Lord Harland

Chapter 82 Brown Sugar Tree

Li Cha wanted to find plants similar to sugar cane, and he couldn't do without the sheep-headed man in the territory.

Sheepheads are natural botanists. They know almost all the plants in northern Xinjiang, and they can also distinguish the medicinal properties and toxicity of plants.

When sick, goatmen usually find wild herbs to treat their illnesses.

Through the herbal medicines that the sheep-headed people searched for, Richard can also accumulate experience and develop plant medicine.

The development of this field will not only benefit the humans in the Dawn Continent, but the cultivation of herbs can also form an industry and provide more resources for the territory.

Through Bernard's translation, the goat man knew that Richard was not going to slaughter them.

Hearing this news, the goatman was very happy.

Among the captive goatmen, there were two first-tier professionals, one named Anu, who was captured by Li Cha's defeat of the Goatman Squadron of the Shamok Brigade, and the other named Larsi, who was led by Richard Allied forces entered the orc empire to capture slaves.

Sheep-headed people are gentle in character and have the characteristic of being happy with the situation.

The IQ of this group is average, not as good as the kobolds, equivalent to twelve or thirteen-year-old children.

The lifespan of a sheep headman is only more than 20 years old.Life is too short, and accumulated knowledge is not enough.Therefore, goatmen seldom have excellent magicians.

In the orc empire, the herbivorous species are basically at the bottom.

Although the sheep-headed man has many shortcomings, the knowledge of herbal medicine accumulated in the sheep-headed man's genes is very important for the development of human beings.

In the thousands of years of Dawn Continent's history, some nobles have also studied a lot of botanical knowledge, especially magic botany. They have studied very deeply and developed the theory of medicine.

But magicians don't care about ordinary people at all, and their research is mainly on magic plants and magic pharmacy.

The focus of input is the evolution of personal power.

Magic researchers don't value the botanical knowledge accumulated by the sheep headmen at all.

Most nobles only regard ordinary people as objects of exploitation and squeeze, and don't care about the health and life span of ordinary people.

After Richard settled the workers and drew the city construction map, he asked his second uncle Powell to be in charge of the construction of Fort Sophia. His energy was mainly focused on the sheep-headed man.

Through Bernard's translation, Richard has many questions every day, asking the sheep-headed man.

After a long time, he even learned the language of the goat man and talked with the goat man himself.

Through talking with the sheep-headed man, Li Cha not only discovered some herbs, but also knew that there are two plants in the Eagle Mountains that taste very sweet.

One is similar to the beet that Li Cha had seen in his previous life, while the other is a rare tree.

Beets are considered a type of vegetable, and the cultivation of vegetables consumes a lot of water resources, so they need to be cultivated in the best paddy fields.

There are relatively few paddy fields in the territories of Richard and William.

The food security of the territory needs to be in the hands, and large-scale planting of sugar beet is not feasible for the time being.

But Li Cha had arranged for slaves to dig up some beet seeds.Prepare a small amount of beet cultivation, and study the sugar beet extraction process.

Li Cha had watched the video of the ancient method of sugar making in his previous life, and it was very simple in terms of craftsmanship.Generally, there are cleaning, evaporation, crystallization, honey separation, drying and other processes.

The tools required for the ancient sugar making, except for the difficulty of making the big iron pot, the rest of the sugar making tools can be made in the territory of Harland.

Through many years of observation by Li Cha, he found that the development of productivity in the Dawn Continent was basically on par with the European Middle Ages.

Some crafts are better than the Middle Ages, and some crafts are not as good as the Middle Ages.

Especially in some remote areas, the economy has been in a relatively rough and primitive state for a long time, the level of development of handicrafts and commerce is very low, and the level of craftsmen is not high.

Taking blacksmiths as an example, beginners can make weapons, while those who are experienced can make armor and iron pots. I am afraid that only a very small number of highly skilled blacksmiths can do it.

Li Cha asked the blacksmiths trained in Harland's territory, and now two of them are able to make armors, but they still have no confidence in making iron pots.

You must know that the iron pot manufacturing technology did not mature until the Song Dynasty, and the Mongols in the late Qing Dynasty did not have the ability to make iron pots.

Of course, the Mongols don't know how to forge iron pots. In addition to craftsmanship, fuel is also an important reason.

Iron smelting requires the use of coke, and coal coke is the pre-process.

Without coke, charcoal can only be fired from wood.Without sufficient forest resources, it is difficult to develop iron smelting technology.

There are not many forests on the Mongolian plateau, but there is a lot of coal.These coals have a high sulfur content and are of poor quality for making iron, so they can barely be used as weapons.

Li Chaling is full of forests, and there is no shortage of forest resources.

After the Harland family obtained the hereditary fiefdom, Richard built a wood distillation kiln to produce charcoal suitable for iron smelting.

The fuel problem has been ruled out. Now, if you want to make a big iron pot, you need skilled craftsmen to sum up their experience and use their brains.

Although there is a master iron smelter in Heihe Fort, it's not easy for Li Cha to bother him every time.

This time he is going to train his own people.

In order to bring out the blacksmith's ingenuity, Li Cha decided to reward the blacksmiths heavily. Whoever can make a qualified large iron pot, Li Cha will reward them with a bounty of [-] gold coins.

Thirty gold coins is equivalent to the salary of an ordinary citizen for ten years. A farmer who farms for a lifetime may not be able to save a huge sum of thirty gold coins except for the expenses of food, clothing, housing and transportation.

Even for soldiers of the main army, it will take two and a half years to get this salary.

The soldiers of the main army need to be selected layer by layer, and they also need to go to the battlefield to fight their lives.

The blacksmith only needs to make a large iron pot to get this huge sum of money.

The huge sum of thirty gold coins is enough to tempt the craftsmen.

In addition, Li Cha also stipulated that the blacksmith who successfully made a large iron pot can be allocated a house and become a free citizen.

He will also act as the manager of the blacksmiths in the territory.In terms of identity, he directly entered the middle level of the territory.

There must be a brave man under a heavy reward. In October, a blacksmith named Thomas Weber completed the task, received a reward of [-] gold coins, and became a freeman in the territory of Harland.

This person was appointed by Richard as the head of the blacksmith team.

If Thomas Weber can continue to make breakthroughs in iron smelting technology, Richard will elevate his status and give him more bonuses.

With the successful manufacture of a large iron pot, the process of squeezing sugar is not difficult.

Besides beets, another plant that is high in sugar is a tree.

This kind of tree is not common and has not yet appeared in human life.

There are a large number of Warcraft living in the Eagle Mountains, and there are many orc tribes active in the north.

Ordinary people in the Kingdom of Harland, unless they were forced to become bandits, would not dare to move in the Eagle Mountain Range.

Even the hereditary earl of the Kingdom of Grant, a magician of the seventh rank, lost his life in the Eagle Mountain Range.

The sugary trees that grow in the Eagle Mountains are naturally unknown.

(End of this chapter)