The natural empire of ocean dragons

Chapter 70 Multifunctional development of black beans

"Why aren't they considered warriors? The person who hired them was a powerful dragon with a majestic aura all over his body. Their colleagues were minotaurs, centaurs, snakes, and kobolds, who were either powerful or evil."

"The work site is spread over dangerous wilderness and deserts. The opponents we will face are thousands of evil wolfmen infected with the power of demons. Once defeated, they will be wiped out!"

"Do you think it's dangerous now? Are halflings who can work in this environment a warrior?"

It seems really dangerous to be exaggerated by Attilan like this.

Brother Ya frowned and said:

"If it's so dangerous, I'm not harming the halflings by helping you recruit them. How will I face the folks in my hometown in the future?"

Oops, he seems to have accidentally overdone it.

"Of course not. If you think about it again, halflings are responsible for the safest logistics work. I will equip each halfling with a mastiff with top-notch endurance and speed."

"Make sure that if the situation goes wrong, they can leave the battlefield as soon as possible! And there are also safe rear positions. They just need to stay in the safe Tubao Town."

What Attilan said made Ya Ge feel that he would not lead his fellow villagers into the ditch. He understood that fighting the gnolls could not be completely risk-free.

But there are two paths, the possibility of death and the total death. No one will choose the second option except fools and those who have no choice but to fight a war.

It's worth taking a little risk to eliminate the gnolls.

Not just the time when Brother Fang was a child, the gnolls wandering in dark corners would attack the weakly defended halflings from the cracks in the southern mountains every two or three years.

In order to eliminate the gnolls, the halflings even paid a lot of money to hire dwarf griffin knights to search for the gnolls and try to eliminate them.

The dwarves did kill some gnolls, but compared to the number of halflings who attacked, these killed were just a fraction.

I heard that the gryphon knights even chased them into the wasteland, but the gnolls were too good at hiding their bodies, and they couldn't destroy Yeenoghu's fangs, so there was no point in killing more ordinary gnolls.

Now there is an opportunity to eliminate cholera from the source in the entire Gnoll Kingdom in the southwest. How could the halflings not be willing?

Comparing the races in the southwest region, it is not difficult to find that the combat effectiveness of the halflings is one of the best among them. It is almost impossible to find a second race with a weaker combat effectiveness than them.

"Okay, I'll try to help you ask if there are any young halflings who want to experience it."

"That's right, let me tell you, the most training people in the army are the Huotou Army. Halflings learn experience here, and in the future they can protect the villagers and elders from foreign enemies when they return to their hometown."

Brother Ya nodded and said:

"The main thing that harms the halflings is the gnolls. Among the three halfling towns, because we are closest to the remnants of the Black Iron Mountains, the gnolls attack us the most."

"Aren't you short of food? If you really dare to fight the jackals, I think the mayor wouldn't mind calling on everyone to send you a batch of food."

food! Attilan's eyes lit up instantly when he heard these two words.

"We don't need wheat flour. The mayor can ask everyone to give us a batch of black beans. We won't get it for nothing. I can give you a batch of spiced dried lizards as a friendly gift."

Brother Ya looked at Attilan in confusion and asked:

"I remember that since you learned that in addition to wheat, black beans are grown in Halfling Town, you seem to be less enthusiastic about wheat than before. Why? Wheat is obviously so much more delicious than black beans?"

Attilan snorted coldly and said:

"That's because you don't know how to eat it. You go back and tell the mayor to let everyone grow black beans as much as they want. I will try my best to eat as much as I can, and I will ensure that everyone can make money by growing black beans."

"You tell everyone, you don't need to plant black beans in a mature field. You can just open a temporary field to plant black beans. The yield will be lower. But after three years of planting black beans, the raw field will become a mature field, and the lower field will become a middle field."

As for how to raise a field, there is a lot of knowledge in it.

Attilan is still figuring out the specific method, so he won't teach it to Brother Ya. He will teach the halflings after the experience matures, preferably after the halflings belong to him.

Even if the halflings are not very good at fighting, their food production has increased, and the excess food must be given priority to the dwarf kingdom, which has more financial and material resources.

The dwarf kingdom will also become the target of Attilan's attack in the future. Improving the dwarf kingdom's logistical supply capabilities will not only add trouble to itself, but the most important thing is that the increase in food production of the halflings will make the dwarves more dependent on them.

At the same time, the dwarves will also resist the control of the halfling town by other forces.

Although the dwarves are already quite dependent on the halflings, as long as there is a force on the south side of the Black Iron Mountains that can sell food and alcohol to them at low prices, the halflings will not be so important to them.

If the products of Halfling Town weren't so important, how could such an important unit as the Dwarf Griffin Knights go to the wilderness to search for the gnolls who didn't dare to provoke them just for a little food.

This is a tactic Attilan learned from the story of the sage Guan Zhong. If the grain is sold at a low price and the dwarves' iron tools are purchased at a high price, the dwarves will gradually lose their ability to produce food independently.

When I need it, Attilan will only need to cut off the dwarves' food supply, and the dwarves will become soft-footed shrimps.

As for the problem of neighbors stocking grain and me stocking guns, and the neighbor being my granary, it is impossible to solve the problem when it comes to halflings, but when placed under my command are minotaurs, centaurs, and snakes, a race that shouts and kills.

Can the dwarves use him as a granary?

The most amazing thing is that because the dwarves sold food at low prices, they will definitely regard Attilan as their friend. All his family members must have used iron weapons and armor from the dwarves.

How do dwarves break the situation?

This plan can only stay in Attilan's mind. Once others know about it, it may be noticed by the dwarves. It took so much effort to come up with such a perfect strategy, but it cannot be cracked.

“So how should you eat black beans?”

Attilan didn't expect that after saying so much, Brother Ya still only cared about how to eat the most delicious black beans.

"Grind it with a stone mill and add water during the process to get black soy milk. You can drink it after boiling it. Of course, it still has no taste. You can add some fragrant flowers and herbs and honey to get a delicious floral sweet soy milk."

"Or add some salt. Some people may also like salty soy milk. Remember to grind the bean dregs a few more times. Of course, don't throw away the remaining bean dregs. You can still eat them."

"Mix flour with some salt, put it in the oven and bake it. It's very fragrant!"

Why Attilan values ​​black beans more is because black beans provide more nutrients than wheat in terms of calories, protein, and fat, even though wheat provides twice as many carbohydrates as black beans.

Not to mention that eating black beans provides more nutrients than eating wheat. The problem is that growing wheat consumes soil nutrients, while growing black beans can help fix nitrogen in the soil.

Of course, this does not mean that Attilan has given up on wheat. Judging from the yield of one acre of land in the wasteland, black beans may only weigh one hundred catties, but wheat can produce two hundred catties.

The returns from growing wheat are definitely higher.

Black beans can provide soy milk, but the fried dough sticks require wheat flour. Of course, the oil for frying the fried dough sticks also needs black beans to extract the oil.

Here Attilan would like to praise the tauren and centaurs by name. They are really great!

Grinding soybean milk and pressing soybean oil are all done by men, horses and minotaurs.

<divclass="contentadv">A large millstone weighing one thousand kilograms, the people pulling the millstone kept spinning.

To press soybean oil, a wooden stake weighing several hundred kilograms is as light as a goose feather in the hands of a tauren. The wooden stake is knocked against the wrapped bean cake, and the yellow black soybean oil is squeezed out.

Mix the leftover bean dregs with flour, some minced meat, and fry it in the freshly squeezed soybean oil. It’s delicious!

It became the food for the minotaurs who pressed the oil and the horses who pulled the mills.

The millstone is not mainly used for grinding soy milk, but for grinding wheat flour.

Because buying wheat directly is much cheaper than wheat flour. In the past, we didn’t even have millstones. Even if Attilan wanted to buy flour and process it himself, there was no way.

It was still in the Thunder Mutual Aid Association that Attilan found a druid who was good at shaping the earth element to help him get this huge millstone to grind flour in Big Horn Town.

Although there were no traditional donkeys used to pull mills, Attilan had many more useful men and horses than donkeys.

Why did Attilan praise the Minotaur and the Centaur.

Just because although their intelligence is a little lower than that of normal humans, they are much smarter and more flexible than ordinary cows and horses.

Things like pressing oil cannot be left to cows, because cows have no hands and cannot hold the wooden stakes and hit the bean cakes to squeeze the oil.

So does the man and horse, who can pull the millstone around while adding wheat to the millstone, and there's nothing better than that.

Another thing, you would never guess what animals halflings use for grinding.

Even when Attilan heard about it for the first time, he was stunned for a moment, and then couldn't help laughing.

He finally understood why halflings kept so many mastiffs.

They obviously don't need so many mastiffs to guard the house and even serve as mounts for the halflings, but in the end they have to use mastiffs for grinding!

Two side by side, two rows in front and back, four mastiffs pulled the millstone and stuck out their tongues.

Although he couldn't see that scene with his own eyes, just thinking about it made Long burst into laughter.

"Mopan again? It takes a lot of money to raise a mastiff. Are you sure soy milk is really as good as you say?"

"Anyway, it's better than eating black beans directly. Pairing soy milk with bread will ensure that the next generation of halfling knights will be stronger and stronger, and they may even grow taller."

Although they are called halflings, halflings are generally over one meter tall.

The height of an average human farmer is only 1.6 to 1.7 meters. If you are a human in an undernourished area, your height may not be 1.6 meters. Halflings are still quite tall.

At least more than half.

Some halflings with strong physiques can even grow to 1.3 to 1.4 meters. Legend has it that a talented halfling grew to 1.6 meters. After going out on adventures, he became a legendary halfling who was not inferior to humans.

Of course, the height of his descendants gradually returned to the standard height of halflings.

It’s unclear whether the legend is true of Attilan, and neither are the halflings in the west. It is a legend belonging to the halflings in the east, and the halflings in the west have always lived such a stable life.

There are no legends and at the same time there are no disasters.

"If drinking soy milk can make you grow taller, then I think some halfling families will add soy milk to their daily menu. They have to grind wheat flour anyway, so grinding a little more soy milk won't hurt."

Attilan smiled and said:

"In fact, in addition to soy milk, dried black beans can also be ground into powder to make bread. There is also a delicacy I found in my inheritance memory, tofu!"

There are so many things you can do with tofu. Tofu, tofu curd, and dried tofu can expand a series of delicacies.

"If you can't eat meat, black beans are also a good substitute for meat. Compared with wheat, the yield of black beans is indeed a bit lower, but you halflings don't have a large population."

"We didn't develop a delicious black bean recipe before. Now that we know it, can you expand the black bean planting area?"

Just saying that drinking soy milk powder can help their children grow taller has already made halfling parents ready to take action. Although Brother Ya is not married yet, how can he not know what other halflings think?

Everyone has always decided that height is an important factor that affects their halflings. This is true, but if you are taller, Brother Ya believes that it will also affect the speed that halflings are proud of.

Compared with the increase in strength brought about by heightening, Brother Ya believes that agility is the capital that halflings rely on for their livelihood.

Of course it could increase strength without affecting agility, so he thought it was worth a try.

"Put the black bean matter aside for now. Since Attilan is here, then help us use your lightning breath to shock us. Didn't you say that the best way to learn is to learn to be beaten first?"

"Since you are here, you will naturally help us learn to summon thunder and lightning."

Looking at the restless Tarzan, Attilan didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

"Go, go, go."

He knew that this was because Taishan felt embarrassed that he could not master summoning thunder and lightning.

Attilan couldn't bear it anymore as he breathed lightning on three people in turn.

"What has Taishan eaten recently? I could only shoot three lightning breath shots before, but today I can actually shoot four. You can do that!"

Taishan said happily with a head of smoking hair.

"President, don't underestimate me. Although learning spells is not my strong point, in terms of body polishing, I am only slightly worse than Master Kyogai in the entire forest!"

Brother Ya smiled and said:

"What you are saying is that you are the only one of the younger generation who can polish your body. Master Kyogai's body polishing skills are all at your advantage."

Taishan said proudly:

"But can you bear the pain caused by the body polishing method? No, so I am the only one who is the most powerful physique expert!"

Taishan is a typical rough nerve. Pain will only make him more excited. Of course, you cannot regard Taishan as a pervert just because of this. What he likes is the powerful feeling of adrenaline flowing through the body when he is in pain.

"Dajiao, your strength is not bad, why don't you compare with Taishan?"

Dajiao shook his head.

"No, I value the vitality of deer more than improving strength. My strength is the strength brought by vitality. It is different from the one trained by Taishan, but it is somewhat similar to the president."