Knight Lord: Start with Daily Intelligence

The arrival of the harvest season is undoubtedly the most devout time for the followers of Lera. In the countryside, fields, and farms, the faith of Lera is most widespread.

Even the most ruthless ruler would feel heavy-hearted in the event of a poor harvest.

In contrast, when abundance descends, everyone is joyful and elated.

In the Black Forest Territory, the Dawn Goddess Lera is especially respected. The people believe that the prosperity of the territory's population and the bountiful harvest of wheat are due to Lera's blessing.

Therefore, after the crops in the wheat fields are harvested, the priests and nuns of the Dawn Church hold a grand fertility ritual in the fields for the crops.

At Su Li's request, these nuns arrived at the Golden Ear Farm, attracting a large number of territory residents who cheered and followed, gathering to watch along the way.

Amidst the excited cheers of the residents, the nuns of the Dawn Church slowly untied the sashes around their waists, and their loose green robes fell to their feet, revealing their pure and flawless white bodies.

Su Li also joined in the fun. Under the guard of the knights, he sat in the most open position, taking in the entire ritual.

What man wouldn't enjoy this kind of spectacle?

Especially when the nuns took off their loose robes, letting them fall around their ankles, his heart was also excited, and the blood in his chest was accelerating.

Lera is also the goddess in charge of fertility, governing love and childbirth, so sometimes her followers will use some means to increase the fertility of the territory's residents.

However, this goddess has sharp contradictions with Slaanesh, her followers fully oppose the Prince of Excess, because what he corrupts is exactly what the goddess protects. Slaanesh steals love and pure carnal pleasure, and twists them into a cruel mockery of Lera's sacred authority.

There is a delicate balance between Lera's abundant gifts and Slaanesh's thirst for indulgence.

Therefore, Lera's priestesses have learned how to moderate the desires of believers to prevent them from falling.

And evolving into practice, these nuns, although devoutly dedicated to the goddess, wear mythological masks decorated with wheat stalks on their heads.

So in fact, after watching the entire harvest ritual, apart from the initial moment when they took off their robes, which made all the men excited, there was not much charm and debauchery that Su Li initially expected.

On the contrary, the ugly and terrifying masks made men have to replace them with the faces of their lovers, eager to have intimate contact with their lovers.

This is also an important part of the harvest ritual. After the ceremony, lovers will go to more private places to do intimate things.

When the fertility ritual progressed to its climax, Fandal excitedly said to Su Li: "Lord, I clearly felt the divine grace that the goddess bestowed upon us."

"One of our nuns' priesthood has been transformed into a Mother of Grain. The Mothers of Grain are a secret female gathering within the church. They secretly gather to protect Lera's most important secrets, those secrets that are not shared outside of her clergy. During gatherings, the Mothers of Grain wear masks woven from straw to hide their identities, discussing unique ways to increase grain production."

Su Li was overjoyed when he heard this, and didn't expect that the devout sacrifice would actually produce additional effects.

Now that the territory has a Father of Grain and a Mother of Grain, the output of grain will definitely continue to increase!

Now there is an income of 240,000 catties of wheat, even if there are 3,000 people, it can last for more than 80 days, enough to last until the next harvest.

After all, the population of the territory, excluding the dwarves, is far less than 3,000, and the territory also has a large amount of cabbage, carrots, and income from fishing and hunting.

Although fishing and hunting are unstable, occasional outbreaks are also very rich, especially under the guidance of Su Li's intelligence, he will obtain fresh meat and fish, and also obtain a lot of livestock and live fish.

As long as the logistics are properly managed, the grain in the territory's granaries will inevitably grow slowly.

So Su Li looked at the shrines and stone tablets built by Lera's followers in the fields, and said to Fandal: "It's time for our territory to form a holy place for Lera. After the ceremony, send this shrine and stone tablet to the pool in the center of the Starfall Basin. That area is full of wild fruit trees, and when the stone tablet sinks to the bottom of the water and combines with this natural wonder, it will become a holy place for our territory to worship the goddess."

Lera is not without her own statues, but most of her temples are composed of Ogham stone tablets and shrines.

At the moment, the believers have hung wreaths made of wheat ears on the stone tablet, placing flowers and fruits on the stone tablet. Farmers, herbalists, midwives, food merchants, lovers, and hedge witches dance around the stone tablet and shrine.

In the future, this first stone tablet blessed by Lera will be moved to the Starfall Basin. When it sinks to the bottom and becomes entangled with aquatic plants, it will bless the entire area and become one of the holy places of the entire Lera Church.

Fandal excitedly said: "The goddess Lera is always so generous. We might as well give this area a name."

With the direct blessing of divine grace, there is no need to give it more mythology.

Su Li directly said: "Let's call it Starfall Pond, or Star Abyss Jade Pool."

It is normal for a holy place to have many beautiful names. The same mountain or scenic spot has different names in different regions and by different forces.

At that time, people who like Western style can call this place Starfall Pond, meaning that Lera's sun and dawn shine on the Black Forest Territory, shining like starlight.

The distant Eastern kingdom can also call it Star Abyss Jade Pool, anyway, Jade Pool is also the dojo of a goddess.

Fandal nodded excitedly and said: "The goddess will bless us. With the existence of the Willow Silk Butterfly, the pollen of those wild fruit trees will continue to improve. I believe that with the blessing of divine grace, this wild fruit tree will soon be transformed into a fruit forest, maybe in this midsummer."

That would be great!

Su Li said with a smile: "I hope to have a ten-mile peach garden, or a ten-mile pear garden."

This will further deepen the believers' impression of the goddess's generosity.

If there is a ten-mile orchard, people who go to worship can eat abundant fruits, how can it not make people feel happy?

Of course, such a feat as a ten-mile peach garden may still be relatively distant.

But it is entirely possible to expect thirty acres or even hundreds of acres of orchards on the slopes around the Starfall Basin.

One acre of apple trees can produce more than a thousand catties of apples. By then, a hundred acres of orchards will also yield 100,000 catties of fruit.

When Fandal took the believers to Starfall Pond, Su Li came to the threshing floor and mill next to the farm.

This batch of mills is one of the masterpieces of the dwarves. Their arrival helped the territory build more than ten water-powered mills and animal-powered mills.

This greatly accelerated the progress of the territory's agricultural harvest.

Bundles of golden wheat ears were sent to the threshing floor, and then baskets of wheat were sent to the mill.

Today is a harvest day. Bags of flour were sent to the castle, and a large amount of wheat bran was left behind. This is an important raw material for the serfs' main food, black bread.

The territory's bakery will use wheat flour, bran, wheat chaff, and wood shavings from the woodworking workshop to make black bread for the residents.

Then, mixed with wild vegetable soup, wild berries, and occasional meat soup and fish soup, it constitutes the main food of the serfs.

Of course, more wheat was loaded onto carts and boats, and stored basket by basket in the warehouses of the castle and town.

Looking at the storage warehouses in the treasury being filled one by one, Su Li's heart was filled with joy.

Each warehouse can store more than 30,000 catties of grain, and the castle alone has three warehouses full of grain.

The rest will be transferred to Black Forest Town to supply a larger population and free people.

The harvest of these grains means that Su Li's territory will pass a long period of time smoothly.

Even if there is no harvest from fishing and hunting, he will not be uneasy.

This is what it means to have grain in hand, and not panic.

More importantly, this means that his industrial plan for the territory has a successful prototype!

When Su Li first entered the territory, he thought about what the territory's advantageous industries and special products were.

The dwarves' blacksmith shop is undoubtedly one of them. His territory now has such a large-scale blacksmith shop, which has accepted a large number of mountain dwarves.

A set of fine-quality dwarven armor sells for at least 20 gold crowns, which is equivalent to the output of 20 farmers in a year.

This is the advantage of industry. The so-called no industry, no wealth. The creation value of industry is unmatched by the small-scale peasant economy.

But this does not mean that agriculture cannot generate value.

In fact, another characteristic industry of the territory planned by Su Li is agriculture!

Develop farming to the extreme and become the strongest agricultural territory nearby, then agriculture is the characteristic of the Black Forest.

Especially this vast field, if he can grow hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile land, then he can produce millions of catties of grain every season, and he can sell a large amount of grain to the outside world.

Selling millions of catties of grain is enough to exchange for considerable wealth. Especially since there are canals in his territory, one boat can transport tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of catties of grain.

From the beginning, he was determined to distinguish himself from other pioneering lords who relied on caravans to transport grain to the territory.

He wants to develop the great cause of farming and let the territory export grain!

In this way, he can expand his power and recruit troops with more peace of mind without worrying about insufficient food.

Of course, farming in the fantasy world cannot only rely on those basic crops.

His farming also includes some spiritual medicine fields, such as a large number of soothing flowers and swift grass produced by the Gale Wind.

These can be used to produce a considerable scale of potions in the territory. The lowest selling price of a healing potion is also 50 silver coins.

The territory now has two pharmaceutical workshops and a monastery that can produce potions, which have produced more than one hundred ordinary potions for the territory.

When divine grace comes, he can also obtain stronger Earth Blood.

Over the course of a year, it can also generate more than one thousand gold crowns for the territory.

With so many items in total, even if he doesn't have any wars or adventures, he can easily generate 5,000 gold crowns.