Chapter 45 Time is Money
Chapter 45 Time vs. Money
Seven hundred acres of good farmland, four hundred acres were planted before, and the harvest is two months, but the three hundred acres planted later may not grow as fast as the wheat planted before. This grass plant will return to a state of harvesting once every three months, which is a little faster than normal crops.
The water diversion of the medium-sized lake is enough to maintain the daily drinking water of nine hundred people, and the daily irrigation of seven hundred acres of farmland is already insufficient. In order to support so many people and land, he directly stopped the natural growth of the crystal mine. This thing is a water consumer. A small area of ten acres of crystal mine will consume the irrigation volume of fifty acres.
He later planned to switch to the floodplain for farming after the resources were sufficient. The land there was more fertile, and there was a freshwater river that ran through the center of the floodplain and cut through the entire plain. After entering the world, the river was connected to the sea, and the salt content was very low.
(Note: 1 square kilometer is approximately equal to 1,500 acres, and a block of 23 square kilometers has 34,000 acres of land when fully applied.)
In the world, the territory will have four seasons in the future. The climate at the seaside is not like the four seasons of spring in the protective shell, which can provide a perfect growth environment for plants. However, the coastal climate is more stable and there will not be a particularly large temperature difference. With the green plants all over the ground, there will be no less precipitation.
There was a slight chill in the wind.
The tailor shop must be exchanged as soon as possible. He tightened his clothes and thought about future plans.
The clothes worn by the residents of the territory are still the coarse clothes that come with buying a house. Each house comes with 20 pieces. Every time I see them go out to work, they all wear brown clothes, which makes me feel like I am on a break from the prison. These people with a war background are very hardworking and are satisfied with having a full meal.
My two subordinates treasure the two pieces of clothing equipment brought out from the dungeon very much, and usually wear coarse clothes.
Animal fur, cotton, silk, and ramie are the four most common raw materials used to make clothes. Animal fur requires hunting, while silk requires breeding and mulberry trees, which equals two resources, leaving only cotton and ramie.
The application range of cotton far exceeds ramie.
Planting cotton...
Cotton requires...
Ahem, you don't need that kind of thing.
Get rid of a hell joke from your mind.
He was thinking whether he should use this rare opportunity of this era to exchange cash crops or not. To be fair, cotton is very helpful to improve the living standards of a territory. Rice, sugarcane, and wheat provide sugar and plant fiber, and the two staple foods are enough.
But the side dishes are not enough.
He has a 100-man rifle team and a 200-man light crossbow team. He doesn't have to worry about the problem of meat hunting. He can get everything by sweeping in the mountains, but berries cannot be eaten as cooked meals.
There are three crops in front of him, sweet potatoes, cotton, and beans.
The rhizomes and vines of sweet potatoes can be eaten, cotton is an important textile raw material, and beans, as an important source of protein, derive a large number of food processed products.
"My Lord, I would suggest you grow cotton."
Chongshan answered him like this.
"According to the current economic model of the territory, we rely heavily on trade to obtain other resources from the market. At this stage, the market competitiveness of beans and sweet potatoes is worse than that of cotton for a long time. As food, they can be replaced. But now there is no time for them to play a role as industrial raw materials."
"Cotton is not easily replaceable. After the tailor shop in the third era, everyone will need cotton. We now have a lot of good land. It is worth using part of it to grow cash crops and exchange minerals."
Then he smiled and showed Ji Lin the rice and meat slices in the bowl. The rice obtained by directly collecting wild rice from the floodplain is far less sweet and soft than the rice domesticated by humans in modern times. However, this kind of rice is very popular in the market and can be sold for 0.6 gold per unit.
"As for the side dishes you're worried about, I think you're overly worried."
We're very happy to have meat and salt every day.
People's living habits are not so easy to change.
The territory still implements a strict food rationing system, and there are no vegetables yet. It all depends on the previous berry inventory to supplement vitamins. Ji Lin will use the berries produced and the mature rice collected to exchange some vegetables to improve the living standards of the territory.
Now the main source of meat in the territory is to clean up various animal monsters among the second-level enemies, and a small part is contributed by the hunting spiders. Although their bodies are not edible, their eight long legs inherit the meat characteristics of arthropods, which is not bad.
It's not very cost-effective, but it's not a loss.
After ensuring the most basic dietary needs of the territory, other needs will naturally come into being.
The promotion from the third era to the fourth era is different from the previous simple cost of spending a certain amount of resources to upgrade directly.
The territory needs to have the necessary buildings to upgrade to the next era, and the corresponding technology will naturally start the test when it is completed. After the test is completed, it will be upgraded. If the test fails, it will enter a one-year dark age period. The era cannot be upgraded before the dark age ends.
Technology civilization iteration, give him the conditions for upgrading his era:
[Emperor era: Requirements: at least one of the three divisions of academy/government office/palace, must complete an additional building expansion in the town center, and have at least fifteen technologies in the emperor era and before the emperor era]
Very convenient conditions, he already has this high-level zoning blueprint of the engineering college, when the time comes, it will kill two birds with one stone. The college itself can study technology, and the additional buildings in the town center will be expanded. To put it simply, the town center will be divided into the Ministry of Personnel, Ministry of Revenue, Ministry of Rites, Ministry of War, Ministry of Punishment, Ministry of Works and other functions.
It's just a metaphor. There are not only six ministries. The town center has more expanded functions.
After all the functions are expanded, the town center will be a real municipal center.
Exchange the cotton seeds and give them to the redistributors to select a good land for sowing first, and then make Chang Heng and his spearmen work hard, let them be the garrison soldiers to take care of the cotton growth for a while until the next batch of villagers arrive, and the surrounding monsters will be cleared during this time.
They are not needed for the time being.
The two hundred light crossbowmen in front of them just came down from the battlefield and were thrown into the farmland to work on the farm, dig new canals, and sow seeds.
Some villagers were sent to mine wood. Now the territory is about to welcome 900 people. Housing is a problem. People can't sleep on the floor.
All of a sudden, the entire territory was mobilized to engage in new work. Ji Lin raised the meat standard to once every two days to encourage production efficiency.
Time is money!
And Ji Lin, Ji Lin was thinking about other things.
