Angry (Repair)
Neil solemnly took the rabbit meat away.
Elena held the cup of water and drank it slowly. She had been riding a horse for half a day and eating meat, so she felt a little thirsty.
After taking two sips, Elena thought of the cowherd again, and she asked someone to bring him over.
The calf herdsman who had been waiting for a long time came tremblingly and knelt down tremblingly.
"You now have five big cows and two calves. Can you support them all? If you were allowed to raise more, how many could you raise?" Elena asked.
The young cowherd dared not boast. He counted carefully on his fingers before answering, "I can only raise fifteen cows at most. If my father were still alive, he could raise twenty."
"What's the difficulty in raising cattle?" Elena asked again.
"The biggest difficulty is that they need food. They can't grow fat by eating grass alone. They must be fed with beans, seedlings and straw." The cowherd replied.
As Elena listened, she opened the skill book in her mind. Her taming level was LV100. Although she had never actually raised cows, which game would have such a stupid part? Skill books were obtained by hunting in the wild. Once you have a skill book, you can use it directly when the game character reaches a certain level.
What the cowherd said was the same as what was written in Elena's skill book.
Simply put, cows need to eat food to grow strong, and when people are not full, it is impossible for cows to eat enough food.
After all, it’s because of poverty, no, it’s because of low productivity. Elena remembered the political class she had taken.
If productivity had improved, there would not be a shortage of food.
"What's your name?" Elena asked.
"The younger one's called Los."
"Take me to the bullpen."
"Ah?" Cows, cowshed? Miss is going to see the cowshed? Ross was stunned.
A frightened Los accompanied Elena to the bullpen.
Elena only walked around the bullpen once when layers of pop-up boxes popped up in her mind, with words and pictures, almost filling her head. They were all about the shortcomings of this bullpen.
This cowshed is too shabby and unhygienic, and there are many things that need to be improved.
Elena closed her eyes and turned off all the pop-up boxes in her mind. This was affecting her thinking too much.
She came to see the cowshed specifically to see whether the breeding level here could support the development of animal husbandry. After all, animal husbandry was also a very important industry in ancient society. She was short of money now. If animal husbandry could develop, it would also bring her considerable profits.
But the answer now is obvious, no.
The breeding level here is still very extensive and low-level, and there is also a serious shortage of feed.
Elena took a deep breath.
Take it slow, don't rush, take it slow. Now, in addition to teaching the cowherds how to raise cattle, we also have to let the villagers improve their farming techniques.
Elena, don't be in a hurry, take your time, you can do it.
Elena encouraged herself.
After preparing herself mentally for a while, Elena walked around the cowshed again. She wanted to see how bad the cattle-raising technology here could be.
Going around to the back of the cowshed, there were piles of tall hay, one bundle after another, tied tightly.
Elena casually pulled out a piece of grass and asked, "Hey, what's this?"
Elena pulled out a few more grasses and found a familiar seed among them.
Look at the shape, smell the flavor, and taste it.
This is actually cumin!
There is cumin here!
Elena simply asked Los to untie the bundle of hay and rummage through it, and sure enough, she found a few more cumin grains.
"Is this thing common here?" Elena asked Los.
Los carefully identified it and nodded: "It's common. There's a large area on the other side of the mountain."
Elena's eyes suddenly lit up.
After leaving Abang Village, Elena passed through two more villages. The conditions in the two villages were similar to that of Abang Village. Although there was a lot of land, the people were poor, and their farming and breeding techniques were too poor.
However, even such a village can be considered an upper-middle-class village in her territory, and the villages farther away will only be poorer.
Although she wanted to inspect the area, the roads were too bad and transportation was inconvenient. Even if Elena was prepared to endure hardships, she only had enough time to visit three villages in a day. Once the sun set, she had to return to the town of Fussen.
Elena wanted to camp, or travel at night to the next village to spend the night, but Neil and the others refused to agree. They all tried their best to persuade her to return to the castle in Fussen.
Speaking of which, Elena could understand their difficulties and persistence. After experiencing the accidental deaths of Elro and Joyce, they were afraid that she, the only direct heir, would have another accident. They really couldn't afford such a risk.
But understanding is one thing, I still feel unhappy. She is really amazing, can she really protect herself?
Elena impulsively wanted to use a large-scale attack to let them see how powerful she was. She was not a weak rookie who needed protection.
Elena confidently gathered the elements around her, but when more elements gathered, she discovered a fatal weakness of her own.
As we all know, the human body is an important link in the magic chain. The use of magic is to absorb the surrounding elements into the body and then cast them out in different spells. Therefore, the qualifications of the human body determine the upper limit of elemental gathering.
From this we can see that a level 20 body cannot cast level 100 magic.
The body Elena is using now is still Miss Jiao's body. This body is essentially still that of an ordinary person. It has not been transformed by elements and has not been upgraded from 1.0 to 2.0 or even 3.0. The body's capacity for accommodating elements is far from enough. Even if Elena can quickly gather the surrounding elements, she cannot store them and release them stably.
If you force it to be used, it might cause an explosion.
Elena was frustrated and realized that she was still just a small one.
Upgrade, upgrade, upgrade, and upgrade to death when you go back.
Depressed Elena returned to the castle in Fussen surrounded by knights.
In the next three days, Elena changed three directions from Fussen Town and got a general understanding of the conditions of the villages around Fussen Town. They were all similar to Abang Village and were poor.
Of course, there are also slightly wealthier villages, but those villages all belong to members of the Field family, such as Master Bernie who made a brief appearance before and died in a hornet attack. The Viscount's Mansion received even less tax from these villages that belong to their own family, and sometimes they were exempted from tax for a year when they had major events such as weddings and funerals.
One year of tax exemption!
Cut the meat!
The more Elena thought about it, the more distressed she felt. This money should have belonged to her.
If all these taxes could be collected, would the Viscount's accounts be so dismal? Would she be burdened with debt and have to negotiate installment payments with Leonard? Would she still be eating a monotonous diet and having only a few clothes to rotate in her wardrobe?
Is it that so?
No! She should have had a better life!
Taking a deep breath, and another deep breath, Elena tried to calm down.
It is not Elena's character to keep the status quo unchanged, let alone the fact that others are taking advantage of her while mistreating her, which she cannot tolerate even more.
She is the lord, this is her territory, she should be able to do whatever she wants!
Otherwise, what kind of lord would he be?
However, although she thought so, Elena was still very clear-headed. Although she was a poor student, she also knew a truth: the economic base determines the superstructure. The economy is very important. A lord without money has no authority.
If we rashly touch the interests of those people now, it will definitely trigger their fierce resistance, so it is better to avoid them first and open up the source elsewhere.
After setting the goal, Elena started making a schedule.
What is the first thing to do with open source?
Planting, growing fruits and crops?
Elena just wrote these words, then thought about it and crossed them out.
No, planting takes too much time, maybe half a year or a year, and she can’t wait.
Breeding, raising chickens, sheep and cattle?
That won’t work. There’s not enough food. What can we use to feed them?
Do you do business? Are there any special products in your territory? Or are there any excellent crafts?
Elena stopped writing.
Elena once again realized that she knew very little about the situation in the territory and that it was useless to make random assumptions. She asked the housekeeper to bring the account book and she wanted to study it carefully.
After getting the income account book, Elena immersed herself in studying it.
However, after studying for a long time, I still have no clue. Not to mention that this account book is just a running account, the income classification of the Viscount's Mansion is too simple. It is just taxes and food. These two items are the basic income of a territory. Apart from this, there is no other investment income in the account book.
Elena's eyes hurt from watching so much, so she went to the balcony to get some fresh air and relax her eyes.
A figure flashed across the roof opposite.
"Leonard." Elena shouted loudly.
The figure flashed back.
"What's the matter?" Leonard asked, his beard messy from the wind.
"Leonard, I want to ask you something," Elena asked. "What do you think a lord should do most? What should he do first before any plans begin?"
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