Chapter 90: The Growth of Athens!

The Second Era 377, mid-July.

The initial construction of the canal irrigation system in Athens City was completed. It took nearly a year and a half. Murphy finally completed a covered spider-web-shaped ditches on the 50 kilometers of land around Athens City, so that any field could be used to diversion and irrigate the land from the tributary of the Nidolia River. At the same time, in the southern part of Athens City, Murphy also arranged a large amount of labor to build a dam, which could be guaranteed during drought and flood.

By early August.

Murphy ordered people to start farming in the second quarter, which was also a preliminary attempt to sow wheat in the second quarter.

Because the climate in the southern plains shows signs of gradually warming, and winter does not come until mid-November, so the city of Athens can delay the sowing of winter wheat for one month and delay it until the end of November before sowing. In this way, when harvesting in June and July next year, a large period of time will be spared for the second quarter sowing.

Regarding the crops grown in the second quarter, Murphy is still sending agricultural experts to experiment.

First of all, it is impossible to cultivate wheat all because it takes a long time to cultivate wheat. With the current agricultural productivity, it is still difficult to cultivate wheat in the second quarter. However, Murphy did not give up completely and selected some of them to carry out wheat cultivation experiments in the second quarter. In the past, at this time in Athens, a large number of crops such as corn and potatoes were planted in three months of free time. However, these crops cannot be considered real food, and Murphy had to find more suitable high-yield crops.

In such an era, agriculture is a very large system.

After the evolution of historical civilization, after the era of initially just for food and clothing, the things needed for agricultural planting became extremely widespread.

For example.

In addition to the food you eat, humans also need oil. This oil is not only the oil on animals, but also a lot of vegetable oil. Because the oil on animals is expensive, ordinary people may not be able to afford it. So in this case, it is necessary to extract and squeeze vegetable oil. This is actually a very difficult thing at the current level, but there is no way.

What method?

That is peanuts! A crop with good drought resistance, good yield, and does not require too much care. It is naturally oily.

Where is the best place to plant peanuts?

Peanuts are suitable for planting in red and yellow lands, and it is difficult to plant other crops such as wheat and rice in these places. Simply put, the widespread planting of peanuts does not actually conflict with other crops.

However, the land in Athens is very fertile, and growing grain is almost the same, so it is really a waste to use it to grow peanuts.

So where is it planted?

On the other side of the Nidoria River, the land that the centaurs now occupy is an extremely vast red land. As long as you have a little cultivation, plant enough peanuts, and take care of them, you will be able to gain something in the coming year. The centaurs are naturally not suitable for cultivation, but they can still take care of some simple crops.

Besides, they are good at fighting, so it is great to capture some humanoid creatures as slaves. Don’t goblin slaves know how to farm simply?

Athens could also help. Murphy's plan was to migrate people to the other side of the Nidolia River. There was fertile black soil, and the centaurs could not cultivate it. It was a waste to "occupy there and only shit". He was planning to use a batch of peanut seeds and teach them how to cultivate them in exchange for the land on the other side of the Nidolia River.

The only trouble is that a large number of peanut seeds are more troublesome, because there are some half-elves, but they cannot satisfy Murphy's consumption.

I also have to think of some solutions from the elves in the Moonlight Woodland.

The elves advocate vegetarianism. Their main cooking oil is not animal oil, but vegetable oils squeezed with peanuts. It is even said that these high elves living in the hands of moonlight woodlands have crops similar to sesame. However, these crops are so high that they are outrageous, even some great nobles may not be able to enjoy them.

Since we talk about crops, we have to continue talking.

After all, it is an extremely huge process to establish a kingdom and open up a race order!

This can not only be solved by combat, but also life and governance, a general term that is more troublesome than combat.

First avoid grain crops, such as rice, wheat, corn, barley, oats, millet (commonly known as millet), sorghum, barley, etc. These grain crops have almost corresponding variants in this world, but they are distributed in the hands of many intelligent races, and not everyone grows the same ones. It is like humans, because of their good geographical location, they plant more land requirements, but have better yields and richer nutrients. Other races, if they occupy red land and are not suitable for ploughing wheat, can only turn to other crops.

The rest of Murphy didn't know, but he knew that the Orc Empire widely planted a variety of sorghum-like crops, which were drought-resistant and very suitable for lands where Orcs lived.

What Murphy needs to do is to select the right ones from these crops, not only suitable for the second cultivation, but also suitable for soil and water conservancy crops in various places, and count them for planning for the next year. These seemingly cumbersome things are actually the foundation for the growth of a territory, and these things are not something ordinary indigenous people or citizens of Athens can do.

All of these must be determined from the perspective of modern people, formulated an outline, and then handed over to their subordinates to do.

Murphy did not have the energy to handle everything in detail, but as a modern person, he had a vision far beyond this era and a more detailed worldview, which required him to take enough time to make better plans and formulate the most important charter and outline. Only in this way can the people below know how to do it.

Otherwise, it would be unknown how long it would take to get them naturally.

It is difficult for an ancient person to find breakthroughs in all aspects at once. If he can find them all at once, it would be a monster!

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In the farming society.

Putting aside the most important food crops now, many of them are necessary in addition to these crops.

To put it simply.

That is - food, clothing, housing and transportation!

People can’t just eat! Don’t you still have to pick up food when you eat?

In addition to grain, vegetable cultivation also requires it. Not only vegetables, there are so many mountains near Athens, you can't waste it without using it, right? Planting a little fruit or something, don't waste it? Many fruit trees are not too long in growth cycle. You plant it now and you can eat it when your son grows up. If you plant oranges or the like, it will be faster.

But this is a trivial matter, so don't bother Murphy himself.

But other than that, you have to wear clothes, right?

This is not modern, and it can synthesize industrial fibers. In such a relatively primitive era, more than 80 clothes people wear are planted from the ground.

What to plant?

Cotton, linen, cannabis and so on...

In this era, due to the barren materials, ordinary civilians only put two clothes a year, one for the New Year and one for the harvest sacrifice. Therefore, the clothes they wear in the world of 80 or more are patched, and many people don’t dare to go out in winter!

Why?

It's cold! No clothes to wear!

Clothes made of linen are not too warm, and they can’t afford to wear them very well. They only have two pieces a year. If they are worn out, they have to save money to buy them.

Farming society, farming society.

Everything in nature is built on the basis of farming!

Take Athens as an example. When the preliminary plan was first started, you could have a variety of flowers, plants, etc., but after the specific plan was established, you would have to have a variety of valuable things?

Not like this?

Without starting from these most basic things, can a country develop so quickly?

Wait for it to develop naturally?

So how long does it take to develop?

Just tell a joke. Even if there are so many sunflowers in Athens, Murphy will be bored and have a few melon seeds to eat at this time next year, right?

Melon seeds!?...

Just pretend I didn't say it... look up... looking at the sky...

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Food crops are naturally the top priority!

But you can’t just grow food without planting anything else? In the past, Murphy had to exhaust all his strength to improve his strength because his territory had just been established and there were a lot of threats outside. However, now that Athens is stable inside and external threats are not too serious for the time being, Murphy had to find a way to supplement everything that had been missed before. In the future, the Principality of Athens cannot develop into a deformed system, with only food crops, but other crops not coming up.

This is no joke.

If flax is not grown in large quantities, then there will be no enough fabric to make clothes. If the supply of clothes is not required, the price will rise.

If civilians cannot afford to wear clothes or anything else, the entire economic system will begin to be in chaos.

In the past, Athens was only a scale of tens of thousands of people, and Murphy could maintain it as long as he supplemented it with foreign trade. But now the Principal of Athens is a total of hundreds of thousands of people, and such a huge population needs to be carefully planned.

Otherwise, it would be completely messy!

During the Ming Dynasty, there were famines in the Jiangnan area? Why? It was because people did not grow food and they all planted things that could be sold for money. This led to the fact that there was not enough food in the fish and rice towns like Jiangnan. Too much food was worse than too much. On the other hand, the same goes for the same. If Murphy’s crop planning cannot be balanced, then not only will there be problems now, but also an important problem in the future!

Farming-based!

Only by laying a solid foundation in such an era.

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Athens, the Governor's House.

"Governor General! The recruitment of the Second Legion of Athens has been completed! The second stage of training can be started soon." Early in the morning, General Leodalee rushed from the barracks to the Governor General's Mansion and handed a written report to Murphy.

Murphy, who was working in the office, raised his head and reached out to take it.

During this period, he was really busy dealing with agricultural issues and various plans in the Athens Principal!

Ordinary people do not have the same vision as modern society, and they must do many things themselves.

"The organization of 12,000 people! Four thousand heavy infantry in Greece, two thousand four hundred infantry in the Silver Shield Legion, three thousand six hundred longbowmen athenians, four teams full of crossbows, and two thousand Aboriginal auxiliary legion." Murphy looked at the recruitment statistics above, nodded with satisfaction, and said: "Not bad! Very reasonable organization."

"Train quickly, we will have a big battle soon!" Murphy stood up and patted General Leodale's shoulder to express his good reward.

The current regular army in Athens has reached nearly 40,000, almost one-tenth of the total population of the principality.

If Athens hadn't had the economy prospered enough, it would have really not been able to support such a huge army. This is not counting the militia and reserve troops from all over the country. If even this is included, the size of the army in Athens could reach 100,000! (The number of reserve militias is huge)

Murphy's newly established order has strong cohesion, and the system of improving social status also transforms the people's financial resources into the power of the principality as much as possible. Without the exploitation of the indigenous aristocratic class, a large amount of wealth was condensed into the treasury of Athens. The efficient and honest ruling system also prevents a large amount of wealth from being filled with private pockets by officials of all classes!

Under the farming and war system!

The prototype of the Qin Empire has gradually taken shape in Murphy's hands. The cohesion generated by the divine power and royal power is quite terrifying! Perhaps this system may be loose in the future, but at least now the Principality of Athens has been built into a huge war machine by him!

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After reading the report sent by General Leodale, Murphy asked casually: "How is the formation of the cavalry legion going?"

In the Duke of Athens, the armored cavalry legion has gradually entered the scale. However, what Murphy wants is not just that. What he wants to form is a complete cavalry legion, a horse-drawn army that can fight even if it is taken out! In addition to the organization of armored cavalry, there are also the elite Macedonian cavalry, as well as the light cavalry as auxiliary legion, including the archer and cavalry unit being trained!
To be continued...