Chapter 371

Clement and Severin took a part-time job harvesting Pennisetum on the terraces far from George village.

It rained last night. The air was cool and the land was soft. The village deacon led the team, passing through wheat fields, potato fields and fallow farmland, and saw the distant hilly terraces.

The terraces circle around, turning the hills into a curved world full of rhythm. The broad leaves of Pennisetum fluctuate with the wind, like a green pleated skirt worn on a curvaceous beauty. The beauty lies on the earth, solemn but charming, beautiful, picturesque and dazzling.

This is the beauty of wisdom and power for human beings to transform nature and build their homes.

They stopped to watch for a moment, led the camel antelope, climbed the ups and downs of the terraces along the winding path.

"We all know the rules. I say again, don't cut off the whole clump of Pennisetum. It's not beautiful to be bare! We only take the mature stems and leave the green ones, and they will grow again. Every 10 bales of Pennisetum are harvested, change a copper sol, or a bale of Pennisetum. More work, more pay. We finish work at noon without meals!" The village deacon once again stressed: "no lunch!"

"Cut, no rice, no rice, I have steamed goose to eat at noon..." turnans muttered, picked up a small sickle and quickly harvested the green Pennisetum, acting skillfully like an old farmer.

Pennisetum is a perennial plant with a life span of more than 4 years. It has tall plants, developed roots, can go deep into the soil layer, strong drought tolerance, clustered stems and strong regeneration ability. Just like purple sugarcane, it can continue to grow as long as it leaves its roots.

Pennisetum is soft and juicy, rich in nutrition and grows rapidly. It can be harvested 8 times a year, with an annual yield of 30000 pounds per mu. It is an important green feed for raising livestock and poultry, and can also be made into hay or silage. After its stems and leaves are chopped and ground, they can also be used to raise fish.

However, Pennisetum also has high requirements for land fertility, and large-scale planting often leads to barren cultivated land. Therefore, farmers in other territories generally do not deliberately plant Pennisetum. They only harvest wild Pennisetum.

The whole plant of Pennisetum in the terrace is more than 3 meters high, the leaves are as wide as the palm of the hand, the nodes are as thick as pigeon eggs, and the growth is very prosperous.

This is due to the manure collection system formed by Randall's developed aquaculture and public health.

Pinghu Town has a population of more than 80000 and raises nearly 200000 pigs, sheep, cattle and horses. The Viscount may be influenced by the spirit's blood. He has almost strict requirements for environmental sanitation. People and animals are forbidden to urinate everywhere. Those who are light will be fined and those who are heavy will be whipped.

It's hard to break the police station. Public security soldiers can't manage more than 80000 migrant workers, let alone disobedient animals? So Sheriff Munk asked Mrs. Lilia to issue another decree: the feces belonged to the collector.

After the promulgation of the decree, a gray force controlled by the public security completely monopolized the fertilizer collection work of Randall collar and finicos collar. They are used to hanging a gray towel around their neck to cover their mouth and nose, so they are called gray towels.

Driven by interests, the work enthusiasm of grey towel is unprecedented. They use fines and fists to help disobedient refugees develop the habit of going to the toilet. They use copper coins to buy manure from swineherd and herdsmen, hire half of their children to pick up bird droppings, set up simple toilets in the fields, buy deacons, intimidate employees and make these simple toilets work. They pour the collected fecal water into the septic tank, add green grass, straw and sludge, Rett it into fertilizer, and then sell it to the village heads at twice the price.

There is a joke among employees: Randall doesn't have bears because they can't go to the bathroom and can't afford to pay a fine.

Of course, grey towels can't deal with beasts, but they are really active in every village, every road, every field, pasture and terrace in the man horse hills.

According to the statistics of the church, an average of 70 people have a gray towel. Although they are not popular, the benefits are obvious.

In the words of turnans: Randall's clean collar makes people like it at first sight, and the fertile land makes people reluctant to leave.

Fertilizer makes Pennisetum thrive in terraced fields. Pennisetum can raise more livestock, create more wealth and job opportunities, attract more population and produce more fertilizer, gradually forming a virtuous circle.

And this is only part of the new farming and animal husbandry system!

New farming and animal husbandry will certainly be welcomed by the Lord, but we can't rush to promote the development mode of Randall's collar. Sylvia just made the best choice for the human horse hills, and there are still some problems that haven't emerged... Clement thought.

At noon, Clement and turnans easily harvested 30 bales of Pennisetum, and Severin was so tired and sweating that he only harvested 25 bales.

"Robert's boy, these five bales of Pennisetum can't be counted for money." The Deacon kicked the properly bound Pennisetum and said, "otherwise I'll write it down for you, or you'll take half a bundle back to feed the goose."

"I just want to take it home and feed the goose." Severin wiped the sweat off his face with a towel and said with a smile.

"That's OK. You can make half a bundle yourself." The Deacon nodded and continued to deliver Pennisetum with others. When the last person's reward was paid, he shouted: "tie Pennisetum to the camel antelope, take your own Pennisetum, and we'll go back!"

The hired workers took copper coins, picked up their own Pennisetum and walked to the village with a smile. The scarecrow with funny smiling faces in the wheat field silently watched them go away.

At the entrance of the village, the team dissolved itself. Sevelin took the Pope and the Paladin to the door of his courtyard. A glossy black dog rushed out, wagging its tail at the little master and bared its teeth and barked at the stranger.

"Go, go, go." Severin kicked the black dog away, unloaded half a bundle of green Pennisetum and shouted, "Daddy, mom, aunt Katie, the guests have come."

A young man took the lead. He is about 20 years old. He has a strong body, a straight waist and back. His brown hair is only inches long, without sideburns and beard. His eyes are bright. He looks clean and energetic.

"Brother sabins, you're back!" Severin hugged the young man in surprise.

"Severin, you've grown tall." The eldest son of the Robert family smiled, patted his brother on the shoulder, bowed slightly to the two guests and said, "sabins has seen two gentlemen."

The most prominent figures in Randall's leadership are the Viscount, Mrs. finicos and father Miller. As father Miller's assistant, Reverend David has the same status as Lord Nelson. Moreover, David often contacts mercenaries and is more likely to be concerned.

Sabins served in the mercenary Corps. He was young but well-informed. Reverend David personally arranged for two relatives to live in George village. Sabins had heard of it for a long time, and he specially entrusted someone to pass the news to Aunt Marcy. Families with humble origins like the Robert family especially need to expand their contacts. It would be great if they could get on with father David's relatives.

When sabins came home, he was overjoyed to hear that Wright and Tunan were going to be guests. Naturally, he didn't dare to be rude.

At this time, Robert and other family members also came out, "Welcome, welcome, I'm Robert... This is my eldest son sabins, who has served in the Legion for more than two years and is now a chief of staff... This is my third son, Severin, oh, you know... I have my second son helping the chef in the canteen in Pinghu Town... This is one of my wives, Katie. The three little guys are my young children..." Robert introduced incoherently.

Father David is a big man. His relatives will have to sit on the same level with the head of George village in the future. Hey, only a few people in George village know about it... Robert thought humbly and proudly.

"I'm Wright. His name is Tunan." The Pope introduced kindly under the crown.

"Where are Marcy's mother and Asha?" Severin looked left and right and asked his father.

Before Robert could answer, the hostess and her biological daughter came out of the kitchen. When Marcy saw the bald and eyebrowless turnans, her heart beat violently, as if the man in front of her was a fierce bear, and her steps became hesitant. Then the feeling of fear disappeared in an instant. She was relieved and couldn't help wondering.

Marcy shook her head gently and greeted warmly. "Are both guests hungry? Lunch is ready. Please come in."

Clement and tournans went to the pool and washed their hands with pancreatic soap. Tournans kept his lips still and made a very subtle voice in his throat: "that's a violent woman. It's a pity that she didn't eat well and lacked training when she was a child. She's only a little better than an elite soldier. It's useless."

Wild intuition is the only criterion to measure the degree of ferocity. Some paladins are stronger than ferocious warriors, but they are not ferocious humans. Therefore, turnans sympathizes with Nelson for the first time, but has no feeling for Renault. In fact, alchemy militia and paladins can only be classified as secret law warriors.

According to the statistics of the church, the ratio of human violence is 7000:1. Randall has more than 40000 people. It is not surprising that there is a violent woman.

Clement nodded and walked into Robert's living room with turnans.

The food on the table is very rich, including two steamed fat geese, a pot of stewed pig feet, two one meter long charcoal roasted salmon, stewed pig bones with round melons, coarse sugar bread, various vegetables, a large plate of fruit and a small bucket of purple cane wine.

Turnans impolitely picked up a juicy pig's hoof, chewed it full of oil, and praised it: "delicious!"

The hosts smiled and began to eat. After a few drinks, the atmosphere became harmonious and casual. Only Yasha pouted and looked unhappy.

"What happened to sister Yasha?" Severin belched with wine and asked with a red face.

"The worthless Shilin courted her and was caught by me." Marcy said, hating that iron is not steel.

"Shilling is promising! He and his brother can save 8 SILVER sols a month!" Yasha said angrily. The girl looked quite handsome and didn't look like her mother at all.

"It's not a good thing to save a lot of money. Their brothers may leave Randall's collar at any time. Dear daughter, your mother and I don't want you to go to the hard days of wandering around again." Robert advised his adopted daughter and said disdainfully, "besides, can they have as much money as our family?"

"Yasha, you should find a family worthy of us. My colleagues have many unmarried handsome boys. I will introduce you to them when Pinghu Town carnival." Sabins took a sip of purple cane wine and said with a smile. In Randall's collar, it is common for superior families to marry each other. He very much hopes that his beautiful sister can marry into the vassal family.

"People living in the north side can't get ahead!" Severin also despised Shilin, who wanted to eat swan meat. "The next batch of houses have been set, and the mercenary Corps will no longer recruit people. Brother, am I right?"

Sabins nodded and said, "it is said that this house building is the last batch. If you want to be a deacon or soldier later, you must go to school first. The shilling brothers will not have the opportunity to stand out. If they get married and have children in Randall, the next generation may have a chance."

"Shilling can get ahead!" Yasha said unconvinced, "he and his brother have discussed that they are going to join the swamp scouts!"

"That's even worse! I don't want you to be a widow at a young age." Marcy sneered.

Clement suddenly asked, "can you tell us what you think of Randall's recruitment of stewards and soldiers?"

"I'm stupid with Nelson... Hey, Lord knows me very well. Two boys of his family, Jory and Mott, also peed on me. Father David has agreed with Lord to let us spend some time in George village before arranging our duties. You know, some things are not easy to do when we first came here. However, we should do the following things We still need to understand. " Turnans deliberately put on a careless and mysterious look.

Robert's eyes were more burning, and he said, "you're right. You won't be deceived unless you know the following things first."

"Take our George village for example. Those guys who live in the North District do heavy work and earn a lot of money, but they are carefree and can leave at any time. They can only be regarded as refugees. The most common way for them to lead in Randall is to spend money to buy a woman in yeliucheng, preferably with children. In this way, they can move to the west district."

"People living in the west side have children and women. They always have to support their families and buy furniture and clothes. They can be counted as civilians. The men in the family have the right to receive militia training. If they are the right age and perform well, Lord Nelson will recruit him into the mercenary Corps. Then their family can borrow money to build a house and live in our east side."

"Families in the eastern district can rent 80 mu of cultivated land, which is the treatment of leading the people. We want to be vassals. There are two ways. One is to serve in the Legion for 30 years and get a 20 mu fief, or if their children go to school and become Deacons for 30 years, get a 10 mu fief."

"As for the children of the vassal, they can go to Yinyue manor to receive attendant training. After they come out, they are at least a steward or Centurion."

"In addition, you can also join the swamp scouts. As long as you can work for 8 years, you can directly join the Legion. Master Randall also rewards a yard, 200 kinsol and 100 mu of leased land. As for those who have technology and ability, as long as master Randall can see it, everything is easy to say."

Clement nodded and asked sabins, "aren't you afraid of fighting after 25 years of service? What if you die?"

"This is my home. My parents, brothers and sisters are protected by Randall's master. I must defend his majesty." Sabins said seriously, "if I die, my son or brother will take over my armor and spear and fight for the Randall family! My merit will be passed on to them, and the master and the church will guarantee this."

"It is said that Randall's hired soldiers and vassal soldiers are paid every year?" Asked tulnans.

Sabins smiled, shook his head and said: "Randall collar has no vassal soldiers or mercenaries, only the master's soldiers. The sons of the vassal family and the Lingmin family are treated the same as long as they join the army. Our salary is only divided according to their military age and position. For the first three years, I get 4 gold sols a year, and the salary increases by 2 gold sols every three years. Now I am the chief of staff, managing an eight person team, and I pay more every year There are two kinsol's military commander's allowances. The military commander also has a ten captain in charge of 25 people and a centurion in charge of 80 people. Six centurions form a brigade, about 500 people, with three captains. Six infantry teams form a regiment, with a total of 3000 people, under the command of the military commander. Under the command of the military commander, there are five deputy generals, who will lead a cavalry brigade, two Archer brigades and two baggage soldiers Brigade. "

"Of course, we don't have an integrated Legion yet... Only 1500 infantry, 300 cavalry and a fast bird elite." Sabins said shyly, "in fact, I really want to be a fast bird cavalry. It's the master's Pro guard."

Clement thought for a moment and asked, "the quota for building a house has been set in this time?"

Robert was about to speak when Marcy kicked him under the table.

"I won't tell anyone." Clement's voice is soft and sincere, has the charm of conquering people's hearts, and people can't help trusting him.

"Many people hesitated to wait and see when building a house for the first time, but we seized a good opportunity. This time, the 200 places were recommended by the village head and the feudal minister. Randall has a group of later businessmen, just like Sid in our village. He has money and power, buys public horses, opens shops and builds paper workshops, which makes the village head very happy. His relatives can write well Of course, other families don't have a chance. " Robert said it all out.

Clement took a sip of purple cane wine and thought, "that's the problem."