly harvested rice is basically reserved for planting, and because the quality of wheat is better than other wheat varieties, most of them will also be reserved for planting. These are arranged by Ella early in the morning.Well, even though she is not here these days, the work in the field has not been delayed.

Ella thought for a while, and said, "You don't have to send all of them to the palace. I'll send someone to say hello to the palace. You choose a batch of rice seeds with the best quality and send them to the palace. Find the person who helped me grow seedlings last time."Those few gardeners will help, and some people with strong learning ability will be selected to breed with them. In the future, you can’t always ask them to help, but you have to do it yourself.”

Ella didn't plan to leave the land vacant, and the seeds left for planting can be used for planting after drying, but the farm laborers have never learned how to breed, and the climate in the field is not suitable, so it is still carried out in the palace.Help the gardener to do it, and then find some people to learn from it.

"As for the wheat, we don't need to grow it. Just send it to the palace with the rest of the rice."

Sathya is full of land for growing wheat, which is not bad for her, but growing rice requires paddy fields, and she does not have enough land, so she has to find another land for planting. She plans to choose the land near Boiman for planting this time.

"By the way, what happened to the soybeans that were collected earlier? The lettuce seeds should be almost the same, right?"

Harnett nodded quickly: "Yes, according to your instructions, we selected some soybeans and planted them in the wheat field more than ten days ago. Now they are growing well, and the remaining soybeans are stored in the warehouse.As for the lettuce seeds, they haven’t been confiscated, but it’s only been a few days.”

"Then send the rest of the soybeans to the pasture, and let them plant the soybeans into the wheat field as you did before."

The wheat over there is still in the grain filling stage, and the time to plant soybeans can be said to be just right, but the hot weather in Sathya will inevitably affect the germination of soybeans, so they have to pay more attention.

Harnett quickly wrote down: "Good Your Majesty."

Harnett remembers that this planting method is called "interplanting" in the book the princess gave him. It can save time, increase land utilization, reduce diseases, and is good for the land.There will be more.

In fact, Ella still has more intercropping planting methods that she wants to try, but not now. The most important thing at present is to increase the number of new species that Sathya does not have, and she cannot guarantee that intercropping will be successful.If there is a bad one, the loss will be huge, so it is better to be on the safe side, and it is safer to do it alone first.

Harnett: "Then what will be planted on the vacant land, Your Highness? It is the one where soybeans were originally planted."

Ella didn't have anything else she wanted to grow, so she said, "The field is next to the cucumber field, so let's use it to grow cucumbers."

This high-yielding vegetable is a favorite, and it's great to grow more seeds.

Harnett wrote down Ella's words one by one, and the conversation turned back to Ella's previous talk about sending people to the palace to learn how to raise seedlings.

"Your Highness, the boys who are with your farm laborers can do some things now, and their learning ability is worse than adults. Why don't you send them to learn this?"

Those boys who learned from adults can be considered adults now. Although their strength is not as strong as adults, they are careful in doing things and learn quickly. Harnett observed for a while and intentionally kept them all.

He carefully observed Ella's expression, and continued: "Last time, His Majesty took away the farm laborer in charge of planting potatoes, and maybe this time he will also take away the farm laborer who grows rice.I am afraid that the labor force will not be enough in the future, and although these boys are a little weaker in strength, they have been learning from the adults and are very familiar with the things in the field. If you hire them, you can get started immediately, and the salary is onlyHalf what other farmhands pay is enough."

Nowadays, these young people who learn from their elders are not paid. They can only eat one lunch in the field, but even so, these young people are already satisfied. After all, the lunch prepared by Ella is very rich for them, that is the amount of food that they could not eat for a day or two in the past, but now they can eat one meal a day. They have been eating for a few months, and now all of them have grown flesh and a lot taller, and even their strength has increasedYes, if go out to work in the future, won't be dismissed as small and weak.

Of course, these people prefer to stay and work for the princess. They feel that there is no better employer than Ella.

They want to stay, and Harnett also thinks that these people are good, at least knowing the basics makes them easy to use.

Ella has seen those half-grown young men working, and it is really good, so since people want to keep her, she has no problem.

"Who proposed the halving of the salary?"

"They brought it up themselves, but that's what most young people like them are paid for."

Young people on the fringe of adulthood are not welcome in the labor market, the only thing that makes them competitive is that they are hired for less than the adults, and there are plenty of people vying for jobs that pay half that.

Knowing that the market salary is like this, Ella didn't change it, just nodded and said: "Then hire them at half the salary first, and if they are still willing to stay and work with me next year, they will be paid the same as others."

Seeing that she agreed, Harnett immediately smiled and said, "They must be willing!"

This kind of good thing can't be found in other places, how could they not be happy.

Ella: "You only mentioned those boys, what about those little girls? I remember that there were quite a few little girls who helped out with the people in the kitchen, right?"

Harnett was surprised: "Does Your Highness want to hire them too? But we don't need so many people to cook."

"I don't need it now, but I need it in the future. I plan to buy the land next to it. It's not about recruiting more people."

The land over there is very suitable for growing sugar cane, but the land is cheaper than other places. If she buys all the surrounding land and builds a plantation, she will definitely make a lot of profits in the future.

Hearing that Ella said that they still need to recruit people, Harnett asked: "Then how should they be paid? Is it also half of those women's salary?"

The wages of the women in charge of cooking are half of that of the farm laborers, and if the little girls stay, it is reasonable to give them half of the wages on this basis.

Ella nodded: "It's the same arrangement as those boys, half of the salary will be paid first, and it will increase next year."

"The other thing about recruiting people? Do you want to start now?"

"There's no rush, I'll talk about it after I buy the land."

If you can't buy it, it's useless to recruit people.

After that, Harnett reported some trivial matters, and after confirming that there were no omissions, he planned to leave. There are still so many things to deal with in the field, and he wants to go back early to tell everyone the good news.

"Wait." She called Harnett, and asked Tetis to give Harnett a sum of money: "Everyone has worked hard recently, you can use this money to buy some vegetables, fruits and meat vegetables when you go back, and prepare a dinner for everyoneHave a good time celebrating."

"Thank you Your Highness!"

Harnett happily accepted the money bag that Tetis handed over. Just by weighing it, he knew that there was a lot of money in it, enough for him to prepare a very sumptuous dinner.