Chapter 146 Why not eat meat?

The fireplace at Origin Manor is warm.

But the slaves lining up in the snow were shivering from the cold.

The food arrangement is in place and the calories are provided, so the low temperature is not so difficult for a while.

On the first day, they were shocked to find that the residents of Sige Town actually ate three meals a day!

What kind of treatment is this only given to a noble master?

If they were robbed here, their mood was one of panic.

But now, most of the trepidation has dissipated.

The expected situation did not occur.

They did not sleep in a cold and damp livestock shed, did not let them dig grass roots and wild vegetables in the snow, and were not even beaten;

Being able to sleep in a brick house, each person has eight square meters of living space, and there is no shared area. Everyone received a thin but finely stitched sweater, and the bed was covered with a thick layer of wheat straw. In addition, you can bring your own clothes and sleep in a pile of wheat straw without waking up from the cold:

The food every day is also rich and delicious. Breakfast is bean porridge and bread, and lunch is soybean stew with vegetables and two scones.

Dinner was even more outrageous.

It turned out to be soybean stewed chicken and a meat pie!

Although most of the bowl is filled with beans and only two pieces of chicken, there is enough salt and the broth is delicious, which is a rare delicacy!

They settled down extremely quickly.

Even if there are slaves who try to escape, they will think twice when faced with this situation.

Now all they have is fear for the future.

The main reason is that they have no merit and no reward, and the cruel life makes them unwilling to believe that they are born to lose their pies, especially meat pies.

They came to the lord's manor in batches and lined up, waiting for future arrangements.

One after another, slaves entered the manor hall and came out of the hall quickly.

The soldiers forbade them to whisper to each other and line up well, otherwise they would be served with a mace.

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"name?"

"Peter Brown."

"age?"

"23 years old."

"What did you do before?"

"I live in Dogger Village."

"I'm not asking you where you live! I'm asking you what you did before! What kind of work did you do! Do you understand!!"

Neli'er couldn't control her emotions and slapped the table!

Since becoming a household registration recorder, communicating with this group of slaves has consumed all her patience.

Nellie finally understood why Roman always got angry at them and wouldn't stop until he called them idiots eight times a day.

She lives in Haibao. Although the literacy rate there is also very low, the residents of Haibao are very well-educated and can understand human speech.

Peter saw the beautiful blue-haired lady opposite, pounding the table.

He was so frightened that he knelt down and kowtowed.

"Madam, please have mercy. I...my father is working at the oven..."

"how about you!"

"I also help my father with work...making bread...he is behind me now..."

Neli'er resisted the urge to hit, held the pencil in her delicate right hand, and wrote "baker" in the occupation column.

He threw the copied identity materials to the ground and asked Peter to pick them up and keep them.

Neli's voice was full of exhaustion.

"Next."

…

It took three full days.

Roman finally registered the identity information of this group of people.

Those who have professional skills can go to their respective professions.

Those without professional skills would farm or serve as soldiers.

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

Roman's need for labor was never enough.

But before that, a new problem faced him.

The food reserves in Sige Town are not enough!

It could have supported more than 4,000 people in Sige Town to successfully survive next spring. After all, Roman also purchased more than 100,000 kilograms of grain and vegetables in the autumn.

But this time, more than 5,000 mouths appeared out of thin air, which directly doubled the food consumption.

Under this situation, Roman was still following the three meals a day rule.

One and a half pounds of grains, one and a half pounds of vegetables, and half a pound of meat per person per day are indispensable.

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

If it were all replaced by fine grains such as wheat and rice, of course you wouldn't need so much.

However, compared to refined grains, coarse grains contain lower energy, so the intake is larger.

Now there are not much wheat reserves left, and they can only be supplied to the Origin Manor and the military camp.

There are half a million kilograms of soybeans in the granary.

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

Therefore, in the future, the proportion of soybeans in each meal will be much higher, and may even become a staple food.

But the reason why soybeans are a miscellaneous grain is that you cannot eat too much, otherwise you will suffer from indigestion.

Made into soy products, it can aid digestion.

But how could Roman let the big kitchen make soy products? Their task was already very heavy, and now adding a few more steps meant more manpower.

Soybeans are plentiful.

Need manpower? Think beautifully.

Today, most people in large kitchens just soak the soybeans overnight and then cook porridge and stew directly, or grind them into soy milk with a millstone.

Whatever is convenient for you.

Forget about tofu, a complex and labor-intensive soy product.

Moreover, even if soybeans are eaten as a staple food, it will not change the food shortage crisis that Sige Town will face in more than a month.

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After farming until there was no food to eat, Roman felt that he was considered a talent.

The population of Sige Town is increasing too fast.

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

But this time he couldn't continue to buy food.

After a heavy snowfall a few days ago, the ice and snow in Sige Town have not melted yet, but strictly speaking, Sige Town is now in early spring.

Where can I buy a lot of food in this time of shortage?

The last time I bought food was because there were less than 2,000 people in Sige Town, and it was already one or two months into spring, so Roman could barely get through the difficulties and wait until the summer harvest by buying food everywhere.

But this time the population has exceeded 10,000.

The required food has quadrupled, which does not mean that the difficulty of purchasing has increased by four times, but it has increased by ten times or even nine times!

Fortunately, Roman has gone through a year of development. Although it cannot be said that the foundation is solid, it can at least be said to be as solid as a rock.

So he didn't take the food shortage crisis seriously.

If there is no food, why not eat meat?

The farm he built in the fall has been raised for silage throughout the winter, and it will be ready for mass production in two months.

In fact, there are now four or five qualified pigs and sheep that can be slaughtered every day-some pigs and sheep are raised earlier and slaughtered earlier.

According to Yaki's observation, this batch of castrated pigs can grow to an average weight of 130 kilograms, and castrated sheep can grow to 60 to 70 kilograms.

But for efficiency, pigs can be slaughtered when they weigh 120 kilograms and sheep can be slaughtered when they weigh 50 kilograms, without waiting until they reach adulthood.

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

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

Any production industry will get something once you invest.

Throughout the winter, Roman invested a full 700 workers in these three farms and a livestock shed alone.

Even when he was actively preparing for the plundering plan, these people were sticking to their posts.

Because their tasks were so heavy that they even needed to send more people.

In winter, Roman could neither transfer them nor have the manpower to help them raise pigs.

Yaki, the breeding supervisor, never slacked off. He limped back and forth between the breeding farm and the livestock shed, and he managed to survive. His breeding method completely followed the knowledge that Roman had instilled in him.

The benefits are obvious.

The piglets in the pig house no longer need to be purchased from outside, and there will be more and more in the future.

The milkmaid can take away 800 kilograms of goat milk from the sheep house every day, and if the milk in the livestock shed is included, it is more than 1,000 kilograms.

The egg production in the chicken house is also considerable, and 400 to 500 eggs can be obtained every day.

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

It is not an empty saying that the young boys eat their father out of money.

If adult laborers only need three kilograms of food every day.

Then these children in their growing period need four kilograms of staple food and side dishes every day.

And Roman naturally treats them very well.

Not afraid of being full, but afraid of not being able to eat.

Other farmers have to wait until the harvest festival to get unlimited food, so these children basically celebrate every day.

Of course, the food is definitely not as rich as during the festival.

Now there are more than 500 underage children from Kant Territory, and Roman will also train them into the basic ruling force.

As long as we can hold on until the pigs, sheep and chickens are ready for slaughter -

Everything will be fine!

...

Roman said to the old deacon on this day: "Seth, I'm going to do winter hunting. You can help Jimmy arrange their positions and pick out a group of new soldiers first."

The distribution of labor was originally supposed to be done by Roman.

His overall view is unmatched, his prestige is high, and his execution is extremely strong, but he doesn't have time to sort out those trivial details now.

As for why he personally went on winter hunting...

What if those soldiers got lost in the wilderness?

Roman could only take them and take care of them in person to avoid non-combat casualties.

He had to hand over these internal affairs to Seth.

Seth was in charge of finances. After settling the remuneration for those ship owners, there was nothing to do.

Neriel's means of handling affairs were not proficient, and there was no one on the expedition knights who was good at internal affairs.

Only he knew all aspects of the town of Sger the most, had the most experience in handling affairs, and could do anything.

It was said that he would wait until the breeding was ready for slaughter, but Roman couldn't wait.

We can't let those idiots really eat beans as food!

He likes to push people, and he can't expect others to do things that he can't do.

Just like when he almost vomited his lunch when he piled manure for the first time, he asked Moore to compensate the compost man.

The table was full of beans, and they had to eat for more than a month.

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

Roman knew that he had mental cleanliness, and he guessed it was a sequelae of the prosperous era, and he had some obsessive-compulsive disorder.

If the food can be improved, it should be improved.

Besides, there is not much meat in the barracks.

Roman trained 600 professional soldiers in winter, and they consumed 600 kilograms of meat every day. They underwent high-intensity physical training, and the nutrition must be full.

But before the pigs and sheep in the farm were released, the army mainly relied on the meat obtained from the autumn hunt.

Now, the meat has been eaten almost.

Let's just go hunting again.

After Roman settled all the people, he set his sights on Dunlún.

The beasts had to die sooner or later anyway, so it was better to reincarnate as soon as possible.

In this way, when he reincarnates as a human in the future, he will be born in the era he rules and continue to be his social resource. Wouldn't that be wonderful?