Vol 8 Chapter 610: Ridge farming

Karen didn't know Elson's rules at first. When he got up early, he directly found a horned horn as he used to prepare for it, but he did not think that the guards outside the house took him directly to a building called a "toilet" after persuasion. There were not only independent places for excretion. In addition, three sheets of straw paper were provided when entering the door to solve the cleaning problem.
This was something Karen hadn't thought of before. You should know that this year's rubbing of buttocks has basically been done with a few leaves or stones. The aristocracy may be particular about using special ropes or wooden sticks, and "paper" ... became an invention lost after the High Elf era.
Knowledge is monopolized largely because of paper issues. The "parchment" used by most aristocrats today is genuine "parchment". You can imagine how expensive it is to write text or transmit letters.
Rodi actually realized the importance of "paper" long ago, but this was not a high-elven period that could be made at once. It did solve the papermaking problem, but there was no "paper mill" option in Elson City. . So he could only ask the "Elson Magic Research Department" to try to make paper according to the ideas provided by him. Fortunately, the mages were very clever, and so much wood felled in advance also came in handy. In the first issue of "The Karen Times" After being issued in the form of 1,500 pieces of parchment paper, the second issue of the newspaper has begun to be replaced by paper with wood color, and the number has increased to 5,000. At the same time, large-scale paper production has driven a production line, and the sales line has begun to spread to other parts of the country. It won't be long before Rodi, who holds the formula, can earn a lot of gold.
Karen didn't know the story behind the paper. The straw paper he just used was made from materials of poor quality when producing paper. In order to save resources, Rordy put these rough papers that were simply processed in the "toilet." "It is obvious to improve the quality of citizens. Being able to clean the buttocks is a very good experience for most people. The cleaning team that had to be inspected has never encountered a guy who urinates in the past few days.
Although the topic of "excretion" is indecent, it is the same that makes Karen realize that Elson is a different city.
After going to the toilet, he felt refreshed, but after taking a few steps, he found that there was a carriage dedicated to handling manure next to the toilet. The
manure bucket
developed by the mages avoided the stench caused by the exposed manure. The carriage drove out of the city shortly after completing the manure extraction work. Karen looked surprised, and then he didn't take it seriously. Gu Zi walked along the street.
After a leisurely stroll for a day, Karen unknowingly came outside the city in the afternoon. The nearby villages were not built along the river as they were remembered, but were planted with food on the open land directly along the sides of the road. As a run-down aristocrat, Karen actually knew farming. He took a closer look, but found that there was no fallow land in the entire field of vision.
"Don't fallow? Is this about giving up when you're ready?"
In the inherent thinking, the land is not fallow, and what is planted will only get worse year by year. Karen thought so, walked curiously to a farm field, and when he squatted to observe, he noticed that the vegetables, wheat, and oats in front of him looked thicker and fuller than the impression ...
The most important thing is that they are planted in the form of ditch to form an unusually neat pattern. Such a way of farming is really unprecedented for Karen.
"This ... is it because the land is too good?"
Karen pays attention to crops mainly because he has personally collected data on the land harvested by the people, and even has personally observed the growth of the grain for this purpose. After all, he is not a big noble. The grain harvest is poor, and his life is really bad. of.
As far as he knows, it is a recognized fact that the northwestern part of the Karen Kingdom is relatively barren, so in the past years it was necessary to buy a batch of food from the southeast for the winter. And now these crops are growing well, is it because they are neatly planted into vertical rows?
You must know that the traditional agricultural cultivation method of the Karen Kingdom is very backward. Farmers sowing is really just "throwing away" one acre of land and throwing in 20-30 pounds of grain. After it grows out of order, it is mixed with weeds in the field. Together, we have nowhere to stop weeding, not to mention the grain harvested during the busy year round, and the nutrients in the field are basically exhausted. When we cultivate next year, we must leave it here for a year to rest.
But now? Karen found that such a concave and convex field separated the crops neatly, and many farmers walked through them, pulling out the weeds without stepping on the crops they planted. The breeze blows, and the ventilation and heat transfer effect in the field is exceptionally good.
"This cultivation method may really work ..."
Karen thoughtfully prepared to turn around and leave, but suddenly found that a crouching car was not far away, and looked closely, confirming that this was the model for pumping faeces for the "toilet". Karen thought it would be enough to find a row of feces at random, but he did not expect that in these few minutes, similar carriages have been gathered in several places outside the village ~ EbookFREE.me ~ Unity dumped into several large pits.
If it was just a landfill, Karen would not be surprised, but he saw at least a dozen farmers around to come and help, while helping to dump, he threw many other things into the pit with excitement and similarly pulled out The weeds, the straw left from the harvest of oats, and some gray-white mud that Karen couldn't call were all poured in. Then he was stunned to see a tall arcane urn walking out of the room next to him. Then, under the command of a mage wearing a robe, he put the stick on his arm into the pit and stirred it up. After a few minutes, the farmers began to cover the pit with a pile of mess, and then joked away. .
Karen didn't know what to be happy about stacking a pile of smoky faeces together. The curiosity in his heart made him reach out and stopped a farmer who was just involved in filling the pit, and asked, "This ... uh, uncle, What were you doing just now? "
The farmer who had just finished the pit did not have any good taste, and Karen couldn't help getting smoked back.
This social hierarchy is severe, and Karen wears clothes that are unique to nobles. The farmer did not dare to fool, and immediately replied, "Sir, we were fattening."
"Hmm ... what?"