Season of Sinking Fog, Year 1·Misty Spring Spring has arrived, but it is not as refreshing as the rain falling from the sky in the past. The earth is still shrouded in mist. To say it is different, it is probably because there is more crystal dew on the grass blades.
After Sylutia brought people back to the Mage Alliance, a steady stream of materials was transported from the Mage Alliance to the border of the Woodland Alliance. Then the two parties conducted trade and handover, using the mechanical creations and commodities produced in exchange for a large amount of food crops.
There is not a small amount of food provided to the Mage Alliance. Due to the lack of suitable and convenient means of transportation, there will be a lot of losses during the transportation of food. Three portions of food are often prepared, only one reaches the border, and the other two are eaten on the way.
Woodland Alliance Most countries are in mountainous areas and forests. In the past, they were self-sufficient in food, so there was no need to consider this. But now if you want to transport food out, you need a lot of manpower and animal power. Those huge beasts of burden, although they have a large loading and transportation capacity, they also consume a lot of rations and feed.
"----So, the mechanical creations to increase grain production must be put into use as soon as possible." Blue Gum Witch told Sylutia.
"I understand." Sylutia nodded and agreed.
In the next week, she and a group of Mage began to teach local residents how to use machinery to till the land, sow seeds, and harvest. During the process, many Wizard and Witch came to visit and were very curious.
In the field, after the Steam Engine was started, the iron mold began to rotate, constantly turning up the caked soil, and then breaking it up. At this time, some grass roots and insect eggs in the ground were also turned up, rolled up, mixed with the straw, and burned and removed.
Then it's time to sow. Every time the machine inserts a groove, it automatically sprinkles the grain seeds. Soon the fields covering tens of thousands of square meters are sown:
Then there is the issue of watering. At this time, you need to use special excavation machinery to build ditches to divert water. In addition, it can also be paired with a pump to pump out groundwater for use.
Although Mage were not good at agriculture in the past, the use of mechanized tools has indeed greatly improved production efficiency in the past two years, allowing many fields that were difficult to cultivate manually to be cultivated.
"It's really an exaggeration. In just two days, such a large piece of land was cultivated." Wizard said with emotion.
"However, the cost of these things is not cheap. Now it is Season of Sinking Fog. It is okay to say that the price of grain is expensive. But when Trade Wind Season comes, the price of grain will drop, so it may not be cost-effective to use machinery." Someone evaluated it this way.
"Who knows, Season of Sinking Fog still has sixteen years left, let's see if we can get through the difficulties at hand."
"Actually, the Woodland is not in such urgent need of machinery to expand production. If it were not for trade with them, we would be self-sufficient."
"That's what I say, but in addition to machinery, Mage also provides a lot of other resources, especially gemstones and metals."
"Have you heard, several Lizardman lords of Mangrove Wetlands" are fighting over the precious gems shipped from the Mage Alliance. Several small conflicts have occurred, and several Lizardman tribes are fighting Hemorrhage."
"Ah, over there, Lizardman has inherited Dragon's preference and has no resistance to gems and gold."
"In fact, it is also caused by the local environment. In the swamp jungle, many things are easy to corrode and rust, so gems and gold are not easy to go bad. Many Lizardman tribes require a gold necklace to propose marriage, and the locals value this very much."
"Lion Covenant" It's the same over there. Mage Alliance have gone through a lot of the metals they brought this time, and most of them have been used to make weapons and armor. Who can refuse a heavy and Sharpness huge axe? This is simply the thing Orc feels most worthy of bragging about."
"Knight Sanctuary" It's better over there. Although they also need weapons and armor, they mostly made them by themselves in the past. This time they just have more choices and supplements, not so big Impact."
"Golden Sheaf Horn" attaches great importance to the Mage Alliance's daily necessities, such as fresh-keeping boxes, Purification mist equipment, indoor temperature adjustment equipment, music boxes, popular clothing styles, etc. They also like weapons and cannons."
"There is now a delegation from Golden Sheaf Horn stationed in Sea of Trees. They have been learning the operation and use of these machines recently, as well as inquiring about the uses of various new creations."
In the midst of everyone's discussion, this round of mechanized teaching ended, and many people who participated in the training quickly mastered the operation methods of these machines.
Two weeks later, this kind of teaching and training no longer requires formal Mage to be present. Many apprentices can teach. Sylutia also took some time off and began to discuss with the other Mages who came with them, how to compile basic teaching materials and provide popular science education to some children.
Three months later, several basic mechanical operation manuals were compiled and compiled, which detailed the operating procedures, precautions, uses of each structure, and simple maintenance methods, etc.
Anyone who is literate and has received basic education can understand it.
But even so, if you want to teach it to farmers, you still need some talented people who are literate and have basic education, and there are not many of these in the countryside.
"There is still a long way to go to popularize mechanized agriculture." Sylutia sighed after summarizing the results of the past few months.
Many things can affect the whole body at the same time. Only when you really do it, you will find that it is not that easy.
In fact, many of the machines transported by the Mage Alliance this time are also used in industrial production, but they also have many problems.
For example, large steel-making equipment requires a large amount of metal ore to be started up first. Once production is stopped, restarting and maintaining it consumes extremely high resources and costs.
So how to obtain a large amount of ore requires large mines, which requires organizing a large number of miners, and setting up appropriate means of transportation to transport these raw materials from distant places. However, Woodland Alliance there are no smooth and smooth roads between most countries.
The construction of roads like this is a large-scale project. If you want to get rich, build roads first." This is a wise saying. Don't even think of omitting any of the roads we have traveled in the past development period.
In addition, the start-up of various large-scale projects requires people who have received basic education. Basic education not only solves the problem of being able to read and understand instructions, but also the collective learning and life in school also cultivates the most basic sense of cooperation, knowing that you must obey arrangements, not mess around on your own, and work according to standards.
Otherwise, these things that you take for granted, humans who have grown up barbarically will not understand and cannot do them.
In cities and towns where humans live, such manpower is relatively easy to find, but once they enter the deep mountains, those barbarians, Orc, Lizardman, and aliens who live according to tribes have no relevant awareness at all. They even hate knowledge, because learning knowledge is actually an unpleasant process that requires constant thinking and construction, and hunting and fighting with only claws and blades is particularly easy and straightforward.
After inspecting the situation in various places of the Woodland, in just a few months, Xilu Tia gave up many things previously planned and changed to a more realistic project plan.
Anyway, let's build a road first.
Sylutia wrote this line in his notebook.