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

For example, domestic pigs are omnivorous animals that can be raised freely and are very easy to raise.

Of course, the cost is also high.

Piglets are very expensive, and the growth cycle is also long. They can't eat anything nutritious. In addition to the problem of domesticated species, they can only grow to about 100 kilograms at most, which is incomparable to the wild thousand-kilogram demon pigs.

Only carpenters, blacksmiths, stewards, guards and other people with good family conditions will raise various livestock and kill them for food when they grow up, which can be regarded as an improvement in life.

Ordinary farmers do not raise pigs for killing and eating.

After all, they don't have much extra income.

And humans live for various survival needs.

What if there is no other source of income besides farming?

They can only raise these livestock and sell them to local stewards or foreign merchants in exchange for various consumables.

Livestock is not only their extremely precious assets, but also can be used to measure social status.

For example, a family that can afford to raise pigs and sheep will never live too badly, and will have a stronger ability to resist risks. Once something goes wrong, they can sell the pigs and sheep to survive for a long time.

Moore was very efficient.

He notified everyone on the spot to send the livestock to the Origin Manor today.

This was beyond Roman's expectation - he thought this guy would go door to door to buy.

It would be difficult to take them back if they were released, and they would not let them lead all the livestock back.

So the threshold of the gate of the Origin Manor was trampled all afternoon - to be precise, there was no threshold, no gate, and even no fence.

Roman's Origin Manor was open, the entire basin belonged to him, and the surrounding mountains were his walls.

Roman received more than 100 domestic pigs, 300 sheep, more than 100 geese, more than 400 ducks and more than 1,000 chickens today, spending a total of more than 50 gold coins.

In order to quickly solve the acquisition problem, his purchase price was higher than the market price.

For example, the price of an adult domestic pig is 1.2 to 1.4 silver coins, and not all domestic pigs are adult pigs. Roman purchased them at 1.5 silver coins.

For those pigs weighing less than 100 kilograms, 1 silver coin was also given as appropriate.

For another example, a sheep weighing 70 to 80 kilograms was worth at most 9 copper coins.

And Roman bought all of them at the price of 9 copper coins, and gave 6 or 5 copper coins for sheep weighing less than 50 kilograms.

Roman did not bargain, lest these idiots think that the lord was stingy and they were selling at a loss.

Just give money like crazy, if there is no cash, use salt instead, it is not a problem to exchange a chicken for 4 or 5 kilograms of salt, and the farmer can resell the salt to the merchant - if he doesn't want the salt, he can write an IOU, Roman still has this credibility now.

In short, the messy scene lasted for three or four hours.

Everyone went back satisfied.

Only Roman was a little caught off guard looking at the scene of livestock and feces all over the ground in front of him, secretly cursing Moore for being brainless.

Fortunately, the farmers had some brains and tied up the legs and feet of cattle, sheep, chickens, ducks and geese with straw ropes or bark ropes, so that they could not run around or fly all over the sky.

Roman had no choice but to lead people to kill all the chickens, ducks and geese, even the newly born chicks were not spared.

Green and Aaron killed until they were covered in blood, and the feathers were flying everywhere.

All the people in the Origin Manor - the main force was more than 300 minors.

Under the command of Roman and Seth, they made fire, added water, plucked feathers, cut open the abdomen, cleaned the internal organs... Even five or six-year-old children had to run around with firewood.

Finally, the naked chickens, ducks and geese were hung up with ropes to air dry, and a large amount of salt was applied to their bodies.

And large livestock such as pigs and sheep were temporarily locked up in the barn with slaves.

Now the number of people in charge of the barn has increased to 100.

Like slaves, they sleep in the barn every day.

To be precise, sleeping in the barn was not considered abuse, but a normal phenomenon in this era.

Because they were responsible for the diet and hygiene of the oxen and draft horses, the work intensity was very high. If they lived too far away, they could not take care of them in time.

The grass consumption of each animal alone was a huge number, not to mention the cleaning of feces. A ox produced 20 to 30 kilograms of feces every day - Roman also asked them to transport all the feces to a designated place for composting.

And draft horses had to eat crops such as oats or grains.

These 100 or so people were the limit for taking care of the oxen and horses.

Now that so many livestock were stuffed in, the situation was a little out of control.

Roman had to order the neighbors and children of the oxen and horses to help out.

Neighbors refer to the ox and horse slaves who lived under the barn, and children refer to the many underage oxen and horses.

In the manor, they not only had to learn letters and numbers, but also do what they could - batch boiling of maltose was also one of their jobs, and in return, it was okay for them to steal a few bites.

The intensity of work in the manor was not very high, and the food was provided, which was much better than their previous life at home.

They were busy until dark, and then Roman sent the children back.

…

It was the 71st day when Roman came to Sige Town.

As the sky was slightly bright, more than a hundred cooks began to get busy.

According to Roman's request, breakfast was a bowl of mixed vegetable soup with salt and rye flour, and the usual three slices of black bread.

A bowl of mixed vegetable soup weighed only seven or eight taels.

After breakfast, the farmers began to repair the road.

The steps of the original concrete paving are not complicated and easy to master.

The only thing to worry about is the ratio between lime and clay, gravel and straw.

This is not a big problem.

It is nothing more than the principle of adding more water to flour and more flour to water. When it is spread forward during the mixing process, it will be even.

Roman set up a signpost 500 meters away.

The signpost will remind them that as long as they repair it here, they can end today's work.

If they can't repair it, someone will die.

But this group of cattle and horses still has potential.

Although this group of idiots is stupid, they are really hardworking. As long as they can fill their stomachs, they will really work hard.

When they are familiar with this work, they can increase the workload from 500 meters to 600 meters or 700 meters. Without the right tools, they are already very hard-working with this efficiency.

Roman took 50 chickens killed yesterday in the morning.

After drying overnight, the skin of the chicken became a little hard, and he took it to the food camp.

After the women who cooked breakfast and ate their own meals, and washed all the wooden bowls and plates, they began to prepare lunch.

They basically had no free time.

In addition, they had to assign people to take care of children and the elderly who could not walk - there were basically no elderly people, and those who only ate and did not work would be naturally eliminated, and the main care objects were children under five years old.

Agata was special, her child was not even weaned, so she was also arranged here.

"Agata, find someone to cut out these chickens, which is also part of lunch."

Roman stood beside the camp, waved to the familiar white-haired female slave, and then pointed to the carriage behind and said.

Agata didn't expect Roman to remember her name.

She had been in Sige Town for more than half a month and had basically adapted to life here. The only feeling was that it was not like a slave's life.

Although there were many things to do, the food was good, no one abused them, they had new clothes to wear, and they could get two kilograms of milk from the manor every day to feed Vera, which was unimaginable in the northern land.

She said meekly, "My Lord, I understand."