Pioneer Lord: Starting From Daily Intelligence

Chapter 552: Chapter 20: Achievements in Water Conservancy Construction

Although agricultural income cannot sustain 500 elite cavalry, agricultural output is essential for elite cavalry!

Whether it’s supplying the knights or feeding the warhorses, a large amount of grain consumption is required.

It can be said that the grain consumed by warhorses is more than that of a regular or even a middle-class farmer’s family. Hence, many slaves from castles and ranches sneak into the stables at night to steal grain for the warhorses.

According to the officials responsible for horse breeding, nomadism cannot produce truly top-tier warhorses.

The continuous expansion of griffin scale in Hesse Territory is partly due to the feeding of massive amounts of grain, ensuring that even in winter, the territory’s warhorses remain well-fed and strong. Then, robust and skillful knights ride these strong warhorses to tame the starving half griffins in the wild, dramatically increasing the success rate.

Therefore, after reporting the previous three key economic crops, Vandar reported on the most important and foundational farming matters of the territory.

”The Lord places significant emphasis on the farming endeavor. Under the Lord’s guidance and support, farming is flourishing. This year alone, we have crafted over 140 mechanical devices, including heavy-duty plows and harvesters. Additionally, we’ve purchased over 13,800 farming tools from various caravans and crafted over 18,000 farming tools, initially ensuring that civilians and slaves each have one shovel, two hoes, three sickles, and three families can share one plow.”

Hearing this, Su Li nodded. As the saying goes, the master of a hundred crafts must first prepare the tools.

To develop agriculture, it is crucial to equip farmers with ample farming tools.

In this area, the territory has consistently performed well, mainly because the foothills of Hesse are truly abundant in wood and iron ore. The residents can craft wooden tools, and the dwarves forge an adequate amount of iron tools and farming implements for them.

In this regard, the slaves under Su Li’s command are particularly well-equipped, each having sufficient farming tools and abundant agricultural machinery and plows.

This is why the scale of farmland in Jorn Shallow Bay continues to expand, far surpassing other farms and villages.

The differentiation within the territory is significant, with some large farms of major landlords, nobles, and great knight clans already utilizing advanced imperial technology. Although the Empire boasts a history of nearly 5000 years, its advanced School of Engineering and University of Scholars, it’s able to exchange technology with dwarves and elves. Although not as technologically developed as Earth, there are some crude technologies, and some techniques, with the enhancement of magic and spiritual energy, might not be much inferior to technological creations.

So in those large farms that are willing to invest, one can always find some astonishing technology and engineering machinery.

While flying in the sky on Death’s Claw, Su Li even saw a demonic puppet pulling a plow forward on a Half-Elf farm.

The advancement of this demonic puppet was somewhat beyond imagination, reportedly unearthed from underground as an ancient sacred creation, presumed to be a component of a Divine Titan.

In the desert south of the kingdom of Arabi, among the demonic puppets guarding the Gold Towers, there exists a magical creation over tens of meters tall, known as a Divine Titan.

This amazed Su Li, indicating that the ancient origin history of this world is particularly strange, possibly due to an extremely advanced person stranded on this planet. Many race origins and some odd devices were invented by him, proving that in the most ancient epochs, technology might have been extremely advanced.

Nowadays, however, human and dwarf technology has declined, leading humans and dwarves to indulge in technological archaeology, hoping to discover something divine from ancient ruins.

Nonetheless, advances in this area have been minimal, with imperial technology remaining in a relatively unique state.

This is something countless electors and emperors of the Empire are unable to advance, and Su Li is quite certain he wouldn’t have any chance to change this.

After all, two worlds even have different natural laws, so Su Li’s limited technological knowledge wouldn’t have any effect in this world.

Under the current circumstances, large aristocrats and major capitalists of the Empire do exhibit a bit of bourgeois advancement. Their farms and ranches are scale-based production, utilizing an abundance of machinery, and even steam engine dwarves exist (though not yet used in agricultural production).

Therefore, the output of large farms is highly remarkable, representing advanced productive forces.

But, to maintain the Empire’s dark and decayed rule, ordinary civilians of the Empire are unable to upgrade their production under oppressive tax rates.

The truly common public—peasants and small farmers—still use primitive farming tools, engaging in a small-scale economy almost reliant on self-sufficiency.

Especially in some remote rural areas, even plows are hard to come by.

However, fortunately, the Provincial Affairs Council is relatively enlightened, understanding the need for territorial development investment, hence producing a batch of farming tools by the dwarves specifically for leasing to the poor.

In such a dark and desperate world, it is rare to extend some goodwill to ordinary people, allowing if they damage the leased farming tools, farmers can report by document to the civil servant and the Provincial Affairs Council would recover the original tools without requiring compensation.

This is evidently to enhance the agricultural production efficiency across the territory.

Under the promotion of various machinery and decrees, the farming achievements of Hesse Territory are also highly impressive, with Vandar reporting: ”Until now, we have developed 1700 acres of farmland in Jorn Shallow Bay, and additionally, due to various reasons such as confiscation or seizure, you have over 200 acres of private land. This winter, all these farmlands have produced about 20,000 tons of grain. All of this is your private property and can be entirely transported to Bauhinia Palace and Hesse Town.”