The Hero Who Troubles the Heroes

"I want to farm!"

Little Arthur's voice made Ser Eckert, who was teaching his son swordsmanship, nearly slash Kay with a sword.

"What did you say?" Sir Eckert felt that the sun was rising from the south today. Had she been tricked by the shepherds into digging trenches and ruining her brain?

Sir Eckert shook his head immediately, as if to shake off the thought of disrespect like dandruff.

He and Merlin knew that Arthur was tricked by Charles into digging trenches, but they ignored it because of the idea of ​​letting Arthur suffer a little.

But today Arthur looked very serious, with a firm look in his emerald eyes.

At this time, Merlin, who had been blown up by a corn cannon the night before, limped over and asked curiously, "Why do you think so?"

Arthur raised his chest and said loudly: "The weather conducive to combat is not as good as the terrain conducive to combat, and the terrain conducive to combat is not comparable to the unity of the army."

"People are the most precious wealth, so that people can settle down in their own territory without fleeing to other places. They cannot rely on the boundaries of the territory. The defense of the territory cannot be blocked by mountains and rivers. The rule of the world cannot rely on the strength of force."

"If a king is merciful, there will be many people who help and support him, and his army will be united like a strong shield. An unkind monarch will have few people who support him, and his army will be like sand in a river."

"The king's greatest kindness is to allow everyone in the country to have a full stomach and wear warm clothes."

"People in the country will not have enough to eat, then people will betray the king, even relatives will betray him."

"The king who can feed people, the people under the sky will support him and unite around him."

"If such a king goes against a king who has been betrayed, what reason is there not to win?"

The air suddenly quieted down.

Merlin stared at Arthur in astonishment, feeling a domineering aura swept over.

Sir Eckert's legs faltered, but he stopped.

This was also when Arthur was only six years old, and the scene was not so solemn. If it were ten years later, he would kneel down and swear allegiance on the spot.

Merlin was the first to react, and he asked Arthur, "Is this what the shepherd taught you?"

"Yes." Arthur said without concealment, "Charles said that it is impossible to feed people just by talking about it, you must do it!"

"So I want to farm and feed everyone!"

Merlin and Sir Eckert looked at each other, and it was a big problem.

Especially Sir Eckert, who looked very bad.

Because this land is his own, food crops and everything are his own, if Arthur fails to harvest, will he go to eat grass?

So he told Merlin with his eyes, I'm just an adoptive father, how about you take her to her biological father for this kind of thing?

Merlin ignored him, but squatted down and asked Arthur, "So, how much land do you want to plant?"

Sir Eckert suddenly realized, just now he thought to himself, how much land can little Arthur grow by himself, wouldn't it be good to get a small piece out for her to play with.

"All!" Arthur's words made Sir Eckert's heart tighten again.

Then Arthur pulled out the dagger from his waist and began to draw a schematic diagram on the ground.

Ser Eckert's eyes stared straight at the short sword. It was the first time he had seen such an ice-like sword.

Arthur drew a "?" on the ground and said, "Now we are using a two-plant rotation with one year of cultivation and one year of rest, which leaves half of the land uncultivated."

Then she added a vertical and horizontal line to the "?" to form a "?", and said: "In my words, I will use a four-plant rotation, dividing the field into four parts, and planting wheat, turnips or soybeans, barley, and alfalfa in the ground in turn. That way we can harvest these crops every year.”

"The advantage of this is that the roots of alfalfa and soybeans can make the land fertile, turnips can be eaten by humans, and can also be fed to horses, cattle, sheep, and pigs together with alfalfa, and soybeans can be used for oil extraction, and even more edible."

Merlin and Sir Eckert nodded, they had never heard of anything but barley and wheat.

Turnip did not reach Belgium until the 14th century, and to England a little later. However, in China, it was recorded in the "Qi Min Yao Shu" decades later.

Alfalfa was introduced to Europe when the Persians invaded the Greek peninsula and was used in fallow fields during the Roman Empire. It was only after the fall of the Roman Empire a hundred years ago that it disappeared on the European continent. There was no record for a thousand years, and it did not return to this land until the 16th century.

Not to mention soybeans, which were first planted in England in 1790.

Sir Eckert was a little moved, thinking that Charles was a powerful magician who could make Merlin even tempered, this method might work.

But it's a bit worrying to get all the land out, but it's okay to take a part out and try it out.

However, at this time Arthur made an earth-shattering thing.

From her bulging pockets she took out a large pile of shiny things and laid them on the floor, and said: "This was a gift from Charles and Diana to set in the crown when I ruled England. I brought it here. The mortgage is here, and if it is confiscated, it will be used as compensation.”

I saw a pile of bracelets on the ground, and it was a bracelet of nine colors of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, white and black, each of which was strung together into a bracelet, shining in the sun.

Sir Eckert fainted without gasping for breath, and Merlin, who was squatting, fell forward with a thud.

Charles didn't use glass or plastic to fool little Arthur. These bracelets were wholesaled in the Hogwarts world. The materials were artificial gems, and the chemical composition was the same as real gems.

Merlin woke up and decided that he was going to visit the two shepherds formally, instead of the previous evening.

The thought of King Uther entrusting the infant Arthur to his own care, to raise her into a qualified king, and now she wants to be a farmer, how can this be possible.

This time, Merlin was not greeted by potato mines, big spray mushrooms, corn cannons, etc., and saw Charles by the river who was ploughing the field with two horses.

Charles didn't give him a good look. Every night, in order to prevent wild animals and people from stealing sheep, he laid a blockade outside the house.

It's just that this Merlin only appears at night every time. It would be nice if he ran to the sheepfold, but every time he ran to the house, would he be able to enter the house at that time?

Merlin himself was a little embarrassed. At first, he wanted to make fun of the shepherd couple, but he didn't want to be blown away.

Later, it became a rivalry between magicians.

Of course, this is just a one-sided rivalry between Merlin and Charles.

Merlin stood on the edge of the field and asked him, "Why do you want Arthur to be a farmer? She is going to be the king of England in the future."

Charles squinted him and asked, "Is this a contradiction?"

"How is it not contradictory?" Merlin was a little angry, "She will become a qualified king under my teaching, instead of dealing with the land all day."

Charles shook his head and said, "From the first sentence you said to me just now, you are destined to not teach a qualified king."

"Why?" Merlin was not convinced.

Charles patted the heavy plow in front of him and said, "Because of it, because you didn't find it useful."

"Don't be in a hurry to deny it, you go to a few experienced farmers to come and have a look."

Magicians are good at being rational, so Merlin went to find a few farmers who were not too young, and then the farmers knelt down.

Charles twitched his lips. It would be hard to say in other places. He specialized in studying the history of the British Industrial Revolution, and he also visited many places on the spot. Before the Industrial Revolution, there was an agricultural revolution in Britain.

In the agricultural revolution, four-bed crop rotation, heavy plows, horse yokes, and new crops played an important role.

For him, the first three are not a problem, just using teleportation to collect new crops from various places is a little more troublesome, but in the face of the problem of iron deficiency in the British Isles, it is not worth mentioning.

As farming practices change and productivity increases, so do production relations.

In Charles' view, taking advantage of the opportunity of the Medieval Warm Period, under the leadership of Arthur, the British Isles can move from a clan tribal society to an "idyllic" feudal society a hundred years ahead of schedule~www.wuxiaspot.com ~ Just the thought of iron deficiency in this place gave Charles such a headache that many Britons couldn't use iron farming tools until a few hundred years later.

Britain has iron ore, but it is in the Middle East, and the content is low, and more importantly, the Anglo-Saxon invasion is now the main battlefield.

This Diana can't do anything either. She knows that there is iron ore in Lorraine, France, but she doesn't know if it has started to be mined now.

When Charles was looking for soybeans and turnips, he even had a plan to "appear" in the palaces of the Northern Wei and Southern Qi and then purchase iron on a large scale, but he finally gave up after calculating the consumption.

After much deliberation, Charles and Diana discussed for a long time whether to develop sheep farming and then exchange wool for iron ore with continental Europe?

According to the information that Charles had read before, the United Kingdom was a wool exporting country before the enclosure movement began hundreds of years later, and now this business should be very profitable.

Just when they were studying the formation of feudal society, little Arthur's father came quietly.