Chapter 300 Return
As the snowfield land on both sides of the Phoenix Ice Wall is gradually cleared, and the Northwest Barley No. 1 seed is sown, the day when the Zhenbing Tribe becomes self-sufficient is getting closer.
The progress of reclamation was actually not particularly optimistic at the beginning.
Because reclaiming wasteland and planting mature land are two completely different concepts.
The normal wasteland reclamation process involves burning wasteland, plowing the land, accumulating fertilizer, leveling the land, digging canals, etc.
However, snowfield agriculture is rather special.
First of all, the land in the snowfield is mostly flat, and there is no need to clear gravel and shrubs. Not to mention burning wasteland, the bulk of the work is to clear the snow and then turn over the soil.
In addition, the Northwest Barley No. 1 species has the ability to absorb ice elements, so there is no need to accumulate fertilizer or dig ditches to grow it.
This saves a lot of effort.
But similarly, it is rare for the Zhenbing tribe’s farming technology to be lagging behind.
What is even worse is that, as a non-traditional farming people, the number of agricultural tools in the Zhenbing tribe is far from what is needed for current work - if it were not for the volcanic land that gave the Zhenbing tribe a certain agricultural foundation, they might not even have a single farm tool.
Hence, we can only develop farms and urgently build farm tools at the same time.
The other thing is to rely on spells for help - although the spell for self-awakening of the Iceborn bloodline does not include [Soil Shaping], it is just a trick after all, it does not require magic potions, and it is relatively simple to construct a spell model.
So after Gothe wrote out the [Soil Shaping] spell formula and sent it to the Iceborn mages in the tribe, they actually didn’t need to spend too much time learning a trick with at least a high mage level.
Soon, [Soil Shaping] became the standard spell for the iceborn mage of the Zhenbing Tribe.
Even if it is just a trick, in Gothe's view, the efficiency of land reclamation is actually comparable to the large machinery in his previous life.
This is the charm of extraordinary power.
Normally, given the backward conditions of the Zhenbing Tribe, it would take at least twenty years to cultivate all the expected 300,000 acres of land in Jinhui Farm, even if 20,000 laborers were deployed.
But with the blessing of magic and the special nature of snowfield agriculture, the first batch of 10,000 acres of farms was developed in just over a month.
And as everyone works skillfully, the pace of land reclamation is still accelerating.
The field closest to Phoenix and surrounded by an ice wall is the breeding field for Northwest Barley No. 1.
During this period, Flora and Sunaifa spent almost all their free time in the breeding field.
Gothe looked into the distance from his "office" window. With the terrifying far-sightedness of Mandela's magic eye, he could vaguely see the northwest barley No. 1 growing crazily in the breeding field enclosed by the ice wall.
For example, the golden clumps of barley he saw in the field now were so bright that they could dazzle people's eyes. In fact, they were still green ears of wheat in the morning.
The reason why such an exaggerated change can occur in one day is naturally attributed to the "art of nature".
Relying on the magical ability of nature, Northwest Barley No. 1 quickly accumulates seeds at the rate of one or two crops a day.
This is definitely not something Sunaifa can do alone.
Thinking of this, Gothe already picked up the parchment on his desk and started reading it.
On the parchment, there is an application for "tree planting" submitted by the Ice Mage of the tribe during this period.
It has been two months since he and Sunaifa decided to fully implement the "Aoki Immortality Sutra" in the Zhenbing tribe.
The progress was so smooth that it was beyond Gaode's imagination.
There is no need to publicize too many benefits of "Aoki Immortality Sutra".
Just the fact that the "Art of Nature" in the "Aoki Immortality Sutra" can help open up the Jinhui Farm is enough for the ice-born mage of the Zhenbing Tribe to start practicing this practice without hesitation, regardless of anything else.
In Gothe's expectation, given the importance of holy objects to the "Green Wood Sutra of Immortality", most ice-born mages should be "waiting for price", carefully selecting, and slowly considering and selecting suitable holy objects.
The fact is that in order to obtain the ability of "Natural Art" as soon as possible, many ice-born mages don't care about the so-called "prospects" at all. They only want to contract holy objects as soon as possible and help the tribes to cultivate fields and grow food.
It's just the problem that Gothe faced when he chose "Aoki Immortal Scripture", it also exists for the ice wizards:
Even the lowest-level magic plants need to grow on spiritual ground, because magic power is a necessary condition for their growth.
Furthermore, spiritual land is often only the most basic condition, and different magic plants will have different additional requirements for soil characteristics.
It is generally difficult for high-level magic plants to agree to the mage's bond requirements. It is most realistic to cultivate them from a seed.
But magic plant seedlings are extremely delicate. Once placed in the wild, they are prone to accidents or harsh environmental attacks, and taking care of them every day consumes a lot of energy. For most people, this is obviously an unrealistic task.
Of course, since Gothe chose to implement the "Green Wood Sutra of Immortality", he must have prepared solutions to these problems - the land transformed by Yuga Tshila is a spiritual land suitable for the growth of magic plants.
As long as the holy relics of the covenant are planted around Yugathila, Elder Gaien can lead the tree guard team to help everyone protect the holy relics while guarding the holy tree.
It not only saves manpower, but also makes efficient use of resources.
However, Gothe put forward two requirements:
First, if you want to plant the sacred objects of the covenant around Yugathila, the type of sacred objects you choose must be tree species.
Because only tree species can provide growth benefits to Yugathila.
At present, the land transformed by Yugathila is still limited, and resources must be maximized.
When there is enough land in the future, Gaode will allow everyone to enter regardless of the type of magic plant they choose.
The second thing is that the sacred object of the contract must be an ungerminated seed or a nascent seedling, and cannot be a mature magic plant transplant.
Because Yugathila has just been planted not long ago, even after being stimulated once, it is only in the form of a sapling, and its ability is still very weak.
Although the land it transformed now has a weak magical power, it is still far from becoming a spiritual land, and it is not enough for the magic plants to grow healthily.
As for the magic tree seeds or seedlings, the requirements for the magic power in the soil are not that high, and the land currently transformed by Yoga Tsheela is barely enough.
Of course, as they grow, these magic trees must have higher and higher demands for magic power.
But don’t forget, Yugathira is also growing.
And the growth rate is faster than other magic trees. After all, the characteristic of Yugathila is that the more magic trees around it, the faster the growth rate.
By then, Yugathira should have already transformed the land into a spiritual land.
This is called growing together.
In addition, the cultivation of magic plants is also a profound knowledge.
The Zhenbing Tribe, with its poor knowledge, did not have much exposure to this subject.
This should also be a major problem in promoting the "Aoki Immortality Sutra", but Goude has Flora!
The Holy Body was born to plant trees.
All tree species, as long as Flora takes care of them, she will be able to find the most suitable cultivation method.
What is the Zhongting Continent, what is the Balance Temple, the orthodoxy of "Aoki Immortality Sutra" is in the North
If it were not for the difficulty of finding the magic tree species, which requires time and a little luck, more than half of the ice-born mages in the Zhenbing Tribe would have chosen holy objects to form a contract at this moment.
But even with so many conditions, the number of mages in the Zhenbing tribe who have chosen holy objects to form bonds is still a large number.
This is a large figure. The land area currently transformed by Yugathila is far from meeting the demand.
Hence, if you want to “plant trees” in Varar Bay, you must first go through the application process.
为此，高德还特地在农业部中又设立了个「林业办」，专门负责「种树」之事——主官当然还是芙萝拉，只是又为她专门配了两个人手，负责搜集筛选族人提交的「种树」申请。
"Including the seven in this batch, there are now thirty-one ice-born mages who meet the conditions in the queue."
Gothe went through the "Tree Planting" application and came up with a number.
Even with such harsh conditions, demand is still in short supply.
He couldn't help but let out a long breath, what a happy trouble.
This is a newly planted "magic tree" around Yugathila in the past two months. They are all sacred objects contracted by the ice-born wizards in the tribe.
In order to maximize the utilization of resources, the tree planting applications he approved are all different types of tree species, and they are all magic tree species that have relatively universal requirements for the soil environment.
The growth gain that magic plants can provide to Yugathira is much greater than that of ordinary trees.
So if these eighteen magic trees are planted, once they take root and sprout successfully, the growth gain they can bring is enough to be worth hundreds of ordinary tree species.
It's just that magic plants contain more complex vitality and magical energy, which cannot be easily produced by "natural techniques", and the required mana increases tenfold and dozens of times.
Even with Sunaifa's intervention, only eleven of the eighteen tree seeds planted so far have sprouted.
But the sprouting of eleven magic saplings was enough to bring about earth-shaking changes in Yugathila.
In just two months, its height soared from more than three feet to more than nine feet.
The increase in height is secondary. The more obvious changes are in the root system and trunk.
The trunk of the tree became thicker, and the mysterious and complicated runes on it became more clearly visible, containing vigorous power. The number of new leaves reached more than two hundred, and the colorful brilliance was lingering, like a dream.
The root system is expanding more and more, going deep into the ground, and the roots of the tree exposed on the ground are becoming more vigorous and powerful.
"It's not far before Yugathsheela advances to the next stage, about a week or two."
This is the message conveyed by Yugathsheela herself.
Once entering the next stage, Yugathila will awaken part of her own natural abilities.
Gaode has been looking forward to this for a long time.
"My king, Kathleen is back and is waiting for the summons outside."
While Gothe was still immersed in his reverie about the great cause of "afforestation", Grant, the Deputy Minister of Agriculture who had been very busy recently, suddenly arrived and brought Gothe an unexpected news.
"I'm finally back," Gothe's eyes lit up and he said, "Let her come in."
A moment later, Grant walked in with Caitlin and did not retreat - after all, Caitlin was a high-level mage and not a member of the Zhenbing tribe. Naturally, Grant would not let Katherine and Gothe be alone in the same room.
"Sir, fortunately, I have successfully completed the task assigned by you." As soon as she entered the office, Caitlin stroked her chest and saluted, with just the right amount of respect in her voice.
Her expression was a bit tired and dusty. It was obvious that she had not had an easy time during this period.
Nearly three months have passed since Caitlin led the team to leave Phoenix and go to the snowy fields to chase the murderer.
In the past three months, she has not dared to rest or neglect for a moment - when it comes to chasing the murderer, the longer the time goes on, the more intense the work becomes, so she can only solve it quickly.
Three months of high-intensity hunting, even though Caitlin is an experienced hunter, she is still exhausted.
Fortunately, the result is good.
"Among the guardians of the snowfield, we have traced the whereabouts of all the necromancers who followed the Holy Inquisitor of Ruian to practice forbidden necromancy and then fled away."
h "There are four of them. After discovering us, they resisted fiercely, and we had no choice but to kill them. The remaining necromancers were captured by us and are now being escorted back, waiting for you to deal with them. "
Gothe has already made a plan to deal with this group of people.
"It just so happens that Jinhui Farm is short of manpower for reclamation. After applying forbidden ice needles, all of them will be handed over to Deputy Minister Grant to work as coolies."
"Thank you, my king!" After hearing Gothe's arrangement, Grant couldn't be happier.
Jinhui Farm is developing, and it can be said that there is a shortage of people everywhere.
After arranging the whereabouts of these necromancers, Gothe looked at Caitlin, "I promised you back then, if you complete the task of chasing the murderer, I will give you all your freedom."
He paused, Caitlin nodded under her slightly nervous eyes, "It goes without saying. From now on, you are free."
Caitlin's face suddenly showed uncontrollable joy, and she felt that all the fatigue in these days was worth it.
"But" but before she could be happy for a long time, Gothe spoke again.
Just hearing the first two words, Caitlin's heart tightened.
"You should have discovered when you came back that Phoenix is currently under major construction." Caitlin nodded subconsciously after hearing this, and then remembered what she had seen and heard before entering the city.
When we left, the snowfields on both sides of the city gate were still a snowy wasteland.
In just three months, it turned into a field, and there were actually barley plants growing in it.
Farther away, there are thousands of Zhenbing people who are busy removing snow and plowing the soil.
When she first saw this scene, Caitlin thought she was under an illusion spell or was dreaming.
Even now, she has not thought about this matter.
Here Gaode continues:
"Phoenix is very short of people right now, especially capable people."
"So, I would like to invite you to stay in Phoenix and work for me. Of course, you can also refuse." What Gothe said in the end was far beyond Caitlin's expectations.
"You mean to invite us to serve you?" Caitlin asked in disbelief.
"Yes," Gothe nodded, "Is there any problem?"
"With the power of the Zhenbing Tribe, you don't have to be so polite to me." Caitlin still found it difficult to understand.
Now that they are lower than human beings, their high moral standards require them to do things, and they cannot and dare not refuse.
"What I need is not someone with ulterior motives." Gothe gave his own explanation.
In fact, having traveled through time, he is not very interested in the word "efficiency" - it is too feudal.
But he knows that sometimes it is meaningless to blindly emphasize equality and freedom.
Southern tangerine and northern tangerine.
In such a world, it is a very foolish thing to deviate from one's own class.
What he should do is to plant the most abundant fruits as possible under the conditions of the soil in this world.