Chapter 51: The Role of Super Farmland
Chapter 51 – The Role of Super Farmland
Although a large number of converted kobolds will occupy a limited amount of population in the town center, but the gold and silver collected by the kobold general is enough to be used for upgrading the town center, so Owen doesn’t have anything to dwell on, besides, the kobolds are simply expendable for him, if the amount of population isn’t enough to be used, find something to consume a batch of them, anyway, he won’t be able to have any sympathy when facing the kobolds, and if there is one, let’s look at them! What’s in the pot.
Waiting for the kobold transformation to be completed, the town center also reached the conditions for upgrading, there was no need for hesitation, with Owen’s determination, a large number of system farmers with tools and materials began to expand the town center, which made Maya very surprised, because the spring plowing hadn’t been completely finished yet, and pumping out a large number of skilled farmers right now obviously wasn’t a wise move.
But Maya as a serving maid did not stop her master’s irrational behavior, instead she participated in it to deploy and speed up the progress of the project, only in this way could the production be resumed faster and the losses be reduced.
After only three days, the town center was upgraded, with a population cap of five thousand, and the ability to convert civilians and soldiers worth three progress values.
The difference between civilians and farmers was that the former were better at jobs other than planting, and were an important foundation for the craftsmen that made up the territory, in other words, one paid for food and the other paid taxes.
However, serfs who are severely depleted and relatively numb cannot be transformed into system civilians, only farmers or civilians with better mental state can be transformed into system civilians.
This is troublesome, unless to the imperial border to buy those serfs or slaves who have not been tortured to numbness, otherwise the upper limit of serfs who have experienced the northern migration all the way to wear down can only reach the degree of the system farmers, after all, the system transformation is only to strengthen the original basis, not a big change of the living, there is a limit.
And even if the transformation is completed, the serfs converted farmers also have a lack of emotion, slow reaction, lack of spirituality and other issues, can not undertake relatively complex work, which is also the system farmers although it is a multi-faceted, able to planting, logging, fishing, but more than fine, can only be sold to sell the hard labor reasons.
System civilians are different, they are smarter and more flexible, and are able to take on more complex jobs, such as crafts and service industries.
This requires that the transformed must not lose hope, at least not to the extent of mental insensitivity, so that after being strengthened by the system will be like an enlightenment, able to quickly learn and master relatively complex crafts, to take on the heavy responsibility of paying taxes, and after a long period of training in the barracks to reach the level of the value of three progress value of the military type.
When Owen saw this, he knew that as long as he converted enough civilians, the foundation of the territory would be there, and it would not be impossible for him to dominate the Northland.
However, the comprehensive strength of the territory is now comparable to that of the Northland border, as long as they don’t meet the big tribes of the Northland barbarians, Owen’s future life can be guaranteed to be worry-free.
But this is already beyond the current territory’s limit, because the ratio of soldiers and civilians is too different, he needs to replenish more people, convert more farmers, otherwise the food produced is simply not enough to eat.
According to Maya’s advice to him, the ratio of soldiers to civilians should not be lower than ten to one, that is to say, ten peasants to feed one disengaged soldier.
In reality, this ratio would already have a considerable impact on the development of the territory, after all, the harvest of the land was not stable, and the soldiers often needed to pick strong people, that is, strong laborers.
Ten peasants excluding men, women and children, there can be a few strong laborers in their prime, not to mention that soldiers need equipment in addition to daily training.
Therefore, the pressure of ten peasants to support one soldier is not small, and in the event of a disaster, it is a catastrophic consequence, so most lords will maintain the ratio of civilians to soldiers at more than fifteen to one, and in years of peace, it can even reach twenty to thirty to one.
This is only for ordinary soldiers, cavalry or elite soldiers need more support, such as knights, at least one hundred peasants need to do their best to support, or else knights are said to be the reserve nobles, because civilians can’t afford to support them, and it’s not easy to get all the equipment together without a small village as a fiefdom.
Owen took the time to count the population and strength of the territory, including the Magic Horn Forest and the Goblin Tribe.
Castle: Ninja Squad 10, Healer 1, Teutonic Warrior 10, Slime Maid 8. Herb Greenhouse: Slime Maid 2, Plant Guards.
Dungeon Chamber: Slime Maid 2.
Dungeon Maze: Slimes, Vipers, Plant Guards.
Akita Town:
Peasants 350, Serfs 828.
Swordsmen 50, Footbowmen 50, Spearmen 50, Javelinmen 50.
Scout Cavalry 10, Bow Cavalry 10, Breastplate Cavalry 10.
Devil’s Horn Forest Wood Cottage: peasants 50, longswordsmen 30, crossbowmen 30, scouts 10.
Magic Horn Forest Goblin Horde: Goblin General, Goblin Shieldguard, Goblin Priest, Goblin Paladin, Goblin Ranger, Goblin Sorcerer, Goblin Assassin.
Goblin Farmer 300, Goblin Swordsman 50, Goblin Infantry Bowman 50, Goblin Scout 50, Goblin Magic Goat Rider 30.
The values are quite impressive, but the ratio of soldiers to civilians is seriously out of proportion, if it wasn’t for Owen’s opening, the territory would have collapsed long ago.
So Owen decided to keep the number of infantry unchanged, only improve the quality of soldiers, a small increase in cavalry, and then increase the development of agriculture, animal husbandry, fisheries, and try to apply the super farm to reality, as soon as possible to achieve self-sufficiency.
No matter how ambitious the goal must first fill the stomach, Owen see this very clearly, as for the early period of increasing the strength, that is because the strength at that time could not give him a sense of security, of course, to desperately increase the strength, and now almost become a hegemon of the North, naturally, we must consider for the long term development.
In fact, the matter of using super farm to explode production capacity Owen has long been trying, but the result is not good, because the law of conservation of energy is also valid here, so it is not realistic to harvest once every few hours.
It wasn’t that it couldn’t be done, but the cost was too great.
Super farm to accelerate the growth of plants is a kind of magic-like effect, the specific process how Owen does not know, but he knows that this way in the absence of sufficient external energy supplementation, will be excessive consumption of the land’s vitality.
First, the surrounding plants would shrivel up, then wither, and in the end, the surrounding land would even turn into grains of sand, due to the fact that all the organic matter and nutrients of the soil had been squeezed out.
Although this process was not irreversible, the cost of trying to make sandy land fertile again was not something to be trifled with.
Suddenly Owen froze, before he wanted to explore the ruins in the depths of the Magic Horn Tree Forest, the biggest problem was that he couldn’t get close to it, after all, to enter it by cutting down the Magic Horn Tree was simply delusional, and it was no less difficult than to rebuild a relic.
But if one used the Super Farm’s farmland to seize the life force of the Magic Horn Tree which .
(End of chapter)