The natural empire of ocean dragons

Chapter 65: Make every effort to expand the area of ​​cultivated land

It is a little difficult to buy 200,000 kilograms of wheat from the Halfling Town. Because there are many mineral veins in the mountains of the Dwarf Kingdom, the yield of food and vegetables is lower than that of normal soil.

Moreover, dwarves are not good at planting and maintaining the land. The reason why they buy wine from the halfling town is because the food production is insufficient, and it is difficult to survive. If they want to drink, they have to go out to buy wine.

Even to hold a large banquet, ale, flour, carrots, onions and other vegetables must be purchased from the halfling town. It can be said that half of the dwarf's skills are in smelting and half in exploration and mining.

Planting and animal husbandry are generally done by women and children who are relatively weak.

"The dwarves are also buying flour from the Halfling Town as rations. In terms of financial resources, we can't compete with the dwarves, and in terms of combat effectiveness, we can't beat the dwarves' iron cans."

"That's why I plan to go to the northernmost Halfling town to buy flour, and then ask them to use boats to send it to Green Scale Town along the river and lake shore."

Attilan was thinking that if he wanted to control the dwarven kingdoms to the west, starting with their agriculture and animal husbandry would be a good choice.

"Map, do you know how many people there are in the Dwarf Kingdom?"

The satyr glanced to the west with disgust.

"I don't know. The management of the dwarf kingdom is chaotic. Even their king probably doesn't know how many people he has under his rule. Anyway, he knows that a thousand dwarf tin cans, a hundred chariots and a hundred griffin knights are enough for his management. "

The dwarf king manages the military power well. If a foreign enemy invades, these more than a thousand dwarf warriors can clearly let the enemy realize how sharp the dwarf's ax is.

Attilan secretly made a plan to expand his territory. Now he would fully develop the arable area of ​​the wasteland and plant the remaining land with fertile pasture and drought-resistant trees that could be used as building materials.

Make friends with the dwarves as much as possible, reach a strategic partnership, buy iron farm tools and weapons from the dwarves, and march into the desert when the number of armed iron soldiers exceeds a thousand!

Destroying the Gnoll Kingdom and occupying all the oases they control is the end of the stage plan.

"Forget it, take the soy sauce and flavored mutton jerky to Riverside Town to buy food, and see if you can bring a few shipbuilders back to guide the fish and snake people. We need food ships."

If Qinglin Town has a grain transport ship, the three towns under Attilan's rule can be connected as a whole through the grain transport ship. Dajiao Town and Tubao Town are both built near the Southwest River.

It is entirely possible to pick a suitable place to build a dock on the river bank near the town.

In this way, the three towns can exchange supplies through the Southwest River.

"Mep, this time you go to Riverside Town to buy grain. Buy as much black beans as possible, whole wheat flour, and some wheat bran and mix them together to make it half flour and half wheat bran."

The satyr looked at Attilan speechlessly.

"Why do you start depriving your family members of their rations whenever food is insufficient? Do you think they can eat enough wheat bran noodles like this?"

"Why can't I eat enough? In addition to wheat bran noodles, there are also alfalfa, wild peas, green leafy vegetables such as milkvetch, meat such as sand rabbit, sand sheep, lizard, wild boar, carrots, onions and parsley. As a spice for flavoring.”

"Their lives are already colorful enough, what else is there to be dissatisfied with? Whose family members can have such a dedicated dragon master like him, who personally gave them a batch of carrots, onions and parsley with the rain of grace? "

The satyr gave him a roll of his eyes.

"Are you sure you don't want to eat it yourself?"

"It's not important. What's important is that they also enjoyed this batch of dishes that can be used as vegetables and spices. The family members have always served the dragon master. How can the dragon master serve the family members?"

"You are responsible for purchasing food. I will go to Dajiao Town and Tubao Town to see why the food is consumed so fast!"

The satyr nodded. He also felt that the food was being consumed a bit too fast. If the tauren chief and the centaur leader hadn't had the brains to resell the food, he would have doubted whether they had enriched their own pockets.

Attilan was flying in the air, looking at the green manure, wheat, and black bean sprouts growing on the cultivated fields near Dajiao Town, feeling proud and happy in his heart.

These changes are all because of him. Planting alfalfa and other green manure plants makes the soil of the wasteland more fertile, and can also be used as feed for herbivores such as sand rabbits and sand sheep.

There are also marmots, wild deer, wild boars and other animals that gradually come out of the forest as the wasteland ecology improves. However, their numbers are still too small. Attilan prohibits tauren and centaurs from traveling within a year. Hunt them inside.

They can only hunt animals that inhabited this land before the wilderness environment improved. At the same time, they try to avoid killing them directly. After identifying their gender, they put them into the corresponding pasture for breeding.

Taking the sand rabbits managed by kobolds as an example, the stronger male rabbits will be raised together with the offspring of the female rabbits that have been captured previously, and the female rabbits will be raised with the offspring of the male rabbits.

Only the strongest male rabbit offspring can be kept as breeding rabbits, and the other male rabbits will be eaten after their meat has grown to a certain extent.

Female rabbits with relatively few rabbits in a litter will be killed for meat after breeding, and their offspring will also be eaten after fattening. Of course, if they grow fast enough during the fattening process, they will also be retained as breeding rabbits.

Attilan has only two choices when choosing breeding rabbits, give birth to more and grow faster!

As for sand sheep, they are more detailed and divided into meat sheep and wool sheep. The meat sheep are naturally fattened and eat meat, while the wool sheep are raised for a long time and sheared to make woolen cloth.

However, the amount of wool of sand sheep is not enough, so continuous selection and breeding are needed.

<divclass="contentadv">The only requirement for mutton sheep is that they grow fast, because sheep give birth to one at a time. If it were not for raising sand sheep and other by-products such as sheep skins and horns, Attilan really wanted to concentrate on raising sand rabbits. A meat variety.

Dajiao Town is close to the forest, and the nearby land is more fertile than Tubao Town. Therefore, the main task here is to produce various grains and vegetables. Wheat, black beans, carrots, parsley, onions, and shallots are all grown here.

Qinglin Town is at the junction of forests and lakes. It mainly grows fruits, nuts, spices and other agricultural products produced from trees, as well as green ecological breeding projects such as pearls, honey, and fish.

There is no problem in Dajiao Town. The fishmen are responsible for cleaning up the river mud from the lake outlet to the lower reaches of the river bank in Tubao Town.

Near Dajiao Town, the tauren are responsible for piling the silt on the river bank to dry. After the silt dries, they mix it with plant ash and spread it into the newly reclaimed soil to increase fertility.

In the wilderness between Bighorn Town and Tubao Town, the men and horses grazing sand sheep here are responsible for handling the silt.

The tauren, centaurs, and kobolds in Dajiao Town are all using iron and wooden farm tools to prepare the land, and carry dead branches and leaves from the forest to burn the wasteland. The area is full of life.

Everything was so harmonious and beautiful, but when Attilan came to Tubao Town, his blood pressure instantly rose.

What did he see? A group of kobolds were lying lazily on the ground basking in the sun!

How could this be possible? He wanted the kobolds to eat just to make them work harder to dig in the soil and bask in the sun. Even he hadn't been so leisurely in a long time!

"Get up! Who told you to lie here and sleep? Why don't you go to work?"

The kobold leader ran over in embarrassment, knelt on the ground and kowtowed.

"Dragon Lord, please calm down. They are all just children. We have been doing our best to breed sand rabbits as assigned to us by the Dragon Lord. After the city wall was built, I specially asked the kobolds who built the city to go to the wilderness to capture sand rabbits. ."

"Because it doesn't take so many people to take care of the sand rabbits, and they are still young and immature, and they are not strong enough, I will let them grow for a while and then put them into work when they are strong enough."

Attilan looked at the kobold kneeling on the ground in shock.

"Are they all recently born kobolds?"

"Yes, I don't dare to deceive the dragon master."

Hiss, it seems to be true. With the reproduction and growth rate of kobolds, it seems that a group of kobolds can appear so quickly.

But he had only recruited these kobolds for two months. For one and a half months, they had to dig soil non-stop every day. How could they still have the energy to give birth to children at night?

"When were these kobold eggs laid?"

"It was during the fortification."

"When did it hatch?"

"One or two days after the city wall is built."

Attilan nodded. He usually didn't pay enough attention to these kobolds. Their eggs were also laid in a temporary cave dug outside the city, and he didn't even see them.

The hatching time was after he left Tubao Town.

That's when something happened.

Suddenly Attilan widened his eyes and asked:

"Is it because they grow so fast because of the various foods shipped from Qinglin Town?"

The kobold leader nodded and said:

"That's right. If it weren't for the food, according to the previous records of the tribe, all of these small-headed people would have starved to death."

Wait a minute, the one hundred kobolds who stayed in Tubao Town gave him such a big surprise, but what about the two hundred who went to Dajiao Town?

He had just seen a harmonious scene in Big Horn Town. How many small head people were hidden in the cave?

"Leave the manpower to take care of the needs of the sand rabbit, and the other kobolds rush to Bighorn Town to reclaim farmland and dig underground sewers! Also, all kobolds are prohibited from laying eggs until I give my permission!"

If he continues to have children randomly, be careful that he will directly send kobolds to the rain forest to attack local tribes and consume the kobold population.

"Yes, Dragon Lord!"

The kobold leader knew that they were being presumptuous. The dragon master's food should be used to feed warriors like tauren and centaurs, so that the kobolds could also be fed.

They actually gave birth to so many cubs. It was a gift that the Dragon Lord did not drive them away to fend for themselves, and even directly killed the extra kobolds.

"Manage male and female kobolds separately and don't let them meet! The male kobolds dig underground sewers and the females cultivate farmland!"

Then Attilan quickly rushed to Bighorn Town, and it was another surprise. More than a hundred were born in Tubao Town, and more than two hundred were born in Bighorn Town. The number of kobolds doubled!

The reason why food is consumed so quickly has been found. If it is eaten by minotaurs and centaurs, Attilan will not say anything. What can the kobolds do?

Fifty kobolds may not be able to kill one tauren!

The number of kobolds is increasing, and tauren and centaurs are also going to give birth next year. We must go all out to expand the cultivated land area!