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

At the end of August.

The Crusade launched its first attack.

It was not Roman's professional army that faced them, but a group of Origin City militiamen armed with light crossbows.

There were so many light crossbow militiamen that it was hard to count them, and they filled the dock.

It made me feel desperate!

Sir Angus, who had vowed to make the blasphemer repent, was speechless at this moment.

The two sides exchanged fire.

In the end, the Crusade fleet was drowned by a rain of arrows before it landed, and had to retreat, almost being shot into a hedgehog.

After this battle, Commander Matthew knew that the Crusade could not rely on force to attack Origin City.

That damn place was too scary!

They could only follow the previous strategy and completely block the river. During this period, they sent scouts into the mountains to find a path to the basin, preparing to give Roman a surprise next year by sneaking across Yinping to take Shu Han.

Roman didn't care about it at all.

He was under great pressure now and had no time to care about the war next year.

Origin City has about 50,000 acres of arable land, with 9,000 acres of scattered pastureland.

It seems like a lot at first glance, but only more than 10,000 acres can be called good land.

Most of them are wastelands whose soil has only been improved for one year, and some of them are even less than one year old, and were reclaimed this spring.

Although Roman has been reclaiming wasteland, he has reclaimed 5,000 acres of land in the past three months alone, but it is still wasteland, and the initial yield is extremely low.

And what about the population?

It has risen from 30,000 this spring to nearly 80,000 now.

The population has doubled in a short period of time, while the arable land is in a state of slow growth, and there is no profit in the short term, so the pressure is naturally great.

Because during this period, the grain stored during the summer harvest is consumed.

Once the grain is consumed, it will be gone.

Save money!

More importantly, increase income!

...

September is here.

In the cool and refreshing autumn season, the mountains and fields are golden.

A large number of crops are ripe.

The Origin City, which has been suppressed for several months, suddenly burst into great vitality.

All the laborers were smiling.

They moved faster, and their efficiency was greatly improved.

In this year of chaos and disaster, being able to eat a meal in peace is the greatest blessing.

You know, those experienced farmers in Origin City still have three meals a day, but the food they eat is less than last year.

The newly added slaves can only eat two meals, and the prisoners of war only have one meal.

Even so, the slaves are still grateful-they were sold here by pirates.

In this war-torn era, life in Origin City is really hard-won.

Even all the farmers have no objection to the rationing system, and they can understand the lord's approach very well.

First, you can't eat enough now, but you won't starve to death.

Second, you are full now, but you will have nothing to eat in the future.

It seems to be two choices, but for the lower class, there is no need to choose at all.

They have been living the first half of their lives.

Whose children are not thrifty and count the peas in the bowl to make a living? If they eat one more bite, they will be slapped in the face.

If they used to eat two kilograms of grains a day, they can eat three kilograms of grains a day when the rationing system is implemented. If the treatment is low from the beginning, there is a huge room for improvement.

Moreover, they divide the work and cooperate with each other, and only do fixed things, which is much more labor-saving than in the past, and the physical consumption is not large.

The slaves who just came from the north are a little uncomfortable.

At first, they were still worried whether the lords here gave them too much to eat.

Should they eat less? Otherwise, there will be nothing to eat in the future.

This kind of thinking is really common in this era.

Think more about the master.

Woo, if the master's food is eaten up, then the master will starve to death! Woo, that won't work. What should we do if the master is gone? I starve to death, but the master can't starve to death!

...

The autumn harvest greatly relieved the pressure of food.

Farmers, slaves, especially the slaves who suffered from the disaster, looked at this round of crops with pious eyes.

It was such a joy to harvest those golden, plump beans.

And Roman was relieved.

The floods did not cause much reduction in production. Nearly 40,000 mu of soybeans, with a yield of 130-40 kg per mu, and 60-70 kg per person.

One kg of soybeans can produce 3 kg of tofu. If there is more water, it is normal to produce 5 kg of tofu.

Let's leave it like this for now.

Then there are the new crops Roman planted this year.

Eight hundred mu of late rice, harvested 80,000 kg of rice - all of this food can be eaten, which can be regarded as filling a small part of the food gap.

And the 50 mu of experimental fields blessed by Gweil, the yield per mu is more than 270 kg, almost 2.7 times more.

It seems that the hand of fate has indeed greatly changed the fate of these rice.

Roman carefully preserved all the rice in the experimental fields, which are seeds for next year.

Secondly, it is the cotton picking season.

The cotton is not much different from what Roman expected, with a yield of about 30 catties per mu.

Two hundred mu of cotton fields yielded six thousand kilograms of cotton, which is much better than flax.

Sugarcane cannot be harvested yet, and will have to wait until the beginning of next spring.

Judging from its growth, the yield per mu is more than two thousand kilograms, just like the yield of forage grass, which can easily yield one thousand kilograms per mu.

High water content!

Each sugarcane is more than two meters tall, with a lot of water, so it weighs naturally, and a yield of three thousand kilograms per mu is considered low.

The advantage is that sugarcane juice can be used to make brown sugar, which can be sold in department stores.

The last type of beet is not as good as expected. Sugar beets that have not been specially cultivated cannot be used to make sugar and can only be eaten as vegetables.

Roman has no time to do it now, so he can only do it step by step.

The purpose of sowing now is to allow the beets to adapt to the soil and climate here as soon as possible.

…

In addition, Roman dug ponds in the spring and caught more than 10,000 kilograms of fish.

Roman occasionally sent people to throw some fodder into it to increase the amount of meat.

So, the workers were surprised to find that the ratio of meat and vegetables in each meal was actually changing.

The amount of meat increased from 20 grams at the beginning to 300 grams now, which is more than ten times.

Because at this time, the farms are also slaughtering livestock on a large scale.

This autumn, a total of 3,000 pigs, 5,000 sheep, and 20,000 chickens were slaughtered - there was no change compared to last year, because they could not afford to raise more and the fodder was not available.

The more meat they eat, the lower the consumption of food.

Because the food inventory is really running low.

Roman sometimes has to take fresh milk, goat milk, and eggs as side dishes.

Milk-producing cows and sheep and egg-laying hens have a high status in the farm and cannot be slaughtered easily.

Because their output is very stable.

They can produce three to five thousand kilograms of milk and two thousand eggs every day.

This is the benefit of farming.

They eat grass, but provide high-nutrition side dishes, which can make up for the loss of food.

The more than six million kilograms of wheat harvested in the summer, not counting wheat seeds, are currently only three million kilograms, about more than thirty kilograms of wheat per person.

Roman will rely on this batch of food to survive the entire winter and next spring.

If there is a shortage of food next year, he will borrow some from his new neighbors.

After all, we have a friendship built by fighting, so we can't not lend it, right?

...

The army also brought some surprises to Roman.

Jet pulled them out for field training from time to time.

One thousand veterans took two thousand recruits to conduct basic training in the barracks.

Another 4,000 soldiers who had completed basic training went into the wilderness.

They practiced survival and combat skills in the wild, with only a small amount of supplies during the period, and they had to fight in teams at the most critical moments.

When necessary, they communicated remotely through means such as smoke signals, whistles, flags, and gongs and drums.

While the wild training army was undergoing high-intensity training, they could also hunt wild animals in the wild, which could be called a large-scale autumn group hunt, and actually saved him more than 100,000 kilograms of rations.

Roman felt that Jet was helping him to reduce his burden.

After all, in order to cope with unexpected situations, the rationing system had been implemented for two or three months, and everyone's rations were very tight.

Only the army and the school were supplied normally.

After the harvest, everyone spent two days of short but happy carnival.

…

After this season of legumes, the soil has been initially improved, and this year's wheat seeds have been adapted for two years.

If winter wheat is sown now, the yield next year will definitely not be low... At least compared to the yield of this land, it will definitely not be low.

The average yield per mu is 250 kilograms, which is considered a win.

Roman checked accounts with Seth every day and spent this September full of harvest and joy.

There is one chapter missing, it should be out soon.

Sorry readers, I will add one more chapter tomorrow