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

Roman arrived in the town of Sage for 55 days.

He pulled all the guards out of the livestock shed, and kicked Green and Aaron in front of them, so that they could train well.

During this period, a small caravan came to the town of Sage.

Roman looked at people and treated them accordingly.

Like Morey, who had seven merchant ships, dozens of people, and even a stable iron ingot purchase channel, he would pay special attention to them and even personally receive them.

Like Daken, who had three merchant ships and more than ten people, he could do a lot of things, and his attitude was also better.

But he didn't pay much attention to those who only had one merchant ship, or a small merchant ship, and only sold some linen and other goods.

They were all retail investors, with no cash flow, and they relied on doing some small business to make a living.

The merchants in the town of Sage belonged to this type. Even their ships were junk that others didn't want, and even so, they had to owe a lot of debts to buy a ship.

Roman threw them out to find other merchants to do business with, and exchanged salt for food.

The small merchant learned that the price and tariff of refined salt sold in Sige Town were very low, so he immediately left all the goods on the ship in Sige Town, took two guards to transport more than 100 kilograms of salt, and promised to send a large amount of linen to Sige Town next.

Roman has not been idle these days.

First, the slaves were assigned to do some light handicrafts, such as making wooden tools, twisting ropes, and making clothes - these clothes are for slaves to wear.

When they arrived in Sige Town, they didn't even have a broken bowl, and calling them beggars was an insult to beggars.

The rest of the slaves went to mine stones. Now the number of oxen in Sige Town has exceeded 100, and these big animals have to transport stones every day - Roman's demand for lime is huge, and there are no coal mines around Sige Town, so he has to burn wood for the time being.

Part of the labor force is also used in this regard. Because there are not enough felling tools, they have to borrow the power of several oxen. At most, they can uproot trees with a thickness of less than half a meter, and then throw these trees with roots and mud into the river. The wood will float along the stream to the place where the stones are burned.

This is much faster than felling trees, and it can also pull out all the surrounding forests, which is convenient for subsequent road construction and reclamation work.

It doesn't matter if you are not used to it at first, you will gradually become proficient.

After the two thousand acres of farmland are fertilized, they do not need special care, and the manpower there can actually be used in other aspects.

However, Roman previously allocated dozens of oxen to the 100 farmers there, asking them to plow a 500-acre field next to them to grow crops such as barley, oats, and peas.

In the future, hundreds of slaves will come to the town of Sage, and food reserves must be guaranteed-it is not enough to rely on buying food to maintain life. If there is a little turmoil, they will become Muggles, so they still have to grow their own food.

Roman also found leather workers and carpenters in the town of Sage and asked them to make harnesses specifically for draft horses.

Draft horses are not as physically fit as oxen, their endurance is not as good as oxen, and their prices are also expensive, but this does not mean that they have no advantages.

Draft horses are faster than oxen, and horse-drawn carriages are faster and travel farther than oxen carts.

Merchants value this very much. They can often use faster carriages to travel between different places, saving time and efficiency, and increasing profits.

The knight army also needs pack horses and draft horses to transport baggage.

Roman bought draft horses to improve transportation capacity and labor.

However, draft horses are not very suitable for plowing. If they are forced to plow the land, they may even die suddenly.

This made Roman speechless.

The fools of this era put yokes on the necks of horses, strangled their chests and trachea, and refused to loosen them, and then thought that their plowing efficiency was not good.

His eyes jumped when he saw it.

Change it!

Change it quickly!

Fuck the church regulations!

Roman designed a new harness, changing the harness's force point from the chest to the shoulder.

This thing quickly took effect, and made the plowing efficiency of draft horses exceed that of oxen, about one-fifth of the efficiency.

Because of the lack of managers, everything had to be done by hand.

But Roman was full of fighting spirit every day, arranged all affairs in an orderly manner, and ate the same meal as civilian slaves at noon every day.

…

On the 58th day.

Someone from the salt mine found Roman and said that they had dug out something.

This attracted Roman's attention.

He immediately dropped everything, rode his horse, and rushed to the salt mine.

The manager in charge of the salt mine immediately handed the things they mined to Roman with both hands.

This was an irregular crystal weighing about five or six pounds.

Roman recognized it as a salt-sealed crystal ball.

All mineral veins will have certain resources in geological evolution, which are considered associated minerals. Over a long period of time, they will be wrapped by a special crystal layer condensed by minerals. If the crystal layer is not broken, it is unknown what specific resources are inside.

Roman smashed it open with a stone and saw that the inside was a black ore that looked like black charcoal as a whole, but the surface was flashing with fluorescence.

"Tsk, it's a magic ore..."

Some resources can be called extraordinary resources, all thanks to this special mineral.

Magic ore sources are commonly found in many mineral veins, in the form of dusty crystal balls. If you mine to a certain extent, you will definitely find them. They can enchant various metals, turning gold into refined gold, silver into mithril, and steel into magic steel.

If you are lucky, you can dig out a piece of magic ore by digging the soil.

The nobles know how to use magic ore, and blacksmiths in big places also know this craft.

After enchanting the most common steel, the durability and sharpness of the steel can be greatly improved.

In Roman's opinion, magic stone is equivalent to strengthening stone. Although the degree of strengthening steel is obvious, it does not exceed the scope of ironware, unless special forging skills are mastered or other extraordinary resources are added.

Some enriched veins, the mined metal veins themselves have shallow extraordinary power, and only need a little smelting to become a magic equipment.

Mining veins is a very difficult thing, so the output is limited.

Roman has no channels to get it, so he can only rely on mining.

Green, Aaron, the Split Armor Bow, ruby, those extraordinary resources can only be regarded as the dowry he brought from home.

Salt mines are relatively pure among many veins, and it is a blessing to have a piece of dusty crystal ball.

Magic ore comes from dusty crystal balls.

But it does not mean that dusty crystal balls can only produce magic ore. It also has the probability of various gems.

For example, rubies, sapphires, crystal diamonds, agate amber and other things.

It is similar to gambling on stones.

All the gems that can be wrapped by the crystal ball are high-quality gems with rich mysterious power.

Roman's mentality is relatively calm.

If no gems are found, then no gems are found.

There is a long way to go.

One day, he will find rare gem mines, crystal mines, or even the legendary magic veins.

He can have as many of these things as he wants.

At present, this magic ore weighing more than two kilograms is of no use to him. It is not very big to begin with, and the magic stone obtained after calcination is even less.

Roman is now short of iron, copper, silver, gold...

He is basically short of everything, so how can he afford to refine metal magic now?

This is an advanced project, and only powerful nobles can afford it.

He can only transform it into raw stones for recruitment.

However, he will not conduct a second recruitment for the time being.

Roman thought about it and arranged something with someone.