As a lord, I was forced to farm

Chapter 854 Purple Floating Swan
Guanfu Lake is a large lake on Juguan Island, stretching for several kilometers as far as the eye can see.

The surrounding area is lush with vegetation, embraced by layers of reeds. The lake water is clear, reflecting birds and clouds, with irregular dark ripples on the surface.

Guanfu Lake is named so because a flock of purple swans inhabits the lake, and the water is deep. People on the shore can see the swans from the lake. Also, because of the name of the island, it is called Guanfu Lake.

The purple swans in the lake are exceptionally beautiful, with extremely gorgeous feathers. Each feather is like silk dyed with twilight and sunset, shimmering with iridescent purple. They have long necks, and when they lower their heads to play in the water and peck at food, their necks are curved into the most elegant arc, like works of art carved from ancient sandalwood.

"These purple swans are so beautiful!" Jiang Xiaowen exclaimed, licking her lips. "I saw their eggs; they must be delicious!"

There are quite a few purple swans living in Guanfu Lake, about three thousand in total. They feed on fish and shrimp in the lake and lay nearly a thousand eggs a day.

However, many birds on the Lingze Islands are also attracted by the eggs of the Purple Floating Swan, circling in the air waiting for an opportunity to strike.

Seeing that Jiang Xiaowen was a little tempted, Jiang Ran stretched out her finger, and the next moment, three swan eggs, each larger than a fist, appeared in her hand.

"Give."

Jiang Xiaowen was still a child, and she happily hugged the three goose eggs to her chest, her beautiful cat eyes narrowing into slits.

This flock of purple swans is like a treasure trove. Today, the planting industry in Dasu is developing very well. In addition to planting basic food crops, they also grow a lot of cash crops such as medicinal herbs, cotton, ramie, and mulberry trees.

Along with the development of agriculture, animal husbandry also gradually emerged.

For example, raising silkworms, chickens and ducks, cattle, and horses.

However, animal husbandry developed relatively late in Dasu, and there are not many large-scale ranches yet, and the types of livestock that can be raised are also relatively few.

At this time of year, discovering a large flock of purple swans on Juguan Island would be a truly delightful surprise.

The Purple Floating Swan not only lays eggs, but its meat is also delicious, and its feathers can be used to make talisman pens for writing talismans, as well as materials for making many magical artifacts.

As a magical beast species, the Purple Floating Swan is quite wild, but it is relatively weak in attack. Ordinary farmers may be able to try raising it.

"Nancheng should be on Juguan Island now." Jiang Ran recalled that Jiang Nancheng had been frequently traveling around the Lingze Islands recently, mainly because of the newly discovered demon spirits.

Juguan Island is very large. After walking eastward towards Guanfu Lake for a while, the two saw the Ninglei Fruit Forest.

At this time, there were already people in Ninglei Orchard, a dozen or so people chatting while weeding the orchard.

"This fruit is so delicate, it juicy at the slightest touch."

"Although the fruit is very precious, this fruit tree is still very tenacious. It competes with so many weeds for nutrients, but it still gave birth to a demon spirit."

One person sighed and said.

Several young men dressed in coarse cloth were seen squatting on the ground, clearing weeds with short hoes and sickles.

The weeds were so lush that they reached above waist height.

Weeds are incredibly resilient; if their roots aren't completely removed, they'll sprout new shoots overnight, even though they were cut the night before.

"I'm happy to have Lord Nancheng teaching me, but why do I spend every day or two weeding in the grass?" someone said dejectedly.

These young people were all students from the Su Hong Demon Spirit Branch Academy, and they were brought to the Lingze Islands by Jiang Nancheng to broaden their horizons.

Of course, those chosen to come to the Lingze Islands must have had pretty good grades at the academy. The boy's words weren't out of a sense of fatigue; after all, they did weeding at the academy, and sometimes they had to clear land under the scorching sun, all without any compensation.

Everyone knows that to become a demon spirit master, one usually starts from the most basic level of farming, learning how to hoe the land and cultivate the land, and there is no one to complain about it.

I had hoped for even more amazing encounters when I came to the Lingze Islands.

"Isn't this what demon spirit masters are like? They deal with the fields, live off the fields, and only by taking good care of the fields can they have the opportunity to cultivate demon spirits." A tanned young man grinned, his smile very sunny.

No one could refute what the young woman said, because she had indeed managed to make a living from the land.

Many students from Suhong School admire her cheerful personality.

Of course, I also admire her intelligence.

As outstanding students of the Demon Spirit Academy, Liu Ling was selected as the assistant to two demon spirit masters, Gao and Xu, in the county in the first year of the academy's establishment, based on her first-place ranking in theoretical studies.

After the Prince's younger brother returned from Mingxiao Academy, he selected Chen Ling again. Later, following several demon spirit masters in the county, he turned dozens of acres of land in the academy into low-grade spirit fields.

For such an achievement, both the academy and the government offered rewards.

Although Chen Ling may have only done some odd jobs in the process of cultivating the spirit field, the academy rewarded her with five thousand spirit crystals, while the government rewarded her with ten acres of land.

For a demon spirit master, owning their own farmland is a fundamental necessity.

Although Dasu is a place with more land than people, for every child born in the registered household, Dasu will allocate one acre to the newborn.

But these lands actually belong to the families, and as family farmland, they naturally wouldn't be given to them to experiment on.

Moreover, the ten acres of land that the government rewarded Chen Ling with were not wasteland, but real fertile fields.

Having followed the demon spirit masters, she must have learned some knowledge about cultivating spirit fields. It's probably only a matter of time before she converts these ten acres into low-grade spirit fields.

"With land, you can have your own spirit, right?" The crowd looked at Liu Ling with envy.

According to Article 5 of the "Great Laws of the Wandering Demons": Any wild and unfettered demon spirit shall be identified by its dwelling place. If it stays in one place for a long time, it shall belong to the lord or guardian of that place.

This law follows the principle of 'spirit returns to the land,' primarily protecting the interests of spirit cultivators and landowners.

The ownership of spirits mainly follows three aspects:

One interpretation is that it pertains to a place, based on where one dwells.

Secondly, the order of time is based on the place of long-term residence.

Thirdly, human relations, returning to the land owner or the person who guards the property.

Of course, there are exceptions. For example, if farmland is rented out, there may be other contracts between the landowner and the tenant. For instance, it may be agreed that if a spirit is born on the farmland, it belongs to the landowner (tenant).

Generally speaking, when the contract is signed, if the spirit belongs to the tenant, the rent will be more expensive; otherwise, the rent will be relatively cheaper.

Spirits also have the habit of seeking advantage and avoiding harm. They will linger more on the plants of their own kind that are growing better. Although it is a bit troublesome to identify where a spirit lingers more, it generally depends on which crops are growing better and the spirit's residual power on the crops (this requires special instruments to detect).