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Chapter 29 Farming Ox

To capture more than one hundred bisons, Sulun did not continue to go deeper into the wilderness, and he planned to take the bisons back to the camp first.

Even if only half of these more than one hundred bisons can be turned into oxen, it will be a huge progress in the agriculture of Sulun territory. As for the advantages of ox plowing as fast as horses and more ploughing, Sulun can't afford poor horses now, so it's just a waste of horses. Besides, horse plowing is fast and plowing more, but horses are much harder to raise than cattle.

Whether it is a military horse or a sluggish horse, the requirements for breeding are very high. Horses are very delicate animals and are easily damaged. A good military horse costs at least thirty kinners in the city of Carter, and a slightly better one costs for forty or even fifty.

Moreover, these military horses need to be fed with concentrated feed and have extra meals tonight. It can be said that the feed of these horses is better than what many people eat. Such a military horse consumes at least ten jinars per year. Although slow horses do not need to be fed so well, they also need at least three jinars per year. You should know that many civilians earn only about five jinars per year.

In contrast, the cost of raising cattle is much lower, and only one piece of horse skin is left when the horse dies. When the cow is old, the meat can be sold for money, not to mention that the horns can be used to make bows. Naturally, it is more cost-effective to plow cattle.

The buffalo brought back by Sulun is irritable and wild and difficult to tame. It is not easy for ordinary people to control the envoys, and often they will hurt themselves. However, for barbarians, these are not problems. The barbarian tribes in the northern wasteland basically capture and feed them. Taming the buffalo is a ki-cao for them.

What's more, Su Lun has the ultimate way to tame a buffalo, pierce the nostrils of the bull. The cow's nose is very sensitive. After putting on the ring, even the most irritable buffalo will become an obedient and good baby. As for the adult cow's strength, it is difficult to pierce the ring? Two barbarian warriors can easily press it to the ground.

When he returned to the camp, Sulun conducted a count of the buffalo, including 97 adult bisons, including forty-two bulls, and the rest were cows, and twenty-one calfs about one year old.

These oxen Sulun are prepared to feed and cultivate the barbarians, women and children. These women and children are the most suitable in the current camps.

As time goes by, it has been a month since Sulun came to the wilderness. After more than a thousand goblins, kowtowers and werewolves, the camp changes every day.

The docks of Hongsha River have been expanded a lot, from the beginning that there were only three fishing boats, and now there are seven fishing boats. The docking berths at the port have been expanded five times, which can accommodate more ships to load and unload cargo at the same time.

In the lower reaches of the river, a row of four water wheels stand by the river. These water wheels are all hydraulic machinery of the Blacksmith shop. Two of them are hydraulic forging machines, one hydraulic blower, and the other is a crusher for crushing ore or waste iron. However, there is no iron ore in the territory yet, and this machine is not running.

The city walls of the camp have all become stone-made walls, with a wall of five meters high and one meter thick surrounding the entire camp. Although these walls are far inferior to Colonta City, and even Black Stone City is far inferior, it is enough to defend against goblins, kowtowers and werewolves.

With this wall, the security factor of the territory was directly increased by fifty.

In addition to the city walls, many roads in the territory were also opened, from establishment to logging farms, ports, and farmland. Many of these roads were paved with stones. A large number of polished and smooth pebbles were scattered on the river beach. Sulun specially asked the goblins and the dog-headed people to transport them up in bamboo baskets to pave the road.

The road to build this kind of road is first flattened, then sprinkled with water, pressed the pebbles in, and then rolled back and forth with a stone mill. Finally, the road built is flat and solid, and it will not turn into mud even on rainy days, and it will not fly in dust on sunny days. It can be said that just about the road, Sulun is already better than many big cities of mankind during this period.

On both sides of the road, there are drainage channels about one meter wide and half a meter deep. According to Sulun's idea, the entire camp must have complete drainage facilities that can discharge all the domestic sewage of the entire city. He could not tolerate his territory, like other cities in this era, was shrouded in the smell of feces and urine fermentation.

Outside the city wall, not far from the river, there were more than 500 goblins and kowtowed slaves under the supervision of several human mercenaries, using tools to reclaim farmland. A team of supervisors were urging them to work hard. If the slave dared to be lazy, a whip would soon whip down and tear him. These supervisors were not humans, they were also goblins and kowtowed men.

After a period of enslavement, some flexible goblins or kogmen took the initiative to surrender to humans. Su Lun agreed after thinking about it. Anyway, the territory is now seriously insufficient, so these goblin supervisors can supplement it.

As for these goblin supervisors who let the water goblins goblins out of water? This situation will not happen at all. With the selfish, arrogant and timid personality of goblins, they oppressed their fellow races more fiercely than humans after becoming supervisors. Once they do not do well, Su Lun will not punish them, just throw them back directly. The oppressed goblin slaves will treat these guys well.

Su Lun also discovered a problem, that is, those slave supervisors were systematically recognized.

[Gomin Supervisor: Improve the work efficiency of goblins by 20%. Slave stability is reduced by 10%. It was originally one of the goblins, but in order to eat better food every day, it decided to be loyal to Sulun. With good language talent, it learned some human language and could communicate with humans. At the same time, it was familiar with goblins' habits and could better direct goblins to work.]

In addition to goblins, there are also kowtowers and even gnolls who are willing to act as supervisors, which greatly alleviates the problem of insufficient staff in the camp.

Accustomed to the clean and tidy urban layout of his previous life, Sulun’s requirements for his territory were the same. In his urban planning, the roads were neatly arranged, with digging drainage ditches on both sides of the road, and even reserved flower beds on both sides of the road.
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