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One of the great advantages of being in a place where military strategists are indisputable is that the battle for the mainland has almost nothing to do with him. He can farm here with peace of mind, and occasionally people may pass by him. Few people want to attack his side directly. After all, it is too far away from their home, and even if it is defeated, it will be too troublesome to manage. Just in case on the city wall

So even if a large army passes by here, at most it will only send some food as a temporary supply point, and then the army can be sent away. There is no place more suitable for farming than here.

And since you want to farm, you need to start with farming. Even if muskets have been invented in this era, agriculture is still the primary productive force. Otherwise, the countries here would not be competing for land like they are now. Most of the resources are contained in the land, and they can improve Grain production often means increasing a country's overall national strength.

As for the ways to increase grain production, on the one hand it is careful workmanship, on the other hand it is chemical fertilizers and scientific planting methods.

The former is actually unnecessary for this era. In the war, there are fewer people and more land. Especially in this wilderness area, there is a lot of land waiting to be reclaimed. The problem is not the distribution of the land, but the distribution of the land. Use more advanced methods to reclaim these lands for planting.

Therefore, the effects of methods such as composting proposed before are actually relatively limited. But similar operations are not meaningless, because nitrate can be extracted by making certain improvements to the composting site while composting.

And this thing can be said to be the most difficult material to obtain for making gunpowder weapons. In comparison, charcoal and sulfur are much less difficult to obtain.

Compared with other lords, most of them could only choose to mine natural ores, so in this era there were actually quite few gunpowder weapons.

This raw material can be obtained quickly and in large quantities by stacking dung-based nitrate. At present, it is absolutely sufficient to supply this city.

What remains is the transformation of various farmland equipment so that manpower can cultivate more land.

This aspect is actually not too difficult. The relevant mechanical structures are easy to design. The current level of craftsmen in the city is not too high, but with training and training, it can soon be improved enough. The extent of building these equipment.

Cheng Ying climbed the technology tree from scratch, so he had a considerable understanding of these relatively primitive farming equipment, and could teach local craftsmen step by step how to build parts.

In this way, the industrial level will continue to improve. Output will also continue to increase as workers become more skilled. There is really nothing we can do about the population. It is one of the few problems that is difficult to solve in troubled times. In the melee, the population will inevitably decrease. However, if there is a relatively safe place in the melee, it can naturally be solved. A large number of refugees were gathered.

Cheng Ying is not very anxious about increasing the population. If there are no outsiders, then he will wait for the people in his city to reproduce. After waiting for decades, the population will double several times. As long as the productivity of this era can keep up with the distribution system and it is reasonable, then the population growth rate will be very fast.

While cultivating new fields, Chengying also gave the next plan, which is to guide the surrounding rivers for irrigation. The harvest of fields that can be irrigated is much higher than the normal harvest. Irrigating fields often requires large amounts of water.

This is the importance of water conservancy facilities. And this kind of thing cannot be done by a single person or a few people working together. It must be hundreds or even thousands of people gathering together to complete a large project. Before this, the lord did not have that level of prestige, and do not have that level of organizational ability, similar projects have almost never been carried out, but now after several previous agricultural reforms have achieved results, the local residents' trust in the new lord has been greatly improved, and There is a relevant official training system, which has trained many grassroots managers with enough ability to organize.

So the new water conservancy project was launched. When the water conservancy project was carried out, of course, the flood control treatment of the river course would also be carried out simultaneously. This ensures that even if floods occur in the future, food harvests in large areas will not be cut off.

Things like rivers have always been loved and feared by farming civilization. It is quite difficult for people under the productivity of this era to tame them.

Fortunately, the river flowing through their territory is not a particularly fast type, and the sediment content in it is not very high. The probability of flooding is relatively small, so there is no need to build too grand a dam and turn it into an above-ground river.

Nowadays, as people are organized, the irrigation system is gradually taking shape, the local people's support for the lord has further increased, and the construction process of various wind and water conservancy machinery is no longer hindered as before.

The most important thing is actually a water conservancy workshop built by the river. It took a lot of manpower and material resources to successfully build it. It contains a fairly primitive water conservancy forging hammer that can be used to process steel. With this thing, the blacksmith would be spared the need to swing a hammer. Just keep adjusting the angle of the red-hot iron and let the hammer hit it by itself.

Although this still requires manpower, the efficiency is much higher. After all, if a person keeps swinging a hammer to smash, it will consume too much energy. If he continues to consume like this, sooner or later he will not be able to hold on.

Chengying is also constantly teaching craftsmen to learn to build more advanced machinery and equipment. For example, the lathe and other things we need to build next. With these, the processing capacity of steel has been greatly enhanced.

There are still many problems in steel drills, so current blacksmiths still need to forge steel to meet qualified standards.

But with the smelting of steel, the equipment there has been continuously upgraded. In the future, steel can be directly smelted into qualified products. By then, blacksmithing would have become a very different profession than it is now.

In this era, few people can see what the future will look like. However, judging from the current trend, in fact, even if they do not occupy more space gates, if humans here continue to develop according to this momentum, there will be The ability to unify the world, establish a new empire, or even a human kingdom with another system.

The number of people is still relatively small, and the power of industry has not yet been demonstrated. It is mostly used to assist the development of agriculture. When the population becomes larger in the future and industry gradually develops, some people will find that the wealth produced by agriculture is nothing compared to it. And they don't necessarily need to occupy so many portals to develop and prosper. The surrounding mines are gradually mined by them, and then they build roads one after another. There are also tracks next to the roads specifically for rail carriages to travel. These tracks can greatly increase the load capacity of horse-drawn carriages, so that rail trains can even be built to transport large amounts of items at once.

Although the efficiency of such transportation is still not as good as that of portals, the gap has been greatly narrowed. It only controls one portal, but when there are roads, the distance that can be controlled is even further. The construction of these roads still relies on cement. However, the cement in this era normally requires manpower to grind the powder through millstones. The time required is really unacceptable.

As for the fact that cement can be used to build roads here, which seems to be extremely expensive, it is because everyone has seen the benefits of water conservancy facilities and built many similar facilities along the river. These things can operate completely automatically and can be used to grind cement instead of humans. Since then, things that were originally expensive and only used when building important facilities such as city walls have gradually become cheaper. Compared with the market price, they are still expensive, but now they are barely acceptable.

Roads built in this way are much smoother than ordinary roads. Driving on such roads can also be faster. Even if it rains, it will not become muddy and will not affect transportation.

As there are more and more roads like this, they run through the territory, one mine after another, and one farm after another. Gradually, a second city began to be built in the territory. This city was built at the junction of a huge coal mine and iron mine. A coal drying industrial complex is formed here. Although there is no portal, it is enough to build a city. After all, there are many workers working here. It takes a lot of manpower to transport the coal and iron ore here back to the city. Material resources, if they continue to be transported like this, the transportation cost will be too wasteful, so after a decision, a large number of people moved here. Originally, this was just a steel smelting village, but as the number of people increased, safety requirements gradually emerged. Start building your own city.

So a city that looked extremely strange in this era and was not built on a portal at all appeared. But the people living in this city do not feel strange about this. After all, they really have their own needs in building the city and do not need to consider what their ancestors did. The development of this city also exceeded their expectations. The surrounding coal mines and steel made them a quite wealthy city, and a large amount of steel was exported to the hands of major nobles in the outside world.

The wealth that this process brought them was incredible to the people living in remote areas, and the steel they exchanged was just a drop in the bucket compared to the production capacity of the factory. It can be imagined that in their hands What value do those iron-gray metal blocks contain?

The emergence of a large amount of steel and machine tools has actually gradually pushed the times forward. The first industrial revolution may be coming next. There is no rush in this. Technology is still being accumulated, and knowledge also needs to be further accumulated.

Not only does someone need to be able to learn classical physics, but they also need to know more. For example, advanced mathematics knowledge, astronomy knowledge, etc., these are very useful, for example, used in navigation. In fact, before the first industrial revolution occurred, many advanced mathematical theories had already been proposed. Even if modern people travel to that time and face the top mathematicians of that era, they will find that they are a group of gods and most of what they say is something they cannot understand.

After all, it is a science that does not particularly rely on productivity. Even if productivity is lagging behind, as long as you have paper and pen, you can continue to calculate. Even if productivity is developed, the assistance to this discipline is only brought about by the powerful computing rate of computers after the enhancement of computing equipment. In fact, there is not much expansion in terms of ideas.

Cheng Ying is very dissatisfied with the intellectual literacy of the people in this era. Different from the era on earth, there are not so many mathematicians in this era, at least in the city where he is located. There are not that many mathematicians in the bookstore www.zhaoshuyuan.com People who like astronomy and geography. Interest may be innate, but knowledge must still be learned, and some people must continue to delve into and explore in those fields.

Technology is technology, science is science. These are two different things. At present, the rapid development of this city is technology, not science. Many people even have a mentality of looking at miracles for many technologies that have emerged in this era. From the perspective of a time traveler, this pretentious behavior of everyone watching their own magical operations is very satisfying. But if we look at it from a civilized perspective, people cannot understand a brand-new device and regard it as a god. In fact, it is a kind of sadness and a reflection of the backwardness of this era.

Cheng Ying needs to ensure that the people in his territory can at least pump water to the surrounding countryside without being thought of as some kind of monster that needs to eat people. In order for these people to learn to think rationally, even if they do not have enough knowledge to explain everything in front of them, they still need to use rational reasoning. To find the so-called gods. True face.

After the productivity gradually develops, there will be enough wealth to promote the popularization of education. After all, the popularization of education requires many people to be separated from production. Even if most of those who educate are children, in this era, this Children at this age can already provide a certain amount of productivity, and even when farming in the farmland, they can produce more food than they eat themselves. It is no longer a burden to the family. But if you want to get rewards, you have to pay first. Unorganized people would not have been able to make this choice to give, and now they can.

[To be continued]

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