Golden Dragon: Six Thousand Years of Empire

"Let's go!"

Noah didn't want to say anything more. In such fertile black soil, using seed output ratio to calculate agricultural planting income was nothing more stimulating to him.

"Don't want to see it?"

"I want to go to other nobles' territories."

"Okay!"

Although she couldn't understand why a pure-blooded golden dragon would be interested in such ordinary land and seemed to be angry about it, Selena was willing to accompany him. It was just a matter of convenience.

The airship began to rise again, leaving behind a group of people in the farmland below. They were wandering in complex emotions such as gratitude and confusion. After a long time, the lord who was denounced as a waste by Noah took people away.

Selena was responsible for the political task of inspecting the territories of the vassal nobles of the Augustus family. Originally, Noah followed and was only responsible for eating and drinking. Anyway, anyone with a little brain would serve him well.

But now it is different. Driven by a strong emotion and a sense of responsibility and mission that is taking shape, Noah will visit nearby farmlands every time he arrives at a place, watch the sowing and planting methods of local farmers, and ask about the harvest.

But after watching all the way, Noah is not angry, because they are all the same and there is no difference.

The output ratio of one to two in the territory of the knight who was first called a waste by him is actually outstanding among many noble territories. The output ratio in more noble territories is even worse than this.

In the land that Noah can see, the level of agricultural development basically remains at the primitive stage of slash-and-burn farming. Farmers sow seeds on the simply turned over land, almost no fertilizer in the middle, no concept of weeding, and no watering. They rely entirely on the weather for their livelihood.

In this case, the emergence of seed measurement is completely normal. If the bumper harvest in Noah's memory can still appear, it can only be that the gods are bored.

In fact, this is also related to the belief in gods. Many farmers like to pray to the gods they believe in. One of the most popular hymns is sung like this:

We work hard to cultivate the land, we sow the best seeds, and the gods are omnipotent, please water and fertilize the seedlings!

Merciful mother earth, give us the nourishing soil of life, so that every seed can take root and sprout.

Generous heavenly father, please give our crops rain, let the rain moisten every inch of land.

May our hard work turn into a good harvest, and may this land prosper forever!

To be honest, Noah was very speechless. He didn't weed or fertilize after sowing, and he relied on the gods. This has nothing to do with hard work.

Of course, these primitive people who slashed and burned were not useless. At least they had some concept of fallow. They knew to let the land rest, and thus developed the two-field system.

That is, the cultivated land is divided into two parts, and only one of the cultivated land is planted every year, so that the other land can accumulate the lost fertility, and so on.

In some areas, Noah also saw the more advanced three-field system, which divides the land into three parts and rotates crops in a three-year cycle. Grass seeds can also be sown on the fallow land for grazing.

However, the so-called advanced is only relative. Compared with the ridge cultivation method in Noah's memory, the three-field system is simply dregs.

Ridge cultivation is to plant crops in rows on ridges, with spacing between ridges. Generally speaking, ridges are slightly higher than the furrows between ridges. Of course, they can also be level, depending on the crops.

This is a planting method that can definitely ensure high crop yields. Crops can grow independently without interfering with each other. Farmers can walk in the furrows between ridges to weed, fertilize and water the crops without hurting them.

The best part of farming is that the ridges and furrows can be rotated after a season of crops are harvested to achieve the effect of fallow, which is enough to ensure the fertility of the land.

However, after Noah conducted field visits to various noble territories, he came to a conclusion that the ridge cultivation method, which he remembered was already commonplace, had no room for development and promotion here.

The reason was very simple. The farmers who farmed here were so poor that the only metal tools they could find on their bodies were probably dozens of copper coins, or perhaps one or two silver coins.

The ridge cultivation method required deep plowing and fine planting, which required the use of metal farm tools, livestock and matching plows, so that the soil could be dug into ditches and piled into ridges.

But such a pre-requisite was simply too luxurious for the farmers who had been exploited by the nobles for generations. Almost all farmers could not own metal farm tools.

The metal in the smelting furnace would eventually only turn into armor on the nobles and swords in their hands, and could not become tools in the hands of farmers.

With all these conditions, it is no wonder that the farmers on this land have always been in such a primitive stage, and even if they wanted to, they were powerless to toss.

Small nobles can oppress and exploit farmers, not to mention the supernatural beings at a higher level.

Noah's adoptive mother would not exploit farmers. After all, she was willing to listen to Noah's opinions and even gave the purchased slaves the opportunity to gain freedom.

But the reason why she was willing was because she didn't care at all. That was more terrible than abuse and oppression. It was neglect, or rather, disregard!

Her position was too high. In her eyes, there was no figure of farmers at all.

No matter how much food farmers grow, even if they improve the existing agricultural planting technology and increase food production tenfold or a hundredfold, in her eyes, it is nothing more than that, perhaps not as good as Noah's intimate words.

This is the most terrifying thing!

Those powerful extraordinary people who can cause mountains to collapse and rivers to flow backwards, almost the vast majority of them do not have these most numerous weak creatures in their eyes. For them, these low-level creatures are almost non-existent.

"Little Noah, have you seen enough?"

"If you have seen enough, should we go back?"

"Yes, we should go back. You have made a lot of contributions this time. What reward do you want?"

"I want to write a book. After my book is finished, can you help me promote it throughout the territory?"

Noah replied.

"You want to publish a book? What book? What content?"

Selena immediately became interested and asked with interest.

"A farming book that teaches people how to plant."

Noah replied.

On the one hand, he could no longer tolerate those primitive people called farmers who were so degrading to the black soil. On the other hand, he wanted to see what kind of feedback the golden tree would give him.

It is no exaggeration to say that once he popularized the ridge cultivation method, it could save millions of lives. Such achievements and influence would be enough to make him famous for generations.

If we use the seed output ratio for calculation, China reached 1:12 in the Qin and Han dynasties, and basically reached 1:20 in the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, before the Western Industrial Revolution, China had enough qualifications and confidence to despise the West.