You were made to farm, and now you're the emperor of an empire?

Chapter 146 Why not eat minced meat?
The fireplace at Origin Manor is very warm.

But the slaves queuing in the snow were shivering from the cold.

With proper dietary arrangements and sufficient calories, the low temperatures weren't so unbearable for a while.

On their first day, they were shocked to discover that the residents of Sig Town ate three meals a day!

This is the kind of treatment only noble lords receive!

If they were plundered and brought here, their mood was one of fear and unease.

But now, most of the fear has vanished.

The expected outcome did not occur.

They didn't sleep in cold, damp livestock sheds, they weren't forced to dig for grass roots and wild vegetables in the snow, and they weren't even beaten.

Being able to sleep in a brick house meant each person had a living space of eight square meters, with no shared area. Everyone was given a thin but finely stitched sweater, and the bed was covered with a thick layer of wheat straw. In addition, with their own clothes, they wouldn't wake up from the cold while sleeping in the straw pile.
The daily meals were plentiful and delicious; breakfast consisted of bean porridge and bread, and lunch was stewed soybeans and vegetables with two flatbreads.

Dinner was even more outrageous.

It was stewed chicken with soybeans plus a meat pie!

Although the bowl was mostly filled with beans and contained only two pieces of chicken, it was still quite salty and the broth was delicious, making it a rare treat!
They settled down very quickly.

Even if a slave attempts to escape, they will think twice before acting in this situation.

All they have left now is fear of the future.

The main reason is that they don't accept rewards without effort; the harsh realities of life make them unwilling to believe that good fortune, especially meat pies, will fall from the sky.

They arrived in batches in front of the lord's manor, queuing up and awaiting their future arrangements.

One slave after another entered the manor hall and quickly came out of it.

The soldiers forbade them from whispering and made them line up properly, or they would be punished with a scepter.

……

"name?"

Peter Brown.

"age?"

"23 is old."

What did you do before?

“I live in Doug Village.”

"I'm not asking where you live! I'm asking what you used to do! What kind of work did you do! Understand?!"

Niliel couldn't control her emotions and slammed her hand on the table!
Since becoming a census recorder, communicating with this group of slaves had worn down all her patience.

Neel finally understood why Roman often flew into a rage at them, and wouldn't stop until he called them idiots eight times a day.

She lived in Seaburg, where the literacy rate was also very low, but the residents of Seaburg were very well-educated and could understand human speech.

Peter saw the beautiful blue-haired lady across from him slamming her hand on the table.

He was so frightened that he knelt down and kowtowed.

"Madam, please have mercy. My...my father works by the oven..."

"And what about you!"

“I also help my father with chores… making bread… he’s right behind me in line now…”

Neliel suppressed the urge to hit someone, her slender right hand gripping the pencil, and she scribbled 'Baker' in the occupation column.

He casually threw the copied identity documents on the ground and told Peter to pick them up and keep them safe.

Neel's voice was filled with deep weariness.

"next."

……

I was busy for three whole days.

Roman finally managed to register the identity information of this group of people.

Those with professional skills should pursue their respective professions.

Those without professional skills either farm or join the army.

Children under the age of fifteen come to Origin Manor to study.

Roman's demand for labor was never enough.

But before that, a new problem arose in his life.

The grain reserves in Sige Town are running low!
This should have been enough to support the more than 4,000 people in Sige Town through next spring, since Roman had also purchased more than 100,000 jin of grain and vegetables in the fall.

But this time, with over five thousand mouths to feed, the consumption of food doubled.

Despite this, Roman still adhered to the system of eating three meals a day.

Each person needs at least 1.5 jin of whole grains, 1.5 jin of vegetables, and half an ounce of meat every day.

This also means that Sige Town consumes 30,000 jin of grain every day.

If you replaced all of them with refined grains like wheat and rice, you certainly wouldn't need so many.

However, compared to refined grains, whole grains contain less energy, so more of them need to be consumed.

Wheat reserves are dwindling and can only be supplied to Origin Manor and the military camp.

There are 500,000 jin of soybeans in the granary.

What was left over from the autumn harvest was not consumed much in winter.

Therefore, the proportion of soybeans in each meal should be increased significantly in the future, and may even become a staple food.

However, soybeans are considered a coarse grain because they shouldn't be eaten in large quantities, otherwise they can cause indigestion.

Making them into soy products can aid digestion.

But how could Roman let the main kitchen make bean products? Their tasks were already heavy enough, and adding a few more steps would mean more manpower.

There are plenty of soybeans.

Need manpower? Dream on.

Today, the kitchen simply soaks soybeans overnight and then cooks them into porridge or soup, or grinds them into soy milk using a millstone.

Whatever is convenient for you.

Forget about tofu, a complex and labor-intensive soy product. Besides, even if soybeans were eaten as a staple food, it wouldn't change the fact that Sige Town would face a food shortage crisis in just over a month.

……

Having farmed until he had nothing to eat, Roman felt he was quite a talent.

The population of Sig is growing too fast.

Roman will have to face this crisis at least until the summer harvest.

This time, however, he was unable to continue buying grain.

A few days ago, Sige Town experienced a heavy snowfall, and the snow and ice have not yet melted. However, strictly speaking, Sige Town has now ushered in early spring.

Where can we buy large quantities of grain during this lean season?

The last time he bought grain was because the town of Sige had fewer than two thousand people, and it was already one or two months into spring. So Roman was able to barely get through the crisis by buying grain from all over the place and make it to the summer harvest.

But this time the population has exceeded 10,000.

The required grain has quadrupled, but this does not mean that the difficulty of procurement has increased fourfold; rather, it has increased tenfold or even ninefold!
Fortunately, Roman has at least been developing for a year, and while its foundation may not be entirely solid, it is certainly rock-solid.

Therefore, he didn't take the food shortage crisis seriously.

If there's no rice to eat, why not eat meat porridge?
The farm he built in the fall, after being fed with silage throughout the winter, will be ready for mass production in two months.

In fact, now four or five qualified pigs and sheep are ready for market every day – some of them were raised earlier and are ready for market earlier.

According to Yaki's observations, these castrated pigs can grow to an average weight of 130 jin (65 catties), and the castrated sheep can grow to 60-70 jin (30-35 kg).

However, for the sake of efficiency, pigs can be slaughtered when they weigh 120 jin (60 catties) and sheep when they weigh 50 jin (25 catties), without having to wait until they reach adulthood.

That amount of meat, combined with whole grains and vegetables, is enough to last until the summer harvest.

Just keep some sows for giving birth, ewes for milking, and hens for laying eggs.

In any manufacturing industry, once you invest, you will reap the rewards.

Throughout the winter, Roman employed a total of 700 workers just for these three farms and one livestock shed.

Even as he was actively preparing his looting plans, these people remained at their posts.

Their tasks were so demanding that it was necessary to send more people.

During the winter, Roman could neither spare them nor find the manpower to help them raise pigs.

The head of the breeding operation, Yaki, never slacked off. He limped back and forth between the farm and the livestock shed, and somehow managed to keep going. His breeding methods completely followed the knowledge that Roman had instilled in him.

The benefits are naturally quite obvious.

We no longer need to buy piglets from outside; the number of piglets in the pigsty will only increase in the future.

The milkmaids can take away 800 catties of sheep milk from the sheepfold every day, and if you include the cow milk from the livestock shed, the amount is more than 1,000 catties.

The chicken coop also produces a considerable number of eggs, yielding four to five hundred eggs every day.

Half of these highly nutritious side dishes were supplied to the students of Origin Manor, and the other half to the soldiers in the military camp.

The saying "A half-grown boy can eat his father out of house and home" is not just an empty phrase.

If an adult laborer only needs three catties of grain per day.

These children in their developmental stage need four kilograms of staple food and side dishes every day.

Roman naturally treated them extremely well.

I'm not afraid of having enough to eat, I'm afraid of not being able to eat it all.

While other farmers have to wait until the harvest festival to receive unlimited food, these children are basically celebrating every day.

Of course, the food was not as plentiful as during the celebration.

Now, about five hundred underage children from Kande have joined the ranks, and Roman will also train them to become the foundation of his ruling force.

Just hold on until the pigs, sheep, and chickens are ready for market—

everything will get better!
……

On this day, Roman said to the old deacon, "Seth, I'm going to go on a winter hunt. Could you help Jimmy arrange their positions and pick out a batch of new recruits first?"

The task of allocating labor was originally to be done by Roman.

His strategic vision is unmatched, he enjoys high prestige, and his execution ability is extremely strong. However, he currently does not have time to sort out those trivial matters.

As for why he personally went winter hunting...

What if those soldiers get lost in the wilderness?
Roman had no choice but to personally lead and look after them to prevent non-combat casualties.

I had no choice but to leave these internal affairs to Seth.

Sais was in charge of finances, and after settling the payments to the ship owners, he had nothing else to do.

Neliel's methods of handling affairs were not sophisticated, and the Knights of Conquest were not skilled in internal affairs either.

He was the only one who knew the town of Sig the best and had the most experience in handling affairs; he could do anything.

They said they were waiting for the animals to be ready for market, but Roman couldn't wait.

We can't let those idiots actually eat beans as their main meal!
He likes to push people, and he can't expect others to do what he can't do himself.

Just like when he first started composting, he almost threw up his lunch, and then immediately had Moore give compensation to the people composting.

The dining table was full of beans, and we ate them for more than a month.

They might be able to tolerate it, but Roman couldn't.

Roman knew he had a kind of obsessive-compulsive disorder, probably a lingering effect of the prosperous era.

If we can improve the food, then we should.

Furthermore, the military camps don't have many meat reserves left.

Roman trained 600 professional soldiers during the winter, consuming 600 pounds of meat every day. They underwent high-intensity physical training and had to be fully nourished.

However, before the pigs and sheep in the farms were ready for market, the army mainly relied on the meat obtained from hunting in the autumn to sustain itself.

Now, they've almost finished eating all that meat.

Let's go on another hunt.

After Roman had settled all the people, he turned his attention to the Black Barbarian Lands.

Since wild animals are going to die sooner or later anyway, they might as well reincarnate as soon as possible.

In that case, if one is reborn as a human in the future, and happens to be born in the era he rules, and continues to serve as his social resource, wouldn't that be wonderful?

(End of this chapter)