My Empire War Game

With such a strong demand, it is natural for Zhenbeicheng to produce at full capacity. Fortunately, Su Lunwo has vigorously developed agriculture in the northern wasteland in the past few years. The entire North Wind Principality has now cultivated more than one million acres of farmland.

Of course, this number is not much compared with the farmland in other countries, or even far lower. In terms of population, there are 600,000 people and one million mu of farmland, which is less than two mu per person on average. In the previous life, the output of a few acres of land was enough to feed a family, but this was in the middle ages when technology was backward.

Normally, even with a high-yield crop like potatoes, it would take 30 mu of land to feed a family. If the various taxes that were plentiful were included, the amount would increase by an estimated 50 mu.

After all, the price of potatoes was not high, and crops such as oats and wheat needed to be grown in order to make money, and the lord only collected a small portion of potatoes for taxation. The vast majority of farmers in this world grow potatoes for themselves, and more crops such as wheat, barley, and oats.

The yields of these three crops are not high. The reason why Zhenbei City can now grow a large number of various crops is because the yield per mu is astonishingly high.

Originally, the land in the northern wasteland was relatively fertile, and because of the Harvest Altar, the yield of wheat per mu in Zhenbei City could reach 600 jin.

Although there is a big gap between the yield of 600 jin per mu and the casually yielding 1000 jin of wheat in the previous life, in the previous life, it was only through professional breeding and various chemical fertilizers that the yield of more than 1,000 jin per mu was achieved. fertilizer.

Under normal circumstances, the yield per mu of farmland in southern provinces is generally around 300 catties, while in the north it is around 250 catties per mu, and even many barren lands are only 200 catties. The farmland here in Zhenbei City can reach a yield of 600 jin, which is already a miracle in this era.

The most important role of this is naturally the Harvest Altar. In addition to the Harvest Altar, Su Lun also established a farmyard manure factory. The manure produced every day in Zhenbei City will be collected and transported to the farmyard manure factory for fermentation.

After fermentation, it will be sent to the farmland. Although the fertility of farmyard manure is not as good as that of chemical fertilizers, it is better than no chemical fertilizers. With the help of farmyard manure and the Harvest Altar, in addition to growing food, Zhenbei City also planted a large number of various cash crops.

Among them, the planting area of ​​beets is the highest. After all, the demand for white sugar is too strong now, and the residue left after sugar beet extraction is not useless. These beet residues are still very good feed.

At the same time, sweet tea dregs are mixed with wheat bran, soybean meal left over from soybean oil extraction, re-grinding and mixing can only be very good feed. Centaur City now breeds a total of hundreds of thousands of horses, cattle and sheep, and the demand for these feeds is very strong.

Among them, the best horses are used as war horses and supplied to Zhenbei City. The second-class horses will be sold to other countries, but even the second-class horses are still excellent war horses. Usually these war horses are used by heavy cavalry. Horses are also sold as warhorses, which are treated as regular warhorses. The remaining horses are used as draft horses and pack horses. Zhenbei City now has horse farming in addition to cattle farming.

Some of the other cattle are used as farming cattle, and some are slaughtered as beef cattle to supply the needs of the North Wind Principality. Because of the prosperity of business, a large amount of beef is consumed in Zhenbei City every day. Cowhide is also a good thing and can be used to make leather armor or other leather products.

Beef tendons are collected and made into various bowstrings. It can be said that the value of a cow has been excavated to the limit here.

Not to mention sheep, the north is cold, and sheepskin is an important tool for the common people here to keep out the cold. Su Lun even wants to develop the wool textile industry, but Su Lun knows nothing about wool textile technology, so he can only hand it over to those half-elves who have weaving experience. To tackle key problems.

A large number of cattle and sheep have enriched the Northwind Principality's meat diet. At the same time, the excrement produced by these cattle and sheep is also sent to the farmyard manure factory for fermentation. It can be said that the North Wind Principality has now formed a good ecological chain.

After several years of development, the North Wind Principality has become very rich in food at least. However, in order to continue to expand ocean trade in the future, the area of ​​various food crops in the North Wind Principality will continue to expand.

The sugar beet planting area is actually insufficient. During this period, the sugar shipments have doubled, part of which is the previous inventory of Zhenbei City, and the other part is the real output.

Therefore, when planting sugar beets this year, Zhenbei City once again expanded the planting area of ​​sugar beets, and in the next few years, the planting area of ​​sugar beets will continue to expand.

In addition to white sugar, the production of wine and white paper in Zhenbei City will continue to expand. The wine is simpler, because the rum is brewed with caramel left over from the production of white sugar, and the production of white sugar will increase, so the production of rum will naturally will also improve.

As for vodka, the sales of this kind of spirit are average in the south, but it is very popular in the north. Besides these two kinds of drinks, Zhenbei City has also started to brew other drinks such as ice wine and barley beer, but the production of these drinks is still low. .

Paper was favored by the nobles. In order to produce paper, Su Lun cut down a large number of trees near Mirror Lake City, and at the same time planned to plant bamboo. Because bamboo grows fast and contains rich fibers, it is far more suitable for papermaking than grass.

Su Lun intends to plant a large number of bamboos to be used as raw materials for papermaking. To Su Lun's surprise, he originally thought that all kinds of writing paper would be the most popular for the emergence of paper, but what surprised him was that the sales of these writing papers can be said to be very bleak.

The sales of toilet paper, which he was not optimistic about, continued to roll up, which was beyond expectation. For this matter, Su Lun specifically asked those merchants who bought paper. According to them, writing on paper has a short storage time and is easily damaged. It is not as strong as parchment.

As for Su Lun's statement that the paper is cheap, and the paper of the same weight can record more words, which is more conducive to the dissemination of knowledge, this statement was ridiculed by those businessmen. According to the merchants, those nobles are not willing to allow more people to master knowledge, and it is best for knowledge to be in the hands of them.

So they just ignored it when they saw the advantages of paper. Regarding this approach, they were speechless for a while. These nobles were like those aristocratic families in the ancient Hua Kingdom in their previous lives, and they completely wanted to monopolize knowledge.

After understanding the reason why writing paper is unpopular, Su Lun is also helpless. On the contrary, toilet paper is so popular. Those aristocrats who used to use rope, sticks, leaves and other items decisively threw those things away after trying toilet paper. What makes Su Lun dumbfounded is that papermaking did not bring about the spread of knowledge, but started the toilet revolution