Lord Harland

Chapter 83 Cultivating Saplings
Richard's Land, William's Land, and Stopa's Land all have large tracts of primeval forests. Geographically speaking, the three lands are all in the southern foothills of the Eagle Mountain Range.

Li Cha took Bernard and traveled all winter with the sheep-headed man to every mountain in the three territories, and only found 26 sugar trees in an area of ​​[-] square kilometers.

Li Cha cut off some branches and successfully squeezed out brown sugar from the branches.

This kind of tree was also named brown sugar tree by Li Cha.

Successful sugar production, planting brown sugar trees is already a top priority for Harland's territory.

The 26 brown sugar trees are distributed in different places in Harland's territory.

What kind of environment is needed to grow brown sugar trees?Li Cha is still unclear.

Although sheep-headed people know all kinds of plants, they are familiar with the characteristics of many plants.

But when it comes to the planting and domestication of plants, the goatmen are not as experienced as humans.

The humans in Dawn Continent, in addition to conventional domestication methods, also have magic to help.

After Sophia was busy with the autumn harvest, she was also called by Li Cha to participate in the research of the brown sugar tree.

In addition to the branches and leaves of the brown sugar tree can squeeze sugar, the fruit on the tree is also particularly crisp and sweet, and the taste is closer to that of dragon fruit.

The number of fruits is not particularly large, each tree has only a few dozen, the size of the fruit is only the size of a baby's fist, and there are only two or three seeds inside.

There is no greenhouse in Harland's territory, and even if Richard wants to incubate the seeds, the conditions are not yet ripe.

There are actually a small number of greenhouses in Chenxi Continent. Large pieces of transparent glass are installed on the roof of these greenhouses, and there are fire walls for heating. Functionally, they are not much different from the vegetable greenhouses in the previous life.

The production of glass is still highly skilled in the Dawn Continent, and only a few lords have mastered the skill of burning glass.

In particular, it is technically difficult to burn large pieces of transparent glass.Although Li Cha has established a glass kiln, the accumulation of craftsmanship is far from enough, and it has not produced qualified glass for more than three years.

Because it is more difficult to fire large pieces of transparent glass, those who can luxuriously use large pieces of glass to build greenhouses are basically big nobles.

In addition to the greenhouse, the plant planting laboratory in the magic tower also has a temperature suitable for plant growth throughout the year.

But building a magic table also requires a very high investment.

Especially the elemental energy pool needs a large amount of magic spar to provide energy every year.

Relying on the three desolate baronies alone, with a small annual income, cannot afford the consumption of the magic tower, nor does it have the strength to build a magic plant planting laboratory, nor can it afford the magic research of Richard, Sophia and others.

Sophia has lived in Makholm Magic Kingdom for several years and has some experience in growing magic plants.

Although brown sugar wood is not a magical plant, many theories are interlinked.

Sophia carefully dissected a few brown sugar wood seeds, and then used life detection magic.He said to Li Cha very positively: "The vitality of the seeds is weak, and the seed shell is relatively strong. Therefore, the chance of germination and breaking the shell is naturally relatively low.

Although I don't know the habits of this tree yet, the number of brown sugar trees is scarce, and I guess it is due to the lack of competitiveness of the seeds. "

"Is there any way to increase the competitiveness of brown sugar wood seeds?"

"You can soak the seeds first, and then release life evolution, plant awakening, earth feast, life blessing, vitality growth and other magic to the seeds to promote plant growth."

Li Cha kissed Sophia's face quietly, and asked in a low voice, "Will you use this kind of magic?"

"I worked on magic planting in the Makholm Magic Kingdom for a while, and I did learn some life magic. I can use life evolution, plant awakening, and vitality growth three magics.

After leaving Makholm Magic Kingdom, the magic that I thought I had learned was useless.Unexpectedly, after returning to the territory, ordinary plants would be cultivated by magic. "

Hearing the good news, Li Cha picked up Sophia, twirled a few times in the air, and said excitedly: "That's great, you can do an experiment in the bedroom to see if you can let the brown sugar tree seeds germinate.

If the experiment is successful, we will be able to obtain a large number of brown sugar trees by tomorrow spring.

Sometimes the territory will increase the new industry of brown sugar, which provides us with a steady stream of funds.As long as the territory develops well, we can also build magic towers and continue the research of magic. "

"What is brown sugar?"

Brown sugar is still a new term in Chenxi Continent.

Aristocrats in the Chenxi Continent eat honey, and commoners want to eat sweet, so they can only taste fruits and chew sweet plant roots. Sugar has not yet appeared in people's recipes.

Li Cha took out the boiled brown sugar, gave Sophia a taste, and asked, "Is it sweet?"

"It's really sweet!"

"This is brown sugar pressed from the brown sugar wood, and I think there will be a good market for this cargo."

Seeing the real brown sugar, Sophia was very motivated. She placed a large number of flower pots in the bedroom, and used life magic every day to promote the germination of brown sugar tree seeds. A control group was also set up.

Sophia's experiment was very successful, and hundreds of brown sugar wood saplings were cultivated in one winter.

These saplings were all planted on a hill by Li Cha.

The original brown sugar wood in the territory was also dug up to this hill by Li Cha.

Fortunately, there are many strong men in the territory of Harland, otherwise it would take a lot of effort to transplant big trees in the barren mountains.

Li Cha, Heyman, Martin, and others personally acted, and a few people could lift a tree weighing several tons away.

More than half of the forest on the mountain was cut down by Li Cha to free up a lot of open space. Li Cha planned to plant brown sugar trees on several nearby hills.

This area is planned by Richard as a brown sugar tree planting area, and a sugar mill will be opened nearby.

Now Richard has started planning the map of the sugar mill.Soon Yamashita will start construction and build a factory building.The training of sugar workers has also been accelerated.

More than ten days later, a labor team came to the sugar mill, and under Li Cha's command, they began to build factories, staff dormitories and other buildings.

This group of laborers are all slaves rescued from the hands of the orcs. They come from different regions, and even include the citizens of the Kingdom of Ryan.

Now they are all indentured slaves of the Harland family.

These people are sugar mill workers selected by Li Cha, adding up to about 400 people.

According to Li Cha's plan, [-] brown sugar trees will be planted on several hills.

Brown sugar trees can grow to a height of more than ten meters. Each ten-year-old brown sugar tree can cut [-] catties of branches and leaves, and squeeze about [-] catties of sugar.

If the brown sugar wood plantation is successfully managed, Li Cha will receive 1500 tons of brown sugar every year.

Selling a catty of brown sugar for a copper coin can increase the gross income of nine thousand gold coins in the territory.Even if the production volume increased greatly, the price of brown sugar would not be as cheap as one copper coin per catty. Calculated at three copper coins per catty, there would be a gross income of [-] gold coins a year.

(End of this chapter)