If I let you farm, will you become the emperor of the empire?

Theoretically, after hearing those words, Gweil should be so excited that she should kick Roman aside and ride on Ami to realize it without hesitation.

When necessary, she, a little witch, is also responsible enough!

But after calming down, Gweil found that she was still the little witch who was powerless.

So far, she has blessed 20 acres of rice fields.

At the beginning, she could bless one acre of land every day.

But the longer it takes to recover, the longer it takes. Now it takes three or four days to bless one acre of land.

The feeling of being hollowed out is getting worse and worse.

The weakness is visible to the naked eye.

Therefore, the task that Roman assigned to her this year is not heavy, just bless 50 acres of rice fields.

There is still a long time.

It is not Roman's style to exhaust all the fish.

In another month or two, the mid-season rice planted in April can also be harvested.

The planting area of ​​mid-season rice is as large as 200 acres.

There are even more late rice, about 700 mu of land.

As of the end of June, Roman had reclaimed about 1,000 mu of rice fields.

Before the end of this year, he will reclaim another 1,000 mu of rice fields.

Roman has no expectations for rice varieties other than the experimental fields.

If calculated based on a yield of 100 jin per mu, this year's rice field reclamation results can bring him more than 100,000 jin of rice reserves, which can only be said to be better than nothing. Two jin of rice per capita is enough for anything.

But there is no way. It is good to see the yield in the first year of planting.

For such rice seeds, the next generation will still have a yield of about 100 jin. If it is not planted for four or five years, there is no way to significantly increase the yield.

He has no time to improve it slowly now.

All the proceeds from the 50 mu experimental field will be used as rice seeds for next year. Gweiler's blessing has no disadvantages.

Of course, before seeing the effect brought by Gweiler, Roman did not have the habit of putting all his eggs in one basket.

Meadow pastures are being built, swamp rice fields are being cleared, and forest wastelands are being reclaimed.

The main goal is to achieve multi-faceted success.

There are about 14,000 workers involved in the reclamation and construction.

This year's plan is to reclaim 2,000 mu of paddy fields, 7,000 mu of wasteland, and completely transform the ranch.

The first two are easy to do, but the transformation of the ranch is the most difficult.

The construction team is responsible for the construction of the ranch, but they will plant tens of thousands of mu of alfalfa and sow grass seeds on all the grass that can be planted.

This project is not ordinary.

...

It's July.

The falling temperature has begun to rebound.

The hottest and most ferocious autumn tiger of the year is coming.

Roman used to give them holidays in previous years.

The sun is scorching, and the work efficiency is too low, so it's better to let them rest for a few days.

But not this year.

Even if they can only work five hours a day, they all have to move, and a few deaths are nothing.

The food crisis is the sword of Damocles.

The current Origin City cannot relax for a moment.

Once the wasteland has been reclaimed, it is necessary to directly apply fertilizer, throw 1,500 kilograms of peat and 500 kilograms of manure per acre, and then plant crops such as alfalfa, spinach, beets, and radishes.

Even if the vegetable output per acre is only 200 kilograms, it is not a loss.

Without soil improvement, the first round of output of the newly reclaimed wasteland is so low.

If Roman did not have swamp peat fertilizer, it would be a favor from the landlord to have an output of 100 kilograms.

This is also a problem that all farmers in this era have to face.

The population of the Black Iron Land is extremely large, but not all land can be used - that is, land that can be developed but has not been developed.

According to Roman's observation, the utilization rate of land by most nobles is about 70%, and some corners are just left alone.

The remaining 30% of the land can become arable land once it is reclaimed, but it has not been reclaimed.

This situation is common.

In this era when iron tools were not popular, the initial investment in land reclamation was huge, and the first two years were negative returns, which was not worth the loss.

Often, only when the carrying capacity of a piece of land reached its limit did people choose to reclaim land.

This is a common dilemma in the development of civilization.

If there were no constraints from the Church, the most important thing for humans to do was to popularize iron tools, improve plows, use stronger steel farm tools to reclaim land, grow more food, feed back to society with food, and study new technologies, thereby driving the development of the entire civilization.

However, the fact is that they stopped moving forward in rounds of internal friction.

The conquerors brought a short, hard-won peace period.

More than 20 years after he led the fleet to sail away, the bloody battle of Silent Valley broke out, killing a whole generation, and people on the earth began to lick their wounds.

Then the barbarians and pirates came back, and some nobles were also restless.

When he was young, the Grand Duke of Split Armor was able to deter most of the traitors at first and lead the army to attack the pirate barbarians, but he later lost the motivation.

After spending decades of barely making ends meet and patching up. This land is now caught in a new round of war.

Roman knows the theory of population trap. The land has a limit for cultivation, but humans have no limit for reproduction, so they have to be consumed through other means.

But this land has not yet triggered that theory - because the population has never reached the limit of the land and has been consumed in advance.

Sometimes it seems saturated, but you can find a piece of wasteland to reclaim and accommodate the new population.

When you can't find wasteland to reclaim, it is called saturation.

According to Roman's observation, this basin does not have hundreds of thousands of people, and it is not even close to the edge of saturation.

When he increases the per-acre grain yield, the land carrying capacity can reach millions of people.

...

In the hottest July, Origin City welcomed a new guest.

At that time, Roman was arranging people to fish. After hearing the news, he rushed back to Origin Manor.

This guest was brought to Origin City by the Warcraft Witch.

Xia Lulu has a giant eagle that can carry people to fly, but the disadvantage is that it is a huge target. When she escapes, she cannot be with her at any time. If she often shows up, she will most likely be shot to death by a sharpshooter.

In addition, there are some special places that cannot be visited.

Cang Yue is a place where monsters are rampant, and some of them can fly. Facing those ferocious monsters, the giant eagle dare not say that it can escape unscathed.

Xia Lulu was reluctant to let it take risks.

And this new guest is from the Witch Forest of Cang Yue. The auxiliary witch that Shasta mentioned is called Lisa Silver Moon.

After more than a month of traveling, she finally arrived at the City of Origin.

Roman met the witch. She was very young, with freckles on her face, and she looked as beautiful as a farm girl. Her eyes were bright and a little embarrassed, and she looked like she had suffered a lot.

She was escorted on a long journey, avoiding the sight of Sinnoh, crossing the mountains, and after leaving Cang Yue, the Warcraft Witch sent a giant eagle to pick her up.

Lisa also met Roman, saw the iconic red eyes, squinted her eyes, smiled very friendly, and bowed: "Respected King of the Valley, the Prophet Witch asked me to say hello to you."

"I hope she is well too." Roman nodded.

"The Prophet Witch asked me to bring you a message-the sight of the Church has fallen from the stars to the valley. If you are determined to fight side by side with the witch, then please show your capacity and mind to this land..."