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

Chapter 312 Thunder and Rain, All are the Emperor's Grace

After the Time Witch left, Roman discovered that the group of assistant witches had not only come alone, but had also brought a large number of parchment scrolls containing knowledge about magic.

He sensed that the prophet was backing up data.

Knowledge is the ability to quickly build a complete system when you have nothing.

Of course, knowledge alone is not enough for an extraordinary system; it also needs the right talent.

This is similar to a technology tree.

It's not that Roman couldn't offer more knowledge, but rather that his limited talent restricted his ability to utilize it.

These current matters have left him with no time to spare.

Hundreds of sapphires falling down are like splashing water.

Lacking basic skills, they couldn't understand advanced knowledge. Only knowledge that can be used is true knowledge. Roman instilled the most basic and rudimentary knowledge of guns and cannons in the apostles.

Roman taught him step by step, and the coal and iron town was able to manufacture primitive firearms.

But can they understand?
You don't understand, do you?

Let's figure out the formations and ranks first.

Similarly, if Origin City can't even figure out how to run a school, then it shouldn't even think about training witches.

Even with a hundred witches, the same would not happen.

But the advantage of these witches is that they are all literate—forget about learning magic, they should be sent to school.

It's okay if you can't teach, because you have textbooks. If a group of kids surround you and ask you how to pronounce a word, wouldn't you be able to tell them?
Roman values ​​the school very much.

The school in Origin City can reliably provide him with twenty "graduates" every month on average.

Children over ten years old, as long as they pass the literacy test, know more than 800 words, and can spell letters, can be assigned basic tasks such as household registration and message delivery on the spot.

These basic tasks will take three or four years to complete.

Because it's an internship, there is no salary.

Learning while working.

These children are generally very malleable. Even if they make mistakes, it's okay; Roman will gradually correct them.

They have a huge margin for error and a high cost of trial and error.

The world is a makeshift organization, but Origin City has a more stable structure compared to other noble cities. The reason is that once these children have basic administrative power after a few years, the entire land will be theirs.

Not only in Origin City, but Roman also plans to establish a school in Plenty City.

Provide a greenhouse for the seedlings.

The school is now in place.

Shouldn't the hospital get one too?

Childbirth for women has always been a difficult problem, and various welfare benefits need to be in place, but whether the women can accept them is another matter.

Roman never cared what the lower classes thought.

Thunder and rain, all are the Emperor's grace!
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June.

The caravan from Origin City set off for the fourth time.

They undertook extremely heavy commercial tasks.

On his first two trips to the northern front, he obtained dozens of obsolete Arctic warships from the pirates.

These warships were somewhat dilapidated, but still usable and relatively intact. They could reach speeds of up to 20 kilometers per hour even against the wind, and were far from being scrapped.

As for why the pirates were willing to sell it?

Simply because they had established a foothold on the Black Iron Lands and believed they no longer needed so many warships.

Because ships also need maintenance, they will be scrapped if they are not used for a long time.

They already had their own slaves who could farm, so why did they need warships?

The pirate group was so large that even if only a small group of people thought that way, Roman could still trade farm tools for ships.

And ships are equivalent to transportation capacity.

The fleet from Origin City has trade privileges, allowing them to pass through most noble territories without paying tolls and travel freely across most of the Black Iron Lands.

Of course, some nobles did not recognize the trade privileges granted by the Black Iron King and continued to forcibly levy commercial taxes.

But Roman couldn't be bothered with people like that.

If you don't want to do business, there are plenty of other people who will.

The salt and iron trade began in Origin City, single-handedly injecting new life into the stagnant Black Iron Land.

Cheap salt and inexpensive iron farm tools.

The price is simply unbelievable.

A sickle was worth only one copper coin, an amount that even an ordinary farmer could grit his teeth and come up with, or even exchange for his family's stored grain if necessary. But with a sickle, their work efficiency could be greatly improved.

Large-scale purchases of iron farm tools were usually made by nobles.

No one would want to go against the times. There are more advanced things right in front of us, so why not use them? Just because the Vatican claims that the King of the Valley is a devil from the abyss?
The stock of farm implements is starting to run out.

The coal and iron town is working overtime to forge new steel farm implements.

But it still wasn't enough to meet demand.

A single boat can carry tens of thousands of farm tools, and two or three hundred thousand of them are sold in the blink of an eye.

This also brought Roman huge profits.

Even if the average price of a farm tool is two copper coins, that's still thousands of gold coins.

Earning thousands of gold coins in just two months is second only to war in terms of profit.

However, war preparation, planning, and logistics will take time, and more importantly, war will result in casualties.

Fighting a war is like pausing development for twenty days. You can't do anything but clean up the mess left by the war.

Therefore, it's better to focus on development rather than fighting.

Roman, who was stationed in the City of Abundance, received a letter from the City of Origin on this day.

The first batch of rice this year has been harvested.

The rice paddies cover more than 7,000 mu, with an average yield of 140 jin per mu. The yield of the Geweier No. 1 rice variety is 200 jin per mu, while the yield of ordinary rice varieties is only 80 jin per mu.

This comparison highlights Gavier's importance.

Roman believes that the low yield per acre may be due to poor soil quality in the paddy fields, but it will increase in the future.

After all, the next round of rice seeds is Gewier No. 2. She blessed 100 acres of experimental fields in the first half of the year, and after the harvest, all of them were used as seeds.

Having food in hand means peace of mind.

Even though the caravan from Origin City brought Roman more than 10,000 slaves.

But Roman remained completely unfazed.

Because the spring wheat in Plenty City can also be harvested.

This bumper harvest was absolutely crucial.

The land in Fengrao City cannot support two harvests a year; at most, some vegetables can be grown in the second half of the year.

We're counting on this wheat harvest to make a living this year.

"Keep a close eye on things, and make sure nothing goes wrong!" Roman said to the group of officers.

"Yes!" everyone answered in unison.

They stayed in Fengrao City for half a year, working like oxen and horses when busy and doing military training when idle. Only when transporting supplies from Origin City to Fengrao City would a group of soldiers take a boat home to see their wives and children.

Everyone was dark-skinned and thin.

Ten thousand acres of wheat fields are spread throughout the countryside of Fengrao City.

The land is divided into three thousand acres here and five thousand acres there, making it appear very fragmented.

Roman's army knew every road in the city of abundance; they had once pulled carts to transport tons of fertilizer to every field, so it was hard for them not to know it well.

Several thousand soldiers led tens of thousands of farmers to begin harvesting, threshing, drying, and storing the crops, following the model of Origin City.

Looking at the group of slaves, their skin dark and weary yet filled with a hint of joy, their bodies reeking of wheat, Roman couldn't find any words of encouragement.

Sigh, talking to them now is a waste of energy.

He waved.

Thus began the harvest celebration for the City of Abundance.

The city of Fengrao had no grain reserves.

Roman specially dispatched from Origin City

Two hundred thousand jin of freshly husked rice

100,000 jin of tofu made overnight
50,000 jin of freshly slaughtered meat
One hundred thousand eggs were delivered from the henhouse.

The staple food is freshly steamed rice, the side dishes are stewed tofu with meat, and the soups are mutton soup and egg drop soup.

To prevent anyone from overeating, Roman immediately set up a large iron pot in the open space to cook.

Each person lines up to receive a meal, with a limited quantity per meal. After finishing their meal, they then have to line up again behind several hundred other people.

Finally, you can queue up and get a boiled egg, a two-ounce piece of cheese, a portion of maltose wrapped in a wooden stick, and a piece of stewed smoked meat.

These benefits are given per capita, including for children.

The army maintained order. There was a newly built toilet nearby. Anyone caught urinating or defecating on the spot was beaten. Anyone who dared to cut in line was also beaten.

The celebration went by in a chaotic manner.

(End of this chapter)