Perhaps these policies to corporateize agricultural work still seem a bit rough, but in any case, the effect that the lord wanted is achieved.
After the lord's policy was determined, everyone in the territory was frantically clearing up wasteland.
In just two weeks, Wheat Fragrance Territory turned more than half a million pounds of grain into seeds—almost every production group received almost 5,000 pounds of seed grain!
You know, there are only eleven people in a group including the non-commissioned officer leader. If it were to be replaced by Pan De's normal situation, each group would save at most 800 pounds of grain and plant dozens of acres of land.
But now, almost every group has cultivated 300 acres of land.
Yes, the average person cultivates two acres of land every day - you know, this is reclaiming wasteland!
Wheat Fragrance Territory, a thousand people, actually created more than 30,000 acres of land in two weeks!
Along the road, large wheat fields extend from Wheat Fragrance Territory to White Deer Fortress. This territory has become a truly Wheat Fragrance Territory.
In order to prepare for the future, the lord also required all farms to dig pits in the wheat fields and fill them with wheat straw and plant ash.
And everyone is required to urinate in the pit, but must go to the ground or toilet to defecate.
This is not for storing fertilizer...
It's for making nitrate.
This homespun method is not high-tech in the Pande Continent, because Pande already uses this method to obtain high-purity saltpeter.
However, Pande is mainly used for tanning leather or making bacon, and is occasionally used as fertilizer.
If explained in a scientific way, potassium carbonate solution can turn sodium nitrate in saline-alkali soil into potassium nitrate.
The main component of plant ash is potassium carbonate, and potassium nitrate is often referred to as saltpeter.
By burying wheat straw, fallen leaves, and plant ash in a piece of land, and then pouring human and animal urine into it, you can harvest a large amount of saltpeter next year.
The output of saltpeter will also be part of each team's output evaluation.
Amy followed the lord's operation mode throughout the process and applied some of the policies to White Deer Fortress.
Such as group competition.
Although she can't control Knight's Territory, a subordinate of White Deer Fortress, she can learn from the direct administration of Godric.
The direct territory belonging to Godric has nearly a thousand households, but the population is actually only about 3,000.
The population per household in border counties is particularly small.
Amy modified the lord's policy, and divided five households into groups, managed by Godric's guards.
The reason for this is that Godric previously used the recruitment method of five households and one soldier, and this is how he recruited all 200 members of his own guard.
Using conscripts from these families to manage this work group will at least not lead to bad things, and the guards of Godric are obviously loyal enough.
After all, White Deer Fortress people don't have any shares or anything like that to back them up.
Godric can also allow Long River Town's guards to switch defenses - now that Long River Town has stabilized, it allows the elite troops directly under it to guard its own territory, and allows the newly recruited soldiers to cooperate with Horn Summon Ranger Corps as the Long River Town garrison. This is exactly Godric's plan.
The internal competition methods used by Amy and White Deer Fortress are more traditional in terms of rewards and punishments.
To put it simply, the top few managers, who are the members of the guard, will become knights and own the land cultivated by their group.
The groups with the worst grades will be heavily taxed.
The method is slightly different, but the effect is still good. White Deer Fortress also reclaimed nearly 50,000 acres of wasteland during the half-month sowing period.
Now, Wheat Fragrance Territory is really connected with White Deer Fortress, and the road between the two places is full of wheat fields and farms on both sides!
In early May, spring and summer meet, and the climate becomes warmer.
This is also the time to plant spring wheat south of the Tongtian River.
Usually at this time Pande Continent various countries will cease war, and this year is no exception.
After arranging the internal affairs of the territory, the lord asked Sir Roland to be responsible for the safety of White Deer Fortress, and Ansen to be responsible for Wheat Fragrance Territory's affairs As a result, he took Meitengheim people, Amy and Sarah south together, and followed a transport team to the territory of the Bacchus Empire.
The destination is of course Imperial Port.
He is going to solve the famine problem in Meitengheim people.
After Sir Roland joined the team, Sarah was finally able to give up the training job and start taking the role of External Affairs Officer seriously.
She has compiled a lot of information and information for the lord, such as everything related to the Bacchus Empire.
The Bax (Baccus) empire was not originally the aborigines of the Pande Continent. They came from the Amara Continent overseas in the south.
Bacchus Empire was once a big country of the Amara Continent, and it once formed a situation of three kingdoms with the Barkley (Barclay) Empire and Kingdom of Pendor.
In other words, three continents stand on top of each other.
There were two groups of human ancestors living in the Amara Continent.
One is Old Bacchus Ancestors, they live in the Amara Continent plains and coastal areas, mainly engaged in farming and fishing.
The other one is Gatu Ancestors. They were originally nomads living in the Amara Continent grassland.
Later, the ancestors of Bax established the unprecedentedly powerful First Bacchus Empire, with unprecedented cultural prosperity and great national power. At this time, Gatu Ancestors was just a vassal of Baxian.
But powerful empires will always be destroyed by civil war. After the Bax First Empire completely dominated Amara Continent, internal strife arose due to cultural barriers, and then it split.
The ancestors of Amara gradually evolved into two different ethnic groups, 'Bax' and 'Maritin'. Maritin people established an independent country and occupied part of the Amara Continent.
From that time on, Gatu Ancestors no longer relied on the Bacchus Empire and became a warlord-like independent force.
At this time, Bacchus Empire is called Second Bacchus Empire.
But even if it split into three parts, Bacchus Empire at this time is still powerful and can still compete with the Old Pendor Kingdom and Bacchus Empire, and even has a larger population.
By Pendor Calendar 198, Old Pendor Kingdom collapsed rapidly because of Red Death. The royal family members died of illness one after another. Just a few days after the death of the king, his successor also died of illness, and several kings were replaced within a month.
This situation will naturally cause lords everywhere to have some thoughts that they shouldn't have originally.
Coupled with the fact that Misty Mountain Tribes took the opportunity to invade on a large scale, Kingdom of Pendor became torn apart in a short period of time.
First, Raven Territory in the north, which faced the Misty Mountains barbarian army alone but could not get support for a long time, declared independence. They summoned the northern lords to form a coalition and defeated the rebellious Misty Mountains army, and then established Raven Kingdom.
After that, various lords in the south saw that Kingdom of Pendor was too weak to fight against the rebellion, so they all established themselves in the city.
For a time, Pande Continent had numerous principalities and counties, and Kingdom of Pendor was completely caught up in the melee of warlords, with wars raging everywhere.
Naturally, neither Bacchus Empire nor Bacchus Empire would give up this good opportunity to invade Pande Continent.
But before the two powerful countries could swallow up the extremely weak Kingdom of Pendor, they started fighting over who could share the bigger cake...
The two sides fought from the sea to the land, and from the land to the sea... But the two sides were evenly matched, so it became a protracted war of attrition. However, neither side could retreat, otherwise all their previous efforts would be wasted.
As a result, the two sides fought for several years, and both countries were dragged into the quagmire by the war. This actually allowed Pande Continent to take this opportunity to resurrect.
Kingdom of Pendor's Duke of Lionheart Alfred defeated many rebellious warlords during this period, established a huge duchy in the center of the kingdom, and gathered countless knights in their own camp.
Moreover, because he had sent troops to support Raven Territory in repelling the Misty Mountains army, he had a comradeship. So his duchy formed an alliance with the Raven Kingdom, announcing that they would temporarily put aside their internal fighting and jointly resist the invasion of enemies from the outer continent.
The war between Bax and Barkley lasted for several years, and the consumption was too great. There were also many conflicts in the country that needed to be resolved. And Pande was resurrected under the alliance of Raven Territory and Lion Territory.
This once again forms a tripartite situation, and the cake will probably not be divided.
So the three countries re-signed the peace agreement.
However, before the ink on the agreement was dry, Second Bacchus Empire sent General Osa, leading a large fleet and expeditionary force to land directly from Imperial Port south of the Pande Continent, and invaded Pende without declaring war.
This was a raid to tear up the agreement. The people of the Pande Continent did not expect that the emperor of the Second Bacchus Empire would make such a decision!
Since the peace agreement was signed, Kingdom of Pendor, who thought there were no more external enemies, was dealing with the internal chaos. Duke of Lionheart Alfred was currently crusading against other independent rebels and had no time to react.
The southern part of the Pande Continent is basically all small forces, and they basically do not obey the kingdom's command, and have almost no resistance.
General Osa went all the way north, and the only decent resistance they encountered was Radiant Cross Knights - this knights group had been treating the Red Death plague in the south of the Pande Continent. After encountering the invasion, they resisted desperately as soon as possible, causing General Osa a lot of trouble.
But just a knight who is good at medical skills cannot stop General Osa's conquest. In Battle of Sagan Forest, Radiant Cross Knights fell into a tight siege by the imperial army. The combatants of the knights were all lost in the fierce battle, and the remaining civilian staff and doctors had no choice but to surrender.
Impressed by the Order's devotion, General Auxerre accepted their request for surrender and retained the Order's symbolic cross.
Then General Osa went all the way and beat Lion City.
At the moment of life and death, Duke of Lionheart Alfred launched a call to all the Pendor lords, hoping that everyone would abandon their internal conflicts and unite with the outside world, and go to Lion City to resist the invaders.
The lords from all over the country were deeply aware of the truth. They stopped fighting one after another, summoned their followers to sort out their equipment, and gathered outside Lion City.
With Alfred as their marshal, they blocked General Osa near Lion City with determination to fight to the death, and established Seven Forks Fortress there.
Then, a long tug-of-war began.
At this moment, Alfred can be called the guardian of Kingdom of Pendor.
And Goddess of Fortune finally stood on the shoulders of the guardian.
After a year-long tug-of-war of attack and defense, news came from the Bacchus Empire on the Amara Continent that the emperor had been assassinated and that the domestic Snake Worship Cult rebels were in rebellion.
The originally vast territory of the Bax Second Empire ended up similar to that of Kingdom of Pendor. It also quickly fell into a bloody civil war in a short period of time.
The extremely powerful Bacchus Empire also fell apart in just one month and became dozens of principalities, city-states and kingdoms.
The most powerful regime among them was a religious state established by the priestesses of Snake Worship Cult - the reason why the emperor was assassinated is obvious.
General Osa, who is far away from the Pande Continent, is in a deadlock - his motherland has perished, he has lost all support, and even lost contact with the Amara Continent. He has no way out!
General Osa evacuated Seven Forks Fortress after thinking for a long time.
He decided to consolidate his gains and rebuild Bacchus Empire.
He claimed himself as a conqueror in the southern part of the Pande Continent that he had already occupied. He executed and exiled a group of nobles from southern Pendor who were not loyal to him, and after surrendering some lords, he proclaimed himself emperor in the coastal city of 'Siyuan City'.
His country is now Bax, or it can also be called 'New Bacchus'.
The names of Siyuan City and Imperial Port were changed when General Osa created a new Bacchus Empire.
From the names of these cities, you can probably imagine General Osa's mentality at that time.
But places conquered by force are not so easy to manage.
In order to successfully rule the people in southern Pendor, General Osa integrated the Shining Cross emblem into his elite cavalry.
He re-established Radiant Cross Knights with the remaining civilian personnel and doctors as the main body, and set an example to protect civilians and businessmen. He asked the army to pursue the spirit of chivalry as much as possible, and gained the recognition of the people with the fact of doing good and eliminating evil and the influence of the Shining Cross.
This method is very effective.
Although these cavalry are not true knights recognized by Valides Charter, citizens still believe in the Shining Cross coat of arms and believe that they are the continuation of the once noble Radiant Cross Knights.
Although General Osa's act of arrogating the throne was condemned and ridiculed by almost all Pande Continent lords, in any case, he survived with his lone expedition to Pendor, and also achieved the purpose of his coming - conquest.
And those Gatu people were originally mercenaries brought by General Osa from the Amara Continent.
After the collapse of the ancient Bacchus Empire, Jatu mercenaries rebelled against General Osa and went to the eastern grasslands, becoming an independent warlord force, which is today's Gatu people.
This rebellion is actually the work of Duke of Lionheart Alfred.
He gave all Kingdom of Pendor's horse-breeding land and the large grassland in the east of Lion Lake City to Gatu people, and allowed Gatu people to plunder, in exchange for Gatu people's cooperation with him.
Having lost the Jatu mercenaries and the support of his mother country, the new Osa emperor could not defeat Duke of Lionheart and could only accept the result of a close match.
The rebellion of Gatu people caused General Osa to use a similar method, causing Duchy of Dexia, who was originally subordinate to Kingdom of Pendor, to also rebel - General Osa handed over the important southern towns Xingar and Turdah Fortress that were about to occupy to Duke Dexia.
This means that Dexian people can begin to transform from nomadic to semi-nomadic and semi-sedentary. Duchy of Dexia, who has obtained the wealthy city Xingar, can no longer succumb to the barren desert, and it is enough to withstand the revenge of Kingdom of Pendor.
Therefore, this ferocious nation rebelled against Kingdom of Pendor and became an independent principality.
Pande Continent This has resulted in a multi-party stalemate.
Raven Kingdom resists the pirates Misty Mountains and Vanskery;
Kingdom of Pendor lost most of its land and was surrounded by enemies on all sides, unable to take back its homeland;
The new Bacchus Empire and Duchy of Dexia are both newly built and need to be consolidated and digested internally.
So Pande Continent ushered in a strange truce.
The situation of Duke of Lionheart Alfred at this time was not optimistic. As a powerful minister, he suffered a lot of criticism-Pande had almost no royal members who could serve as king, and only an infant was left.
Others will of course suspect that this is the hand of a powerful official...
But not long after, even the baby mysteriously disappeared.
As for why this royal heir disappeared, Sarah has not found any information, and probably no one will disclose these secrets...
Anyway, Duke of Lionheart Alfred was condemned and attacked by countless nobles loyal to Pendor, and it quickly evolved into a civil war.
But at this time, if the internal friction is intensified and the weak balance of the Pande Continent is broken, the consequences will be needless to say.
I don't know what Duke of Lionheart's specific thoughts were at that time, but the result was that within a few months, he got the support of Lion Knight Order and Gatu people, used the fastest and most violent means to suppress all dissatisfaction, and expelled or killed all the lords who attacked him - this was obviously not something that could be achieved by a simple frontal war.
Then, he overrode and proclaimed himself king, established Lionheart Kingdom, and Kingdom of Pendor was destroyed.
No one knows the specific details, but no matter what, this Lion King has indeed stabilized the country and created a powerful fighting force that is enough to compete with enemies on all sides.
Lion King Alfred and Bax Emperor General Osa are actually tyrants without legal principles.
But were they really careerists from the beginning?
Not necessarily.
Before the demise of his mother country, General Osa was a famous general with great military exploits and an invincible conqueror. He probably had no intention of proclaiming himself emperor. After establishing New Bacchus, he has been committed to protecting his subordinates and people, and has never initiated any 'conquests'.
When Kingdom of Pendor collapsed, Duke of Lionheart Alfred was also the marshal who turned the tide and was the guardian of Pendor. He did not declare independence when Kingdom of Pendor fell into warlord rule.
But after defeating the powerful enemy, he became the king instead...
Maybe it's for profit, maybe it's to save the country, maybe it's for ambition - maybe it's all, who knows.
The world is like this, full of chance and full of changes.
These are all things that happened more than 150 years ago.
Nowadays, Baxian, which still remains in the Amara Continent's homeland, is divided into two parts.
Some of them are called 'Ash Descendants', which are the descendants of Baxian who still insist on resisting Snake Worship Cult in the ruins of ancient Bax. They established a federation to resist the invasion of Snake Worship Cult.
The other part is completely Snake Worship Cult followers.
Snake Worship Cult established a huge religious state on the site of the Second Bacchus Empire.
Whether voluntarily or by force, those Baxian who converted to Snake Worship Cult are attacking the remaining Ash Descendants compatriots while invading various continents, including Pande Continent.
The route used by Snake Worship Cult to invade Pande Continent is almost identical to the original route used by General Osa.
They also landed near Imperial Port, and then gradually eroded the people from south to north, and slowly penetrated into the high-level officials of the Bacchus Empire.