Perhaps these policies of corporatizing agricultural work still seem a little crude, but in any case, the effect that the lord wanted has been achieved.
After the lord's policy was finalized, everyone in the territory began to work frantically to reclaim the land.
In just two weeks, more than 500,000 pounds of grain in Maixiangling was turned into seeds - almost every production team took away nearly 5,000 pounds of seeds!
You know, there are only eleven people in a group, including the sergeant team leader. If it were Pande's normal practice, each group would at most store about 1,800 pounds of seeds and plant dozens of acres of land.
But now, almost every group has reclaimed 300 acres of land.
Yes, each person reclaims two acres of land every day - remember, this is reclaiming wasteland!
Mai Xiang led a thousand people and developed more than 30,000 acres of land in just two weeks!
Along the road, large tracts of wheat fields extend from the Wheat Fragrance Territory all the way to the direction of Bailubao, making this territory truly a Wheat Fragrance Territory.
In order to prepare for the future, the lord also required all farms to dig pits in the wheat fields and fill them with straw and wood ash.
And everyone is required to urinate in the pit, but to defecate in the fields or in the toilet.
This is not for storing fertilizer…
But it is for making saltpeter.
This folk method is not considered high-tech in the continent of Pendor, because the people of Pendor already use this method to obtain high-purity saltpeter.
But the main purpose of the Pende people to make saltpeter is to tan leather or make cured meat, and occasionally it is used as fertilizer.
To explain it in a more scientific way, potassium carbonate solution can convert sodium nitrate in saline-alkali soil into potassium nitrate.
The main component of wood ash is potassium carbonate, and potassium nitrate is commonly known as saltpeter.
Bury wheat straw, fallen leaves, and wood ash in a piece of land, and then pour human and animal urine into it, and you can harvest a large amount of saltpeter next year.
The output of saltpeter will also be part of each group's evaluation output.
Amy followed the lord's operating mode throughout the process and applied some of the policies to White Hart Castle.
For example, group competition.
Although she couldn't control the knights under White Hart Castle, she could follow the example of Godric's direct subordinates.
The direct jurisdiction of Godric himself has nearly a thousand households, but the actual population is only about three thousand.
The population of each household in border counties is particularly small.
Amy modified the lord's policy, dividing households into groups of five and managing them using Godric's guards.
The reason for doing this was that Godric had previously used the method of recruiting one man from five households, and that was how his own guard of 200 people came about.
Using conscripts from these families to manage the working group would at least not be a bad thing, and Godric's guards were obviously loyal enough.
After all, the people of Bailubao don’t have any shares or anything like that to support them.
Godric could also rotate the guards of Changhe Town - now that Changhe Town has stabilized, he could let his elite troops guard their own territory, and let the newly recruited soldiers cooperate with the Horn to Summon the Rangers as the garrison of Changhe Town. This was exactly what Godric planned.
The internal competition method used by Amy in White Hart Castle is more traditional in terms of rewards and punishments.
To put it simply, the top few managers, or guard members, will become knights and own the land reclaimed by their group.
The groups with the worst performance will be subject to heavy taxes.
The methods are slightly different, but the effect is still good. During the half-month sowing period, Bailubao also reclaimed nearly 50,000 acres of wasteland.
This time, Maixiangling was truly connected to Bailubao, and both sides of the road between the two places were full of wheat fields and farms!
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In early May, spring and summer meet and the climate becomes warmer.
This is also the time when spring wheat is planted in areas south of Tongtian River.
Usually at this time of year, all countries in the continent of Pendor will cease fighting, and this year is no exception.
After arranging the internal affairs of the territory, the lord asked Sir Roland to be responsible for the security of White Hart Castle and Anson to be responsible for the affairs of the McFeng Territory. He took the people of Mettenheim, Amy and Sarah south and followed a transport team to the territory of the Bacchus Empire.
The destination is of course Dilingang.
He was going to solve the famine problem of the people of Mettenheim.
After Sir Roland joined the team, Sarah was finally able to stop training soldiers and start working seriously as a foreign affairs officer.
She has compiled a lot of information and intelligence for the lord, such as everything related to the Bacchus Empire.
The Baccus Empire was not originally native to the continent of Pendor; they came from the continent of Amalra in the south.
The former Bacchus Empire was a great power in the continent of Amalra, and formed a three-kingdom situation with the Barclay Empire and the Pendor Kingdom.
In other words, three continents stand side by side.
There were two groups of human ancestors living on the continent of Amaran.
One is the ancient Cubax ancestors, who lived in the plains and coastal areas of the Amaran continent and mainly engaged in farming and fishing.
The other is the ancestors of Jatu, who were originally nomads living on the grasslands of the Amaran continent.
Later, the ancestors of Bacchus established the unprecedentedly powerful First Ancient Empire of Old Cuba, with unprecedentedly prosperous culture and extremely strong national strength. The ancestors of Jatu were only vassals of the Bacchus at this time.
But powerful empires are always destroyed by civil wars. After the First Empire of Bacchus completely ruled the continent of Amalra, internal strife arose due to cultural differences and then split.
The ancestors of Amaran gradually evolved into two different ethnic groups, the 'Bacchus' and the 'Maritin'. The Maritin people established an independent country and occupied a part of the Amaran continent.
From that time on, the ancestors of Jatu no longer relied on the Bacchus Empire and became an independent warlord-like force.
The Bacchus Empire at this time was called the Second Old Bacchus Empire.
But even though it was split into three parts, the Bacchus Empire was still powerful at this time, and could still compete with the Ancient Pande Kingdom and the Bacley Empire, and even had a larger population.
In the 198th year of the Pendor calendar, the ancient Kingdom of Pendor quickly collapsed due to the Red Death. Royal family members died of the disease in waves. Just a few days after the king's death, his successor also died of illness. Several kings were replaced within a month.
This situation would naturally cause the lords from all over the place to have some thoughts that they shouldn't have had.
In addition, the Misty Mountain Tribe took the opportunity to invade on a large scale, resulting in the Kingdom of Pendor being torn apart .
First, the Northern Ravenstern Realm, which had been facing the Misty Mountain Barbarian Army alone but had not received any support, declared independence. They summoned the northern lords to form an alliance, defeated the rebellious Misty Mountain Army, and then established the Ravenstern Kingdom.
After that, the lords in the south saw that the Kingdom of Pendor was too weak to suppress the rebellion, so they established their own cities.
At one time, countless duchies and earls appeared on the continent of Pendor, and the Kingdom of Pendor was completely plunged into a warlord melee, with smoke of war rising everywhere.
Naturally, neither the Barclay Empire nor the Bacchus Empire would give up this good opportunity to invade the Pand Continent.
But before these two powerful countries swallowed up the extremely weak Kingdom of Pendor, they started fighting over who could get a bigger piece of the pie...
The two sides fought from the sea to the land, and from the land to the sea...but the two sides were evenly matched, so it became a protracted war of attrition. But neither side could retreat, otherwise all their efforts would be wasted.
As a result, the two sides fought for several years, and both countries were dragged into the quagmire of war, which gave the continent of Pendor an opportunity to revive.
During this period, Alfred, the Fierce Lion Duke of the Kingdom of Pendor, defeated many rebellious warlords, established a huge duchy in the center of the kingdom, and gathered countless knights in his own camp.
Moreover, because he had sent troops to support the Kingdom of Ravenstern to repel the Misty Mountain Army, and they had a comradeship, his duchy formed an alliance with the Kingdom of Ravenstern, announcing that they would temporarily put aside their internal struggles and jointly resist the invasion of enemies from the outer continent.
The war between Baccus and Barclay lasted for several years, which was too costly, and there were also many conflicts that needed to be resolved domestically. Pendor was resurrected under the alliance of Ravenstern and Sarleon.
This once again forms a three-way stalemate, and the cake probably cannot be divided.
The three countries then signed a new peace agreement.
However, before the ink on the agreement had dried, the Second Cubax Empire dispatched General Osa, who led a large fleet and expeditionary force to land directly at the Imperial Port in the southern part of the Pand Continent, and invaded Pand without declaring war.
This was a surprise attack that broke the agreement. The people of the Pand Continent had never expected that the Emperor of the Second Cubax Empire would make such a decision!
Having signed a peace agreement, the Kingdom of Pendor, thinking it no longer had any external enemies, was dealing with its internal turmoil. Duke Alfred of the Fierce Lion was busy fighting other independent rebels and had no time to react.
The southern part of the Pand continent is basically composed of small forces, and basically they do not obey the command of the kingdom and have almost no resistance.
General Osa went all the way north, and the only decent resistance he encountered was from the Knights of the Radiant Cross. This order of knights had been treating the Red Death plague in the southern part of the continent of Pendor, and when they encountered the invasion, they immediately put up a desperate resistance, causing General Osa a lot of trouble.
But a knightly order skilled in medicine alone could not stop General Osa's conquest. In the Battle of Sagan Forest, the Knights of the Radiant Cross were surrounded by the Imperial Legion. The knights' combatants were almost wiped out in the fierce battle, and the remaining civilian staff and doctors had no choice but to surrender.
Deeply impressed by the Knights' dedication, General Osar accepted their surrender and retained the Order's symbolic cross.
General Osa then marched all the way to the city of Fierce Lion.
At the critical moment of life and death, Alfred, Duke of Sarleon, called on all the lords of Pendor to put aside their internal conflicts and unite to resist the invaders.
The lords of various places felt the truth of the loss of lips and teeth, so they stopped fighting, gathered their followers, sorted out their equipment, and gathered outside the Fierce Lion City.
With Alfred as their marshal, they fought to the death and blocked General Osa near Sarleon City, where they established the Seven Forks Fortress.
Then, a long tug of war began.
At this moment, Alfred can be called the guardian of the Kingdom of Pendor.
And the goddess of luck finally stood on the shoulders of the guardian.
After a year-long offensive and defensive tug-of-war, news came from the Bacchus Empire on the Amara continent that the emperor had been assassinated and the snake worshippers in the country had rebelled.
The fate of the once vast Bacchus Second Empire was similar to that of the Pendor Kingdom, and it also quickly fell into a bloody civil war in a short period of time.
The extremely powerful Bacchus Empire also fell apart in just a month, breaking up into dozens of principalities, city-states, and kingdoms.
The most powerful regime among them was a religious state established by a snake-worshiping priestess - the reason why the emperor was assassinated was obvious.
General Osa, who was far away in the continent of Pendor, was in a stalemate - his homeland was destroyed, he lost all support, and even lost contact with the continent of Amara. He had no way to retreat!
After thinking for a long time, General Osa evacuated the Qicha Fortress.
He decided to consolidate his gains and rebuild the Bacchus Empire.
In the southern part of the occupied Pendor continent, he called himself a conqueror, executed and exiled a group of southern Pendor nobles who were not loyal to him, and after recruiting some lords to surrender, he proclaimed himself emperor in the coastal city of "Siyuan City".
His country is now called Bacchus, or 'New Bacchus'.
The names of Siyuan City and Dilingang were both changed when General Osa established the New Bacchus Empire.
From the names of these cities, we can probably get a glimpse of General Osa’s mentality at the time.
But places conquered by force are not so easy to manage.
In order to successfully rule the people of southern Pendor, General Osa incorporated the Glorious Cross emblem into his elite cavalry.
He re-established the Order of the Radiant Cross with the remaining civil servants and doctors as the main body. He set an example by protecting civilians and merchants, and let the army practice the spirit of chivalry as much as possible. He gained the recognition of the people by the fact of doing good and eliminating evil and the influence of the Radiant Cross.
This method is very effective.
Although these cavalrymen were not true knights recognized by the Charter of Valides, the citizens still believed in the Glorious Cross emblem and believed that they were the continuation of the once noble Order of the Glorious Cross.
Although General Osa's act of usurping the throne was condemned and ridiculed by almost all the lords of the Pendor continent, he survived with his lone army on the expedition to Pendor and achieved his original purpose - conquest.
And those Jatu people were originally mercenaries brought by General Osa from the Amara continent.
After the collapse of the Cubax Empire, the Jatu mercenaries rebelled against General Osa and went to the eastern grasslands to become an independent warlord force, which is now known as the Jatu people.
This rebellion was actually the work of Alfred, Duke of Sarleon.
He gave all the horse-breeding land of the Pendor Kingdom, which was a large grassland east of Lion Lake City at that time, to the Jatu people, and allowed the Jatu people to plunder in exchange for the Jatu people's cooperation with him.
Having lost the Jatu mercenaries and the support of his motherland, the new Emperor Osa was unable to defeat the Duke of Fierce Lion and could only accept the outcome of an evenly matched match.
The rebellion of the Jatu people prompted General Osa to use a similar method to cause the Duchy of D'Shar, which was originally a vassal of the Kingdom of Pendor, to also rebellion. General Osa handed over the southern important cities of Singal and Turda Fortress, which were originally about to be occupied, to the Duke of D'Shar.
This means that the D'Shar people can begin to transform from nomadic to semi-nomadic and semi-settled. With the wealthy city of Singar, the D'Shar Principality no longer has to live in the barren desert, and will also be able to resist the retaliation of the Kingdom of Pendor.
Therefore, this fierce people rebelled against the Kingdom of Pendor and became an independent principality.
As a result, the continent of Pande became a stalemate among multiple parties.
The Kingdom of Ravenstern resists the Misty Mountains and Vanskerry pirates;
The Kingdom of Pendor had lost most of its territory and was surrounded by enemies, unable to regain its homeland;
The New Bacchus Empire and the Duchy of Desha were both newly established and needed to consolidate and digest their internal affairs.
Thus, a strange truce came to the continent of Pendor.
The situation of Alfred, the Duke of Sarleon, was not optimistic at this time. As a powerful minister, he suffered a lot of criticism - there were almost no royal family members in Pendor who could serve as king, and only a baby was left.
Others would of course suspect that this was the work of some powerful official...
But not long after, even the baby disappeared mysteriously.
As for why the royal heir disappeared, Sarah didn't find any information, and probably no one would disclose these secrets...
Anyway, Duke Alfred of Sarleon was condemned and attacked by countless nobles loyal to Pendor, and it quickly turned into a civil war.
But at this time, if the internal friction intensifies and breaks the fragile balance of the continent of Pande, the consequences are self-evident.
It's not known what the Duke of Fierce Lion was thinking at the time, but the result was that he gained the support of the Lion Knights and the Jatu people within a few months, and suppressed all those who disobeyed him with the fastest and most violent means, and expelled or killed all the lords who attacked him - this was obviously not something that could be achieved through a simple head-on war.
Then, he usurped the throne and established the Kingdom of Sarleon, and the Kingdom of Pendor was destroyed.
No one knows the specific details, but in any case, this Fierce Lion King did stabilize the country and put together a powerful fighting force that was enough to compete with enemies on all sides.
King Alfred the Severe Lion and Emperor Bacchus General Osa are actually lawless usurpers.
But were they really ambitious from the beginning?
Not necessarily.
Before the fall of his motherland, General Osa was a famous general with great military achievements and an invincible conqueror. He probably had no intention of becoming an emperor. After establishing New Bacchus, he has been committed to protecting his subordinates and the people, and has never launched any "conquests" again.
When the Kingdom of Pendor collapsed, Duke Alfred of the Fierce Lion was the marshal who turned the tide and the protector of Pendor. He did not declare independence when the Kingdom of Pendor was completely divided by warlords.
But after defeating a powerful enemy, he became king...
Maybe it was for profit, maybe it was to save the country, maybe it was for ambition - maybe it was all of them, who knows.
This is how the world is, full of coincidences and changes.
All of this happened more than 150 years ago.
Today, the Bacchus who still remain in the native continent of Amalra are divided into two parts.
Some of them were called "Asheborn", the descendants of Bacchus who still resisted the Snake Cult in the ruins of Old Cubax. They established a federation to resist the invasion of the Snake Cult.
The other part are completely believers of the Snake Cult.
The Snake Cult established a huge religious state on the site of the Second Empire of Ancient Cuba.
Whether voluntarily or by force, the Bacchus who converted to the Snake Cult are attacking the remaining Ashborn compatriots and invading various continents, including the continent of Pendor.
The route taken by the Snake Cult to invade the continent of Pendor was almost exactly the same as the route taken by General Osa.
They also landed near Dilingang Port, and then gradually eroded the people from south to north, and slowly infiltrated the high-level officials of the Bacchus Empire.