The Lord of the Rings: Lords of Middle-earth

"Spring is here! Let's go see how the farm equipment is arranged?" Roland turned to Kaslo and said.

"Okay, sir." Kaslo nodded. After all, spring plowing is about to begin. If the farm tools are not distributed to the people, it will affect the spring plowing. Roland doesn't want to eat black bread anymore because he is stuck with grain. Really uncomfortable...

"Be sure to arrange farm tools for them! Tell all the blacksmiths to free up their hands to make hoes, and first make urgently needed farm tools!" Roland ordered.

"Okay!" Kaslo responded and walked out of the tent.

"Come here!" Roland called after thinking for a while.

"What are your orders, Your Highness?" A Lordaeron ranger wearing mail walked in.

"Prepare your horses! Assemble the guards and knights! Let's go to the farmland!" Roland said. He wanted to go and see if there was anything missing.

"Your Highness!" The Lordaeron ranger nodded respectfully and retreated.

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"Your Highness, why did you remember to come here?" Renault asked Roland curiously, about 5 kilometers north of Rapid City.

"I'm still worried. I have to come and take a look. If something goes wrong with spring plowing this year... Rapid City will be doomed!" Roland sighed helplessly.

"What can go wrong? The orcs are no longer able to move south in a large scale! The scattered orc farmers can use dung forks to overturn them!" Renault smiled. The situation in Swiftstream City is now very good, and there is a lonely mountain to block it in the north. At the front, in addition to the city of Los Sanniers ruled by the White Wing King, there is a wide rushing river as a barrier in the west. The centaur lord Baldr in the east will block the enemies in the east in the Tupt Forest. The only enemy may be Came from the south, but the current strength of Rapid River City is enough to withstand the attack of ordinary enemies. As long as tens of thousands of orcs don't besiege the city, Roland can still struggle.

"We will be very hard this year! Except for the troops who must stay behind, everyone else needs to join the spring plowing. We have to race against time!" Roland sighed. Their biggest enemy now is time!

Based on four acres of land to feed one person, the total population of Swift Current City is less than 5,000. It would take 20,000 acres of land to be cultivated to provide enough food and clothing for everyone here! This does not include the area planted with vegetables! After all, the system does not provide seeds for high-yielding crops. The yield of ordinary crops in Middle-earth is really not much different from the yield per mu in ancient China!

"Hiss!" Renault took a breath. Only then did he realize that Rapid City was completely impoverished and had no foundation at all. This year's spring plowing also required hoarding food reserves for the future. This would increase the workload again. During this period, Reclaiming so much land will cost everyone their lives...

"I think we can melt weapons and make them into hoes..." Renault opened his mouth. Now the two blacksmiths can only make a few hundred hoes without stopping the furnace. This gap is simply a sinkhole!

"Nonsense!" Roland's eyes widened. His weapon melted and he used his fist to fight the enemy?

"I'm going to find Thorin. It seems I have to ask for help from the dwarves again!" Roland said helplessly. Although the Laglan troops were kind to the Irube dwarves, Roland was too embarrassed to open the door and asked for help in vain. Although the Thorin in the movie is a bit brain-dead, the Thorin in this world is still very interesting to Roland.

"Alas! Send someone to Erub to order two thousand hoes..." Roland covered his forehead and said helplessly. The gap was too big. If the blacksmiths in Rapid City were to make it, everyone would starve to death this year. .

"That's right! Bring this gold with you! Don't go empty-handed!" Roland took out a large wooden box of gold and silver from the system space and said to Renault with a painful look on his face.

"Yes!" Renault responded, turned his horse and nodded to several people, and then asked them to take the gold to Erub City to complete the tasks he assigned...

"Are you ordered to leave?" Roland asked looking at Renault who came back soon.

"Yes, I'm here to order." Renault confirmed.

"By the way, do we have a carpenter?" Roland asked suddenly.

"This...really doesn't happen!" Renault thought for a while and replied. Although he didn't pay much attention to this aspect, there are only a few people in Rapid City who are skilled in craftsmanship. Anyone who has a carpenter, Renault, should know about it. .

"Now we're in trouble!" Roland said with a headache. He had just found the blueprint of an "artifact" among the miscellaneous items signed in the system in the past few days-Qu Yuanli!

"This thing can make farming more precise and can greatly increase yields!" Roland said proudly. In his hands was the crystallization of ancient Chinese technology! A treasure worn by our ancestors, an object that can be used for thousands of years!

"Um...what's different about it? Is it a magical object?" Renault looked at the drawings in confusion.

"Sir!" Kaslo's voice came from far away, and he arrived before anyone else!

"What's wrong? You were so surprised!" Roland rolled his eyes at him angrily. He was almost scared off his horse by this bastard just now! Don't you know that you can't interrupt people who are deep in thought?

"If you don't tell me why you are here today, you will be useless!" Roland became angrier as he thought about it.

"Uh... Sir, there is a huge shortage of farm tools! At least three-quarters of the people do not have farm tools for farming, let alone the soldiers." Kaslo frowned.

"Well, I know, I've already placed an order with Erub!" Roland howled like a defeated dog.

"What's wrong?" Castro was startled when he saw the sadness on Roland's face, and he quickly poked Renault beside him with his arm and whispered.

"Well..." Renault smacked his lips and then whispered: "His Royal Highness just took out his wife's book to order farm tools. He must be feeling distressed now!" Renault looked at the lost Roland in front of him and shrugged helplessly. .

As the earliest veteran who followed Roland, how could he not know what Roland was like? Although Roland is not stingy, he is still keen on accumulating wealth. Since the last bit of wealth is worth spending, Roland no longer dares to go shopping in the mall. Everything is beautiful when he goes in, but he is short of money... OK It was easy to save some private money, but then threw it all away in one spring plow...

"It's so miserable..." Kaslo looked at Roland sympathetically and sighed. He had seen Roland saving money. After searching and refining the gold and silver from the orc corpses for so long, he only got half a box. Now, now Once back before liberation...

"Crackling~" The crispy spring rain fell drop by drop. Roland subconsciously stretched out his hand, and the raindrops jumped and rolled playfully in his palm...

"Spring is here! Let the people with farm tools come over to cultivate the wasteland first!" Roland looked at the sky and saw that it wasn't raining heavily, so it was a good day for work.

"It's better to wait, Your Highness, it's raining! If civilians get caught in the rain and get sick and cause a plague, it will be troublesome!" Renault said solemnly, the medical level in Middle-earth is only like that. A single flu may cause a plague. There is no rush for this day now.

"That's right, let's wait for the snow to melt!" Roland looked at the white spots stretching on the ground, which were all snow that had not yet melted.

"Go back! It's so cold!" A cold wind came, and the biting cold wind slipped in along the seams of his clothes, making Roland shiver from the cold.