Chapter 237 Do You Call This a Good Harvest?

"Delay the rollout of combine harvesters? Why?"

Fiona was very puzzled when she heard Tang En's decision: "Now is the peak season for harvesting crops. Once we go public now, we will definitely gain a huge market, instantly make our Datang Chamber of Commerce famous, and we can also earn A lot of gold coins—now you’re telling me to postpone the listing?”

As the combine harvesting fleet advances, more and more purchase intentions have been reported back. As soon as the combine harvester comes off the production line, they will buy it as soon as they arrive. This is a great opportunity to make money!

"Because making this little money needs to make way for another important plan."

Tang En, who squinted his eyes, considered his next plan and said casually: "Send them a reply and let them continue the harvesting mission, regardless of the plan here."

Fiona couldn't help but ask: "What do you want?"

Of course she knew that Tang En was not stupid and must have a more important plan, but not telling her made her feel inexplicably unhappy!

"A plan, a plan to make a lot of money."

Tang En smiled and said: "After trapping Grand Duke Frank in a mine, I teamed up with His Majesty Victor, Grand Duke Aubrey, and Grand Duke Adrian to set up a trap."

"Join forces?"

Fiona sighed, did the lord finally join the royal faction?

"Yes."

Tang En opened his arms and cheered up: "This world is about to undergo a change. Fiona, have you forgotten why I forcefully dug out a magic crystal mine from the mouth of the Kadir family?"

"Of course I remember," Fiona said with a serious expression, "You said that magic crystal is the new energy source of the future. If you master the magic crystal, you will master wealth."

"That's right!"

Tang En snapped his fingers: "This change started under my promotion, so I know best. I have explained it to you and Victor, so you all know it, but others It may not be clear, but in their eyes, magic crystals are still tasteless and worthless."

Tang En asked back: "Since I opened the era of magic crystal, why did I take advantage of the Kadir family? Why didn't I master the key resources first?"

Only then did Fiona understand what Tang En wanted to do: "You are not satisfied with just one mine, you want more!"

"That's right, Fiona, you actually still don't know what mastering energy means."

Tang En, who came from the earth, witnessed the end of petroleum and coal energy civilization, the decline and collapse of many energy empires, the advent of the nuclear fusion era, and the gorgeous transformation of earth civilization. He deeply understood this Once you master the energy, you master everything.

"Now, His Majesty Victor and others have started to take action, and we will also start to take action here. From now on, the production of the Magic Machinery Factory will be suspended, and the workshop workers will undergo centralized training. However, the propaganda offensive can continue to prepare us for the next step. The explosion created momentum.”

If it were just the magic furniture sold in the cities of Arinks, Bein, and Castle Kaspami, it wouldn't have much impact, because it wouldn't have a big impact on productivity.

However, magic machinery such as combine harvesters, magic cultivators, magic drills, road graders, pavers, and road rollers are different. These machines have greatly changed the original labor model and have subverted changes in productivity. Sexually speaking, once they are put on the market in large quantities, the market for magic crystals will inevitably fluctuate immediately. Correspondingly, the value of magic crystal mines will also increase greatly.

So, you have to be patient now.

"I understand, I will make arrangements next."

Fiona is a smart person, and she also knows how important Twain's plan is to Ellington. Once the overall situation is decided, Ellington's rise will be unstoppable!

"Well, there's one more thing."

Tang En handed Haerdrom's property ownership certificate to Fiona: "Arrange for someone to receive it."

"Haildrom?"

Fiona was stunned for a moment: "The Kadir family is actually willing to give up this mine to you?"

Tang En said very seriously: "In front of this wise and powerful lord, there is no task that cannot be completed."

Nora: “…”

Fiona: "..."

"In addition to the management of the Kadir family, the employees of Haildrom also belong to Ellington according to the rules, and their treatment is the same as the employees of the Brussels iron mines."

"I see."

"Let our people take over the mine first, and then I will set up the teleportation array."

Although Tang En could go ahead and set up the teleportation array, how could any lord take over the mine by himself? What does that look like? If he had to do everything by himself, what else would they do? So he decided to let his men run around more.

"Any other orders?"

"Well, it's gone for now. Next, we just have to wait for their actions."

Tang En breathed a long sigh of relief. After being tense for a few days, he could finally take a break: "So... apart from what I said, do you have any good news to report here?"

"How much...it's fair to say."

Fiona hesitated, turned a few pages, and then said: "In the past two days, with the help of the propaganda of Datang Daily, the necessity of road construction has been popularized to the residents, so the residents are very supportive of road construction. I am very grateful to you." The support rate has also further improved.”

"Um."

"The publicity of the combine harvest team has made more people know that Ellington is short of people, so in recent days, the flow of people gathered in Ellington has reached a peak. According to incomplete statistics, the number of people in our Ellington territory The total population has exceeded 10,000!"

"Ten thousand people!?"

Tang En was shocked: "So few!?"

"Isn't that enough!?"

Fiona was also surprised: "Lord, don't you know what Ellington was like before? There are only two or three thousand people in this huge territory! If it weren't for your recent policies that caused the refugees around you to If we gather here, Ellington doesn’t know how long it will take to break through 10,000 people!”

Tang En was a little helpless. After getting used to a city with millions of people on the earth, he was a little confused when he heard that there were only 10,000 people in the entire Ellington: "Continue."

"The better news is that these thousands of new people are happy to work for you in exchange for the right to settle and the money needed to buy food, so although our labor force is always in short supply, we can always make up for the gap. .”

"Very good, continue."

"The total sales of the Datang Chamber of Commerce branch in the mountain city of Bein last month exceeded 150,000 gold coins. After deducting various costs, the profit exceeded 100,000 gold coins. However, due to the blockade of the Business Alliance, the next period In time, Thomas may run into some trouble."

"The commercial alliance's blockade has little impact on us. These troubles are basically foreseeable."

Tang En pondered for a moment and said: "We have no direct competition with the Business Alliance. We don't sell their products at all, so they have no way to compete with us. Tell Thomas that he doesn't have to worry. If we do business safely, they can't do anything to us." .”

"Understood."

Fiona took note of Tang En's instructions, and then continued to report: "The autumn harvest of the Harvest Moon harvested a total of about 1,130 tons of grain. According to the previous unit conversion, this is a rare harvest in recent years... "

"Wait! How many!?"

"One thousand one hundred and thirty tons."

"How much farmland has been reclaimed in Ellington?"

"About fifteen hundred hectares."

Tang En was shocked: "One thousand five hundred hectares, only one thousand one hundred and thirty tons harvested!? The yield of one hectare is less than one ton (approximately sixty-six kilograms per mu)!? And this is still wet weight! ?”

"Yes."

Fiona looked at Tang En with confusion on her face: "This year, because you built water conservancy projects in time during the drought and invented the waterwheel for irrigation, the crops are growing very well, and the sunshine is also good when they are mature. , there was no heavy rain, so it is normal to have such a bumper harvest, right? It’s just not enough to increase the population..."

"You call this a good harvest?"

"...Is there anything strange about this?"

"I...okay!"

Tang En sighed heavily. He had not noticed it before, but now he realized that these people were always hungry because Mao Ellington's territory was so large!

There are about a thousand scattered households in the villages in Ellington. On average, each household cultivates an area of ​​about 1.5 hectares (22 acres). Logically speaking, this cultivated area is not small. However, Tang En ignored a few Very important factor.

The unit yield of crops, the intensity of cultivation, and the use of fertilizers.

Needless to say about fertilizers, people here seem to have discovered the benefits of composting by accident, so they are already using it.

Since Tang En provides farmers with metal farm tools, the unit labor productivity of Ellington is higher than that of other places. Not to mention this, but it is unreasonable that the unit yield of crops is so small...

Ellington's main crop planted in spring and harvested in autumn is kadar, which is what Tang En calls otherworldly wheat. Logically speaking, the yield should be very high, but reality slapped him hard.

In addition, there is no agricultural machinery and equipment in Purandar, so planting and harvesting were done manually before. This is also partly due to the relatively low farming density.

Tang En held his forehead and felt a little pain in his balls.

Could it be said that he still needs to temporarily act as an agricultural expert to instruct these professional farming households on how to farm?

"Let's put this aside for now!"

Tang En took a deep breath. Soon he and Brian would set off to the Emerald Forest. If he could get a druid from the elves, he could use the druid's magic of life to quickly produce crops. The goal of increasing production has been achieved.

This is also the reason why he was confident in promising Fiona that there would be no problem with food - with Aegwynn's reputation, it shouldn't be difficult to recruit a druid from the elves, right?

"Okay, you just need to be clear about the food issue."

Fiona turned a page and continued: "Recently, adventurers have begun to appear in Ellington..."