By the beginning of April, after several months of busy work, of the 100,000 acres of land that Wubei had reclaimed, in addition to more than 30,000 acres planted with crops such as vegetables and flax, the remaining more than 70,000 acres were all planted with two grain crops, barley and wheat.

After sowing is completed, the farming season should be relatively slack.

However, Roning had already made a plan, and the people in his territory had no time to rest.

Wilson, the government official, organized reclamation teams in Shanlin Town, Swamp Town, Black Soil Village and other places based on the villages, and began the new land reclamation work in full swing.

Now, in addition to being equipped with a curved plow and iron farm tools, Roning also brought a lot of black buffaloes from the Swamp Town and distributed them to the village chiefs.

With these things, the difficulty of reclaiming new land this year has decreased compared with previous years, and the speed has naturally increased a lot.

On this basis, Luo Ning also formulated a reward and punishment plan:

As of early July, each family in the top three villages in terms of reclaimed land will receive a reward, and the village chiefs and team leaders responsible for the reclamation will receive a larger reward.

These rewards included allocating land, granting food subsidies, allowing house expansion, giving monetary rewards to capable individuals, and even making exceptions to allow slaves who performed well to be freed from their slavery.

There are rewards and there are punishments.

For villages that rank last in terms of reclamation data and whose gap with the top villages exceeds 3,000 acres, the village chief and group leader must resign and the tax on each household must be increased depending on the situation.

With the sweet treat in one hand and the big stick in the other, each village, motivated by the dual forces, entered into the reclamation project in full swing. They even sent "spies" to each other from time to time to check on the reclamation situation in each village, and a competitive spirit clearly emerged.

Heavy work naturally consumes more food.

But Luo Ning was not in a hurry. He still had 3,000 gold coins in his hand, so it would be no problem for him to buy another two 300,000 kilograms of grain.

Everyone in Wubei, from the lord to the slaves, is very busy, but the external environment is very comfortable.

There was no special situation in the territory, and the border of Wushan Territory was also surprisingly quiet. I wonder if the Bolant Thieves and the Black Gold Brotherhood were busy with spring ploughing and therefore did not cause any trouble? In two months, Ronin's magician training progress had exceeded a thousand. In just three more weeks, he would be able to become a Silver Knight and the Chief Magician.

Fortunately, there is this attribute panel that can add points. Otherwise, Roning would have to devote a lot of time to cultivation every day and would not have enough energy to travel back and forth between several territories.

He has merged Qingzhu Village, Ziguo Village and Huitu Village into "Sanfang Town"; Heitu Village originally had more than a thousand subjects, and later six hundred slaves were allocated there, with a population of nearly two thousand, so Luo Ning renamed it Heitu Town.

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"Sir, this land has been planted with mulberry seedlings."

In the mulberry field of Ziguo Village, Horn was accompanying Roning to inspect the mulberry field.

Luo Ning sighed. Originally, only ten acres of land were planned for planting mulberry trees, but now it seems too little.

But there was nothing he could do. How could he have known that he would take over Swamp Town and become the Lord of Wubei Territory in such a short time? "What's the survival rate?"

Luo Ning squatted in front of a ridge, observing the small mulberry seedling in front of him. Although it was only a cutting of about 20 centimeters, the three leaves on it were very vital, and it was obvious that the small mulberry seedling had survived successfully.

"I checked and found that many of them did not survive, but we made adequate preparations according to the layering and cutting methods you mentioned. We have dug out all the dead ones and replaced them with new seedlings. Now, most of the mulberry seedlings in the ten mu of land have survived."

Horn was a little emotional. He said that it was much more convenient to propagate mulberry trees by cuttings and layering than by using mulberry seeds.

"very good!"

Luo Ning smiled and said, "Next, you need to pay attention to watering the young mulberry seedlings, and apply fertilizer again after thirty days."

"Don't worry, sir. As for fertilizer, I have already had people compost it according to Chahar's method. If it's not enough, I can transport some fertilizer from Swamp Town."

As one of the only three intermediate knights in Wubei Territory, Horn's combat power is lower than that of Kurami and Baburin.

Compared to improving his strength, he seems more willing to devote himself to the breeding industry.

Luo Ning instructed, "I will let Leah bring her apprentices to settle here, and the loom manufacturing site will also be moved to Ziguo Village. Have someone prepare the houses."

Ziguo Village will be the future sericulture base. By arranging industries such as textile and loom manufacturing here, there will be no need to move silk cocoons and other things around.

The cotton opening, silk reeling and weaving were naturally handed over to Ms. Leah. After all, she not only had experience, but also successfully wove a silk scarf, which Roning gave to Lulans as a gift.

As long as the cocoons are taken out, even if Master Daen's loom cannot be put into operation, silk can still be woven under Leah's guidance. It's just that the process will be slower, more laborious and rougher.

After inspecting Sandi, Roning and Horn turned back.

On the way, he continued to impart his experience in sericulture to the other party.

For example, control the indoor temperature and light, cut the mulberry leaves into pieces and feed them to the first and second instar silkworms, wipe off the moisture from the mulberry leaves, check regularly for sick silkworms, clean the silkworm house regularly and remove silkworm feces, etc.

After all, he had actually done this thing, so he was much more confident and detailed when he talked about it.

During these two months, Roning began to explore papermaking.

The bark fibers that are being soaked in Shanlin Town are estimated to have almost softened. After returning this time, he can continue to try the subsequent steps of crushing and mixing. He believes that it should not be difficult to make paper.

Once he has enough paper, Luo Ning can write books on sericulture and record his experience.

Even if he left Wubei Territory for some reason, Horn and others would be able to learn from him.

The two returned to the village along the country road.

Luo Ning was just about to ride his horse back to Shanlin Town while it was still early, but he didn't expect to hear the sound of hurried horse hooves coming from outside the village.

He and Horn couldn't help but look over.

"It's Tom who followed the commander on the sweep."

Tom has great potential. He has learned a lot from following McCann and Riedel for a long time.

After the matter in Swamp Town came to an end, he was pulled into Redal's mopping-up team and traveled through the mountains and forests every day.

Luo Ning frowned slightly, seeing that the other person seemed a little embarrassed and panicked.

"grown ups!"

Tom tightened the reins, stopped in front of Ronin, dismounted hastily, knelt on one knee and reported: "Sir, the commander is injured!"

Luo Ning's heart skipped a beat and his expression changed. Horn beside him also showed a look of disbelief.

In today's Shanlin Town, the silver-level knight Ridar is considered the top combat force.

He was just carrying out a mopping-up mission, how could he get injured?

Could it be that they encountered a powerful monster during the raid? Luo Ning only thought of this possibility, but he felt it was not very reasonable.

Because Redal was in charge of the mountains and forests in the north, not the Wushan Monster Mountain Range west of the Ironwood Workshop which was in charge of by the McKen team.

In comparison, it is more likely that Team McCann will encounter powerful monsters.

"What's going on?" Luo Ning asked in a deep voice. (End of this chapter)