Summoning Total War

Chapter 90 The growth of Athens!

Second Age Era 377, mid-July.

The construction of the diversion irrigation system in the city of Athens was initially completed. It took nearly a year and a half. Murphy finally completed a covering spider web of ditch veins on the land fifty kilometers surrounding the city of Athens, so that any field could be completed from Nigeria. Tributaries of the Doria River divert water to irrigate the land. At the same time, in the southern area of ​​Athens, Murphy also arranged a large number of laborers to build a dam, which could provide protection during droughts and floods.

By early August.

Murphy then ordered people to start farming in the second quarter, which was also a preliminary attempt to sow and harvest wheat in the second quarter.

Because the climate in the southern plains shows signs of getting warmer, and winter does not arrive until mid-November, the city of Athens can postpone the sowing of winter wheat by a month to the end of November. In this way, during the harvest in June or July next year, a large period of time will be freed for sowing in the second quarter.

Regarding the crops planted in the second quarter, Murphy is still sending agricultural experts to test.

First of all, it is impossible to cultivate all wheat, because wheat cultivation takes a long time. In terms of current agricultural productivity, it is still difficult to cultivate wheat in the second quarter. However, Murphy did not give up completely and selected some of them for wheat farming experiments in the second quarter. In the past, at this time in Athens, they would take advantage of three months of free time to plant a large number of crops such as corn and potatoes. However, these crops cannot be regarded as real food. Murphy must find more suitable high-yielding crops.

In such an era, agriculture is a very large system.

In the evolution of historical civilization, after the initial era of just food and clothing, the things needed for agricultural cultivation have become extremely wide-ranging.

Let’s use an analogy.

In addition to food, humans also need oil. This oil is not only animal fat, but also a lot of vegetable oil. Because animal fats and oils are expensive, ordinary people may not be able to afford them. So in this case, vegetable oil needs to be refined and pressed. This is actually a very difficult matter at the current level, but it is not impossible.

any solution?

That’s peanuts! It is a crop with good drought resistance, good yield, does not require much care, and has a natural oil content of up to 50%.

Where is the best place to plant peanuts?

Both red soil and yellow soil are suitable for growing peanuts, but it is difficult to grow other crops such as wheat and rice in these places. To put it simply, widespread cultivation of peanuts does not conflict with other crops.

However, the land in Athens is very fertile, and it is not enough to grow food. It is really a waste to use it to grow peanuts.

So where to plant it?

On the other side of the Nidoria River, on the land now occupied by the centaurs, there is an extremely vast red land. As long as you cultivate it a little, plant enough peanuts, and simply take care of it, you can be there this time next year. gain something. The size of centaurs is not naturally suitable for farming, but they can still take care of some simple crops.

Besides, they are good at fighting. It would be great to capture some humanoid creatures as slaves. Aren’t goblin slaves good at some simple farming?

Athens can also provide help, and Murphy's plan includes the plan to relocate the population to the other side of the Nidoria River. There is fertile black soil there, and the centaurs have no way to cultivate it. It would be too wasteful to 'occupy it and just poop'. He was planning to use a batch of peanut seeds and teach them how to farm in exchange for the land on the other side of the Nidolia River.

The only trouble is that a large amount of peanut seeds is more troublesome, because the half-elf also has some, but they cannot satisfy Murphy's consumption.

We still have to find some solution from the elves in Moonlight Grove.

The elves advocate vegetarianism, and their main cooking oil is not animal oil, but vegetable oil squeezed from peanuts and the like. It is even said that the high elves living in the Moonlight Grove also have crops similar to sesame, but the prices of these crops are exorbitantly high, and even some big nobles may not be able to afford them.

Now that we’ve talked about crops, we have to keep talking.

After all, the opportunity to build a kingdom and create a racial order is an extremely huge process!

This can not only be solved by fighting, but also life and governance, a collective term that is more troublesome than fighting.

First avoid food crops, such as rice, wheat, corn, barley, oats, millet (commonly known as millet), sorghum, highland barley, etc. These food crops almost have corresponding variants in the world, but they are distributed in many places. In the hands of intelligent races, not everyone just plants the same. Just like humans, because of the good geographical location, they grow wheat and barley that require higher land requirements, but have better yields and richer nutrients. As for other races, if they occupy red land that is not suitable for cultivating wheat, they can only ask to grow other crops.

Murphy doesn't know the rest yet, but he knows that the Orc Empire widely cultivates a variant of sorghum-like crops, which are drought-resistant and very suitable for the land where the Orcs live.

What Murphy has to do is to select suitable crops from these crops, not only suitable for the second cultivation, but also suitable for the soil and water conservancy of various places, and count them for planning in the coming year. These seemingly cumbersome things are actually the basis for the growth of a territory, and these things are not something ordinary aborigines or citizens of Athens can do.

Murphy must determine these from a modern perspective, draw up an outline, and then hand it over to his subordinates.

Murphy does not have the energy to handle everything in detail one by one, but as a modern person, he has a vision far beyond this era and a more detailed world view, which requires him to spare enough time. Carry out better planning and draw up the most important charters and outlines. Only in this way will the people below know what to do.

Otherwise, we don’t know how long it will take for them to evolve naturally.

It is difficult for an ancient person to find breakthroughs in all aspects of the world view at once. If he could find it at once, he would be a monster!

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in an agricultural society.

Putting aside the most important food crops now, there are many other crops that are necessary.

simply put.

That is - food, clothing, housing and transportation!

People can’t just eat! Don’t you also have to pick up vegetables when you eat?

In addition to food, the cultivation of vegetables is also needed. It’s not just vegetables. There are so many mountains near Athens. You can’t keep wasting them without using them, right? Wouldn't it be a waste to plant some fruits or something like that? The growth cycle of many fruit trees is not too long. If you plant them now, your son will be able to eat them when he grows up. It would be faster if they were growing oranges or something like that.

But this is a trivial matter, so don’t bother Murphy himself.

But besides that, you have to wear clothes, right?

This is not a modern place where industrial fibers can be synthesized. In such a primitive era, more than 80% of the clothes people wore were grown from the ground.

What to plant?

Cotton, linen, hemp and the like...

Due to the poverty of materials in this era, ordinary civilians only wear two clothes a year, one for the New Year and one for the harvest festival. Therefore, more than 80 intelligent species in the world now wear patched clothes. Many people have arrived I don’t even dare to go out in winter!

Why?

chilly! I have no clothes to wear!

Clothes made of linen are not very warm to begin with, and they are not very affordable. You only need two pieces a year. If they wear out, you have to save money to buy them.

Agrarian society, agrarian society.

Naturally everything is built on the basis of farming!

Take the city of Athens as an example. When you first start planning, you can plant some flowers and plants at will, but after the principality is established and make detailed plans, you need to plant some valuable things, right?

Not so?

How can a country develop so quickly without starting from these most basic things?

Wait for it to develop naturally?

So how long does it take to develop?

Let's just tell a joke. Even if there is nothing to do in the city of Athens and some sunflowers are planted, Murphy will be able to eat a few melon seeds out of boredom this time next year, right?

Melon seeds! ?……

Just pretend I didn’t say anything...raise your head...look at the sky...

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Food crops are naturally a top priority!

But you can’t just grow food and nothing else, right? In the past, because the territory had just been established and there were a lot of threats from the outside, Murphy had to use all his strength to improve his strength. But now that Athens has been stabilized internally and the external threats are not too serious for the time being, Murphy has to find a way to improve the former territory. Everything that was missing has been added. We cannot allow the Principality of Athens to develop into a deformed system in the future, with only food crops but not other crops.

This is no joke.

If flax is not grown in large quantities, there will not be enough cloth to make clothes, and the supply of clothes will not be in demand, and the price will rise.

When civilians couldn't afford to buy clothes or anything else, the entire economic system began to fall into chaos.

In the past, Athens only had tens of thousands of people, and Murphy could maintain it as long as it supplemented its foreign trade. But now the Principality of Athens has hundreds of thousands of people. Such a huge population requires careful planning.

Otherwise, if everything gets messed up, it will be a complete mess!

During the Ming Dynasty, there was famine in the Jiangnan area? Why? It's because people don't grow food, they grow things that can be sold for money. This resulted in a land of plenty like Jiangnan, but there was not enough food to eat. Too much is not enough, and the opposite is true. If Murphy's crop planning cannot be balanced, then not only will there be problems now, but it will also be an important issue in the future!

Farm-oriented!

Only in this era can we lay a solid foundation.

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Athens, Doge's Palace.

"Your Majesty the Governor! The recruitment of the Second Army of Athens has been completed! The second phase of training can begin immediately." Early in the morning, General Leo Dallie rushed from the military camp to the Governor's Mansion and handed a written report to Murphy's hands.

Murphy, who was at work, raised his head when he heard this and reached out to take it.

During this time, he was really busy dealing with agricultural issues and various plans within the Principality of Athens!

Ordinary people do not have the concept of vision in modern society, and they must do many things by themselves.

"Twelve thousand men! 4,000 Greek heavy infantry, 2,400 Silver Shield infantry, 3,600 Athenian longbowmen, four full-strength ballista units, and 2,000 Aboriginal Auxiliary Corps." Murphy looked at the recruitment statistics above, nodded with satisfaction, and said: "Not bad! A very reasonable establishment."

"Hurry up and train, we will have a big war coming soon!" Murphy stood up and patted General Leo Dallie on the shoulder to express his reward.

Athens' current regular army has reached nearly 40,000 people, which is almost one-tenth of the total population of the principality.

If Athens' economy hadn't been prosperous enough, it really wouldn't have been able to support such a huge army. This does not include the militias and reserve forces in various places. If even this is included, the size of the Athens army can reach 100,000 people! (The reserve militia has a large number)

The new order established by Murphy has strong cohesion, and the system of improving social status also converts private financial resources into the power of the principality as much as possible. Without the exploitation of the aboriginal aristocratic class, a large amount of wealth has been condensed into the Athens treasury. The efficient and clean governance system also prevents a large amount of wealth from being pocketed by officials from all walks of life!

Under the farming war system!

The prototype of the Great Qin Empire has gradually taken shape in Murphy's hands. The cohesion generated by divine power plus royal power is quite terrifying! Perhaps this system may be loosened in the future, but at least now the Principality of Athens has been built by him into a huge war machine!

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After reading the report sent by General Leo Dallie, Murphy asked casually: "How is the formation of the cavalry corps going?"

In the Principality of Athens, the armored cavalry corps has gradually grown to a large scale. But what Murphy wants is not just that. What he wants to form is a complete cavalry regiment, a mounted unit that can be used for combat! In addition to the armored cavalry establishment, there are also Macedonian elite cavalry, as well as light cavalry as auxiliary legions, including cavalry archers in training!

The humans who have long lived in the southern plains may not be good at riding and shooting, but with strict training, they can still establish a cavalry formation.

It's just that the combat effectiveness will not be too strong, and it can only exist as an auxiliary legion.

"At present, the total size of the cavalry corps has reached 4,500, and the training may still take some time." General Leo Dallie seemed to have remembered something, and said: "Your Majesty the Governor! We must open up a horse herding camp as soon as possible. It’s pasture.”

"The number of horses in Athens has now exceeded its endurance limit, which has already caused a serious burden on our logistics!"

General Leo Dallie told the truth. Murphy has always been eager to exchange for more horses from the hands of the centaurs. But he forgot that the Principality of Athens was in a plain area, and a large amount of land was used for farming. Using it for grazing was simply a luxury. A meal for five thousand people is not a small scale, let alone more than five thousand war horses?

A war horse needs activities and a place for galloping training, otherwise no matter how good the war horse is, it will become a fat horse after being fed and drunk enough.

This requires more space.

"That's a problem!" Murphy rubbed his forehead and frowned: "I will find a way as soon as possible! See if I can borrow one or two pieces of grassland from the Centaur to push it first. If it doesn't work, just I can go out to fight and open up a piece of pasture!"

This was Murphy's mistake. He did not expect that the huge group of war horses would consume such a large amount of money.

The logistical burden of raising war horses is not small at all!

General Leo Dallie nodded slowly and said in a deep voice: "It would be best if we could borrow a piece of pasture for the time being. But with such a large group of horses, Athens still needs a piece of pasture of its own!"

"Opening up the outside world is inevitable!" General Leo Darlie showed a fanatical expression on his face.

As an Athenian general, he had an extremely persistent fanaticism about opening up territories.

"Wait a minute!" Murphy smiled bitterly, shook his head, and said slowly: "The better pastures are now in the hands of the centaurs. As an alliance, we cannot snatch them from their hands."

"If you want to occupy a pasture, you have to start from the mammoths."

"Now is not the time to go to war with them!"

The centaurs don't have much land in their hands now. The better pasture is in the Salma Basin. The centaurs are obviously not willing to hand over the land they have lived in for generations to the mammoths. As long as they recuperate a little for a year or two, they will recover a little. strength. They will apparently resume the war against the mammoths to take back the land that is theirs. That time is the best time for Athens to expand to the outside world!

Otherwise, it would not be a wise choice to use the power of Athens to fight against the mammoths.

When the time comes, Athens can send troops to assist the Centaurs and hand over the main battlefield to the Centaurs to reduce its own casualties. In return, Murphy could propose that the Centaur tribe incorporate the land on the other side of the Nidoria River and the nearby pastures into the territory of the Principality of Athens. In that way, Murphy's goal can be easily achieved.

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After handling the complicated official duties, Murphy stood up and headed towards the Temple of Leadership.

After the high priest woke up that day, perhaps it was because Athena, the goddess of wisdom, used her body as a channel to personally descend to the material plane, so she has been in the recovery period since then.

Murphy had only briefly communicated with her during this period, and she spent most of the time resting.

This line.

Murphy planned to visit the high priest and see how the chief priest of the God of War was taming the underground velociraptors.