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

Roman was wearing a linen short-sleeved shirt, half dressed like a farmer.

He said to Jet, "You came to me to help me?"

Jet really had no intention of doing that now, so he could only say, "I'm not here to find you..."

"What are you here for? Looking for Gweil?"

Jet looked away and looked at the land covered with wheat stubble. The wheat stubble was like a broken sword on a battlefield, pointing to the sky, enough to make people sick, and the density was extremely exaggerated.

"I just came to see..." whether those situations were true.

He might have come here to expose Gweil's lies, but now he found that he couldn't disprove them.

Jet asked, "Do you want to plant beans?"

He saw the piles of beans, all soaked in water, and someone sprinkled salt into the water.

He also saw more manure piles, and carts of brown soil were pulled over continuously. They mixed the soil with manure in an orderly manner and raked it into the ground.

But he didn't understand the specific intention of these practices.

"Yes!" Roman nodded.

He will plant 6,000 mu of soybeans next.

10 jin of bean seeds per mu, and a yield of 150 jin per mu is considered a win.

Sige Town is special.

It is surrounded by mountains and is a basin.

There are large plains inside the basin with fertile soil, which is a natural grain production base.

But the range of activities for 2,000 people is at most tens or hundreds of kilometers in radius, and most places have not been developed.

Roman has to build a road to dig a salt mine.

The soil here is very fertile, which greatly improves grain production.

Even so, it can't grow 30 jin of wheat seeds.

Now Roman no longer has confidence in the production capacity of this land.

He summed up his experience.

The essence is still the raw land, insufficient fertilizer and spring wheat.

If it is changed to winter wheat, the tillering rate will be increased, and the overall grain production will increase by 30% to 50%.

Roman chose to plant soybeans not only for yield, but also for land conservation.

This round of wheat consumed a lot of soil fertility.

Legumes have the function of fixing nitrogen, and land planted with legumes will increase subsequent food production.

Sowing soybeans in the summer can be harvested in late autumn.

The basin terrain is closed, and the plateaus and mountains are enough to block the cold air from the north. The winter in Sige Town comes later than other places.

And Roman will use all the cultivated land to plant winter wheat before the arrival of early winter.

Most areas on this land, including Sige Town, grow spring wheat.

That is, wheat sown in spring can be harvested in a hundred days, with the main feature of fast sowing and fast harvesting.

Sige Town has also continued the farming methods of the outside world, and has been doing so for decades.

This made Roman speechless.

People in the outside world grow spring wheat because the earth is cold in winter, and wheat seeds cannot survive the winter, so they can only be planted in spring.

Why are you joining in the fun in your basin?

Roman came to Sige Town in early spring before the winter was over, and he found that the temperature here was not unacceptably cold in winter.

Spring wheat can be harvested in 100 days, while winter wheat needs 240 days - an extra winter and half a spring.

But the growth time is not important.

In winter, it is impossible to grow crops, and at best some cold-resistant vegetables can be grown.

Winter wheat is better than spring wheat in terms of yield and quality.

So Roman temporarily stopped the work of paving and reclamation, and concentrated all his efforts on a large amount of composting and fertilizing.

This time he put a lot of effort.

At least one thousand kilograms of fertilizer should be applied to each acre of land to make these thousands of acres of land fertile.

And relying on manure piles alone is definitely not enough, because at least six million organic fertilizers are needed.

Roman had surveyed the specific conditions along the way before the construction team paved the road.

He used the comprehensive knowledge of [farming] and [collection] to find that the swamp between the town of Sige and the salt mine was a eutrophic swamp.

This kind of swamp means that as long as the water is drained out, it can become the best fertile land.

Later, when the construction team was digging soil to pave the road and fill the swamp, they also dug out thick peat soil.

Peat is natural organic fertilizer.

A large amount of peat can be directly mixed with a small amount of manure, and the effect is better than pure manure.

Farmers now have shovels and hoes made of steel, so it is easy to mine peat.

The only problem is that the labor force is not enough again.

For example, the cattle and horses have to plow the land, turn the land, mine peat, transport peat, and clean up the tree roots and stones in the land.

There is nothing we can do about it.

For Roman, no matter how much labor there is, it is not enough.

This is the pain of development, so we have to make these cattle and horses suffer.

In order to restore their physical strength, Roman began to let the people in the livestock shed feed them with refined grain.

During this round of summer plowing, he will plan a pasture for them to grow a lot of forage grass.

Anyway, it will be fine after this period of time.

But Roman did not expect Jet to come.

He asked, "Your wheat harvest is great, and the beans are about to be planted. Will the people here still starve in the future?"

Roman looked at his relationship with Jet again and found that it was still below 20%.

It has improved, but not much.

The real purpose is not the wine, and this is definitely not what he wants to ask.

Roman said as a matter of course, "Of course not. As long as they obey my orders, they will live well. If they resist, they will die."

"What are you going to do next?"

Roman's words were sonorous and powerful: "Buy slaves, farm, mine, build an army... I have a lot of things to do! I can't finish them all in a short time! I want to build this place into an eternal city! I want everyone on this land to yearn for this place..."

Jet didn't expect Roman to tell him all his future plans.

He was in a trance after being shocked by those bold words.

"You are building an army for what... to protect this land?"

"Defense? No! It's an attack! Whoever dares to set foot here, I will destroy him! Whoever dares to resist me, I will destroy him! But this is just the beginning, what I want is conquest! Rule every piece of land I see! My army will trample on everyone, and make everyone on this land obey me and be loyal to me! I will step on the whole land under my feet in the future...Jet! My apostle, come and build such an army for me!"

Roman opened his right fist to Jet.

The young palm was not broad, but it was strong and powerful, with distinct knuckles.

The skin on the palm was a little rough, with calluses on it.

The scorching sun mercilessly burned the earth, just like the surging will of the overlord.

Roman stood at the edge of the field and told a deserter about his grand vision for the future.

He warmly and frankly invited the deserter to join.

He knew what he was about to do and knew his mission.

He would achieve a transcendent achievement that would make everyone dumbfounded, and the kings and generals of the past and present could only look up to him!

A great figure that is unparalleled in the past and present will rise here!

That figure will personally forge the supreme throne in the future!

That figure will ascend the throne surrounded by ministers and under the attention of the masses!

The invincible army will crown that figure!

From now on, everyone on this land will only shout one name!

Whenever he thought of that magnificent scene, Roman felt his blood boiling. He could not resist the strong urge to smash this era with one punch and press the whole land under his crotch.

And everything depends on the people he rules and the people who are loyal to him!

"Jet, kneel down and be loyal to me from now on!"