Within a week of Harnett, the two little maids lost their temper and ran to see the rice, wheat and pumpkins he sent.

The things that Harnett brought were not too many. The rice and wheat each weighed more than a hundred catties. They were all unhulled, and the weight would decrease a lot after husking. There were four pumpkins, all of which were round.A big golden pumpkin weighs about four or five catties.

Harnett only sent a few to Ella to try out. The remaining pumpkins are still being planted in the field, but the seeds will not affect the consumption of the pumpkins. When the pumpkins in the field are old enough, take out the seeds inside, the pumpkin meat is still edible, and the older the pumpkin, the sweeter it is, and the taste is soft and delicious. The pumpkin that has just matured like this is not very sweet, and the taste is also crispy, suitable for frying.

But the attention of the maids is all on the rice. They have eaten the rice after husking the rice. At that time, they only thought that although it had no taste, it was very good to eat with vegetables. Apart from that, there was nothing special about it.Now it is known that it is a kind of grain with several times more yield than wheat, which is so rare no matter how you look at it.

Even Debbie kept looking over there, even though she didn't come close, with a complicated expression on her face. If her family had had such high-yield grains before, maybe she wouldn't have been sold because her family couldn't support them.

Tetis was more practical, and she suggested to Ira: "Your Highness, this is great news, why don't you share it with Your Majesty now?"

When the others heard the words, they also nodded to persuade her to go quickly.

They still remember His Majesty's happy look when the potatoes were harvested last time. This time, the waterways seem to be much less than the potatoes, but they have also helped to raise seedlings for potatoes and rice, and they know that a piece of land of the same size,Potatoes need 40 to 50 times more seed potatoes than rice seeds (potatoes need about 200 to 300 jins of seed potatoes per acre of land, and rice originally only needs about 3 to 5 jins, but due to the influence of the current germination rate of rice seeds, it is aboutsome more).

In terms of rate of return, the planting value of rice is definitely higher than that of potatoes, not to mention that rice is more suitable as a staple food than potatoes.

Ella was going to tell Lucis the good news, but was preempted by the maids.

"Then you help me to ask if His Majesty is free now?"

Ona immediately said: "Your Highness, I'll go!"

As he said that, he ran out in a hurry, causing everyone to laugh.

While she was going to ask someone, Ella also went to change into a suit of clothes suitable for going out, and did her hair again.

When she was done, Ona ran back again.

She gasped and said, "Your Highness, the attendants beside His Majesty said that His Majesty is dealing with government affairs now, but there is no one else in his office, you can go there anytime."

"Then let's go now."

Tetis called the guards outside the door and told them to take all the things Harnett sent.

Compared with Ella who can take a good rest after coming back, Lucis started working as soon as he came back. He has only been away for 20 days, and the affairs that need to be dealt with are piled up on the table, a high stack, but there are relatively few urgent and important matters in it, and most of them are lists of tributes sent by missions from various countries recently, as well as some requests they made.

Many of the visiting missions belong to the affiliated countries of Sathya. If there are any matters related to the country that these countries cannot handle by themselves, they will ask Sathya to come forward to help, but most of the time they are called poor. I hopeSathya can reduce the amount of tribute paid in the coming year, or give them some financial subsidies.

Sathya has many vassal states, but most of them are not so obedient. For those who are more obedient, Sathya is willing to agree to some of their requests, but not too much. Ministers will discuss these matters, but in the endHow to deal with it needs to be decided by Lucis.

At this time, he was going through these documents one by one. The documents were attached with the handling opinions given by the left and right prime ministers. He agreed to what he thought was suitable, and gave a new treatment method after vetoing the inappropriate ones. If he could not deal with it for a while, he would wait for the meeting tomorrow.Take it out for everyone to discuss.

These contents are not urgent, so when Ella came in, he just threw away the pen in his hand.

The guards behind Ella brought in the rice, wheat and pumpkins, and placed them on the ground. The bag containing the things was opened to reveal the contents, and Lucis recognized what they were at a glance.

"In your field?"

Calculating the time, when they came back this time, these crops should indeed be harvested.

Ella nodded: "Harnett just sent it over. He said that the rice and wheat in the field have been harvested. When will you let the tax officer come?"

She was joking in the last sentence, and Lucis also remembered that when Ella bought the land, she said that she should pay taxes properly.

So he also laughed: "Then it seems that I can receive a lot of taxes this time?"

Speaking of this, Lucis walked over, bent down and grabbed a handful of unhulled wheat from the bag. The grains were very large, and when squeezed, the inside was also bulging. When chewed in his mouth, there was a fragrance of wheat.The quality is very good.

The same goes for the rice on the other side, which tastes sweeter and fresher than the ones they bought before.

"So, what about the yield?"

Speaking of this, Ella smiled: "Very good, you will be surprised when you hear it."

She repeated Harnett's reported output, in Sathya's units of course.

Knowing that the output of this batch of wheat was double their previous ones, Lucis was pleasantly surprised but still manageable because of his preparations and the foreshadowing of the previous potato production.Now the astonishing output of wheat has doubled, which is four or five times that of the past, and he was so surprised that he lost control.

Ella watched Lucis, who used to be calm and calm, yelled "Yes", then shook his fist fiercely, and then walked back and forth in front of her uncontrollably, his face full of joy.

"If this output can be maintained, we in Sathya will never be short of food again!"

In the end, Lucis, who was not enough to vent his joy, leaned over and gave Ella a strong hug, unable to help himself.

"These are all your credit, dear Ella, everything you brought to Sathya is enough to be recorded in the history books and sung by everyone."

Ella let him go mad for a while, before telling him that Harnett would send all the rice and wheat soon.

"I don't need him to send it. I'll send someone to transport it. Let him take good care of the field."

Lucis knew that Ella didn't have many people under his command, so he didn't have to let them transport the things in the field, and it was safer for him to send some soldiers to transport the rice seeds.

At the end he asked, "Who knows the yield of rice?"

The people from the foreign missions are probably eyeing Ella now, and there is no guarantee that they will not also eye the land of Tanis, but fortunately, after harvesting the potatoes before, he sent soldiers to guard there to prevent strangersGetting close, thinking about it, even if there are spies in the past, they won't be able to get close. As long as the farm laborers don't speak out, it's not a big problem.

Ella probably also saw what he was worried about: "As far as Harnett and some farm laborers who are responsible for the calculation and weighing are concerned, don't worry, Harnett told them to keep it secret early in the morning."

Most of these farm laborers are illiterate, let alone calculate, and it is the first time they are exposed to rice. Although they are all responsible for planting and harvesting rice, it can be seen that the rice yield is not low, but it is obviously not clear how low it is.Clearly, there is no way to think about the current output. Even if there are a few smart people who can guess something, and Lucis's previous warning came first, they dare not say anything.

But now that the rice and wheat have been harvested, the fields are empty, and no one can see anything if they want to explore the fields.

"That's good." Lucis nodded, and began to think about the batch of rice again: "Can these rice and wheat be used as seeds?"

"I haven't seen it yet, but Hartnett said it shouldn't be a problem if you can."

"Then what is your plan, keep it for yourself and continue to grow it, or sell it to me?"

"Of course I'll sell it to you. It's useless for me to ask for so much rice."

She spent a lot of money buying rice at the beginning, and the price of rice will get lower and lower as the output increases in the future. Now selling to Lucis, she can not only make a lot of money, but also save more land.Kung Fu.

"Then I have to trouble you to talk to the land manager about what kind of land to choose for planting rice, and let him find a suitable one."

Lucis didn't say how much he would give. He planned to ask someone to sort out the royal-owned manor plantations and pastures, and let Ayla choose a few favorites. He didn't give Ayla the potatoes when he asked them to take them away.To pull rewards, this time, the credit for increasing rice and wheat production will also be added. He feels that sending a few manor plantations is not enough.

Ella nodded in agreement.

And sure enough, just as Harnett guessed, Lucis also asked her for the farm laborers who were in charge of planting rice before. With such a plan, Ira's originally hired more than a hundred farm laborers might be divided into half.The original plan to wait for the new land to be hired before the idea has to be advanced.

After the land steward came to see Ella for advice as ordered, and selected a suitable place for rice planting from the royal property in Boiman, Ella asked him to inquire about her piece of land in TanisWhether the surrounding land can be bought.

The land manager was the one who helped her buy the land before. When she asked her, she said, "No problem, the land over there belongs to His Majesty, and the others are only renting it. Just tell them in advance to cancel the lease relationship."" Obviously His Majesty will not be unwilling to sell the land to His Royal Highness the Princess.

Anyway, even if it is sold, it will still be the royal land.

Ella nodded: "The compensation that needs to be paid from my side."

The land manager nodded in response, and asked her again: "I wonder how much land Your Royal Highness wants?"

Ella: "I want to build a plantation over there, how big do you think it would be?"

The land steward couldn't say it either: "It depends on what you want, Your Highness. There are plantations ranging from small ones of a few scharts to large ones of hundreds or thousands of scharts."

Ella thought that the bigger the better: "Then help me find out who is willing to stop renting the land, and how much area the land will have after it is taken back. I want it if it doesn't exceed a thousand scharts."

This area is already not small, and it is completely possible to build a large plantation.

The land manager recalled the situation around the land, and after confirming that the land belonging to the royal family was much larger than this, he bowed and said, "Your Highness, please wait for my good news."

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Lucis quickly sent someone to Tanis to bring back all the rice and wheat.

After Aila knew about it, she took someone to the warehouse area to have a look. There is a place where the royal palace stores grain and various supplies. The storage facilities inside are well done, and there is also a special seed storage area. The rice and wheat delivered this timeBoth will be sent there for storage.

There are a lot of materials coming in and out of the warehouse area every day, and occasionally the stored food and other items are taken out to dry in the open space, so some grains of wheat will fall on the open space in this area, except for the birds.The square in front of the palace is the most favorite place to occupy, so when the slaves are drying food here, they have to guard the side to drive away the birds so that they don't steal them.

When Ella came over, the drying area here was empty, but there were still many birds looking for food here, most of them were small birds like sparrows, and the feathers of these birds were black, gray, yellow and brown.The colors are not too conspicuous, so some of them have bright and colorful coat colors, and the slightly larger birds stand out very easily, attracting everyone's eyes.

Is that...a parrot?

Ella blinked, making sure she read it correctly.

There are no wild parrots in Sathya. It can be said that all parrots are foreign species. You can see parrots locked in cages and bird racks in the homes of some nobles or wealthy businessmen, but it is almost impossible to see freedom.Flying parrots—unless they escaped from some noble rich merchant's house.

And now Ella counted a little, and found no less than seven or eight parrots among the birds that gathered in twos and threes to look for food.

They couldn't be wild parrots, but they weren't runaway pets either, and judging from the way the slaves who cleaned the grounds ignored the parrots, they weren't going to be captured or expelled here.

Ella immediately thought of a possibility.

Tetis also confirmed her conjecture.

Noticing her gaze, Tetis also looked at those parrots, and said: "These parrots were originally raised in the bird garden. After you let them release the parrots last time, these parrots flew away.After a while, they came back again for some unknown reason, and now they all live on the big trees in the gardens of the palace, because no one caught them because of your order, so they just let them live like this."

These parrots were originally fed by humans. After they were released, they were probably afraid of being caught. They would fly away when they saw people approaching, but if someone fed them, they would come to eat them. Today, the days in the palace are much different than before.It might not be that comfortable to have someone take care of them exclusively, but they clearly prefer life as it is now.

With such a distance, Ella couldn't see the parrots clearly. I wondered if there were any parrots helping her deliver the letter. Just as she was about to walk away, the group of parrots found her. One of them was "Aila Ella"He yelled, and spread his wings and flew over. The other parrots immediately followed after seeing it.

Soon, Ella's shoulders and hands were full of parrots, large and small, and she turned into a bird stand in an instant, and the birds on the bird stand were calling her name in every mouth, and they didn't know what it was.Whoever taught it, the sound is very standard.

Ella took a closer look at the parrot that first called herself. It was a gray parrot.I remember that gray parrots accounted for several of the parrots that delivered the letter, because although this kind of parrot is not as beautiful and beautiful as other parrots, its IQ and language ability are the best among its kind, so Ella said to be a smart parrotAt that time, this type of parrot was the most sent.

She carefully observed the appearance of this gray parrot, and finally matched up with the one in her memory.

She stretched out her finger and gently rubbed its little head, and asked softly, "Is it the little parrot Kino who helped me deliver the letter?"

The parrots raised in the palace all had their own names. The attendant who brought the birds had introduced them to her. In order to establish a good relationship, she also carefully wrote down the names of those little ones.

"Yes!" Kino, the child of the gray parrot in charge of negotiation and the little gray parrot in charge of delivering letters to Kaman, saw that Ella recognized him, and immediately rubbed her finger affectionately.

The other parrots are not as good at speaking as this little gray parrot. Apart from calling her name, they can only say some auspicious words, but this does not prevent Ella from communicating with them.

"Aren't you already free? Why are you still in the palace?"

Ella used to prefer the outside world rather than a place full of people like the palace. Parrots are very rare birds in Sathia, and they are loved by nobles and rich businessmen. They can easily get lost in the palace.They were caught and sold. After all, they are no longer royal birds.

Ella's reputation has long been spread among the parrots. The group of parrots all know that this human being not only set them free, but also has the ability to communicate freely with them. Seeing her speak now can really make them understand,A group of parrots were jumping happily, chirping and rushing to answer her.

Ella listened for a while, and probably understood what they were trying to say.

None of the parrots in the flock had ever helped deliver the letter, except for Kino the little gray, one of those parrots that had been released after Ella made a deal with the big gray.

These parrots didn't know what happened when they were released, but it didn't prevent them from flying away eagerly after being unchained.

It’s just that these parrots are all year-round parrots that have been raised by humans, and they have long lost the ability to live in the wild, and the wild environment in Sathia itself is not suitable for these tropical birds.In addition to human capture, there are also predation from natural enemies, and even some parrots that have been cared for since they were eggs are not even able to find food.

Being hungry and frightened outside every day is really not something a group of domesticated parrots can adapt to, so they finally flew back to the familiar palace. Of course, they were reluctant to live freely, so they didn’t run back to the cage stupidly.Instead, under the leadership of the leader parrot, they stayed away from humans and occupied the big trees in various gardens as residences, and then followed other birds living in the palace to forage around every day and learn their way of life.

There is also a scene where the little gray parrot and a group of parrots of different colors gather here to find food.

Ella didn't know about these things, and no one specifically mentioned them to her, but it's a good thing that parrots can live independently. Sooner or later, they will have the ability to fly out of the palace and live in the wild.

Of course, if they stay here all the time, if they need these parrots to help deliver letters next time, maybe they can ask them for help.

Ella decided to talk to Lucis when she turned around, and asked him to order that no one should harm or capture these parrots in the palace, so that the parrots could live in a safer place, and she would not interfere with the rest.

Because Ella was busy, she didn't interact with the parrots for too long. She asked the slave who was cleaning next to him to fetch some wheat and sprinkle it on the ground to feed all the birds, while saying goodbye to the little gray parrots.

When Ella arrived at the gate of the warehouse, soldiers and slaves in the warehouse area were unloading from the bullock carts, and Harnett also followed the convoy, talking to the steward of the warehouse area and doing handover work.

The rice and wheat sent this time are all used as seeds. The wheat in Ella’s field grows well, with more earings than ordinary wheat and fuller grains. The wheat grown from them will also have better genes, it is easier to increase the output.

The manager of the warehouse area knew that all the good seeds sent this time were highly valued by His Majesty Dao, so he was very careful when receiving them. All the sacks had to be opened and the good seeds inside were poured into new sacks for confirmation.The rice and wheat inside were re-sealed and weighed and put into the warehouse after there was no problem.

Two kinds of grains that add up to more than 30 tons were packed into hundreds of sacks, and it took more than a dozen ox carts to pull them over. These grains had to be disassembled, inspected, weighed and put into storage.It can be done in a while.

The handover process is cumbersome and time-consuming, and before the handover is completed, Harnett, who is in charge of the handover, naturally cannot leave, but Harnett is not impatient at all.For these precious and rare breeds, it is right to be cautious.

When Ella came over, they noticed it immediately, and Ella didn't bother them, and told them to go back to work, and she went over to watch their handover for a while.

The wheat and rice in the sack were indeed of good quality, even better than the ones Harnett sent her to taste, which made her very satisfied.

Ella came here to check on the conditions of these grain seeds, so she left after reading it, so as not to disturb their work, but before she left, she called Harnett over to give some orders.

She told Harnett that the farm laborers who were in charge of planting rice before would be taken away by Lucis. Harnett was not surprised at all, and was a little happy for them. After those farm laborers were taken away, they must help His Majesty grow rice, andThey are mainly in charge of teaching other people. If they do well, they may become the stewards of the royal family in the future. This is an opportunity that ordinary people can't even dream of.

Ella told him again that she should soon have a plantation the size of a thousand scharts, if nothing else.

Ella: "It was originally said to wait for the new land to be bought before recruiting, but now it can only be done in advance. You can start recruiting after you go back, first make up for the current labor gap, and then book the ones you need in the future.If there is no accident, they should not have to wait too long to get them to work."

This plantation is intended for growing sugar cane, and while she doesn't have that many now, she can use it to grow other crops in the beginning as well.

And if you want to build a plantation, you can't just build a fence like the current land, you have to build a decent fence and build some houses for workers. In addition, water conservancy projects and roads are also necessary, and these are all necessary.A lot of labor has come to work, and it will take a long time until the plantation is really repaired. By then, the batch of sugar cane she is planting now may be ready to harvest.

As for how to grow so much sugar cane, Ella is going to ask the owner of the grain store after Lucis's birthday is over and the missions have returned.Buying a lot of sugarcane seeds or stems, he should have some news after so long, and he was able to get so many seeds before, maybe there are new harvests now.