Traitor Summoning System [Infrastructure]

The rainy season is coming, Conrad Steward said, and there are two phases of rain on the land.

The first stage is shortly after summer, and there will be intermittent rain for half a month, but the rain is not heavy, but it can nourish everything. The disadvantage is that if it is not handled properly, the crops will stink in the soil.For many years, the people here have not solved this problem, they can only resign themselves to fate.This is one of the main reasons for the lack of grain production here these years.

Of course, there are not many places in the entire Svia continent where there is a good harvest of grain, and everyone always has various reasons for the lack of grain production.

The second rainy season is the second half of autumn. At that time, it will rain continuously for nearly a month until winter. During this period, the temperature will drop very quickly, and the humid and cold air will be sticky. This period of time is simply a disaster.

The harvest festival of nobles is usually at this stage.

The nobles would avoid the bad air and leave their castles to attend their lord's harvest festival.Of course, this month could also be called a networking month.

As for slaves and commoners?Whatever they do.Slaves can be bought after they die, and civilians are not their own property anyway.

The first small rainy season is coming soon, and there are already signs at this time.

The forest was full of moisture, and Leonard liked this moist and warm feeling.In fact, he quite liked the climate here.

The weeds crunched under the horse's hooves.

Slave A: "It's almost the rainy season."

Slave B: "This small rainy season should not be hard to endure. The house that Bachelor Cai Lun repaired for us is not leaking anymore, and it is very dry."

Leonard said: "Pick up dry wood in advance, I almost forgot about it."

I didn't think of it at all.

"Okay, Lord Lord." The slave said.

"It is estimated that Cai Lun is not aware of the climate here. After returning, most people stop what they are doing and come to the forest to pick up wood." Leonard said.

A slave laughed and said, "My lord, with so many people picking up wood, I guess there will be too much firewood."

"Sooner or later, anyway," Leonard said.

"It's better that we sell the excess firewood to Wanzhong Town and Chaos Bazaar at a high price." The slave continued hehehe.

"Good guy, you have the potential to be a profiteer." Leonard smiled, "You can sell it, but you don't have to sell it at a high price. After that, I will set aside two days to prepare firewood, and I will distribute it to you at that time. If you want to If you want to sell it, you can organize it yourself, and after obtaining the permission of Bachelor Cai Lun, send someone to Wanzhong Town to sell it, and keep the copper coins you get, but you can’t sell it at a high price.”

"Okay, thank you Lord Lord!" the slave said happily.

Many slaves are very excited, which means that if they work harder at that time, they can exchange the extra firewood for some copper coins.

But not all slaves are interested in copper coins. One slave is a little worried: "I don't know what to do with the crops. I have planted so many this year."

"It doesn't matter, Bachelor Cai Lun is so powerful, he will definitely not let the crops die of waterlogging." Another slave persuaded.

"Yeah." Leonard also nodded.

The businessman Dorocia was listening to Leonard chatting with the slaves on an equal footing. He roughly knew that the lord was very kind to the people below. After thinking about it, he felt that he was also a person under the lord now, so he asked : "The lord, did you just say that a house was built by the sea?"

"Yes." Leonard nodded.

The businessman Dorocia reckoned that the condition of this kind of temporary house by the sea would be poor, but he didn't come here to enjoy the blessings.

"Does having a house mean we need to spend the night by the sea?" he asked.

"En." Leonard said, "Your working hours are like this, stay at the beach for three days, go back and rest for a day, and then come back."

Dorothea understood: "This can be more efficient and save round-trip time."

"En." Leonard was a little surprised. This person is quite intelligent, and he didn't expect to understand what he meant immediately.

Leonard's words of encouragement to him before were actually just words, but now he has really moved his mind.

If the other party is very talented, he can be reused.

After all, to develop a territory, one cannot rely solely on summoning treacherous ministers.

"The other thing," Leonard said, "is that dead seafood can't be eaten, it's poisonous, and that means someone has to send it back and forth."

"What about us?" the slave over there asked curiously.

"You live by the beach six days a week, and you go back to rest one day." Leonard said, "Someone will take your seafood back and forth, and they will also bring you food."

"Okay, Lord Lord." The slave nodded.

On the surface, the treatment of slaves is of course not as good as that of freedmen, but in reality, it is gradually becoming difficult to say.

Walking while chatting, the group of them soon arrived at the beach.

Riding a horse is much faster than walking.

Leonard and the others brought a lot of things, and put most of them into the triangular thatched huts that had been built before. The leaves on the outside of those thatched huts looked yellower and stronger.

It was also the first time for the members of the sea-chasing team to see this kind of house, and they were all very curious.The half-grown guy from Chaos Bazaar said in a lively voice: "Are we going to live in this kind of house in the future? Oh, this looks really good." After he finished speaking, he got in and poked it with his fingers. "It looks solid."

"Yes, very strong," said one of the slaves proudly. "Nothing but the greatest storm can destroy this house."

Dorothea said: "It seems to be the style of Gray Island, but it doesn't look like it."

"It's not Gray Island. It was designed by a bachelor from the East. His name is Cai Lun, and he is very powerful." Leonard said.

Dorothea froze for a moment: "Here, are there... two bachelors?"

He naturally knew that the bachelor here was named Rutherford, and everyone in the territory knew the names of his lord and bachelor.

"Yes." Leonard said.

"Isn't there usually only one bachelor? There will be two bachelors, and here..." Dorocia used nonsense to hide her shock.

Leonard made a joke: "Because I am powerful and have great ambitions. Well, don't be idle, you follow us to catch the sea, and other people continue to build houses."

"Okay, my lord!" The slaves responded in unison.

Then Leonard turned to the members of the sea catching team and said, "Okay, the chatting time is over, it's time to get busy, boys, watch carefully."

Leonard had already taught the slaves how to drive the sea before, so this time he taught the members of the sea driving team more smoothly.

A slave stood beside him to help him.

As Leonard dug out large shells one after another from the sand, and picked up various seafood from the beach, the members of the sea catching team let out exclamations one after another.

"This is a starfish. The starfish is edible. It has a slightly salty taste. Of course, it is very fresh and nutritious like other seafood, but you can't eat too much." The slave over there took the starfish, Leonard He introduced, and soon he dug up another sand clam, and said: "Look carefully at this, it tastes delicious, the top of the shell is lavender, and the inside is also lavender, the whole shell is yellowish brown, the texture is very clear and fine , Sha clam, very famous, there is an emperor in the east who likes to eat this."

This was also the first time Leonard saw sand clams in this world.

Sand clam, also known as Xishi Tongue, is said to have been said that after the fall of Wu, King Goujian of Yue wanted to take Xishi back to his country, but the queen was worried that Xishi would threaten her status, so she had a huge stone tied to Xishi's back and sank her into the bottom of the river.After Xi Shi died, she turned into a sand clam, sticking out her tongue, expecting someone to find her and confide in her grievances.Because the white meat spit out by sand clams looks like a tongue, so there is this alias and story.Tang Xuanzong liked sand clams very much, and he was full of praise.Throughout the ages, many people have written a lot of things praising 'Xishi Tongue'.

But Leonard didn't think the name was elegant, but rather creepy.

In the same way, Leonard doesn't like the purple clay teapot called 'Xi Tzu Milk' either. These beauties are too unlucky to be fey by various people for thousands of years.

"There are records in the East that say this kind of sand clam is 'delicious, white and plump in color, crisp and fresh in taste'." Leonard said.

After he finished speaking, he looked at the members of the sea-chasing team, and found that most of them had dull eyes, and they were obviously aroused by gluttons.

haha, okay.

He was actually salivating a little while talking.

The members of the sea catching team couldn't help being even more excited when they saw that Leonard had gained a lot in a short while.

They knew how delicious these seafood were, and they also remembered that the lord said that half of the seafood would be given to Little Thorn Castle, and the other half could be taken back or even sold outside.It's okay for such delicious seafood to be a little more expensive than pork, right?

Under the double temptation of food and money, everyone is full of energy.

The morning passed quickly, at noon the slaves cooked seafood, and a group of people had lunch together with bread.

The delicate soup and delicious seafood left a deep impression on them.

After a short break after lunch, I started working again in the afternoon.

In the afternoon, the slaves finished building the house, and the sea catching team also started to search for seafood freely.

What Leonard didn't expect was that the businessman Dorothea found the most.

This also fully verifies the saying that great people are good at everything.

……

The members of the free people's sea-chasing team officially took up their duties.

Leonard returned to Little Thorn Castle and asked the cooks to take out all the oysters they had saved in the past two days.

In the past few days, Leonard didn't eat the oysters that the slave team found, and planned to save them for cooking oyster sauce.

Generally speaking, it is a bit wasteful to use big oysters with good quality to make oyster sauce.But now there are not enough oysters, so Leonard reluctantly made it together.

He directed the cook to pull the oyster meat out of the oyster.

The oysters have been in the clear water for a long time, and the silt has been spit out.

Most modern oyster sauces are compound seasonings prepared. If you really use the traditional method, oyster sauce will be very expensive.

The original oyster sauce was made from boiled oyster meat, and its discovery, like many foods in China, was full of accidents.A Cantonese chef was delayed while cooking oysters. When he looked back, the oyster soup had turned into a pot of viscous liquid exuding a rich aroma. When he tasted it, it was delicious, so oyster sauce was invented.It's like refining alchemy tofu, Zhu Yuanzhang's desperation to invent all kinds of delicacies (?), and the stinky tofu discovered by accident, full of fantasy, but the tofu produced by alchemy is true fantasy.

Leonard has long wanted to make condiments.

Soy sauce is more troublesome, and it can't be adjusted in a while, so Leonard aimed at the very delicious seasoning condiment-oyster sauce.

The fresh oyster meat, together with the clear spring water, was boiled in a big pot for a whole night, using a lot of firewood.

The next morning, Leonard got out of bed and went straight to the kitchen.

The cooks take turns to watch the night to cook the oyster sauce.

Leonard said "Thanks for your hard work" to the cook, and then looked at the oyster sauce.

I saw an attractive dark brown viscous liquid in the pot, and a rich fresh fragrance spread out. It was quite familiar, but it was still somewhat different from the industrial oyster sauce in memory.

Leonard quickly ordered some with chopsticks to taste, ah, this delicious taste! ...But this kind of raw oyster sauce seems to be not as delicious as industrial oyster sauce.Cough cough cough.

Leonard licked a little more, and found that each had its own advantages.

Use this kind of oyster sauce to stir-fry and mix cold dishes, hehehe...

Moreover, this is genuine oyster sauce, which is also very nutritious, much higher in nutritional value than industrial oyster sauce.

"In the future, the good-quality oysters will be kept, and the oysters with poor quality will be used for oyster sauce." Leonard made up his mind, "You can also sell some oyster sauce, according to the price of those expensive spices, or use oyster sauce directly Trade spices with them."

The precious spices in Little Thorn Castle were about to be used up, and Leonard's peppers would take another month to mature, so Leonard couldn't wait.

……

Lu Bu is really good at raising sheep. In less than a month, some ewes have swollen bellies.

Cai Lun went to the outer court of the castle this day, deliberately took a detour to admire the big sheepfold he built, and then saw a ewe with a big belly.His eyes lit up.

A big ewe means that there is goat milk. The lord said before that goat milk can make many delicious things.

Cai Lun immediately returned to the castle atrium, and then saw Leonard and Lu Bu talking under the statue.

Cai Lun shouted happily after seeing Leonard from a distance: "General Lu is pregnant, pregnant, the ewe will give birth in a few months!"

Lu Bu's fist loosened and tightened again.

Leonard said in surprise: "What? So fast? You deserve to be Feng Xian!"

Lu Bu's fist that had just been loosened became hard again, and after a few seconds, he slowly released it, his eyes glazed over.

... what can he do?

Immediately, Leonard and Cai Lun went to the sheepfold to see the big-bellied ewes.

"The ewes will give birth after five months, and they will have milk for more than half a year after giving birth." Lu Bu said, "Most of these sheep are in good condition, and the quality of goat milk is not bad."

"When can we expand the flock?" Leonard asked.

Lu Bu: "..."

Lu Bu originally wanted to say that it can be done anytime, but abruptly changed his words: "Next month."

Next month, the slaves will learn about the same, and he will be able to be the shopkeeper, just ask him if you have any questions, and he won't have to guard the sheepfold every day.

Lu Bu asked the slaves to soak soybeans, barley and wheat in warm water to make bean paste and feed them to the ewes.

"When the stomach is bigger, add some bran." Lu Bu said.

The slave next to me wrote down one by one.

Leonard squatted over there and watched Lu Bu teach the slaves to make extra meals for the ewes. He looked at the beans and had an idea.

"Bring some intact mung beans, soybeans, and peas to the kitchen, and they won't be damaged at all," Leonard said.

Cai Lun asked curiously beside him: "My lord, what are you going to do?"

"Have you heard of bean sprouts?" Leonard asked.

"Sprouts of beans." Cai Lun said.

"Well...you will know in two days, and I don't know what bean sprouts were called in your era." Leonard patted his head.

Nobody likes beans.

Beans were the standard food for poor freemen and serfs, and rich people seldom ate too many beans.

Beans are not tasty, and if you eat too much, you will fart easily.

When Leonard saw these beans, he thought of 'turning waste into treasure'.

-- though the beans are unpalatable mainly because of the way they are cooked.

The vitamin C in bean sprouts is many times higher than that of pure beans, and the nutritional value is also more than that of beans.

Among bean sprouts, soybean sprouts are easier to grow, and mung bean sprouts are the easiest to grow.

The slaves were very fast, and the beans were ready as soon as Leonard returned to the kitchen.

Leonard found a basin, and said to the slave beside him, "Drill a few holes for the bottom."

The slaves did so immediately.

Bean sprouts need water and air to grow.But too much water will soak the bean sprouts, so there should be room for drainage at the bottom.

Leonard ordered the cook to clean the basin, then found a cloth, and washed the cloth clean.

The cloth is then pressed on top of the beans, because the beans cannot be exposed to light when they germinate, and the bean sprouts will turn red and rot when exposed to light.

But it needs to be poured with water all the time, so I cover it with a cloth and pour water through the cloth.

These are the wisdom of working people.

Leonard poured the soybeans and mung beans into two pots with holes drilled, then poured some warm water, and soaked them overnight. The next morning, Leonard went over to see that the small sprouts on the beans had already popped out.

No problem, you can continue to live.

Covering it again with a cloth, Leonard thought for a while and placed a plate on it, so that the bean sprouts could grow thicker by pressing down a bit.

Next, just pour water on the cloth every day.

The weather in this season is fine and the temperature is suitable.

However, be careful not to uncover the cloth casually when the bean sprouts are growing, and not to be exposed to light.

The cooks didn't understand very much.

They had seen beans germinate before, but not long after sprouting the beans went bad.Sir, are you trying to germinate the beans on purpose?

Forget it, anyway, beans are worthless, so you can play if you want to.

Four days later, Leonard removed the cloth, and saw plump mung bean sprouts and soybean sprouts.

It worked!

Bean sprouts are called ruyi dishes, and they have existed in the Han Dynasty, but they began to be widely eaten in the Song Dynasty, which is almost the time of the Western Middle Ages.

People here have naturally never seen bean sprouts.

The edible bean sprouts, bamboo shoots, and mushrooms are collectively known as the three vegetarian umami, which is enough to explain the deliciousness and nutrition of bean sprouts. "Compendium of Materia Medica" said: only this bean sprouts are white and beautiful, and they can be pure and healthy after eating.It can be seen that the ancients attached great importance to bean sprouts.

It is easy to bloat when eating beans, because beans contain some substances that can cause bloating, such as raffinose, but after the bean sprouts, it decreases or even disappears.

The cook next to her opened her mouth wide in surprise.

How did the lord do it?The beans don't look bad yet?Why don't these buds look the same?

Leonard cut off the roots of the bean sprouts and threw them away, and then made a bean sprouts salad with freshly prepared oyster sauce.

Delicious oyster sauce, plus crispy, juicy bean sprouts, plus a little sesame oil, take a bite, it is fresh and natural, crisp and refreshing, plus it is delicious enough... Leonard took one bite after another, crunching and eating a lot.

The crispy bean sprouts have a lot of juice, because they are made by themselves, so they are very natural.

He took a sip of water and confirmed that although this oyster sauce tastes inferior to industrial oyster sauce alone, it is definitely better than industrial oyster sauce when mixed with vegetables!

The cooks were shocked after tasting it. As expected of the lord, the lord is so amazing that he can make such delicious food out of unpalatable beans!

"This food can be widely promoted." Leonard said after taking a few bites.

Such beans are not enough for one person to eat, and they are unpalatable. After they are sprouted, they look bigger, easier to swallow, and more nutritious.It should indeed be promoted.

Leonard asked a cook to call Maester Rutherford. Maester Rutherford ate a large bowl of bean sprouts in surprise, then stroked his beard and said, "If it is widely promoted, we can afford more slaves." .”

Leonard nodded: "I think so too. Our slaves are not enough now. I'll ask Conrad Steward to go to Sunlun City to buy another batch."

"The time interval between this purchase and the last purchase is too close, I'm afraid it will attract the attention of the nobles in Sunlun City." Bachelor Rutherford said.

Leonard thought for a while and asked, "How many soldiers do the nobles have over there?"

Maester Rutherford shook his head: "I don't know."

"Will there be three or four hundred?" Leonard asked.

Maester Rutherford smiled: "That's not the case."

"Then it's fine." Leonard said, in fact, he was eager to attract the other party's attention...

Leonard suddenly thought of a note.

System, what if I promote the method of raw bean sprouts on a large scale?Will this relieve people's food stress?This behavior is very protagonist, right?

[Very protagonist. 】

How many points will that give me?

[Sixty points. 】

Why so few!This can relieve food stress!

[Currently, there are basically no people starving to death in Wanzhong Town and Chaos Bazaar, so it is impossible to talk about saving lives.The host can only implement the raw bean sprouts method in these two places, so he can only get 60 points. 】

What if the method of raw bean sprouts is spread?Does it count as mine?

[No, it was spread by others. 】

Oh, if I have a third village, and that village is severely famined, and I promote the method of raw bean sprouts, will I be able to get higher destiny points?

【Yes. 】

Understood!

He thought he had found a way to steadily increase his destiny points.

Just like every time a traitor is summoned and his loyalty index is filled with food, then 20 destiny points can be added, every time there is an additional city in hand, the loyalty index of the people there will be increased, and a fixed income of destiny points can be obtained .Then, solve their food problem, save them, and get fixed destiny points.

Leonard felt that he should work hard to find these regular incomes.

Only in this way can the summoning points that will gradually double in the future become more realistic.

Every new town and village contains a lot of destiny points.

Leonard started drooling.

Hehehe, don't be afraid, I'm here to save you, hehehe.