When the Saint comes, she does not collect food

Chapter 665 Purple Egg Sweet Beans and Blue Coffee

"Is there something wrong with the pendulum's measurement?" Horn frowned, looking at the surveying monks standing in a row in front of him, "Are you sure it's not the angle or the ball being too big that caused the simple pendulum to become a compound pendulum?"

In mid-February of 1447, the entire northern county of Black Snake Bay began to gradually warm up, but this was no reason for the monks to sweat.

When the Northern County Council was established, the John Party and the Shadow Society voted unanimously to join the Holy Axis, surrender customs and diplomatic rights, and accept garrisons.

In order to ensure the smooth progress of federalization, Juan set up an office for Horn in the temple in Long Beach.

In recent days, patriarchs of wizard families, leaders of large and medium-sized secret parties, new military officers and elders of the Black Snake Bay village have all visited here.

In the future, when Horn leaves, this will be the office of the Holy Axis, used to allocate tariffs, arbitrate justice and convey Horn's will.

After the Sacred Axis office moved into the Northern County Council, it began to promote the metric system - meters, cubic meters, tons and other units.

This was one of the plans made in 1447, and was originally limited to the Thousand River Valley, but since the northern counties have already sided with Horn, it is natural to include it as well.

However, problems arose as soon as the metric system was implemented in Black Snake Bay.

From the craftsmen and monks in charge of the survey, Horn actually heard that the pendulum measurement method had errors of varying degrees in the Black Snake Bay area.

The small ones have a difference of only three to five centimeters, while the large ones have a difference of seven to eight centimeters.

"We repeated it many times and conducted a large number of tests, and the results were consistent." The monk who was measuring handed a small bag to Horn. "But according to the laws of natural theology, we conducted a lot of exploration in the vicinity to find common points, and then we found this."

Reaching out and opening the small bag, Horn pinched a piece of sticky reddish-brown waxy soil from the bag, like weathered plasticine.

"what is this?"

"The locals call it hollow soil." The monk stood straight, but he didn't dare to look at Horn. He just looked above his head. "According to the three laws of mechanics you proposed, the acceleration due to gravity should be constant, so we think it is this kind of soil that affects the measurement of the simple pendulum."

Looking down at the reddish-brown clay in his hand, Horn weighed it and found that it was much lighter than ordinary clay.

Are these the things that cause the gravity anomaly?
The pendulum odometry method is based on the acceleration of gravity. When other conditions remain unchanged, a shorter pendulum length indicates a smaller acceleration of gravity.

After such a long period of confirmation, Horn can basically be sure that the world conforms to Newton's coffin lid on a macro level.

But now there is a gravity anomaly that has caused the length of the pendulum rope to shorten by seven or eight centimeters, which is a bit weird.

But is there anything weirder than metal barely conducting electricity? Is there anything weirder than water vapor disappearing into thin air?

After the initial doubts, Horn calmed down. He thought for a moment and said, "How about this? You dig more of this soil, send some to the Dragon Language Alchemy University for experiments, and send the rest to the Ruoan Party to see if they have any information."

"Yes, Your Majesty." A row of monks simultaneously tapped their chests and waved in salute, then lined up like robots and walked out of the office in the temple.

After they left, Horn threw the clay into the bag, but did not continue to handle official business. Instead, he walked to the window and looked at the vegetable beds planted in the yard.

Lush vines lie on the supports, and fresh new shoots poke their heads out of the moist soil, swaying in the scorching sun.

I have to say that Black Snake Bay is indeed a magical treasure land.

There is not only the magical crop of sweetbreads that produces white sugar, but also a large number of other magical crops.

Horn specifically set up an agricultural experiment team under his office to conduct promotion research and commercialization of these crops.

For example, purple eggs, a common vegetable sold in Changdi City’s vegetable market, are a unique crop not found in Qianhe Valley.

It looks similar to a purple eggplant, but can grow to the size of a pumpkin.

When you cut it open, you can smell a faint iron smell, and only when you put it in your mouth will you taste the sweet and sour taste like tomato.

Like potato roots, purple eggs contain a lot of neurotoxins, and one bite is enough to kill you, but fortunately the toxins are concentrated in the skin, so it's fine as long as you peel it and eat it. Putting aside the taste, the first thing Horn values ​​most is its growth rate.

It takes three or four months to produce seasoning vegetables with sweet and sour taste. Although the yield of a single plant is low, the size of the vegetables is large, which can provide a large amount of food in a short period of time and is very easy to preserve.

Even in the hot climate of Black Snake Bay, it can be preserved for a long time, not to mention in Thousand River Valley.

For farmers, setting aside half an acre of land to grow this vegetable is a rare embellishment in their daily light diet.

Another important agricultural crop is sugar beans.

Horn's eyes moved to the other side of the vegetable garden. There was a tall upright stalk with a pomegranate-like ball about 5-10 cm in diameter hanging from the top.

When he first got the sweet beans in his hands, he thought they were some kind of fruit, until the locals peeled off the skin and revealed the green round beans inside.

Although it looks a lot like mung beans, it actually tastes a lot like the corn grits made from old corn that you only eat when you're thinking back to the good old days.

It is not only hard but also very irritating to the throat and requires a long chewing before swallowing.

This sweet bean is the staple food of the Black Snake Bay people. It tastes terrible but has a high yield. Although not as good as potato roots, it is also around 200 to 300 pounds per acre.

However, according to local people, if you only eat sweet beans, you will have hallucinations after eating for a long time, and you will never feel full no matter how much you eat, and you will feel hungry after eating.

This is why, despite having such high food production, the people of Black Snake Bay still have to import a large amount of food.

But for Horn, this kind of food can just fill the gap in the Thousand Valley Plains County's inability to grow relief-type foods such as oats.

Through these two crops, Horn can achieve economic complementarity between the two parties through the export of industrial products and the import of cash crops, and can also improve the living standards of both parties. It is an absolute win-win situation.

Although these two crops have some problems to a greater or lesser extent, they can be completely handed over to Catherine and the group of agricultural miracle priests for improvement.

Catherine is not the only wizard who has the magic to manipulate plants. Horn has dug up several more in Black Snake Bay during this period.

Of the crops mentioned previously, the only one that was not a problem was pearl rice.

Horn initially thought that this pearl rice was corn, but the people of Black Snake Bay told him that it was a kind of round, berry-like fruit that grew on trees.

After frying and sifting out the skin, you can get white pearl-like rice grains. Grind them into powder and soak them in hot water, which will turn the water into light blue. It has a unique fragrance and can also refresh the mind.

This kind of blue pulp tastes bitter, and the people of Black Snake Bay always like to add various seasonings to it, such as cinnamon, cloves, lizard tongue, fennel, cardamom, and aloe juice, until it becomes a viscous liquid that can be eaten.

Therefore, in Black Snake Bay, the blue syrup made from pearl rice is considered a niche drink with a strong taste.

But it's different with Horn.

After his experience with coffee and tea, Horn simply added milk and sugar to the blue syrup, which instantly changed its flavor.

During his time in Black Snake Bay, he almost replaced black tea with this blue pulp and personally renamed it "Blue Syrup Coffee".

Although no one understood why two strange syllables were added after the word "blue juice", it did not prevent this drink from starting to spread on a small scale among the Salvation Army.

In addition to sentimentality, one of the main reasons Horn promoted this blue coffee was to suppress the strong alcohol culture in the Thousand River Valley.

It’s not that he is against drinking, but the people of Qianhe Valley drink too much and use alcohol as a drink for almost everything in life.

So, during his time in Black Snake Bay, in addition to organizing the affairs of the Northern County Council, Horn spent most of his time tinkering with these vegetables.

But peaceful time is always limited. Sitting back at his desk, Horn had to pick up the conscription list of the Northern County Council's new army.

(End of this chapter)