Reclaiming land, breeding seeds, and training agricultural apprentices.
These were the tasks Zong Shen had previously assigned to Salome Forestspeech.
If the territory wanted to develop agriculture on a large scale, it had to explore agricultural techniques.
Based on actual conditions, it needed to find a suitable and efficient cultivation method.
There was no concept of intensive farming on the Endless Continent, and even agronomists had become an extremely niche technical profession.
With vast lands and miraculous magic, studying the laws of nature was far less simple and direct than using magic outright.
Even without magic, food production across the various regions had remained relatively stable.
The Free Citizens in villages across the land—that was, the villagers—only needed to pay a tax from their harvests, while the rest belonged entirely to them.
Some regions levied taxes twice a year, in spring and autumn, while others directly collected taxes in grain and agricultural produce. The specific policies were entirely decided by the local ruling nobles.
Among the human kingdoms of the Endless Continent, apart from the Sarranid Sultanate, the noble systems inherited by the other nations shared certain customs with the medieval European aristocratic system on Earth.
First, the kingdom itself was the main body, extending downward into Great Cities, Bang Cities, villages, and settlements.
Depending on territorial size and the level of urban development, every kingdom generally had hundreds, or even two to three hundred, Great City-level units.
The concept of a Great City was rather broad.
It included super Great Cities such as Imperial Cities, as well as ordinary Great Cities scattered across various regions.
However, even the smallest Great City had a population of at least ten million, nearly comparable to a core prefecture-level city on Earth with a highly concentrated population and functional zones.
Low unit productivity,