inspire-indiana Chapter 162: Insufficient Food, But Potatoes Are Harvested
Chapter 162: Insufficient Food, But Potatoes Are Harvested
In the new town, Li Fan's three-story castle.
Li Fan, who was sitting in front of the wooden office, looked at the registration form that Alicia had made.
These registration forms not only recorded the information of refugees, but also 200 ordinary captives, and the tri-ethnic mixed group that followed him at first, all of them.
After the refugees entered the valley, Li Fan removed the captive status of 200 captives and arranged them among the refugees to facilitate management.
In today's valley, there are three types of existence.
1: The original tri-ethnic mixed group of 276 people.
2: 1289 refugees.
3: The mercenaries captured 36 people.
The reason for this distinction is that Li Fan intends to implement a hierarchy in the territory.
The tri-ethnic mixed groups are the highest first-class citizens, the refugees are the second-class citizens, and the captives such as mercenaries are the lowest existence, and they are not even counted as citizens.
The reason for using a hierarchy is simple.
For one thing, if there is no discrimination, there will definitely be dissatisfaction with the tri-ethnic mixed group that established this valley with Li Fan.
After all, they have paid the most for this valley, and so far, apart from the promised house in the new town, there is no other material return.
Refugees are treated the same as they are once they enter the valley.
It is inevitable that some people will be psychologically unbalanced.
Second, if the refugees can easily get the same treatment as the tri-ethnic mixed groups, how can these refugees still work hard for Li Fan?
After considering the above two points, Li Fan planned to implement a hierarchical system after discussing with several deputy lords.
Of course, Li Fan also knows the pitfalls of the hierarchy.
As long as this hierarchical system lasts for a long time, it will definitely form a confrontation like the nobles and commoners in this world.
Finally, in the oppression of the nobles, the common people began to rebel against the nobles.
Therefore, it is very important not to allow the existence of 'nobility' to appear in the territory.
For this reason, Li Fan specially made an additional regulation for this hierarchy.
Anyone, as long as they make enough contributions, or live in the valley long enough, and then buy a house in a new town, can be promoted from a second-class citizen to a first-class citizen.
With this system, there will only be more and more first-class citizens in the valley.
When most of the citizens are first-class citizens, and everyone is 'noble', naturally there will be no situation where 'nobles' oppress commoners.
By the way, the request to sell the house can also contribute to Li Fan's future real estate plan.
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Not long after, Li Fan finally looked through all the registration forms.
He couldn't help frowning.
Alicia knew why Li Fan frowned, after all, she was the one who made this registration form.
"Master, there are 1,289 refugees in total, but most of them are old people and children, and there are less than 300 of them in their prime."
This is something Li Fan didn't expect. He thought that he would gather a large number of laborers, but he didn't expect more elderly people and children.
Although it is not cumbersome, the elderly and children can't do much work.
Li Fan pinched the corners of his eyes and asked Alicia, "Do you know the reason?"
Alicia had been prepared for a long time, and had asked the refugees the reason in advance.
Only then did Li Fan know that it was all a good thing that Caton did.
In order to obtain the maximum benefit, Caton kept most of the young and middle-aged people, and in the end, most of the people who escaped were old, weak, sick and disabled.
These refugees, even the slave merchants didn't bother to ask for them. They were not so much escaped as they were abandoned by Caton.
Li Fan never expected that Caton would cheat him unknowingly.
But things have come to this, Li Fan can't drive these refugees away, besides, these refugees may not be useless.
Alicia said at this time: "But young master, we are running out of food. Even with the 100,000 catties of wheat brought by the mercenaries, we now have less than 40,000 catties of food left. I can’t hold it anymore, and this is still under the condition of not caring about the big black bear.”
This is already the first time they have bothered about food.
But this time Li Fan was not in a hurry, he silently counted the time.
Then he said to Alicia with a smile, "Don't worry about the food."
Alicia blinked her big eyes, a little puzzled.
Li Fan just looked at the field.
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Three days later, Li Fan's food ran out as expected.
Fortunately, the big black bear didn't come to make trouble during this period, otherwise Li Fan really didn't know where to get food for it.
And on this day, in the field, the stems and leaves of the potatoes planted 15 days ago were completely withered and yellow.
Li Fan woke up early.
Everyone in the valley gathered early in the morning.
In fact, Anna and the others also got up early.
A group of people also knew that they had no food, so they all came to the field, looking expectantly at the withered and yellow potato seedlings in the field.
It can be said that these 100 acres of potatoes are the next hope for all of them. If the potatoes do not mature in 15 days as Li Fan said, then a large number of them may face the situation of starving to death. .
At that time, the so-called territory will be a joke, and even the mixed groups of the three ethnic groups will fall apart, returning to the previous state where each ethnic group lived independently.
Thinking of this, Li Fan couldn't help being a little nervous.
So he will be the first to pick these potatoes.
Li Fan squatted on the ground, grabbed a potato vine, and then pulled it slowly. After a little effort, he pulled out a bunch of yellow potatoes with their roots.
Everyone looked at the potatoes in Li Fan's hands, and couldn't help taking a breath.
I saw a total of fifteen large and small potatoes attached to the thin potato roots.
The big ones are bigger than a fist, and the small ones are the size of an egg.
Li Fan estimated that these potatoes weighed 8 catties.
One potato seedling harvested a full 8 catties of potatoes.
"How is it possible? I remember that a potato seedling can grow 4 catties of potatoes, which is considered a bumper harvest. These potato seedlings have grown to 8 catties, and these potatoes can be harvested in only 15 days..."
The people behind Li Fan were stunned, looking at the potatoes in Li Fan's hand in disbelief, feeling like they were dreaming for a moment.
If the potatoes on the Magic Continent had this kind of output and this growth rate, I am afraid that no one in the entire Magic Continent would starve to death.
If any race gets this kind of potato, it will definitely be able to quickly grow its own race.
Thinking of this, everyone knew the great value of these potatoes.
For a moment everyone looked at these potatoes with red eyes.
However, what they don't know is that the high yield of these magic potatoes is due to breeding, which is naturally not comparable to the potatoes on the magic continent.
The growth rate is the result of the demonization of the system, and there is no way to affect other potatoes.
This kind of potato can only become a specialty of their territory in the end.