Pioneer Lord: Starting From Daily Intelligence

Chapter 157: Chapter 98: The Territory’s Pearl · Border Granary

Lauren’s suggestion made Su Li’s eyes light up.

To see this new Father of Grains?

Of course, Su Li was interested. He was just curious and asked, ”Doesn’t the Father of Grains need some time to adapt after joining the territory? Can I go see it now?”

Lauren nodded and said, ”This Father of Grains joined our territory willingly under Divine Grace’s guidance, so it has a higher affinity with our territory. It prefers living in bustling farms with more people, and many serfs have already met it.”

Su Li immediately said, excitedly, ”Then let’s go and meet it.”

This is the core productivity of the territory!

A single Polevik’s blood sacrifice can increase field output tenfold. With proper care, an acre of wheat field can produce 2000 pounds of wheat!

The joy of harvest brought by this number is unparalleled.

Any lord with such a hundred acres of Divine Grace-blessed excellent farmland could be considered to have a robust foundation.

A hundred acres of good land can yield six hundred thousand pounds of grains a year, enough to store a large amount of wealth, supporting a considerable army.

So Su Li must hold a grander blood sacrifice, and he said to Lauren, ”Don’t rush the blood sacrifice. After we return from our battle with demons, we will definitely bring back a lot of flesh. At that time, let’s prepare a large blood sacrifice ceremony.”

”I respect your will, my lord,” Lauren nodded and then pointed to the mushroom tree house ahead and said, ”We’ve arrived, this is where the Polevik resides.”

Su Li followed the direction of his finger and indeed saw a scene full of vitality.

The wheat fields were cultivated very flat, with clear streams and canals flowing through. To his east was a forest belt planted by Druids, where flocks of birds flew.

At the edge of this forest belt stood a small tree house made of mushrooms, their caps intertwined to form a red dome. Under the dome was a garden planted with moss and flowers, in full bloom during the summer season, making the garden very beautiful.

In the center of the garden, a flat stone platform was placed, on which lay a Polevik. It lay leisurely on the stone platform, lifting one of its slender legs, enjoying the warm sunlight.

It was made up of hundreds of straw stalks, each with a small face.

So when Su Li’s group arrived, it saw them right away.

It was timid, immediately hiding behind the stone platform, pretending to be a spike-tip sharp wheat seedling.

A nearby Dawn Church sister approached to communicate with it, only then did it poke out its head, curiously looking at Su Li, and asked, ”Are you the lord blessed by the Dawn Goddess?”

Su Li walked up with a smile, shook its slender hand, and asked, ”That’s right. How are you finding your stay in the territory? Are you adjusting well?”

Although the Polevik is the Father of Grains, it has a somewhat childish personality. It proudly put dozens of arms on its waist and said, ”Not bad. Every day, kind and beautiful sisters bring delicious sweet water to feed me.”

Su Li was momentarily puzzled, delicious sweet water?

The sister next to him explained, ”It’s water from Lake Reiflin. We water it with that, and it feels particularly happy and comfortable, sometimes even rolling around on the ground joyfully, saying the lake water is sweet and pleasant.”

The Polevik said, ”Exactly. Could Reve be the embodiment of the Goddess of Life and Mercy? How is her tear-formed lake as sweet as Shalya’s tears?”

Lake Reiflin’s water!

Su Li felt a bit delighted upon hearing this, it meant that a holy land within the territory was gradually forming.

The fertile land irrigated by Lake Reiflin below, spreading out for tens of thousands of miles, would yield particularly high output, ensuring stable harvests.

Su Li immediately asked, ”Has the water from Lake Reiflin started irrigating?”

Lauren replied, ”Recently, the territory has dispatched over thirty dwarf engineers to this direction for detailed surveys, arranging water conservancy and canals. After sowing is completed, we’ll irrigate during watering season. Regardless of whether the year brings favorable weather, our irrigation from Lake Reiflin will ensure the bounty of these forty thousand acres of good land!”

”Hahaha! Excellent! Excellent!” This ambitious statement made Su Li very happy, and he said, ”The purpose of building water conservancy facilities is exactly this, unaffected by drought or floods, we can form tens of thousands acres of land that does not depend on nature, ensuring harvests.”

The current Bjorn Shallow Bay project, besides being a bit small in scope, can irrigate several tens of thousands of acres, with almost no flaws. When it reaches the size of Shuibei, irrigating tens of thousands of acres, then it will be perfect!

At this scale, millions of acres of fertile land yield three harvests a year. That would truly mean a season of abundance and several years without hunger. The vast lands of Hesse Territory and fertile fields will also become the granary of the entire Border Prince’s Territory.

Lauren continued, ”The results of this water conservancy project go beyond just ensuring freedom from disasters. In addition, the spiritual energy content in Lake Reiflin’s water is abundant, and under its irrigation, the land becomes particularly fertile. The wheat field that we just harvested during the season of abundance, located to the west of Bjorn, those fields without Lake Reiflin irrigation, had an acre yield of 190 pounds. The yield here at Bjorn Shallow Bay could probably continue rising.”

The Polevik now nodded, its rows of small heads and said, ”Exactly. Exactly. The grains drinking this sweet lake water would certainly become more robust, with an acre yield reaching 270 pounds not out of reach.”

pounds!

Su Li’s face beamed with a smile; this lake water is equivalent to fertilizer then!

The grain yield of one acre of land has already reached half of that in modern Earth’s society.

No wonder the Lake Reiflin always experiences mutations, as the Spiritual Energy is overly abundant. That’s not water at all! It’s entirely liquid fertilizer. It’s equivalent to a mass of creatures swimming in a pit filled with fertilizer, and to survive, they inevitably undergo transformations.

As the number of creatures continues to increase in the Lake Reiflin, the concentration of Spiritual Energy and the Wind of Jilun becomes more abundant. Lake Reiflin is now truly the pearl of the Hesse Territory.

Its waters are no longer the clear and transparent they used to be, having transformed into a deep and mysterious indigo green, as dazzling as emerald.

Standing by the lake and looking into the distance, Lake Reiflin resembles a gigantic Jade Pool, its waters rich and vibrant in color, as if carefully carved from countless precious emeralds.

Sunlight scattered across the lake’s surface, with shimmering waves, the indigo green waters reflecting dazzling light, akin to the soft and mysterious brilliance of an emerald under the sun’s rays.

This lake water is the greatest productivity of the territory’s farming, and the territory only needs to ensure the scale of cultivation.

The level of development of farmland and the territory in this world is not about the meticulous farming standards of the previous life, but refers to the expansion of Divine Grace and Fantasy Abilities.

Fantasy farming is definitely hugely different from the Mortal World.

Whether a piece of land has received the favor of Divine Grace is the most important indicator of the land’s development level.

In places like the Central Plain, although the land is fertile and the territory vast, in the eyes of the Empire’s nobles, most of it is still uncultivated.

The so-called uncultivated means not bathed in Divine Grace!

Land cared for by Divine Grace is nuclear-powered fertile land. An acre yields 2,000 pounds of wheat, and can be harvested three times a year. This fertility is unmatched by any Mortal World land.

And whether a lord is competent or not depends on whether he can let his territory bathe in more Divine Grace.

Let the land favored by Divine Grace occupy the entirety of the territory.

In this aspect, Polevik was even more anxious than Su Li, he eagerly said, ”Human Lord, why have you not yet conducted a Blood Sacrifice? I have drunk so much of your sweet water, and not helping would make me feel guilty.”

Su Li waved his hand with a smile, saying, ”Don’t be hasty, certainly don’t act impulsively. I already have a grand plan. I will let you conduct a large Blood Sacrifice. In the future, you will have busy times every year.”

The land where the Father of Grains conducts a Blood Sacrifice, its fertility can last for ten years.

A diligent lord can plan for a Blood Sacrifice in different lands each year, especially during the significant festival of Spring Brings Life to All Things, where simultaneous grand sacrifices throughout the territory, with prayers and praises being heard by Reya, enhance the efficacy of the sacrifices remarkably.

Even if each year a Father of Grains sacrifices ten acres of land, after ten years, they can expand the scale of Blood Sacrifice fields to a substantial amount.

But if incompetent and tyrannical leaders manage poorly, causing a massive escape of Essence of Nature, the fields will gradually lose the favor of Divine Spirit and fall into disuse.

Listening to Su Li’s instructions, Polevik was also filled with anticipation, saying, ”Then you must hurry up, you will need to prepare a massive field and a large amount of flesh for me!”

The flesh required for the Blood Sacrifice, Su Li was already confident, as it could be entirely resolved via war with the Demon Army.

However, the cultivation of this vast farmland requires the cooperation of everyone in the territory.

So Su Li solemnly ordered everyone, ”I heard that in the ancient Eastern Zhendan Dynasty, during the farming season, officials and priests would personally encourage and supervise all farmers to actively produce by walking into the fields.”

”The sowing of summer grains in our territory is also of utmost importance! This summer’s sowing area must increase rapidly.”

”Before the Minister of Agriculture returns! Below myself, all officials and sisters of the Dawn Church must supervise the cultivation in the fields! Anyone found to be lazy can be executed on the spot by the Judicial Court! This punishment applies equally to the Free People!”

Hearing Su Li’s voice, the surrounding serfs all felt a chill down their spines.

The so-called on-the-spot execution is not flogging or corporal punishment.

The judges of the territory don’t have that much leisure.

Concerning the trial of serfs, judges typically rule with harshness: death, death, death!

These serfs have no desire to challenge the judges’ laws.

All serfs immediately burst into greater enthusiasm. By the afternoon of the same day, work efficiency had increased by 50%, planting more than 3,000 acres of wheat fields.

The next day, efficiency further improved, and in one day nearly 7,000 acres of land were sown!

Under the persuasion of a large number of officials and sisters, the scale of summer planting in the territory was very impressive. In two days, the entire territory, thousands of serfs, and Free People planted over 15,000 acres of land.

Meanwhile, while Su Li personally led the fervent increase of summer grain planting area in the territory, far away in the Blood Pine Forest nearly a thousand miles away, Hilude led an adventure team that was silently hiding beneath a tree root, a mass of thorns concealed their figures.

The four of them didn’t dare to breathe, listening cautiously to the loud noises outside.