The newly harvested wheat is put into the warehouse and is properly preserved as grain seeds, but it will not be long before they will be awakened, buried in fertile soil again, and turned into a new season of wheat plants to grow more wheat grains.

And this waiting time gate doesn't even need to exceed ten days.

The beginning of October should have been the end of the flooding season, and the Inlula River began to recede from the end of September, returning most of the fertile farmland to Sathya until mid-October.

But this year, due to the early flooding season, the river recedes faster than in previous years. It stands to reason that farming can be done now, but everyone is used to planting wheat in mid-October, and every year the cultivation is done by God.After the temple calculates the specific date, the cubs will release a message to inform everyone that it will start on that day, but this year’s flood season ended early, and the temple has not planted the time gate in advance, so although some people have begun to clear the land during this time, the real sowingIt hasn't started yet.

And the reason why the temple priests still set the time gate for farming according to the previous situation was the order from Lucis.

After the death of the high priest, Lucis did not continue to appoint a new high priest, but took over by himself as a matter of course. The former high priest basically existed in name only when he was still there.Lucis, the "Limited High Priest", was in charge all the time, so when he announced himself as the official high priest, no one in the temple raised any objections.

For one thing, the king is powerful, and the temple is in a weak position. Even if he opposes it, things will not change, and he may even offend the king. Anyone with a little sense will not do it.

Secondly, the temple is not harmonious. The three original high priest candidates all have their own supporters, so there are now three factions in the temple, and no one accepts the other, and the other two understandIf the high priest has to choose from the three of them, then the most likely candidate to succeed the new high priest must be His Majesty's aunt Mel Yat, and if they are not convinced by letting Mel Yat take over, then it is stillIt's better to let your majesty come down to be the high priest.

Moreover, His Majesty is so busy. After he becomes the high priest, it is impossible for him to take care of the affairs of the temple. At that time, the three senior priests will be actually responsible for these.Right in hand.

And the fact is the same. After Lucis announced that he would take care of himself as the high priest, he shared the affairs of the temple with the three high priests. He was only responsible for the final decision, and the three high priests performed their duties., It also ensures that the temple is not dominated by one family.

And the reason why Lucis didn't let the temple advance this year's cultivation time gate was to wait for the harvest on the ranch.

Now that the harvest is over, the output is better than expected, and the first stage of publicity has been completed. After knowing that he will send someone to teach others the new planting method, in just a few days, many ministers and nobles have come to ask for help.And grain seeds, the latter Lucis sent a big bag to each of the confidant ministers, but those who wanted someone, they didn’t have it. If they wanted to learn, they sent people to the royal family to learn.

There are so many royal lands, even spread all over Sathya. Even if he only needs to be in charge of the delta area for this season, the number of tenant farmers and slaves is not enough. Of course, it is impossible for him to lend out the few hundred people.

Now that the wheat is being harvested, there are only a few days before the day of plowing. The set time gate has already been announced, and at the same time, the lease of new farm tools and cattle is also announced.

Not every commoner has farm tools in their homes, especially some farm tools that require a lot of metal, and many of them can’t afford them. Therefore, during the farming season, they will exchange some grain for farm tools, and within a limited time gateReturn, this kind of renting of farm tools is handled by a special steward, and it is the official who provides the farm tools.

Among the farm tools that can be rented this year, there are a lot of new farm tools and cattle for rent. The farm tools and cattle are also provided by the government. When someone borrows them, the steward will teach them how to use these new farm tools. It is only the rental price of the plow cartMany people were discouraged. The rental situation was not good at the beginning, and no one rented plow trucks, so it was difficult for the cattle to rent out.

The stewards in charge of farm tools did not insist on this. The earliest batch of plow trucks was not many. Although few people rented them at the beginning, as long as they used them, they would know how useful they are, and there was an endless stream of "repeat customers", The plow truck is basically never empty.

The villagers in Maidena Village have also received new orders. Most of them need to follow the soldiers to the delta to start new jobs and work hard for their future.farming here.

As for the land on the ranch, there is no space left. Among all the managers, the oldest village chief stayed here and was responsible for a new round of cultivation of this land. However, because pasture is still planted in the ranch, thisThe piece of land will be temporarily fallow, but there is still a lot of land outside the pasture that he needs to lead the tenant farmers and slaves in other surrounding villages to cultivate. Of course, if other commoners are willing to come and learn, they will not be stingy to teach, just study for a dayIf you have to help out for a day, they will provide you with a lunch, but you will not be paid again.

Even so, there are still many common people who will come to study. After all, this is the place where 13 bags of wheat are grown. Many people come here with the feeling of pilgrimage, but such people usually have their own rented fields, soFrom time to time they come to study for a day and then go back to work on their fields, they don't stay to work all the time.

This situation is also the same in other places. The stewards and the villagers of Maidena Village are mainly serving the royal family. Others can learn from them if they want to learn. If they don’t want to, they won’t force them.Very high, because as long as you come to them to study for a while, and then compare your own planting methods in the past, you can find that the planting methods taught here are troublesome, but the situation in the field is better than before.

Especially in the past, after the Yinlula River receded, although it would bring fertility to the land, it would also leave a lot of germs and insect eggs in the ground. Farmers did not know that they needed to plow the land deeply to expose the germs and insect eggs inside to be exposed to the scorching sun.Sun drying is used to achieve the purpose of sterilizing and killing insects, so many times the crops in the field grow out, and pests and diseases will follow. After that, the newly grown seedlings get sick because they are bitten by insects, but they have nothing to do.If they can catch it with their hands, if they are seriously ill, they can only pull it out and replant it. Not to mention wasting a batch of seeds, the replanted ones are likely to continue to get sick.

After studying with the royal family, they gritted their teeth and rented plow carts and oxen to plow their land deeply, and sprinkled plant ash into the land before plowing, so that the effect of sterilization and insecticide would be better.When the new seeds are sown and then grow, the probability of disease and insects is greatly reduced.

And in the future, even if the wheat in the field is sick with insects, they can go to the stewards and buy some potions to solve the problems in the field.

The number of hundreds of villagers may seem large, but after integrating into the entire delta and Boiman, it is like pouring a bowl of water into the sea. There will not be many waves, but after waiting for a few months, theyThe role played will be greater than anyone imagined.

But that too was a few months away.

The bandit group was arrested, their charges were announced, and Gebitran behind the scenes was also exposed. Although many people did not believe that the assassination would be done by the country on the Mio continent, there was AustonWaiting for others to testify (after Oston, Alger and others also betrayed), and those missions that participated in this incident actively push the blame, other missions that have not yet left have to believe that this timeThe culprit is indeed Mio's Gebitran Kingdom.

This caused some changes in their mentality of not paying much attention to Mio, especially the countries located along the northern coast of Feiluo. This incident made them vigilant.Asians can covet them, so aren't weaker countries like them more dangerous?

Although what Gebitran wanted most was the most fertile land in the delta of Sathia, their plot failed. After the Sathya people took precautions, they would naturally not give them an opportunity.The most advantageous springboard, it is hard to guarantee that Gebitran will not want to change to another country as a springboard to attack the African continent.

Therefore, other coastal countries with relatively weak strength may be attacked by Gebitran, which makes them not worried.

As long as they think that there is a powerful country on the other side of the sea staring at them, and they may stretch out their claws to tear off a piece of flesh from their bodies at any time, they will be restless, and they can't wait to go back to their country to report this matter and ask their king to report the incident.Those merchants from Gebitran were driven away.

Just like what Sathya is doing now, those caravans from Gebitran will be strictly investigated, and as long as there is a slight problem, they will be deported.

These people can't wait to leave, but they are reluctant to part with Sathya's new planting methods. Their country does not have such a unique environment as Sathya, so their cultivation time gate is different from Sathya.In the country, they only have a dry season and a rainy season (the rainy season is from May to October every year, and the rainy season is from November to April of the following year), so the time gate for farming is also around the rainy season, that is, March and April.Then it is harvested around October, and the cultivation time is basically the opposite of that in Sathya.

So if they can learn their planting methods in Sathya and teach them to farmers in their own country, then they will be able to use these new methods when the next rainy season comes.

However, the Sathya people do not forbid them to send people to the fields to follow and learn, but they will not tell them the pesticide formulas for treating diseases and insect pests, so the mission wants to stay and grind again, to see if they can learn from King Sathya.The recipes are traded here—they even sell malaria prescriptions, after all.

But because of Gebitran's incident, they felt like a thorn in their backs, and they wanted to fly back to their country immediately.

So most of the missions finally chose to let most of them go back to the country to report on these things, and some people stayed in Sathya to learn planting techniques and continue to work with King Sathya on formula issues.

It’s not that they don’t want to keep more people, it also depends on whether Sathya is willing to let them stay. Although King Sathya doesn’t prohibit them from studying, it’s impossible to keep too many people.It's the limit.

However, there are also some countries that are not suitable for planting and basically do not have any interest in new planting techniques—mainly because they don’t know that this method is not so harsh on the land, otherwise they will leave people to learn—So everyone left.

For those who stay to study, Lucis is not worried that they will increase the food production in their country after learning, which will cause the food in Sathia to be unsalable. Too many countries on the Feiluo continent are not suitable for planting.Most of them develop animal husbandry, and most of the common people make a living by hunting and fishing. They need to import a large amount of food from outside to feed their own country, and this outsider is Sathya.

If the sea transportation is more developed, the Miou continent is also a good channel to buy grain, but so far, on the African continent, there is only one and only Sathya that has the ability to sell a large amount of grain. Now the grain in Sathia is expected to increase.Grain prices will inevitably fall. For those countries that rely more on animal husbandry, instead of trying to torment those countries that do not grow much grain, it is better to come to Sathya to buy cheap and plentiful grain.

In the past, there were still many countries that could not buy food. Now seeing that the food in Sathya is about to increase, their first reaction is not "this country will become stronger again", but "finally they can buy food".

Originally, Sathya was the boss on the Feiluo continent, but now he is just stronger. For those countries that have no plans to confront Sathya and are not neighbors who will not conflict, they certainly don't care whether he becomes stronger again.

Most of the people left, and the tense atmosphere in the capital was relieved. Finally, Ella didn't have to be locked up in the palace and didn't go anywhere.

After she handed over the written bank plan to Lucis, she led people to Tanis immediately.

Ella didn't go out to inspect her land immediately, but went to the market first, and asked the owner of the grain store to see if he had any new seeds.

As soon as the owner of the grain store saw her coming, he enthusiastically took out all the recently purchased seeds.

"I'll keep it for Your Highness, most of which are sweet stalks and cotton seeds collected according to Your Highness's request, and the rest are seeds I've never seen before from foreign caravans.There's this, and this is from Abel."

The owner of the grain store has been helping Ella to buy various seeds, because the price he gives is affordable, and he is not picky. Now his reputation has been spread, and foreign businessmen will send any uncommon seeds.He came here to show him first, especially in the past two months, because of the king's birthday, there are many foreign caravans, and there are also many strange seeds. The owner of the grain shop has accumulated a lot recently.The seeds are waiting for Ella to see.

Recently, the atmosphere in the capital is tense. The owner of the grain store thinks he is just a small businessman and dare not go into the muddy water, so he can only wait if Ella does not come for these two months. The seeds prepared for her in the store are almost gone.Can't fit in the pile.

As for the Abel he was talking about, Ella thought for a while before realizing that she was a businessman who helped her buy chili and tomato seeds abroad. She also asked him to find important crop seeds such as sweet potato and corn.

After he helped send a boat back last time, Ella didn't buy these anymore, but she introduced him to the people under Lucis, so he and Hafre, who was in charge of buying hops, and TibiHood, who grows tea and buys tea from Ya’an, and then sells it to the tea factory, has also become a supplier of the royal family. Although the supply is small, he still has a continuous and stable income. Moreover, the identities of the three people have also increased after becoming imperial merchants, and their lives are decent.too much.

After remembering who Abel was, Ella became very curious about the seeds he brought back, and signaled to the boss to take out the seeds he put here first.

The boss explained to Ella as he opened the bag: "My old man, you were not in Boimans when the honest businessman Abel came back, and he was in a hurry to go to Utla again, so he put the things away.Here I am."

A bag was opened, Ella leaned over to look at the contents of the bag, and asked casually, "Why is he in a hurry? The royal family should not be short of chili and tomato seeds recently, right?"

"I said I saw a plant that was very similar to the brochure you gave, but when I went there, it was not yet the time for that plant to bear fruit, so I'm not sure, I have to go back and have a look, but what kind of plant is it?"Did not say."

The owner of the seed and grain store that Abel brought back said that they were all seeds of non-toxic plants that the local people in Utla had confirmed were edible, but they didn’t know if they were useful. Abel thought that Ayla might feelThe interest was brought back by the way, but he was not qualified to see Ella, so he didn't make a special trip, but left it with the owner of the grain store.

But the seeds weren't sold to Ella.

The owner of the grain store told Abel: "He said that these seeds are a gift for you. Thank you for introducing him to the steward of the Royal Plantation."

"Thank him for me too. If he really finds anything, please let me know as soon as possible."

Ella accepted them without any courtesy. The number of these seeds was small, and she didn't know the purpose. She didn't find any varieties she was familiar with, so there was a high probability that they weren't the ones she wanted, but it was better than nothing, and there might be other surprises.

On the contrary, there was an unexpected surprise in the seeds that the owner of the grain store bought for her recently.

There are flat seeds inside the long oval brown nuts that are longer than a palm, and there is white gelatin on the outside of the seeds. At a rough glance, there are about thirty to fifty seeds inside.

Seeing her opening the nut shell which was bigger than her hand, the owner of the grain store explained: "This is sold to me by people in a caravan. It is called cocoa beans. They will pound the seeds inside into powder and drink it with water.", seems to be able to treat some diseases, but the taste is not very good, although it smells good, it tastes bitter, it sounds a bit like tea, but it feels completely different."

Apparently he's tried it.

"Another way, it will become an excellent delicacy." Ella stared at the seeds inside, her eyes seemed to be glowing.

Chocolate, who doesn't love a sweet tooth?

"Can you buy more?"

When the owner of the grain store saw her asking this question, he knew it was another good thing: "They have already left, but I know the place, and I can contact you with the caravan that often goes there, if you need it."

Ella was very assured of the ability of the owner of the grain store, and immediately nodded in agreement: "Then I will trouble you, if the price is right, the more fruits of this kind, the better."

There are not many cocoa beans in the store, but it is still possible to take them back and process them to make a few pieces of chocolate. Ella handed these cocoa beans to the guards, and asked the owner of the grain store to send the remaining seeds to Harnett.On the other hand, there are not enough sugarcane seeds, so the vacated land can temporarily plant a round of cotton.

After instructing the owner of the grain store to continue to help her purchase sugarcane seeds, Ella took people to the field.

At this time, her plantation was still under construction, but because Harnett recruited a lot of people, the prototype could already be seen, especially the houses in the plantation, several of which had been repaired, mainly used to place variousA tool, and a place for the night watchman to live has also been built.

"Currently, the construction of the plantation is progressing smoothly, and there are enough manpower to work on it. I can't manage it by myself. Do you think you should bring up a few people to help or recruit some more managers?"

Harnett talked about his own problem. Before, it was just a piece of land, and he could still manage it. Now it is necessary to build a plantation. It is impossible to have only one manager. This problem must be resolved as soon as possible.

Aila looked at the people who were busy working not far away: "Are there any candidates who are suitable to be in charge among the previous batch of people who worked here?"

Harnett is obviously more inclined to choose among the existing people, such candidates are more trustworthy, so when Ira asked, he opened his mouth and said a few names.

"The management skills of these guys are pretty good. I've seen them organize other people to work and arrange work well. The only thing that's bad is that they don't know how to read."

This is also a helpless thing. They recruit people who are good at working and farming. People who can support their families in this way basically have no education. If they could read, they would have found other better jobs.Where would it be so hard to plan food in the ground.

Ella still said the same thing: "Learn if you can't read, see if you can teach it, if you don't have time, go ask a teacher to come back, arrange to teach them an hour of class before dark every day, it's the welfare of the managergone."

"Will this delay work?" They usually don't stop working until dark, and summer is coming to an end, the time of day is getting shorter, and the time of night is getting earlier and earlier.

"It's just a few people, there's nothing to delay." Ella thought for a while, and then added: "Arrange it in a more open place, and buy a big blackboard to come back. If other people want to listen, don't chase them away, justJust don't delay the class."

As soon as Harnett heard it, she knew that the princess wanted to show kindness again. The free learning opportunity may not be available to other workers, but they are allowed to bring their children here. These children are not official farm laborers, althoughThey will also help with things, but there is no limit. If you die, you must follow the time when the adults work. The princess obviously intends to let them rest a little earlier to attend classes.

"Good Your Majesty."