Harnett consulted the farm laborers for their opinions, and almost all of them finally agreed that even if they had no children of the right age in their own family, they could give the opportunity to other younger generations.

The farm laborers also have their own little thoughts in their hearts. I heard from Manager Harnett that the teacher’s remuneration is fixed. The more people they are willing to pay, the less will be shared among everyone.It is very cost-effective to have one child in class and then go home and teach the other children in the family.

And if they themselves wanted to hire a teacher in this way, they would probably not be willing to teach them commoners at all. This was all for the sake of Her Royal Highness.It's really stupid.

After confirming that he needed to find some more teachers to come to the plantation to teach, Hartnett went to Ella to talk about it.

Compared with the past, Harnett has also grown a lot during this period. In the past, it was probably because he had a bad memory of his previous work. Although he was serious and capable in doing things, he was too cautious.He didn't dare to make a decision until he suggested it, and this time he finally asked Ella to explain it after he made his own decision.

It may not be good for subordinates to make decisions without their own opinions, but it is not a good thing to blindly let the boss call the shots without having their own opinions, and what Ella wants to do is to be the shopkeeper. She hopes that her employees can be more independent.As long as there are no principled problems or major mistakes, she is happy to see them.

So Ella not only nodded in agreement with Harnett's approach, but even praised him a few words.

"Since we need to invite more teachers, the place where the classes are held can't be too sloppy, at least we need to build a few sheds so that we don't always expose ourselves to the sun."

The reason why sheds were built instead of houses was mainly because to accommodate so many students, the house would have to be very large, and a school might even need to be built, but the land in the plantation was well planned and notThere isn't as much room to cover classrooms, and the interior doesn't get as much light as the exterior.

Moreover, these teachers only need to teach them how to read. After they learn how to read, the teachers can retire. This is just a short-term literacy class, and it is not cost-effective to build a special classroom.

——Of course, if this kind of course needs to be arranged in the future, the plantation can let people who have learned to read and write teach and study, so there is no need to hire external teachers.

So it is more convenient to simply build a few sheds, they can even build the sheds directly on the roof of the house, so that the land used for farming will not be occupied, and after classes are not held at night, there will also be a night watchA place where people rest.

"Have you found another teacher candidate?"

Ella thought, if Harnett can't find a suitable teacher, she can help here. The temple of Tanis owed her favors because of the false priest before, so asked them to introduce some suitable teachers.It should be very simple.

But Harnett leaned forward and replied: "Yes, Your Highness, the priest who has been invited is also responsible for teaching the young apprentice priests in the temple. He said that he can help introduce some colleagues to me."

For the old priest who is currently teaching students in the plantation, Harnett came to invite him after many inquiries. Not to mention ability, at least in terms of character, there is absolutely no problem, so Harnett also believes in himThe recommended people, of course, although they are recommended, but he will still ask them carefully before hiring them.

Now that he has a candidate, Ella doesn't bother, but she still gives some convenience to the farmhand's children.

Because almost all the farm laborers in the plantation are willing to use part of their wages to pay the tuition fees, then their children can come to class, and there will be nearly a thousand people. It may not be possible for a few teachers to teach so many students at the same time, but it is possible.Have them take turns teaching in batches.

The old priest who was invited before only came to give them a class every day, but now he and the teacher hired later can have a few more classes, and the time for the students to attend classes will be separated, so that the students will not delay their work.It will not cause some people to miss the class because the teacher has too many students to teach.

As for how to arrange it, it is Harnett's job.

After Harnett went back, he soon invited back four teachers to teach the young people in the plantation together with the original old priest.Each teacher is responsible for nearly fifty students in a class, which is just within the range they can teach well, and the students are very sensible, and the teaching process has been smooth.

Time passed little by little, and the embroidery on the wedding dress was formed little by little in Ella's hands.

Winter in Sathya begins in December.

In winter, the temperature drops a lot. The temperature of 20 degrees during the day drops to about 10 degrees at night. Although it is not too cold, the cool clothes in summer are no longer suitable. Even Lu XiStu changed into a robe, and inside the robe were trousers that Ella asked the tailors to make when she ordered her own winter clothes, and they used cotton instead of linen.

There is not much cotton cloth now, and it is barely enough for them to make a suit or two, but next year there will be enough cotton to use.

And they still have sweaters to wear. Wool is everywhere in Sathya. In the past, they only used wool to make felt blankets. Now the female slaves who are in charge of weaving have learned to spin wool into threads, and use two shaved wool to make felt blankets.Wooden stick sweater, this kind of sweater is very simple to make, and it spread quickly. Slowly, many people wearing sweater and wool pants under the robe appeared on the street, which is much warmer than adding a cloak on the outside..

In Sathya in winter, there is more rain, and it will rain every few days, which is very good for the crops in the field and saves time for watering.

But in December, the most important thing is of course welcoming the New Year.

Although the Sathyas would not celebrate the arrival of the new year in a big way, the temple will hold a sacrificial ceremony on this day, and the high priest Lucis must be present to preside over it.

But this time, Ella is no longer a guest. As the future queen, although she can't preside over the sacrificial ceremony with Lucis yet, she can bathe in holy water and serve as a priest temporarily, serving His Majesty the King together with other senior priests.That's still fine.

For this reason, Ella had to rush to learn some rules of sacrifice, and the course also included how to preside over sacrifices with the king after becoming a queen.

But in fact, the sacrificial process is pretty much the same, the only difference is which god is being sacrificed. Ella has the experience of participating in the Harvest Sacrifice last time, so it is not difficult to learn. The only trouble is that she needs to learn to singsacrificial words.

As we all know, our princess will be surrounded by cute little animals whenever she sings.

She didn't have to worry about this problem during the actual sacrifice, because the sacrifice was carried out indoors, and the shrines where the gods were placed were all located in the deepest part of the temple, where no other creatures could enter except the priests, not even mice.

But when we usually contact, it is not in such a place.

Especially now that the weather is getting cooler, indoors are no longer favored by people. Everyone prefers to stay in the garden for daily activities. The air is good and you can enjoy the scenery and bask in the sun. It is as comfortable as you want.

Since Meryet can let Lucis circle a garden for her, she naturally likes these flowers and plants, so when the weather turns cold, the place where she teaches Ella is fixed in the garden.

The teaching location chosen by Meryet is a garden with a pavilion. The flat-topped stone pavilion built with four pillars has a large interior space. There are several layers of thick woolen blankets on the ground, and there are cushions and low tables on it.On one side of the stone pavilion, down the stairs is a water lily pond, but now the water lilies in the pond have already withered, and only some fish swim in the water.

The winter in Sathia is not too cold. Except for some flowers and plants that will wither, most of the plants are still green. In this garden, there are also berry bushes such as blueberries and raspberries transplanted by Ella.Cong, of course, they are not yet fruit-bearing, so they are not very conspicuous.

But when they start to bear fruit, the garden will probably become a favorite place for birds.

Ella was sitting in the courtyard, embroidering the auspicious patterns on the wedding dress, and singing the sacrificial words taught to her by Meyert. To be honest, the sacrificial words were sung in an ancient language.Yes, it is said to be the predecessor of Sathiya, but Ella has never learned this language, so she doesn’t understand the sacrificial words very well. She only heard the introduction from Mel Yat. When she sang, she just forcibly memorized the lyricsIt's just the tone, and the singing voice is not loud, it feels a bit self-entertaining.

But in this case, the special skills of the fairy tale princess still attracted a large group of small audiences for her.

Just as the singing sounded, flocks of birds emerged from every corner of the garden, squatting on the branches, guardrails, and low tables.Even on the carpet, listened attentively to Ella singing the sacrificial words.

In fact, they want to jump on Ella more, but although these little guys are not particularly smart, they also know that Ella is busy now, so they had better not get too close.

Then the little birds began to shake their little heads as they listened, and then sang along.

The amazing thing is that Ella didn't even know the specific meaning of the sacrificial words she sang, but the birds could understand them, and then sang along with her with their own chirps, so they could understand the animal language.After Ella understood what they sang, she could also understand what she was singing, and then she remembered the meaning of each note of these sacrificial words. In fact, this priestly wordThe content of the poem is actually very simple, it is the praise of the gods.

Just like nesting dolls.

Meyert was also in the pavilion, listening to Ella's sacrificial words to see if there was any problem, and at the same time distracted to look at the little cuties who were shaking their heads, their hands on their laps were about to move.

Don’t think that Meljet doesn’t like animals because of her serious and serious appearance. In fact, anyone who has been to her residence will know that she actually has a lot of pets, and they are all cute cats and dogs.She didn't keep birds, not because she didn't like it, but because she was worried that her cats and dogs would attack those pet birds.

Meryet is actually a bit of a plush lover. This plush is not only cats and dogs, but also birds. She likes everything that is cute.

That's why after seeing Ella's magical summoning skills, she will still insist on teaching her here, even if the chirping of a large group of birds will make her not able to hear Ella's voice clearly, making teaching more difficult.

Who made the birds so cute?

Now that she saw such a large group of birds gathering, she really wanted to reach out and touch them, but she was afraid of disturbing them.

Aila looked at Mel Yat's seemingly calm face, but her eyes had already revealed her thoughts, she curled her lips into a smile, put down her needle and thread, picked up a long, hairiest and round little guy, and sent it to Mel Yathands.

Under her leadership, this chubby little guy just shook his wings, and stayed in Mel Yat's palm with peace of mind, allowing her to rub it.

This kind of situation happened almost every day, and sometimes Lucis would come to participate in it when he was free, and these little guys who were usually afraid of him would not deliberately avoid him at this time, but they still didn't get close to him.

But Lucis didn't like these little birds either, he just came to listen to Ella's singing, he liked to hear her sing, even if it was sacrificial words.

So in the end, even though she has learned the sacrificial words, Ella will continue to learn from Meyert here, singing and teasing the birds after breaks, making learning more relaxed and comfortable.

The New Year's sacrifice was successfully completed. After the New Year's sale, the weather in January will be even colder, but for Ella who used to stay in the fairy forest in a colder area, it is still warm.

Aila wrote a plan about the bank before. After the plan was handed over to Lucis, a group of ministers quarreled in the multi-pillared hall for several days, and finally decided to try it out.The planning book can only be used as a reference. They took it back and carefully studied and discussed it for a long time, and finally came up with a plan that is more in line with the national conditions of Sathia. This is the main event in the court recently. The ministers are busy building a bank.system, and then add your own manpower to it.

Of course, they still knew that His Majesty the King would not allow them to do too much, so they were restrained in deploying manpower, and did not step on Lucis' bottom line.

And for Ella, January is a bumper month.

The second crop of potatoes has matured in the royal plantation. She doesn't need to pay too much attention to this. The stewards who have learned how to plant can handle it by themselves. What she cares about is her own plantation.

The second batch of soybeans also matured in this month. Although the output of soybeans is not particularly large, she can have enough beans to make various soybean products after cultivating a few more times. Thinking about it, it has been a long time since have eaten themShe really misses the tofu, bean skin, soy milk and other foods, and now she reluctantly uses peas instead to make some tofu to satisfy her cravings.

However, compared to satisfying hunger, in fact, although the protein in soy products cannot replace meat, it is very nutritious. It will be a very good food for malnourished civilians, and it is really delicious.

It's a pity that if you want to realize the freedom of soybean products, you may have to be on the board for a few more years.

But what excites Ella most is that the sugar cane has finally matured.

Today's sugarcane is much thinner than modern sugarcane, the taste is not so sweet, and it is hard to chew, but this does not affect the use of it to make sugar!

Ella is not a sweet tooth lover, but she can only use honey instead of sugar. The taste of many foods will be lacking, and many things that are beneficial to the human body in honey itself will be destroyed under high temperature, so it can be used instead of sugarMaking hot food is a bit wasteful.

A lot of sugarcane has been planted in the plantation now, but except for the sugarcane in the earliest field, the other sugarcane are planted one after another with the seeds bought later, and these sugarcanes are not yet mature.

Because the quantity was small, it didn't take much time to harvest the sugarcane. Even Harnett only called a dozen farm laborers to quickly harvest all the sugarcane.

The cut sugarcane is neatly placed on the field, and a special farmer uses a hatchet to cut off the upper part of them. This part is not unnecessary, but is left as a seed stem. The sugar cane in the upper part has low sugar content and tastes delicious.It is also very poor, but it is more suitable and cost-effective to plant than the middle part of sugarcane, and the survival rate is very high. In modern times, it is basically used to plant sugarcane.

Of course, if sugarcane is used as a seed stem, there must be buds on it. If not, it will not be able to grow new sugarcane.

The planting method is also simple, peel off the upper leaves to expose the bud eyes inside, then put the stems with bud eyes flat on the ground, cover with soil and wait for the seedlings to grow out before transplantingThat's enough, the temperature in Sathya is very good for planting sugarcane, even in the current winter, there is no need to worry about the sugarcane not being able to survive, but it should be noted that the buds should not face down, otherwise they will not be able to develop into seedlings.

The rest of the sugarcane was packed and sent to the palace by Harnett.

When the sugar cane was delivered, Ella was still sewing the wedding gown. Because the sugar cane would be delivered today, she asked for leave with Mel Yat, so she didn't have to go to class.

The sugar cane was delivered directly to the kitchen. Ella greeted Najido in advance, saying that she would borrow the stove, and deliberately avoided the busiest time in the kitchen before coming here. Najido was supposed to go to rest.Guido was already waiting there with people.

It's not that Ella asked Najido to help, but when Najido heard that Ella wanted to borrow the stove, he guessed that she had something delicious to cook, so he waited here specially, not only himHimself and his disciples are also there, in the name of helping Her Highness the Princess.

The apprentices were not dissatisfied with the one who couldn't rest, and were even very happy. In fact, they liked the job of helping Princess Ella the most. They could learn a lot of new recipes from Her Royal Highness every time, and increase their own skills.craft.

The method of making sugar from sugar cane is very simple, so Ella didn't intend to order Najido and the others at first, but seeing their enthusiasm, Ella followed their wishes.

It is not difficult to make sugar from sugarcane. The more troublesome thing is to squeeze the juice from sugarcane. There are only two methods that can be used now. One is to use a grater to grind the peeled sugarcane into shreds, wrap it in gauze and squeeze it hard.Pressing out the juice, this method is not only time-consuming and laborious, but also wastes a lot of juice in the sugarcane, and it is not easy to squeeze out.

Another method is to use sugar carts to squeeze sugarcane juice, and the so-called sugar cart is an ancient Chinese sugar extraction tool, mainly composed of two stone reels, two stone pillars, a stone plate and a stone trough.Among them, the stone reels are paired male and female—they have 16 teeth on each body, and the male roller shaft is half a head higher than the female one, which is used to install the roller pole and the jack scale.*

The working principle of the sugar cart is similar to that of a stone mill. It is accumulated through two paired large stones. It is recorded in Tiangong Kaiwu. Ella has never seen the real thing before, but only saw the model, so although sheMasons have been asked to make it before, but they haven't made it yet, so today they can't use this convenient tool and can only squeeze the juice by hand.

However, after grating and squeezing, you can still put it on a stone mill to grind it, and squeeze out the remaining sugarcane juice to avoid waste. There is a grater in the kitchen, which was added to the kitchen after custom-made by Ella.Now it's time to use it.

Originally, Ella planned to call some slaves to help with this job, but now that Najido and the others are willing to help, let them do this job.

I heard that it is to peel and grate the stems called sugarcane. The apprentices are not unhappy because they have to do this kind of work. The earliest apprentices of them learned to cut vegetables. Now many people still cut and wash vegetables every day.Just let them grate cane shreds, nothing bad.

Although Aila doesn’t grow a lot of sugar cane, its yield per mu is quite a lot. One mu of land can produce three to four thousand catties of sugar cane. The earliest she planted was almost two mu of sugarcane, and now there are seven of them harvested.More than a thousand catties, so much sugarcane is of course impossible for them to finish all. Ella just plans to try to boil some brown sugar today. As for white sugar, she has no plan to make it. White sugar can be sold as high-grade sugar in the future. Its decolorization processNaturally, it is to be kept secret.

A group of people rubbed the silk together, and quickly squeezed out a large bucket of sugarcane juice.

After filtering the sugarcane juice with gauze, pour it into a large pot and heat it to boil. After the juice is boiled, skim off the foam on the top, and then wait until the water in the pot is almost evaporated, then keep stirring to avoid sticking to the pot and scorching, wait until the remaining juice becomes viscous, and when it is sticky, it will solidify in cold water, then it can be poured into the prepared mold and wait for it to solidify.

The mold prepared by Ella is a square cake grinder from the baker. Brush a layer of oil in the mold, then pour the viscous sugar juice that has been boiled into reddish brown, flatten it, and wait until the sugar juice cools.That's it.