Chapter 259

"Are you really going to plant prickly kidney beans?"

Victor arrived at Rose Manor yesterday afternoon. He told Sylvia about his experience during this period, including the introduction of thorn kidney beans. However, a small parting is better than a new marriage. They have a lingering love and have no time to talk about the strategic adjustment of Renma hill. Until now, Sylvia began to ask about pricking kidney beans.

"The human horse hills are short of food. Thorn kidney beans are a high-yield crop with a yield of 3000 pounds per mu. Why are you so disgusted with thorn kidney beans?" Asked Victor, puzzled.

"Don't you know why?" Sylvia glared at him and said angrily, "prickly kidney beans occupy valuable farmland. The crops planted can only be distributed to refugees for free. Who is the master of the territory? Us? Or refugees?"

"Of course it's us!" Victor said: "according to the Convention, all the resources of the territory belong to the Lord, and the thorn kidney bean is no exception. The thorn kidney bean I planted is my property. Even if it is difficult to preserve, I can sell it to the refugees at a low price, can't I?"

"That's right. According to the usual practice, the leader donated the deteriorating food to the church and couldn't let the food be wasted. The free people in the south central part of the kingdom are used to enjoying free kidney beans. Even if you set a lower price, they won't pay for it and just wait for the church to come forward for relief." Sylvia sighed and said helplessly, "this is the reality. Planting thorn kidney beans occupies farmland and pastures, which damages the interests of our Lord."

Sylvia's attitude towards thorn kidney beans was the same as that of other lords, which reminded victor of the "sheep eat man" movement in the middle school history textbook.

In Europe from the 15th to the 17th century, with the discovery of the new continent, the opening of new routes and the success of global shipping, English foreign trade increased year by year and further stimulated the development of wool industry. The price of wool rose rapidly by 300%, and the sheep industry has become a lucrative industry. Often 10 acres of pasture yield more than 20 acres of arable land. English feudal nobles began to occupy land and turn cultivated land into pasture, causing a large number of tenant farmers to lose their jobs. Landless farmers either went abroad or wandered everywhere, falling into an extremely tragic situation.

However, the enclosure movement conforms to the historical trend and has inevitability. The feudal lords pursued the profits of wool trade, abolished the open land system with low production efficiency, enclosure sheep, opened a large number of factories in the city, and the landless farmers concentrated in the city and became workers, while the feudal nobles completed the original accumulation of capital and turned into capitalists. Finally, it created an empire that dominates the world.

Victor's human world is backward in productivity, insufficient food and poor trade. It is so far from big industry. Although the existing productivity in different world is not enough to promote the reform of production relations, the essence of the pursuit of interests by the Lord group is the same.

As far as the current situation is concerned, the refugees have no sense of belonging to the territory and kingdom, and in the eyes of the Lord, the refugees are indispensable, but they are not their own people. Planting prickly kidney beans raises outsiders and damages itself. Don't say that the Lord is not willing, the family will also strongly oppose it.

However, Victor did not have time to slowly cultivate vassals and leading people. According to objective conditions, he abandoned the pure vassal system and changed it to a system aimed at supporters, helpers and supporters and a combination of land leasing and human employment. In the rental employment system, refugees can also become supporters, and planting high-yield kidney beans is an important part of this strategy.

"Honey, planting thorn kidney beans may not make a direct profit for the family, but its hidden value is immeasurable!"

"Well, I'm listening."

Sylvia looked at her lover with great expectation. Victor could always surprise her.

Victor thought for a moment and said:“ "I call agriculture, forestry, fishing, animal husbandry and gathering as the primary industry. Mining, handicrafts, construction and manufacturing as the secondary industry. The primary industry lays the foundation for the secondary industry, that is, the primary industry can be developed before the secondary industry can be developed, so as to create more value. Although thorn kidney bean is not valuable, it can promote the development of the secondary industry..."

"Wait!" Sylvia blinked her charming eyes and said discontentedly, "I don't understand! Can you make it simple?"

"Uh... Okay." Victor tried to speak in a more straightforward way, "For example, there are 150000 people in my territory. Due to the low food production in my territory, 140000 people are needed to engage in farming, gathering, animal husbandry, fishing and hunting. Now, I plant high-yield kidney beans. As long as 70000 people are engaged in food production, they can support 150000 people. Then the remaining 80000 people can engage in mining, smelting, weaving, making wood, repairing roads and castles, and making Armament and military training to enhance the combat effectiveness of the army. "

"Yes, planting prickly kidney beans will reduce the number of cattle and sheep and the yield of wheat, but I can make up for the loss by selling wood, green bricks, textiles and iron. Because I have a large number of craftsmen, I can purchase raw materials such as hides, minerals and wood, process them into commercial products, and then sell them. I'm creating wealth with the resources of other territories. Isn't that better than that It's more cost-effective to wage war and expand territory? "

"On the other hand, prickly kidney beans are provided for free to the free people's employees. The free people's employees have saved money and always need to buy living materials? I sell living materials to the free people's employees. Does their money come back to me? As long as I slightly raise the price of daily necessities, the seemingly free prickly kidney beans also bring me benefits."

Victor said with a smile: "in fact, I not only didn't harm the interests of the family by planting thorn kidney beans, but also trained a large number of craftsmen, built many villages, towns, roads and castles, built sophisticated armaments and armed more troops. This is the primary industry and promoted the secondary industry."

The political and economic theories familiar to modern people are new to Sylvia. In fact, it is no wonder that the core strategy of the church and knight nobles is only one, that is to defeat the orcs and recapture the rich northern wilderness.

In order to compete for living space, the church spared no effort to implement the guiding ideology of limited internal struggle and consistent external struggle. For thousands of years, this thought has penetrated into all levels of the human world. Even if the dodos were beaten black and blue by the Sassanian Empire, they dare not cut off the trade road to Sassanian.

Under the pressure of orcs, knights and nobles are busy polishing fighting spirit, breeding blood, training elite soldiers and carrying forward the spirit of bravery. Scholars and nobles devoted themselves to architecture, monsters and forging. Civilians are good at building houses. They can build a castle in a few months. Therefore, in this world of low productivity, human beings can build magnificent fortresses and make military heavy crossbows with a range of 400 meters. Various alloy equipment emerge one after another, while philosophy, sociology, political economics and vital agriculture and animal husbandry science are stagnant and almost have no development.

Archbishop Lazarus once told Victor that as long as the Northern Wilderness is destroyed, any new farming and animal husbandry system is not worth mentioning! As a scholar and master, the Duke of Wellington has touched the edge of social division of labor, and resolutely retracted, eager to shovel all the thorny kidney beans in the territory. It can be seen that the idea of military priority has a great impact on human society. Of course, this is also because the human country is in danger of being broken by the orcs, and mankind has no room for compromise.

Sylvia is the leader of the human elite, but she is also limited by the noble education. How to understand the theory of social division of labor, she was almost surrounded by Victor. However, Sylvia, after all, has the wisdom that ordinary people can't reach, and soon found the fallacy.

"What you said is what the Duke of Wellington is doing. But the Wellington family is trying to eradicate thorn kidney beans, but it has not been implemented due to the pressure of the church." Sylvia looked suspiciously at Victor and asked, "the Duke of Wellington has always wanted someone to take over stabbing kidney beans. Won't you be fooled by him?"

Victor nodded and said, "through the Duke of Wellington, I found that the roads there are flat and wide, the fortress is magnificent, there are many craftsmen, and the agriculture, animal husbandry and handicrafts are very developed. The prosperity of vistock is no less than that of the king's capital, brinor." Facing Sylvia, Victor said, "with prickly kidney beans, we have plenty of manpower to build fortresses and water conservancy projects. Aren't these urgently needed by the people and horses? Isn't it our strategy to introduce population?"

Sylvia said flatly, "we need population, but we don't need kidney beans!"

"Facts have proved that planting thorn kidney beans is a mistake of the Wellington family."

"Free food has attracted a large number of refugees to flow into central and southern China to make a living. They depend on the Duke of Wellington. They can only get in and out, reproduce from generation to generation, and have a growing population. The Wellington family has to expand the planting area of thorn kidney beans and reduce pastures and farmland. Otherwise, they will import food."

"The Wellington family does have a lot of craftsmen. They use their own wood, ore and leather to process goods. They consume territory resources, but the profits are earned by the caravan. As for purchasing raw materials and processing goods, hehe, other families are not fools. The price of raw materials is very high, and the Wellington family has almost no profits."

"The Wellington family is supporting the refugees for the church, sharing the population pressure for the royal family, producing goods for the chamber of Commerce, and making profits from mining and logging for other lords. Thorn kidney beans make them a laughing stock in the aristocratic circle. I don't want to repeat it." Sylvia said seriously, "honey, I don't want to force you. But you must understand that we are one. I can't sit idly by when refugees flow into Randall's territory! In fact, even with water conservancy projects, our cultivated land is very valuable. After all, it's a hill, not a plain in the middle and south!"

"So, I don't allow you to grow thorn kidney beans!"

"That's why I didn't act without authorization."

In any case, Victor is the Lord of the human horse hill system. If you really want to put aside Sylvia and regard yourself as an independent Lord, you'll definitely have a head. Victor must convince his backers before promoting thorn kidney beans.

"Honey, I've told you the advantages of planting prickly kidney beans. As for its disadvantages... Haven't you found that prickly kidney beans are completely suitable for the situation of human horse hills?"

Sylvia's heart moved and said, "wild boar?"

Victor said with a smile, "yes, prickly kidney beans can't feed cattle and sheep, but they can be fed to pigs and can also be eaten by civilians."

"Sweet potato leaves can also raise pigs. There is no need to waste cultivated land." Sylvia shook her head slowly.

"Who said to occupy cultivated land?" Victor explained with a smile, "the thorn kidney bean itself is a shrub, which can be planted on the hills!"

Sylvia turned her mind and said angrily, "you must have considered everything. Don't sell it off."

Victor honestly confessed the jade finger photographed on the soft flesh of his waist, "I intend to cultivate terraces on the hills and plant thorn kidney beans. Due to irrigation, the yield of thorn kidney beans will certainly be reduced, but it will not occupy the cultivated land. In addition, I have reached an agreement with Baron Schultz to exchange charcoal for green bricks. Even if the shrubs on the hills are removed, I don't have to worry about lack of fuel."

"As for the influx of refugees caused by thorn kidney beans, it is not because thorn kidney beans are free, but because the church leads relief."

"Indeed." Sylvia agreed.

In fact, if the church did not use the donated kidney beans to relieve the refugees and harvest their faith, how could the Wellington family charge some fees from the migrant workers. Farmers on earth would rather dump milk, drown millions of live pigs and burn more than 50000 mu of cotton than help the poor, just to stabilize prices and avoid bankruptcy?

"So as long as I leave the church, I can solve this problem!"

Holding the catkin at his waist, Victor said in righteous words: "I want to plant prickly kidney beans, and they are also provided to migrant employees for free as wild resources!"

Sylvia's blue eyes were full of color and sighed, "Victor, you are really a genius!"

Prickly kidney beans are planted on the hills and belong to the Lord as a wild resource. However, Victor declared that this wild crop is free for the people to eat, so it does not need to be harvested and put into storage. Naturally, it can not be donated to the church. Because prickly kidney beans have been provided to the people free of charge, the church has nothing to say. However, the free employment unions of all villages resolutely resist the refugees from collecting prickly kidney beans on the hills, That's what belongs to them! The church can be soft on the Lord, and what can be done to protect the spontaneous behavior of free civil servants?

On the surface, Victor gave the kidney bean to the free worker. In fact, the free people employed by the village head were controlled by the village head. The village head listened to the arrangement of the Lords. He used the beans to raise pigs or raise people. Victor has the final say.

The church has no way to organize large-scale relief, and free people will not pour into Randall's collar in large scale. The scale of population flow is still under Victor's control. In this way, the disadvantages of thorn kidney bean will be completely solved, and the benefits will undoubtedly be highlighted.

"Oh, the Duke of Wellington is in your hand."

Sylvia smiled happily and Victor said, "honey, did you agree?"

"Of course!" Sylvia offered a kiss and said, "you let go, I support you!"

"What about the other lords?"

"Well, let's see the effect first!"

Victor shook his head and laughed. He knew that Sylvia would not promote prickly kidney beans in other territories. Randall's collar has always been the experimental field of the York family. Successful experience will be introduced, and failed attempts are Victor's business. This also reflects the differences between the two sides on the strategy of the regiment.

Victor planted thorn kidney beans to recruit soldiers from the free people and form a large professional army. The York family did not agree with the plan. They believed that the traditional defense tactics constructed by fortresses, knights, elite soldiers and militias were enough to resist the attack of ant people. The free people could serve as labor, but they could not be expected to defend their territory.

Changing ideas is not a matter of time, and Victor is not sure whether the battle of the Legion is really suitable for the world.

"All right. I'll try it at Randall first." Victor shrugged his shoulders.

"Plant prickly kidney beans as soon as possible." Sylvia's attitude has changed 180 degrees. She said: "next year, I will mobilize 20000 young people to build the southern fortress, plus 10000 people from Phoenix, a total of more than 30000 people. My logistics pressure will be very great. I hope you can help me share the supply of 20000 people."

"I see." Victor nodded and said, "I'll sell you prickly kidney beans at a low price."

"What about free?" Sylvia said angrily.

"I gave you 150000 gold sol! I also gave you purple sugarcane wine. As a result, I have to pay 20000 annuities every year! Do you also help me share some fines?" Victor complained repeatedly.

"Purple cane wine is not for you. The green wheat supplied to you accounts for 50% of Randall's grain consumption!" Sylvia won't budge.

"Now it's 30%, and Randall's population has reached 12000. Moreover, the value of purple sugarcane wine is far greater than that of green wheat." Victor is penny wise.

"Sophia earned the profits of purple cane wine. She took my purple cane wine and became popular in Neville and had a relationship with the barbarian tribe. I ask you, whose wife is Sophia? Who should you ask for your fine?" Sylvia began to argue.

"What else does Sophia have to do with me? She has gone to Borui kingdom to meet her lover. Can I ask her for money?" Victor was indignant.

Sylvia held her chest in her hands and said sarcastically, "hehe, didn't Sophia give you the 150000 gold sol you gave me? Can you have 150000 gold sol yourself?"

Victor was speechless and stunned. He understood that Sylvia was a divine knight and a woman. As long as she was a woman, don't expect her to be reasonable.

"Well, Sophia has another secret about going to Borui kingdom. It is said to be related to barbarians, but there is no conclusive news..."

Seeing Victor unhappy, Sylvia thought he had not forgotten his feelings and had a heart to comfort him, but Sophia must go to see Andre, and she finally had nothing to say.

Victor inexplicably spread his hand and said innocently, "it's none of my business!"