Knight Lord: Start with Daily Intelligence

Although Vandal was full of fantasies about the strange phenomenon in the sky, in any case, after this grand sacrificial ceremony, the appearance of such a sacred phenomenon greatly inspired the enthusiasm of everyone in the territory.

Moreover, the universal grace of God meant that the yield per mu of farmland in the Black Forest Territory would generally increase slightly, with an increase of about 20 jin per mu being completely achievable.

This further increased the enthusiasm and initiative of all the slaves in their work, because a good harvest meant safety.

On the day before this Spring Birth of All Things Festival, the territory strictly enforced the "Law of Diligence in Farming." A full 13 slaves with the lowest output were sent to the Squire's gallows, where they were directly executed in front of thousands of slaves.

This terrifying scene made countless slaves' hands and feet turn cold. Death itself was already terrifying, but even more terrifying was that no one knew who death would fall upon.

Before the Spring Birth of All Things Festival, the territory implemented cruel punishments, successfully eliminating the slaves' lazy and weary state, and everyone tensed up their state and spirit, ready to create value with all their might during the Spring Birth of All Things ceremony.

Of course, this Spring Birth of All Things ceremony was a festival full of vitality. The territory also had rewards last night that were very much in line with the atmosphere of this festival.

Just after 13 slaves who were slacking off were executed, and all the slaves were terrified and uneasy, the territory, in accordance with the incentive plan of the "Law of Diligence in Farming," exempted a full 15 slaves from their slave status! Moreover, the territory considered it very thoughtfully. To prevent them from quickly falling back into the slave class after being freed from slavery, each person was also rewarded with 1 gold crown, two draft horses, and a full 3 bags of grain (150 jin)!

And in the Black Forest Territory, all of this became a reality.

The desire to be freed from slavery immediately overwhelmed their fear of death.

Especially on this Spring Birth of All Things Festival, it was full of hope and vitality.

Everyone looked at Su Li with extraordinary eagerness. They tightly grasped the plows and farm tools in their hands, waiting for Su Li's order, and then they would go all out to cultivate this fertile land.

As Su Li raised the whip and lashed it on the colorfully decorated plowing ox, the ceremony of driving the spring ox officially began.

As the patriarch of the Church of the Morning Light, the territory's Minister of Agriculture, Vandal, personally held the plow and cultivated the land for hundreds of meters.

This marked the official start of the territory's vigorous farming undertaking this year!

Below the entire Bjorn Bay, thousands of serfs,领民, and halflings were enthusiastically cultivating under the guidance of the nuns of the Church of the Morning Light.

The dense crowd was distributed like ants on the fertile land of Bjorn Bay. The halflings stepped on their agricultural machinery and proudly cultivated forward in the envious eyes of a group of serfs. At this moment, they were like proud knights riding warhorses among the human lords.

It was normal for them to have this idea, after all, if they really had to go to the battlefield, their agricultural machinery could also harvest heads. Battle rams pulled these heavy plowing machines forward. Wherever the six rows of steel teeth passed, the hardened soil was transformed into a velvet-like 희양.

In less than an hour, under the golden warm sun, they drove a machine and cultivated 10 mu of ridges.

Su Li sat on the embankment of Bjorn Bay and could have an unobstructed view of the cultivation of tens of thousands of acres of farmland below.

These ant-like领民 would turn this fertile soil into vast fertile fields for him, and then harvest countless golden grains in the harvest season.

This made him feel extremely good, and he appreciated this vibrant scene for a long time in the warm spring breeze.

After Vandal presided over the ceremony, he came to Su Li and reported to Su Li: "Lord, good news. Before the blood sacrifice, the army successfully sent the corpses over. We sacrificed four Grain Father · Boleviks together and obtained a total of 1200 mu of blood fields."

Su Li nodded with a smile. He had an excellent view from this embankment and had already seen the scene of a group of people performing blood sacrifices around the land below. After the slender-limbed Boleviks chanted a long incantation, the land below was filled with the emerald light of the Goddess of the Morning Light, and then a full 1200 mu of land became fertile land bathed in divine grace.

This scale was even higher than Vandal had expected. A full 2100 mu of blood fields was really like a touch of cinnabar in the Border Prince Territory.

Then Su Li said with a smile: "This is indeed good news. But we must continue to work hard and strive to let more fields be bathed in divine grace."

The effect of the blood sacrifice only lasts for 10 years, and half of it has passed in 1 year. It is really not easy for the territory to want more farmland to be bathed in divine grace.

The Black Forest Territory is undoubtedly still a barren land of divine grace. To improve the degree to which farmland is bathed in divine grace, it is obviously necessary to take multiple measures.

More sacred sites of the Church of the Morning Light, more extensive sacrifices, and more natural spirits.

In this regard, more natural spirits cannot be solved in the short term, but more extensive sacrifices and more sacred sites are currently being fully promoted by the priests of the Church of the Morning Light.

Vandal then pointed to the fertile farmland below Bjorn Bay and said: "Lord, in addition to developing this hillside and increasing the scale of fertile land this year, we also plan to build this land into a core sacred site of the Church of the Morning Light within the territory."

Vandal's proposal immediately made Su Li's eyes light up. He turned his head and looked at this Minister of Agriculture with bright eyes and said: "Your proposal is very thoughtful. Bjorn Bay was originally the agricultural center of our territory and the pillar of agricultural output. If it can become Rhea's most sacred sacred site in the territory, it will indeed complement each other."

Su Li may not support the Church of the Morning Light building other sacred sites. Some sacred sites are effective for the Church of the Morning Light.

But Su Li will definitely support this sacred site. The vast agricultural area of Bjorn Bay is Su Li's most core asset and the foundation for him to establish the territory and expand outwards.

It can be said that the development and harvest here are the guarantee and foundation for him to gain a foothold in this border development territory.

So if he can increase the scale of divine grace bathing here, he has no problem investing directly.

So he asked straight to the point: "What are your plans? Tell me in detail about your thoughts."

Vandal immediately asked Su Li to stand up, walked to the side of the embankment, and then he pointed to the distance, encompassing the terrain of the Black Forest Hillside and Bjorn Bay, and said: "The fertile land that we have now developed in this Bjorn Bay has 1700 qing. Although the scale is not large, it is actually equivalent to at least 3 to 5 villages, calculated on the basis of 100 mu of farmland per household of five people, and not small villages, but medium-sized villages with 300 to 500 farmers."

"With the sufficient machinery and agricultural tools that you provide to the slaves, I estimate that these slaves will be able to complete the cultivation of the entire farmland in about 15 days, and then continue to reclaim new wasteland. But because of the increased distance, we will definitely have to build new farms, stables, and roads to support them."

"So we think that instead of wasting manpower on building roads and farms, it is better to cultivate the existing fertile land well. While the serfs are cultivating, send dwarf engineers to build a Maiden's Ring here. We have also chosen the location, which is on that undulating hill."

Su Li looked over in the direction he was pointing, and sure enough, he saw a low, rounded mound.

This was in line with the terrain of the Black Forest Hillside area. As a hillside plain area between the Gray Mountains and the Blood Pine Forest, the terrain of the Black Forest Hillside was relatively flat and the soil was extremely fertile. But there were still some undulating remnants of hills, and there would also be a small amount of undulating terrain in the center of the plain.

Of course, even if it was not a hillside but a plain, the terrain was not flat, and there were undulating mounds inside, serving as shady places for grazing horses.

The mound in Bjorn Bay was not very high, but it had obvious undulations, about 20 to 30 meters, but its slope was very gentle. Su Li saw the halfling's plowing machine driving over without any obstacles, forming a cultivated fertile field on the hillside.

Vandal continued: "We have calculated that this place is about 20 li from Black Forest Town, which is just suitable for serving as a sacred site of the Church of the Morning Light in the countryside. The specific project does not need to be too complicated. When it is built, it will become a place surrounded by continuous fertile valley fields for several miles."

"A circle of standing stone monuments will be built on the low, rounded mound, with a statue of the Goddess of the Morning Light in the middle, a wooden statue of a maiden. Although some places believe that Rhea, the Goddess of the Morning Light, is a middle-aged woman with a broad face, our territory obviously does not recognize this church content."

Listening to Vandal's introduction, Su Li nodded slightly. Although different places have slight differences in the interpretation of Rhea's teachings, such as the image of Rhea, which varies greatly from place to place, some people believe that she is a beautiful maiden, while others believe that she is a kind-faced mother.

But some content is common, such as the fact that this goddess does not like pure white marble, and her statues are basically made of wood.

The Goddess of the Blazing Sun and the Goddess of Healing, this pair of sisters, are exactly the opposite of her. The images of these two goddesses are fixed, both are young women with beautiful faces, and their statues and churches are made of pure white marble.

The Goddess of Dawn undoubtedly had a closer affinity to nature, so Fandar continued, "We plan to build wheat fields and lawns on this ring-shaped mound, and trim a spiral pattern of Rhea's divine紋 into them. We'll use these grassy paths to channel the water flowing down from Lake Leiflin into clear streams, irrigating the entire valley field."

"If everything goes smoothly, this place will become one of the most sacred holy sites in the Black Forest Territory. The surrounding priestesses will come here from villages dozens of miles away to offer sacrifices and communicate with the goddess. Even passing natural spirits will pay their respects here."

"At the same time, as the most sacred, largest, and closest holy site to the Goddess of Dawn, this place will surely receive intense divine grace, bathing the land in the radiance of the Goddess of Dawn."

"Our church believes that when the breeze blows through the wheat fields, it is Lady Rhea walking on the land. If the spiritual energy here is sufficient, and the holy light is pervasive and brilliant, then the Rhea statue on the mound is very likely to be endowed with divinity. When the breeze blows through the verdant wheat fields, the statue will summon a trace of Rhea's divinity, with a golden phantom walking above the wheat fields."

Hearing this description, Su Li could already feel the powerful divinity that this holy site would possess after its completion.

There is definitely no shortage of such holy sites within the Empire, because some lords in certain places genuinely collect nineteen taxes out of every twenty, without any tax refunds. And they have the confidence to do so because their territories are bathed in divine grace, and their farmland is practically nuclear-powered, yielding five or even six harvests a year.

The territory currently has a holy site capable of yielding four harvests a year, located in the Frost Creek area within the Blood Pine Forest. It's the most active area for druids, with a large number of forests. The druids use birch sap secreted during the winter to form a natural ice shell area. Then, the nuns of the Church of Dawn use hollow wheat stalks to create fog whistles. When the temperature drops below freezing, thousands of fog whistles inserted into the fields will automatically sound due to the temperature difference inside and outside the ice shell, and the sound waves will melt the frost into irrigation mist.

So, while the entire Black Forest Territory yields three harvests a year, these 2,000 acres of fertile land within the Hoarfrost Wheat Whistle area can achieve the feat of four harvests a year.

If this Maiden's Ring is completed, not to mention any particularly strong effects, just enabling the farmland near Bjorn Bay to achieve four harvests a year would increase the Black Forest Territory's annual revenue by thousands of gold crowns.

Its value might even exceed ten thousand gold crowns! After all, revenue is a non-linear thing. With basic expenses fixed, the higher the revenue, the more wealth the territory can accumulate after deducting expenses!

Moreover, this is truly just the most basic impact of mortal rules, only involving climate and temperature, making the terrain and environment here more suitable for three-harvest crops to achieve four harvests a year.

Fandar continued, "In addition, after this holy site matures, we plan to plant new wheat varieties here."

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"New wheat varieties?" Su Li immediately thought of this question.

He wasn't the Minister of Agriculture, so he paid relatively little attention to the specific details of agriculture.

Fandar, who was responsible for the territory's entire planting plan, had obviously considered everything very carefully, not only including the opening of wasteland and environmental improvement, but also, of course, the selection of crops.

Fandar said with a smile, "Yes, Lord, with such fertile land this year, and after creating such a powerful Maiden's Ring, you wouldn't still be thinking of continuing to plant ordinary seeds, would you?"

Su Li raised an eyebrow and asked, "Doesn't Transcendental Grain need purple spiritual fields to cultivate?"

Sister Isabella usually meticulously cultivates these spiritual grains in the Purple Thorns Manor, but because there are no spiritual fields, she hasn't been able to increase the scale.

Fandar nodded and said, "Indeed, even if spiritual grain is only at the Emerald Spike level, capable of permanently enhancing a knight's attributes, it still requires purple spiritual fields to plant. But have you forgotten that we still have some relatively ordinary wheat varieties that can only temporarily enhance a knight's strength?"

Su Li immediately remembered and asked, "Are you talking about Iron Wheat?"

This wheat variety was a powerful wheat variety that was reborn from the ashes after the green dragon Ellerya ravaged the land. They were close to the dragon, causing them to mutate. The stalks that grew out had sharp edges, and the harvest required serfs to wear chainmail!

To prevent these hundreds of serfs, wearing armor and holding sharp dwarven scythes, from having a smart aleck among them who would imitate a fox's call at dawn, or stuff strange things into the bellies of fish...

During the winter harvest, Ohrstein specially mobilized 500 elite knights in heavy armor to sit in Bjorn Bay and supervise their harvest.

The scale of the army was even larger than that of the slaves. If the value of the harvest wasn't high, it wouldn't even be enough to cover the army's deployment costs.

And this commotion was also because this wheat variety was indeed very effective. If knights ate it, it could slightly increase their strength in the short term, by no less than 20%.

So, if the army's scale wasn't large enough, or if only armed attendants were sent, these slaves could secretly eat the Iron Wheat and potentially start a riot, pushing back the territory's army.

"But I remember the nuns of the Church of Dawn said that this Iron Wheat is very difficult to survive in ordinary fields," Su Li frowned and asked. "The last time these wheat varieties appeared was as a result of the green dragon's ravaging, a fluke."

As the Patriarch of the Church of Dawn, Fandar was certainly aware of this situation, but with great ambition, he pointed to the farmland that had already been reclaimed in the distance and said, "Ordinary fields certainly can't provide enough spiritual energy and vitality for Iron Wheat. But our Bjorn Bay is different. The soil here is fertile and irrigated by the waters of Lake Leiflin, so the level of spiritual energy is already very high."

"More importantly, after the Maiden's Ring is completed, the water from Lake Leiflin will be sent to the top of the mound by waterwheels, and this water will carry Rhea's divinity as it flows down through the spiral-shaped grassy paths. Our church's high-ranking priests held a special demonstration meeting on this situation, and most people believe that it shouldn't be necessary to use the [Sun Descent] divine spell to ensure that Iron Wheat grows here."

"Last year, we harvested a total of over 1,380 pounds of Iron Wheat, almost 1,400 pounds. We distributed 1,000 pounds to the army, to ensure that the elite knight corps could eat Iron Bread and increase their combat power in the event of fierce battles."

"We plan to cultivate the remaining three hundred pounds in three batches, striving to successfully plant them this year. For the first batch of 100 pounds of wheat, we'll first plant about 80 pounds here in Bjorn Bay, and try planting the remaining 20 pounds in different holy sites, including the different terrains of various manors in the Blood Pine Forest."

"These 80 pounds of wheat will be planted at the same time as the Maiden's Ring is being built, striving to ensure that the Iron Wheat can grow smoothly after the holy site is completed."

Hearing this, Su Li immediately felt confident.

Since the Church of Dawn had already made plans for three cultivations, Su Li had no reason to refuse their attempt.

"No problem, I approve of your Maiden's Ring plan," Su Li waved his hand generously and said, "Have your church submit an application to the Provincial Council, and I'll have Oliver approve it."

Now that the territory had developed to its current state, Su Li basically no longer arbitrarily subsidized other churches.

Any needs or suggestions from the various churches were to be submitted to the Provincial Council, which would then approve the funds for them.

Although this slightly reduced efficiency, the benefits were unparalleled. The process was more transparent, the conditions were clearer, and it could greatly stimulate the application enthusiasm of various churches.

In order to obtain funding, various churches submitted all kinds of applications to the Provincial Council.

With so many proposals, there were always some that could catch the eye and have significant effects.

For example, the Church of the Goddess of Blazing Sun wanted to build a pass at Gray Lady's Pass in the Gray Mountains, located in the rugged shadows of the Gray Mountains. This was the most reliable and safest trade route in the Black Forest Territory's Gray Mountains. It stood in the fertile Lady's Valley, spanning the Blackwater River. Once completed, the pass would profit from the continuous flow of trade from its bustling commercial district, receiving goods from the mountain dwarven fortresses and exporting them to the Empire and beyond.

Even at the current stage, this road was already crowded with long-distance carriages, trucks, and horses, carrying goods back and forth to the town's busy markets. Similarly, its rivers and canals were also filled with all kinds of ships, loaded with all kinds of goods for sale and trade.

Once Gray Lady's Pass was completed, the territory would receive at least several thousand gold crowns in tariffs and commercial taxes each year, and the garrison would significantly improve the security along the Gray Mountains.

The knights of the Black Forest Territory and the rangers of the dwarves would jointly combat the various monsters hiding in the mountain roads and canyons, such as looters, bandits, beastmen, green skins, and trolls.

Once these monsters were cleared, the prosperity of this trade route would be further enhanced, and more caravans would emerge from the Gray Mountains and come to the Black Forest Territory.

At the same time, this dangerous pass and the garrison inside would significantly prevent the infiltration of various cultists, demons, and ogres into the territory.

Last time, cultists dug out a God-Chosen-level demon and broke a terrible seal, precisely because the Black Forest Territory was too far away from this area, and there was no way to prevent it in the first place.

Otherwise, the human and dwarven allied forces wouldn't have had to fight so fiercely.

With Su Li's intelligence system assisting, all evil cults and Chaos Knights infiltrating the Black Forest Territory would be annihilated by this legion at the first opportunity.

Therefore, even though building this pass required 4,000 gold crowns, the Black Forest Territory still gritted its teeth and built it, and sent a diplomatic minister to jointly participate in the construction of this project with the dwarves.

To some extent, this could also be considered an important wonder building of the Church of the Goddess of Blazing Sun.