Knight Lord: Start with Daily Intelligence.

Chapter 177 The Second Harvest Season
As a Northerner, Tiberius had a promising future since he was young. He had been chopping people since he was three or four years old and could just lift a hammer.

When he grew up a little, he took the first step towards becoming a champion warrior: killing a snow wolf.

Seeing how courageous he was, the White Wolf God Yurik immediately bestowed his divine grace and left his mark on him.

Tiberus then became a powerful figure in the North, and he targeted other Yankees, Chaos believers, and wild beasts and monsters wandering the wasteland to gain victory.

If the plot had developed normally, the savagery and killing will in his heart would have perfectly matched the image of a Ulric Champion, and then one day in his destiny, he would have obtained a powerful white wolf and become a prominent Ulric Champion.

But his fate changed when he was thirty years old. He witnessed with his own eyes the invasion and plundering of the Nordland by the Chaos monsters in the wasteland in the autumn. However, the followers of Ulric launched an attack rashly, fighting with the Chaos army in the wilderness like savage monsters.

The monsters were repelled, but the coalition forces of the northern provinces also suffered heavy losses.

This scene had happened every year since he was a child, and he had witnessed it no less than ten times. He was fed up with this barbaric, boring tactic. If it was just to kill people, why didn't he join the Chaos Legion like the other Yankees on the ice? After all, the Chaos Gods were indeed much more reliable and generous than the gods of humanity.

So Tiberus left the northern snowfields and began to travel to the center and south of the empire. During this time, he fought against Chaos Spawn and once killed a troll with just a broken shield.

He visited the Redmar sect in the center of the empire and the Knights of the Sea God Mannan in the west of the empire, but neither of these churches satisfied Tiberus.

The sea god Mannan was particularly noted. Many in the empire believed him to be an evil god, but his priest insisted: "Mannan is not an evil god. Don't listen to those country bumpkins. Mannan is simply fickle, capricious, and moody—in fact, like the weather."

The Knights of Poseidon are fond of saying: Mannan will have a feast tonight.

It means a terrible storm is coming.

But Tiberus always felt that this was somewhat different from what he thought and expected.

He was a feast that needed the gods to cleanse him of the filth of the mortal world, but it didn't seem like it should be this kind of storm in Mannan.

Until he came to the south of the empire and came into contact with the Church of the Goddess of the Fiery Sun, which was completely different from the cold and cruel snowfields in the north.

Whether it was the Church's philosophy of glorious war, its wise tactics, or its war against Chaos that was a human version of the Waaagh feast, everything about it satisfied Tiberus's various aspirations for war. At that moment, he felt so clearly that all of this was the answer he had been searching for.

The idea that only the Church of the Sun Goddess could save this crisis-ridden empire became deeply rooted in his mind.

So when he traveled to Maleburg and heard about the recently rising reputation of the Hesse Lord, he decided to come and join them.

Su Li was of course happy to accept him. Such a champion knight would be readily accepted by barons and earls even within the empire. As long as he was willing to join the nobles' army, some nobles would be willing to give him a village fiefdom and promote him to a kingdom knight.

But Su Li likes this knight, while the other knights are very repulsive to him.

Not only because he was a bald, bearded Yankee, but also because of his "self-sufficient" custom.

The North is different from the South. It is desolate and barbaric, so the Northerners have developed the habit of plundering and plundering, and Tiberius is no exception.

As soon as he joined the territory, he found that the knights of the territory were equipped with very luxurious equipment, which formed a sharp contrast with the tattered armor on his body.

He also knew that this was a custom advocated by the followers of the Sun Goddess. The knights always prepared a set of very fine, luxurious and golden armor for themselves.

Of course, Tiberus also wanted such a set, but his assets were not enough to support him to buy such a sophisticated set of armor.

So he began to use various methods of robbery such as "single challenge", "threat", "finding fault" and other methods to collect the equipment on his body.

Although his armor was ordinary, the hammer in his hand, [Slaughter], was his most powerful trophy, of perfect quality. Therefore, the other knights suffered greatly in the battle.

In line with the fine quality of "plucking geese when they pass by", Tiberus quickly prepared for himself a set of vibranium rune armor, two dragon blood stones and a guardian ring.

Su Li was shocked by his efficiency, but before Su Li could criticize him, he took the initiative to run to Su Li and said casually that he wanted to enter the Griffin Forest.

Since the other knights all had demi-griffin mounts, he wanted one too.

The other knights all objected and wondered if this guy was coming to Hesse to grab some equipment and then run away?
However, Su Li had an intelligence system and was not worried about this at all, so he decisively agreed to his request.

Then this guy made a big move for Su Li. He called out in Heisen Town that anyone who wanted to go on an adventure into the Blood Pine Forest could follow him.

This actually allowed him to gather over sixty adventurers, mercenaries, and gamblers. In short, he set out on his journey with this ragtag group of people, and many people believed that they were likely to become monster feces in the Blood Pine Forest.

But after more than a cycle, Tiberus returned safely and brought back a lot of spoils!

He rode a majestic half-griffin, followed by a large number of armed thugs with brand-new equipment. Under the leadership of Tiberus, these people wiped out two goblin tribes, defeated a group of roaring beastmen, and attacked a hidden forest bandit camp!

Based on the principle of not letting go of anything useful, they did not let go even a broken arrow, a piece of ore, or a wild herb!

He brought back more than twenty slaves and captives (including women), and also presented Su Li with a half-griffin egg!
He kept one for himself and held an auction in the town of Hesse, which caused a sensation among the Knights of the Corona and a large number of territorial knights.

Who wouldn't want a half-griffin egg? Even if you don't use it yourself, you can leave it to your son or daughter. It's a companion you can grow up with!
In the end, this half-griffin egg was sold for 2180 gold crowns at an auction of the Corona Knights' vast wealth!

Su Li collected 1308 gold coins in taxes alone!
However, whether it is the joining of the immigrant group, the surrender of the powerful generals, or the increase of various taxes, they are all trivial matters to Su Li.

During this peaceful month, the biggest gain was undoubtedly the progress in farming development.

After all, farming and expanding power are the best ways to develop a territory.

It has been almost three months since the summer solstice celebration, and the farming business in Bjorn's Bay has been fruitful and very gratifying.

Especially during the autumn harvest season, Su Li couldn't help but come to this border granary area for inspection.

Since the main crop grown in the fields is wheat, the harvest season arrives when the summer heats up.

The wheat harvest season is usually at the end of June and before July.

Since the territory has received a large amount of divine grace, this harvest season is bound to usher in a second bumper harvest.

Su Li stood on the embankment of Bjorn Bay and looked down. He saw that the wheat on tens of thousands of acres of fertile fields was already golden, and the heavy wheat ears even bent the wheat stalks.

Su Li was particularly delighted by this scene. He asked Vandal, the Minister of Agriculture, who was accompanying him, "My Minister, I have entrusted the farming business of the territory to you this summer. Now that it's harvest season, how are the results?"

Fandral smiled and said, "Thanks to the irrigation from Lake Raveling, the farmland below Bjorn Bay is exceptionally fertile. The first acre of wheat harvested this morning yielded 310 kilograms!"

310 pounds?!

The water in Lake Raveling really has the effect of fertilizer!
He remembered that the wheat planted in the spring had only yielded 190 kilograms. At that time, everyone was full of anticipation for the future, and Vandal was even more ambitious, believing that the yield of summer wheat per mu could be as high as 270 kilograms.

But, apparently everyone underestimated the effect of the water in Lake Rafflin!
The yield per mu is not 190 jin or 270 jin, but as high as 310 jin.

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

The job of the Minister of Agriculture is not only to guide the people in farming, but also to count and register the land.

Fandral immediately replied, "My Lord, we have completed the registration of all the land."

"In Bjorn Bay alone, your wheat fields cover an area of ​​33000 acres."

"In addition, there are more than 9000 acres of pumpkins, sugar beets, rapeseed, etc. that are gradually maturing."

Su Li asked with great interest: "What is the pumpkin yield per acre?"

"The yield per mu is about 7000 kilograms. The largest pumpkin weighs over 300 kilograms. It takes two or three people to lift it, and a carriage can only carry two."

These vegetables are really high-yielding. Su Li made a preliminary estimate and said with a smile, "Doesn't that mean that the grain output this year has reached 1023 million kilograms?"

The grain harvest of more than 5000 million jin is not appropriate to be calculated in jin. It is roughly tons when converted.

This is certainly not a big achievement in modern society, and it is not worth mentioning even in a unified dynasty. A grain ship can carry about 200 tons of grain, and 25 grain ships can transport the summer output of Bjorn Fjord.

But for a small feudal territory in this world, such a large output is enough to ensure that the entire territory will not have to worry about hunger until winter!

These 1000 million kilograms of grain alone are enough to feed 5000 people and livestock in the territory for more than 300 days.

Of course, high-level mounts like war horses and griffins consume more wealth and need to be carefully fed, and sometimes they even have to be fed with fine meat.

However, the territory also produces fishing and hunting, which means that the territory can be expanded on a large scale.

For example, if you take out 300 million kilograms of grain to make wine or trade it with the dwarves, you can get a lot of wealth from the dwarves.

At the same time, the territory can also hire more big eaters like ogres to speed up the construction of the territory.

There is actually an ogre community in the territory, but it's located at the foot of a mountain in the Halfling Autonomous Territory. To prevent riots, the ogre construction team members usually don't take vacations at the same time. They work in shifts, and there are usually only a few dozen ogres in the ogre community.

The other ogres were either constructing buildings in Hessen Town, or digging water conservancy projects and building city walls.

There are currently over 300 ogres in the territory. They behave like workers, going to cafeterias, construction sites, and taverns, and they don't interact with humans unless absolutely necessary. If they absolutely need to interact with humans, it's usually through their contractors, the halflings, who are their foreman.

The halflings had actually wanted to recruit more ogres for a long time, but due to the high food prices, there had never been a suitable opportunity.

As the saying goes, "A young boy will eat his father out of poverty." Several teenage gluttons devour several kilograms of bread in a single day. Furthermore, the price of these gluttonous ogres' immense strength is the inability to fill their ravenous bellies.

With the output of tens of millions of kilograms of grain, the price of grain can be lowered smoothly.

Realize the imperial dream of being able to buy a pound of grain for one copper coin.

This is the bottom line of stability that the empire has been pursuing for thousands of years. The empire's currency has great purchasing power. Generally speaking, if one copper coin cannot buy a kilogram of grain, it means that the grain price fluctuates too much, which will cause great harm to people's livelihood and stability.

And if these tens of millions of kilograms of grain were sold, Su Li would be able to gain a fortune of 1000 gold crowns!

While this is far less than the scale of industrial output, it is the normal level for most of the empire's territory.

A barony, relying solely on farming, could collect a considerable amount of tax revenue of 1000 to 2000 gold crowns in a year, excluding costs, expenses, and knights' wages.

If the size of your army expands slightly or you encounter a natural disaster, you will be financially bankrupt that year.

Therefore, many lords, while having noble status, also borrowed a large amount of high-interest loans from knights, merchants, and prominent families.

But Fandral then gave Su Li a surprise and said, "My Lord, perhaps our output is far more than this!"

"We also have three hundred acres of fertile land for blood sacrifice, each acre yielding 3000 kilograms of grain. Add to that the output of various farms, farms, and autonomous regions, and theoretically our grain output will increase by half."

This good news really made Su Li overjoyed. He looked down at Bjorn Bay and asked, "Which piece of fertile land is our blood sacrifice?"

Fandral immediately pointed to a particularly lush, golden field near the woods below the embankment and said, "My Lord, do you see that patch of red earth? It's distinct from the other yellow fields. That's the field for our blood sacrifice. The Grain Father performed blood sacrifices there twice, the first covering two hundred acres, the second eighty acres."

Su Li followed his finger and saw a wheat field with a darker color. It didn't look like blood, but more like red soil, rich in iron oxides. This kind of fertile land also exists on Earth, mainly in the southern hilly areas.

But in this world, this has nothing to do with iron or anything like that. This is a typical sign of possessing divine grace.

It means that Rhea will take care of the land and make it incredibly fertile.

There is no need to dwell on the reasons behind matters involving the gods. After all, they are just like nuclear-powered farmland, which is always rich in fertility and does not require crop rotation or fallow. In some areas with strong divine grace, ten crops can be harvested in a year, which means basically one harvest every month.

However, it is not easy for the Lord of Hessen to let these 280 acres of land be blessed by God.

The army sent back all the corpses and flesh from the foot of the Gray Mountains, which allowed Polevik to successfully hold his first sacrifice and achieve the great achievement of 200 acres.

The remaining 80 acres is the size obtained after the second sacrifice of the territory.

With the help of Su Li's intelligence system, the knights destroyed two strongholds of the Brass Sisterhood and found a demon statue with divine power.

This statue can be sacrificed. When choosing which god to dedicate it to, Su Li thought about it and decided to dedicate it to the Goddess of Dawn.

The effect is very significant. Thirty thousand acres of farmland produced 1000 million jin of grain, while these 300 acres of red land for blood sacrifice produced 100 million jin of grain.

It is no wonder that the lords of this world believe that the degree of development of the territory depends on the extent to which the territory's land is bathed in divine grace.

Fandral continued, "This year is considered a year of good weather and good harvests. The total amount of food in the territory may be as much as 30 million kilograms."

"Our vision of a border granary has become a reality."

3000 million jin of grain, this number made Su Li very satisfied.

You have to know that when he first arrived at the territory, the Hessen Territory's grain reserves were only more than 6 kilograms, and even at the most, it was only a few hundred thousand kilograms.

10 and 3000, that's a 30-fold difference.

The joy of the harvest filled Su Li's face with smiles. He instructed, "During the harvest season, we must have the people in our territory seize the opportunity and gather all the food. We must try our best to minimize the losses caused by the Green Dragon's followers."

The Black Forest Territory has experienced two harvest seasons. There is less than half a year left this year, and the green dragon in the blood pine forest may wake up at any time.

For the Hesse Territory, this is an object that must be strictly guarded against.

Su Li even suspected that the dragon had chosen to wake up at this time on purpose, so that it could take advantage of the bumper harvest in the territory outside to plunder and return with a full load.

It seems that autumn defense is of utmost importance no matter which world it is in.

Fandral immediately assured him, "My Lord, our Church of Dawn has already developed a detailed plan with the Provincial Council to ensure that all grain will be harvested within two to four days. We will then mobilize as many slaves as possible to cultivate the fields during the cool autumn weather, when efficiency is at its highest. We aim to reclaim 2 hectares of land beneath Bjorn Bay this year."

1000 hectares of land, or 10 mu of arable land.

If the pioneer territory can have 10 acres of arable land in the first year, then next year there may be acres or even acres.

After two years, and the first round of assessment, the territory will at least meet the standards of a kingdom knight territory.

Assuming that one man with five people can cultivate 10 acres of land, only households can cultivate acres of land.

It was rare for the knights of the kingdom to manage a village with a thousand households.

A village this big is considered a big village no matter where it is.

Su Li felt that he could even challenge directly, and his starting rank would be Baron.

However, this goal is not easy to achieve. At least we have to start now and steadily advance all aspects.

Su Li asked with concern, "Can it be finished in two to four days? After all, there are nearly 40,000 acres of fertile farmland in Bjorn Bay alone."

Fandral said confidently, "We've set aside a two-day floating period to account for possible problems. Normally, two days would be enough to harvest all the food."

"This harvest season is different from the previous one, as we have made careful preparations this time."

"We've built 20 harvesters alone. With so many harvesters running simultaneously, we'll probably be able to harvest all the grain in Bjorn Bay in just one or two days."

"They will then split up and go to various farms and work with the serfs to harvest the grain in the territory. We will then rent these farm tools to those in need through the machinery company under the Provincial Council."

"Hahaha! Great! Great!" Su Li laughed and praised, "This is an excellent idea. Using machinery to shorten the harvest time will give the people more time to cultivate new farmland."

Only people from the Dawn Church would push forward this kind of thing.

So it doesn't seem quite in line with the style of Imperial Despair.

But Su Li supported the resolution of the Church of Dawn this time. Even the stubborn High King of the Dwarves was working hard to govern the country, promote reforms, and enhance the efficiency of the dwarves.

His human empire must keep pace with the times.

Su Li had lived a peaceful life for a month or two recently. He was in a very good mood and was willing to improve the lives of his subjects.

Although this can easily breed all kinds of chaos, for example, once the subjects have free time, they may be seduced by sexual abuse and treachery.

There were even cases of revelry between humans and beastmen.

But Su Li felt that the area of ​​Heisen Territory was still small, and with the help of the daily intelligence system, he could control the spread of chaos.

During this period of time, he has destroyed two altars of Lanord, three evil orders, and killed more than a dozen cultists who sneaked into the Hesse Territory.

In the townhouses of Heisen alone, the evil and chaotic forces that had grown had been cleared out by Su Li four or five times.

Once the work schedule for the harvest season was finalized, the efficiency of the territory was very high.

In just one day, the harvesters harvested more than 20,000 acres of wheat fields below Bjorn Bay.

Bonfires were ablaze in the threshing floors, and each threshing floor was filled with slaves pushing carts to transport wheat ears. The twenty-seven threshing floors around Bjorn Bay were too busy to handle the work!
But the bags of brand new wheat carried out from the threshing floor were so tempting, and the bright orange color filled the slaves' hearts with joy.

A good harvest means that the lord is in a good mood. Once the lord is in a good mood, the fate of each of them may change.

And Su Li did not disappoint their expectations. After seeing carts of grain filling up the newly built granary in the castle that could store 300,000 kilograms of grain, he waved his hand happily and promised to reward each slave with half a kilogram of puma meat, and also forbade them to trade.

If any lucky guy successfully awakens his bloodline, he will receive a generous reward of being freed from slavery.

This made the slaves work hard even until midnight. The Lord's kindness is not enough! It is not enough at all!

Hearing the cheers from the threshing floor, not to mention the slaves of other knights, even some free people were so envious that their eyes almost popped out.

This is the monster meat that can help them awaken their wood attribute bloodline.

It is equivalent to the lord helping them test their qualifications for free.

Some young knights who were training hard and strengthening their bodies couldn't help but point here with red eyes: "Coach, I want to be a slave too."

(End of this chapter)