Chapter 180 Agricultural Survey of Daze Township
After determining the two major issues of "the establishment of the United Kingdom" and "the end of the Thirty Days War", the crisis was finally passed safely, but Horn could not rest.
Dispersed most of the queens and asked them to take away all their hundreds of naughty children.
Horn, as the Emperor of the El Empire, the Pope, and the Emperor of the United Kingdom, left behind several relatively powerful queens.
Among them are Queen Amazon of Hindium, Queen Dido of Carthage, Queen of Wolf Fang Gasa, etc., who are all core figures in each camp.
After receiving Horn's invitation, they stood up from the pony on the sliding pole and walked up to Horn together.
There was a stone slab on the ground, and they stood in a row on the stone slab.
Faintly, Horn seemed to hear the sound of the stone slab cracking and breaking, and several centipedes quickly crawled out from under the stone slab.
Looking at Horne sitting on the carved armchair, their gray-haired animal ears trembled to drive away the flies and gnats attached to them.
Most of these queens are tall and round. After all, female warriors are also in charge in the kingdom of lycanthropes. Most of the previous elite divisions were female warriors.
However, unexpectedly, the two commanders Tompia and Hariba happened to be men. The commanders of both sides in other battlefields were basically female warriors.
After glancing around at these lycanthropic princes, Horn cleared his throat and said, "I keep you here mainly for two things."
Horn currently wants to discuss with them. The two most important issues are soil and food donations from Qiumu Island.
The problem on Qiumu Island is relatively easy to solve. Anyway, even if they don't give it, they can't stop Horn from going up.
And Horn also promised to provide them with a two-story villa garden and gold on the island if they succeed.
As for the food problem, the beast-turned-nobles were in trouble. They looked at me and I looked at you, but no one said anything.
Horn slowed down his speech: "If you have any difficulties, you can tell me and we can solve them together. Is it because there is not enough food for the winter?"
"That's not the case." Queen Xidian Amazon scratched his scalp with dark fingers, "We just don't know how much the twenty-five thousand you mentioned is? And we don't know if we can afford your food."
" Have you never considered these things?”
The queens shook their heads, and Queen Carthage shook her head: “We all harvest rice crackers in late summer, fish in autumn, hunt in winter, and suffer from famine in spring. We have no choice but to resist.”
What the hell kind of civilization is this? How dare you call others barbarians?
Horn usually saw that they were quite polite in their dress and conversation. Although they were rudimentary, they did have a bit of the style of the Ancient El Empire.
But looking at it now, this level of civilization is not to say that it is well-informed and sensible, but at least it is like drinking blood.
"Let's do this." Horn stood up and said to the queens, "Which of your kingdoms is closer, I will go and check it out."
The queens looked at each other. , all focused their attention on Dido, Queen of Carthage.
"Your Majesty, our Kingdom of Cardage is nearby." Queen Cardage said straightforwardly without refusing.
Led by the Queen of Cardage, Horn and several guards walked along the path in the swamp towards the capital of Cardage.
The lead-white sky in early winter pressed against the misty mountains in the distance. Among the withered leaves and grass, Horn was riding a horse, while the Queen of Carthage was riding a slide.
The essence of this kind of sliding pole is to tie a small wooden horse on two pieces of wood to carry people forward.
On the mirror-like water on both sides, the marsh islands seem to be suspended from the foothills and shores by paths and bridges, swaying in the wind, and it is difficult to tell whether they are ripples on the water. Or ripples in the sky.
The wind in late autumn and early winter was a bit cold and carried a putrid smell. It blew from the foothills and hit Horn's face head-on.
The fishy smell and water vapor flowed coolly around Horn's cheeks, almost like a sea breeze.
Horn closed his eyes and took a gentle breath of free air. The air in Daze Township was so fresh and sweet, making it seem particularly luxurious. An unintelligible fishing song came to his ears, and Horn looked towards the lakeside, where several fishing boats were casting nets for fishing. The Hand of the King of Carthage and the Queen's biological father began to introduce Horn to him.
“This is the ocean-going fishing boat of our Kingdom of Carthage.” Pointing to the raft on the lake, the old man explained, “We will catch enough fish for a whole winter and pickle it. Spend the winter as salted fish.”
"Why don't you pickle more? Is there not enough fish?" Horn asked, looking at the rattan basket full of large and small fish.
The old man shook his head: "There are a lot of fish caught. To be honest, it's a bit too much. We can catch enough for one winter every year without much effort.
It's just difficult. Preservation, if you want to make salted fish, there is a lack of salt. If you want to make dried fish, the swamp will be too humid, and it will often get moldy if it is not dry.
The previous war between our two camps was not only because of Brother Fear and Brother Meng's religion. factors and the political factors of the Hela Kingdom, as well as resource factors. What we want to fight for is the salt well at the foot of the mountain."
Keeping this information in mind, Horn and others continued to walk on the narrow path. After a while, several pieces of land divided by rivers appeared in front of everyone.
What surprised Horn the most were the square fields in the swamp, which were stacked on top of each other to form a maze-like waterway around the lake.
With this standard shape, you can tell it is an artificial creation at a glance.
Seeing His Majesty the Emperor's interest, Queen Carthage led a group of people to the vicinity of the polders.
Walking near these polders, Horn stepped forward and took a closer look, only to find that the structures of these polders were much more delicate than he had imagined.
These polders are driven into shallow water areas with long wooden stakes, and then covered with fishing nets. The mud on both sides of the polders is dug out and spread on the fishing nets, and then a layer of dead branches and leaves dug out from the mountains is spread. of fine sand.
Then, over and over again, the polder was piled more than a yard high above the water, so that a water channel deep enough was dug around the field to facilitate the passage of boats and water for irrigation.
Horn lowered his head and thought about it. Looking at the situation, most of the beastly people lived a life of fishing and farming.
In the spring they eat livestock and farm, in the summer they eke out a living by hunting, and in the fall they harvest and fish to survive the winter.
The Queen of Carthage stood next to Horn and said quite proudly: "This polder was established since my great-great-grandfather, or even earlier, when there were fewer people in our kingdom.
Although we don’t know how many fields are needed, we do know that the more fields there are, the more people there are, and the more people there are, the more polders will be established
Give us a few hundred more years, and sooner or later we can turn the entire Black Bone Swamp into a polder. "
Looking at the high-spirited Queen of Carthage, Horn didn't say much. He just smiled and responded: "I believe that day will come soon. ”
Following the Queen and King’s Hand to the fishing boat and determining the fish catch and farmland output, Horn did some calculations and found that the fish in the swamp were definitely enough to eat.
< br>But the problem is that they cannot be preserved for too long because of the lack of salt. Although there is a lot of salt in the supplies Horne brought, it is not enough to marinate the fish for 25,000 people for a month.
Or use the original can, add water to the fish pot and boil it, plug the mouth of the can with a wooden plug, heat it in a steamer, and then seal it with mud
This method can extend the shelf life by two to three months, but the prerequisite is that you have a pottery workshop.
But is the pottery workshop so easy to make? They don't have skilled workers, and it takes about ten days before and after making pottery.
When they can produce clay pots stably, they will have to produce enough clay pots. Although Horn did not count the number, he estimated that there would be three to four thousand clay pots.
They still don’t know what the yield of the pots is and where the clay for the pots is dug from.
By the time the pottery workshop fires those pots, it will probably be winter already.
Horn suddenly had a headache.
Or think of a way to solve the problem of the salt mine over there?
(End of this chapter)