Pioneer Lord: Starting From Daily Intelligence

Chapter 215: Chapter 118: The Second Harvest Season (Part 2)

But after more than a cycle, Tiberus smoothly returned, bringing back a large amount of spoils!

He rode atop a mighty Half-Griffin, followed by a large group of heavily armed rebels. Under Tiberus’s leadership, they cleared out two goblin tribes, defeated a Beastman Roar Beast Group, and raided a hidden Forest Bandit camp!

With the principle of not missing anything useful, they didn’t even let go of a broken arrow, a piece of ore, or a wild herb!

He brought back over twenty slaves and prisoners (including women) and even contributed a Half-Griffin egg to Su Li!

He kept one for himself and held an auction in Hesse Town, which stirred the Corona Knight Order and numerous Territorial Knights.

No one wouldn’t want a Half-Griffin egg. Even if they don’t use it themselves, they can keep it for a son or daughter—it’s a companion to grow with!

Ultimately, this Half-Griffin egg was sold for 2180 Golden Crowns under the enormous wealth of the Corona Knight Order!

Su Li collected 1308 gold coins in tax alone!

However, whether it’s the joining of the immigration group, the allegiance of mighty generals, or the increase in various taxes, these are minor things for Su Li.

The biggest harvest in these peaceful months has undoubtedly been the progress in farming and development.

After all, farming and expanding power are the king’s way of territory development.

Since the Summer Solstice celebration, farming has been underway for almost three months, and the agricultural enterprise in Jorn Shallow Bay has been fruitful and pleasingly rich.

Especially during this autumn harvest season, Su Li couldn’t help but come to inspect this border granary area.

Since the primary crop is wheat, the harvest season arrives during the warm summer.

The wheat harvest period is generally at the end of June, before July.

Due to the territory gaining a great deal of Divine Grace, this harvest season is bound to usher in a second bountiful harvest.

Su Li stood on the dam of Jorn Shallow Bay, looking down to see tens of thousands of acres of fertile land where wheat had turned fully golden, with heavy ears of wheat even bending the stems.

This sight made Su Li feel particularly joyful. He asked his accompanying Minister of Agriculture, Vandar: ”My minister, I have entrusted the territory’s farming enterprise to you this summer. Now it’s the harvest season—how are the results?”

Vandar said with a smile: ”Thanks to the irrigation from Lake Revelin, the farmland beneath Jorn Shallow Bay is extraordinarily fertile. The first acre of wheat field harvested this morning yielded 310 pounds!”

pounds?!

Lake Revelin’s water really has the effect of fertilizer!

He remembered that previously the spring wheat only yielded 190 pounds. Everyone was filled with hope for the future then, and Vandar was particularly ambitious, believing the summer wheat yields could be as high as 270 pounds.

But, clearly everyone underestimated the effect of Lake Revelin’s water!

The yield per acre was not 190 pounds, nor 270 pounds, but as high as 310 pounds.

Su Li immediately asked with concern, ”How many wheat fields in total do we have? You should have counted accurately this summer, right?”

The Minister of Agriculture’s work is not just guiding the people to farm; the statistics and registration of field records are also of paramount importance.

Vandar promptly replied: ”Lord, the field records have been completely registered.”

”Just here in Jorn Shallow Bay, your wheat field scale reaches 33,000 acres.”

”Additionally, there are over 9,000 acres of gradually maturing pumpkin, beet, rapeseed, and others.”

Su Li asked with great interest, ”What is the yield per acre for pumpkins?”

”The yield per acre is probably around 7000 pounds. The largest pumpkin, its weight alone reaches over 300 pounds, requiring two or three people to lift it. A cart can only carry two.”

These vegetables are really high-yield! Su Li estimated a bit, laughingly saying: ”Doesn’t that mean this year’s grain production reached 10,230,000 pounds?”

Over 10 million pounds of grain harvest—it’s not quite appropriate to calculate by pounds anymore; converting that makes roughly exactly 5000 tons.

In modern society, of course, this isn’t considered a big achievement. Even in the Great Unified Dynasty, it is insignificant—a Cao Ship roughly loads 200 tons of grain, and 25 Cao Ships could transport Jorn Shallow Bay’s summer output.

But for a small feudal territory in this world, such a large output is enough to ensure the entire territory, from now until winter, no longer has to worry about hunger!

Just this 10 million pounds of grain is enough for the territory’s 5000 people and livestock to eat for over 300 days.

Of course, advanced mounts such as warhorses and Griffins consume wealth comparably, requiring careful feeding, sometimes needing to be fed fine meat.

But the territory also has the output from fishing and hunting, which means the territory can expand significantly.

For example, using 3 million pounds of grain to brew wine or trade with Dwarves could gain a substantial amount of wealth from them.

Meanwhile, the territory can also employ more Ogre gluttons to accelerate the territory’s construction.

Currently, the territory indeed has an Ogre community, but it’s at the foot of a mountain in the Half-Elf Autonomous Region. To prevent them from causing riots, members of the Ogre construction team generally don’t take time off simultaneously. They work in shifts, and usually, only dozens of Ogres are in the community.

Other Ogres are either building in Hesse Town or digging waterways and constructing city walls.

Currently, there are about 300 Ogres in the territory. They move between canteens, construction sites, and taverns like workers. Unless necessary, they do not interact with humans. If communication is needed, it is usually the foreman Half-Elf who steps in.