Chapter 309: Peasants in the Middle Ages Could Not Live Without Noble Masters

Roman dispatched a thousand tons of wheat to Plenty City.

During the Crusade period, the residents of Kant Territory were fed by the supplies transported from Sinnoh.

But those supplies were exhausted in the spring.

Now Plenty City is supported by Roman.

More than two months ago, Origin City began to continuously provide blood transfusions to Plenty City.

At least hundreds of tons of food are delivered every month.

Although Origin City can support an additional 20,000 people. But Plenty City has a total of 50,000 residents, which still exceeds the limit of this supply.

A thousand tons of wheat can only guarantee one month's demand.

However, by June, Plenty City will also usher in the summer harvest.

After the spring wheat of 100,000 acres of land is harvested, everything will be fine.

Roman traveled back and forth between Origin and Plenty during this period, and stayed in Plenty City most of the time.

He was busy for a while.

Because the land of Plenty City was broken.

Hills, rivers, low mountains... these wildernesses cut the entire map of Plenty City.

Roman farmed and built roads at the same time.

He also had to organize northern slaves to participate in these works.

These thousands of idiots were exchanged for him by Morey with farm tools and iron pots... Alas, they have no living space in the north, and they have to make room for pirates.

Roman didn't mind their good eating, but he despised their stupidity.

He took over the City of Plenty for less than half a year, and he completely relied on the army to manage the idiots in the City of Plenty.

Organization determines production efficiency.

To reach the level of Origin City, it is impossible without two or three years of discipline.

To put it bluntly, whether a civilization is advanced or not is completely reflected by its organization.

And improving the social organization is as difficult as ascending to heaven, unless all their brains are upgraded once.

This is the current lineup that has been pieced together - the remnants of the Kant Territory, the captives of the Crusade Army, the believers who defected to the Crusade Army, and the northern slaves.

Roman doesn't want to say more about how complicated the composition of this group of idiots is, because it gives him a headache.

He would be satisfied if he could plant the land and pave the road.

But it was such a simple thing!

They couldn't do it well either, so they had to be taught step by step.

In the foreseeable future, more and more idiots would come to the City of Plenty.

Because the fleet was still shipping goods out and bringing back more slaves.

Roman needed a large population.

The consequence of doing so would be to lower the degree of organization in the City of Plenty - it wasn't very high to begin with.

Roman could tolerate stupidity. As long as he could tame them, he would raise the degree of organization sooner or later. As long as there was progress, it was good.

But Roman couldn't tolerate them being stupid all the time.

He had witnessed civilized society and seen what real order, real organization, and real production efficiency were like.

Discipline these idiots like human beings!

Participate in labor production like human beings!

This is what Roman wanted to do.

With his current military power, not to mention sweeping across the entire Black Iron Land, just sweeping across a hundred miles would definitely be more than enough.

However, he couldn't manage so much land.

In order to make the whole city of abundance run, how many troops, literate people, agricultural guides, and construction teams did Roman send?

And how many other places can achieve this?

There are no management talents, no administrative clerks, no support for construction and agriculture.

If those lands are taken, the lives of those people will only get worse.

The nobles are at least a kind of order. Roman killed the nobles, which is equivalent to breaking the order. He has neither the ability to rebuild the order nor the pressure from all sides.

Do you think those farmers will live better without the master?

Wrong.

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There must be someone to rule them, manage them, and strengthen them, so that they can feel at ease.

This is a long transformation process.

But Roman doesn't care how painful they are on the spiritual level. He only cares whether they can complete the labor tasks assigned by him on the practical level.

Cut the Gordian knot!

Just like what he did in the town of Sger.

Force them to work.

And in this process, we need to slowly absorb foreign population.

Join the City of Plenty, become a resident here, surpass the residents of the City of Plenty in the past, this is called progress.

Roman exchanged a large number of slaves and Arctic warships through the iron trade.

At present, except for the plateau, only the northern front can provide Roman with a large number of slaves - the Black Iron population is quite large, but those are permanent residents, tenants who rent noble land. The King of Black Iron does not dare to sell those people to Roman as slaves, which will arouse the resentment of the nobles.

Pirates are more unscrupulous. They have to make room after conquering the north.

Now, it happens to be possible to exchange a large number of cheap ironware with Roman.

Roman is not at a loss.

Just send tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of iron farm tools to the north.

The advantage of cheapness is that pirates will not hesitate to buy them.

A hoe costs 3 copper coins and weighs about two kilograms - only the hoe blade, no wooden handle.

One ship can pull 10,000 hoe blades.

If a hoe costs 5 copper coins, not all pirates can afford it.

In this case, how can Roman popularize iron farm tools?

The pirates are working hard to develop iron farm tools on the northern front.

But they will soon find out.

They are just like the Crusades led by Kant, and they have made a wedding dress for Roman, and it is a wedding dress of the phoenix crown and bridal robe level.

Kant Territory has only tens of thousands of people, while the entire northern front has at least a million people!

The pirates worked hard to improve farming efficiency and grow more food, which would eventually lay the foundation for Roman's conquest plan.

Only when there is more food in the north, Roman will not continue to give blood transfusions to the northern front in the future, just like Origin City is giving blood transfusions to Rich City now.

...

One day in May.

Rich Castle received the envoy of the King of Black Iron, not Damon, but the chief steward of the palace, a white-faced and beardless eunuch, who came with a letter from the King of Black Iron.

Roman opened the letter.

The King of Black Iron clearly said he wanted a batch of heavy plows.

In the past two months, the royal family has finally verified the farming effect of heavy plows and fertilizers.

But making heavy plows is not cheap.

One heavy plow is easy to say, but no one can afford the cost of hundreds or thousands of plows.

It's not a question of whether there is money, but whether money can buy it.

Because this land has never been plowed deeply, and the heavy plow needs to plow out soil more than ten centimeters thick, the wood-inlaid iron structure can't bear it at all. After plowing a few acres of land, it will be obviously worn out. Once it hits a tree root or a stone, there is a small probability that it will be scrapped.

The probability is small, but it can't withstand too many times, which is almost equivalent to being scrapped.

Only the heavy plow with pure iron structure can withstand high-intensity use and wear.

Roman put down the letter and said to the waiting court envoy: "Weapons, shields, and arrows, I can help the royal family for free. But the heavy plow is different. It is not within the scope of the agreement between me and His Majesty the King."

The court envoy had expected what the young king said.

"Your Highness, our King is waiting for your price." The eunuch said softly.

Roman leaned back in his chair and gestured: "One heavy plow is one gold coin, but I don't want gold coins, I want the equivalent of red and blue sapphires, blue gems are best."