The Rise of Iceland

　　　　 Julian calendar On the afternoon of July 5, 1628, a patter of rain fell in the sky, making the hot air slightly cooler.

　　 Now is the Little Ice Age, Wenlan’s summer is not too hot and unbearable. A rain makes people find the feeling of the long-lost spring and autumn season.

Last night’s meeting to discuss the management of white slaves and the establishment of Viking Thunder did not end until midnight and quietly. Everyone in the meeting felt Hadar’s ambition to do a big job, and at the same time felt that “Viking With the powerful energy behind the "Leidang" organization, they left Hadarborg excitedly and went back to their home for an hour or two, still tossing and turning, before falling asleep with complicated emotions.

　　 This morning, leaders such as Hadar and Hagrid held a meeting with all Icelanders and white slaves on the square, announcing the establishment of Viking Thunder, then explaining related matters, and finally announcing the seven new Atang paddle heads.

　　 Then seven paddle heads appeared and took their respective white slaves from Atang to work according to the assigned area. The work included logging, quarrying, planting, hunting, and collecting rattan and grass. There is one more day a week to be responsible for the construction of the city of Groot.

Olaf took Pikku to give lectures to his eighty white slaves, and then ordered several of them to follow himself as servants, follow Pikku, and then take everyone to the stone cave warehouse to fetch them. Several plant seeds and farming tools brought back from Amsterdam.

　　 Then I went to cultivate land near the river bend on the east side of Groot.

The land around the city of Groot is pretty good, so hundreds of acres have been reclaimed, but the most fertile and wet east river bend has not been reclaimed for planting, because the white slaves of Hagerburg originally planted food. Hardy rye cannot adapt to the humid environment of the river, so even if the land along the river bend has dozens of acres and is the most fertile, less than one-tenth of it has been developed.

Today’s social productivity is extremely low. A farmer can only grow 20 acres of land at most. Also, due to the primitive grain and insufficient soil strength, one acre of land can only plant less than one acre of plants for later generations. So in this world, it’s just a matter of viewing farmland. There will be an impression-Caosheng is thin.

If you grow rye and oats and other grains, one acre (6 acres) of land will produce more than 100 pounds per year, and the annual output of flour is less than 100 pounds. A family of several people will need 67 acres of grain a year. In addition to taxes and usual expenses, normal families have to plant more than ten acres of land to feed the family, and their lives are still tight.

Vinland has a lot of land. At present, a lot of arable land has been developed around the city of Groot. Rye and some vegetables such as radishes and beets have long been planted. With abundant cod resources, a thousand people are absolutely self-sufficient. Not a problem.

But Olaf knows that the current Western agricultural planting technology is backward and the grain cultivation technology is also primitive. The grain yield is much lower than that of Daming at the same time. Although he hopes to match the future "Tiangong" from the East. Kaiwu, Agricultural Policy Complete Book, etc., but before receiving these high-tech instruction books, Olaf still wanted to do something to increase Wenlan’s productivity, liberate the large number of white slaves who were bound to the land by backward productivity, and let Iceland People and white slaves can free up their hands to do other things.

Productivity is limited, and Olaf does not understand advanced agricultural technology, so after careful consideration, he decided to start with planting crops. Now, in addition to wheat, barley, rye, etc., there are crops in the Wenlan climate, as well as soybeans and black beans. However, the output of these crops is limited. .

Now in the Little Ice Age, the world’s agricultural output is declining, which caused natural and man-made disasters, which caused the end of the Ming Dynasty to perish. Then decades later, the prosperity of Kangxi and Qianlong was ended by the Dongfang and Sweet Potatoes that ended in the Little Ice River. It emerged that relying on the high yield of sweet potatoes to solve the ration problem of the people, a false prosperity was formed, and finally a population of 40,000.

　　 Olaf’s gaze was on the sweet potatoes and potatoes, which are grown in both the East and the West, but they have not received much attention.

When he was in Amsterdam, Olaf followed him to buy various vegetable seeds and plant seeds. He also bought some sweet potatoes and potatoes. These plants are currently mainly ornamental in Europe. Potatoes can bloom small yellow flowers, and there are still people in England. Eating leaves, sweet potatoes are just pure green leafy plants. At present, some people eat rhizomes, which are sweet potatoes, but after all, it is a new thing from Latin America, and there are not many people who dare to try.

Olaf clearly remembers that in the days of the empire, one acre of sweet potatoes and potatoes can create a yield of 5-6 to 7-8 thousand catties, and that one acre of output is enough to feed ten people a year without a problem. The current varieties of potatoes and sweet potatoes are naturally not as good as later generations, but it is absolutely not a problem that one mu can yield one or two thousand catties.

　　 Converted to acres, that means that one acre can harvest more than ten thousand pounds of ration. As long as one hundred or ten acres of potatoes and sweet potatoes can be planted, it is enough to feed everyone in Herut City.

And planting one or two hundred acres of land only needs a small production team, which can save more than 80% of the population to do other labor work, can save most of the productivity, and double the speed of the development of Groot. even more.

As the successor to the core values ​​of socialism for decades, Olaf clearly remembers that the great leader said that population is productivity. A good party is to liberate productivity. Time and practice have proved that a great country uses decades of Time to develop the population and liberate the productive forces, and build a poor and white country into the world's second largest economy, this guiding philosophy is extremely correct.

Olaf now wants to develop Wenlan~www.wuxiahere.com~ to build this undeveloped virgin land, which can hardly be completed by a thousand people, but if most of the labor force can be liberated from the land, it will be Increase the speed of construction and development.

Olaf personally thinks that his decision is meaningful, so he led the white slaves of Atang under his hand to the fertile and humid river bends, first instructed them to turn the soil, and then plant the cut potatoes and sweet potatoes in the soft soil. , About half the depth of the palm, ask the skin to face up, and then water.

More than 80 Bainuli have an unbalanced male-to-female ratio, with only one-third of women. However, both men and women are healthy young people, ranging in age from 17 to 40, and there are only nine young children. .

　　 Now except for three of the nine children who are under ten, they are following Olaf, and the other six are also following their parents, mixing into the hands of more than seventy veterans of farming.

The white slaves were led by their respective squad captains and captains to spread the ground, bury the seeds, water the ground, and the fire that consumes the most strength and energy is all made by men and strong women, thinner women and teenagers. Plant the sweet potatoes and potatoes before watering them.

Olaf knows that sweet potatoes and potatoes should be planted with soil ridges. The parallel ridges are deep with sweet potatoes and potato seeds. The middle of the ridges becomes low-lying and can store rainwater after the rain. Olaf does not understand this principle. , But he knew that it would make sense to plant these two high-yield crops with high starch content in later generations, so he also asked the white slaves to lay ridges in the way he remembered.

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