A few days later, spring arrived in the real sense, and the water sources polluted by rain showed signs of recovery, but the recovery speed was slower than the last rain.
But what is worrying is that some weeds have withered. The trolls tried to plant potatoes in the farmland next to the town using the stream water that has not completely returned to normal, but there is still no sign of germination.
The trolls' experiment made Xiang En give up the idea of using river water to irrigate crops, and continued to add clean water to the water in the reservoir every day, or to add natural fertilizer to the urinal in the toilet.
On this day, Xiang En made an extra-large mashed potato as usual for himself and Andrea.
Looking through the storage room, he found that there was not much salt left in the houses of 500 people in the town. The remaining amount was only enough for two or three months. It was about time that he went to look for the salt he had heard from Dunier. Passed the salt mine.
After finishing the mashed potatoes for Andrea and warming a pot of milk for her as usual, Xiang En took Naka, who had already broken through the gold level, out of the room and continued to patrol his territory.
Today the trolls also consciously came to the manor and started doing farm work.
Between the fields, the trolls began to turn over the soil and plant potatoes, corn, peanuts, sugar beets, wheat and oil melons.
These crops are the only crops Xiang En can grow, and they all need to be arranged. The farmland in the front yard is currently only planted with sugar beets, peanuts and oil melons.
I planted potatoes once before, and it would take a long time to replenish the fertilizer in the ground.
Therefore, staple crops are not grown on a large scale. The large open space in the backyard has now been reclaimed into farmland, with one third planted to corn, one third to wheat, and the remaining one third to potatoes.
Although the taste is so-so, those potatoes can be eaten every two or three months, and one acre of land can produce ten tons. Who can refuse such food!
Auda, the chief wizard of the Frost Troll tribe, also came to the field. He was assigned a test field and planned to try using wizards to cultivate plants in a direction that would produce greater yields and faster harvests.
Witchcraft is an alternative way of using natural magic. It has the power to blaspheme life. One of its functions is like a sophisticated gene editor, which can, to a certain extent, mutate the direction of the wish of the life caster.
Such mutations would be more stable if they emerged from seeds or embryos.
In the distant era, the trolls relied on special witchcraft to obtain high yields of food and a large number of new race soldiers who were not afraid of death, so that they could finally divide the world with the elves.
In the end, because of his unscrupulous style and barbaric rule, he was spurned by most of the created races. In the end, various betrayals pushed the trolls off the altar.
Some trolls in the continent are still doing similar experimental research, but their era has passed after all, and most of the current trolls have become pitiful people struggling to survive.
Xiang En looked at Auda dancing to a corn seedling, shook his head and walked away.
It's not that he looked down on trolls, on the contrary, he felt that their witchcraft was very magical and could rewrite life. However, the casting process was difficult to control and required a lot of time to intervene. The disadvantages of witchcraft were still many. The key was that he learned Won't.
After leaving the farmland, Xiang En went to the ironmaking workshop built next to the backyard fence.
This iron-making workshop is in charge of Ma Ji and Duncan. In addition to making iron for Xiang En, the two of them also work with several trolls to burn at least a ton of pig iron every day.
Walking into the already burning ironmaking workshop, you can see several trolls working hard to pull the bellows and shovel charcoal, while Markey and Duncan are forging the newly fired pig iron.
The pig iron was shaped into an irregular size of a human head. Duncan was responsible for fixing it on the anvil with iron tongs, while Markey swung the sledgehammer and struck it repeatedly. Once it was struck into a large discus, it would be quenched by them. After the quenching was completed, Will be thrown aside.
Later, if necessary, it can be processed into other shapes.
Seeing that the employees were working hard, Xiang En couldn't help but nodded, and walked to the iron-containing sand and stones that had not been thrown into the furnace for calcination, with his hands behind his back.
He couldn't help but think of an issue that he had never paid much attention to. It has been almost two months since the iron ore was dug. Isn't it finished yet
Iron ore is not a rare mineral. There are iron ores in many mountains. Most of them may be open-air. However, the reserves are very small and there is no value for development.
Xiang En has never cared about the reserves of iron ore, because this thing is really common, and there are mountains next to it. If one place is dug out, it is just a matter of finding more to dig. It is nothing more than a long and short journey.
But it's been two months, and dozens of tons of iron have been produced. Bourne, who went to mine, is still digging. Could it be that there are a lot of reserves
This question may not be answered until Bourne comes back with the bullock cart at noon.
After wiping off the sand on his hands, Xiang En turned around and patted the dull-eyed Ma Ji on the shoulder, encouraging him: "Do a good job, and I will give you two a rabbit as a reward next month!"
I think you said this last month...
Marki turned his head and looked at Xiang En's encouraging eyes, his expression collapsed, and he looked like he was about to cry.
Think about how easy their jobs used to be. Even if they had to be on call 24 hours a day, they still had plenty of time to enjoy and rest.
Since they started making iron, he and Duncan had to work for nearly fifteen hours a day.
There are fixed production quotas, and the trolls leave as soon as it gets dark. The two of them work back and forth to finish the work at night. If they fail to finish, they will have no food.
A week or two was better, but after working for two full months, they had to get up before dawn every day to burn charcoal. The two of them worked from the time the trolls didn't come until the trolls left at night, so they could hold off their fatigue. The body goes back to rest.
Every time I didn't get much substantial reward, and if I wanted to be transferred to another position, I would be pushed back by saying that I would receive special treatment in a special period.
But so what!
Xiang En looked at Ma Ji's face that was about to cry, and his smile became even brighter. He didn't really want to squeeze the two of them to death, but the trolls' brains were really not very good, and it was easy for the two of them to make mistakes. How hard and hard it is!
Ma Ji's crying face was sold out, and under Xiang En's gaze, he slowly revealed an ugly smile, "Yes, it's all about sharing the boss's worries, so there is no reward... I will continue to do it!"
"Okay!" After receiving a satisfactory reply, Xiang En put down his hand on Ma Ji's shoulder this time and said, "Don't worry, you will be able to change jobs soon... Hey, just tomorrow! You will bring two ox carts tomorrow. , go to the mountains to dig some salt mines with Byrne and Hogan, it should take a few days, you should have a good rest these days, and dig two oxcarts of iron ore back by the way."
Ma Ji was shocked at first, and then showed an expression of excitement and surprise.
This made Duncan on the side look a little anxious, "Old...Boss, what about me?"
"The outside world is very dangerous now. Iron is an important material. We need iron to strengthen our walls, and we will also use iron for future weapons. Without enough iron, there will not be enough security. In short... you should work harder. Bar!"
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(End of chapter)