System: Build My Own Territory

Chapter 992 - 291: Blitzkrieg (10,000)_5

He came to the stairs leading upstairs.

Lynn reined in Mo Ying and nimbly dismounted from the horse.

Wesley, having been alerted by the messenger soldier, was already waiting.

Wesley stepped forward immediately, bowed respectfully, and spoke courteously.

"Master!"

Without needing Lynn to ask, Wesley continued speaking.

"As per your instructions, the food for supplying 3,800 soldiers and the fodder for the horses are all prepared."

"Once they enter the Manor Castle, they can start using them immediately."

"Your food has also been cooked by the chefs."

"You can head directly to the dining table in the reception hall on the second floor for your meal."

Lynn acknowledged with a sound and stepped onto the stairs leading up the city wall.

As he walked, Lynn asked.

"Wesley, how is the harvest situation in Morgan Town?"

Following behind Lynn, Wesley reported respectfully.

"Master, Gavin happened to come to the Manor Castle yesterday to report the harvest to me."

"Morgan has a total of 120,000 acres of farmland, starting the harvest in early July."

"Due to a lack of labor, as of early August, about 80,000 acres have been harvested."

"The total output is 500,000 pounds of barley, 190,000 pounds of wheat, along with various other vegetable crops and some cash crops."

"Aside from part of this being transported back to your territory, the rest is stored in the Manor Castle’s warehouse."

Lynn nodded.

From Wesley’s explanation, he once again felt the importance of advanced planting techniques.

Calculating based on Wesley’s numbers of crops, the yield per acre of barley in Morgan Town is only 100 pounds!

Such a yield per acre is nearly 80 pounds less than that of barley planted on his own land!

For the same 100,000 acres of farmland, under Morgan Town’s planting techniques, only 10 million pounds can be harvested.

While in his domain, 18 million pounds can be harvested!

In such a comparison, the yield is nearly twice as much!

This indeed seems somewhat exaggerated.

However.

Lynn also understood.

The reason for such a gap, besides the outdated scattered planting techniques in Morgan Town.

There was also the impact of that winter’s heavy snow!

The sudden drop in temperature slowed the growth of the wheat seedlings in the soil, resulting in a reduced yield after maturity.

Some even froze to death directly in the ground.

Lynn believed.

Barley yielding 180 pounds per acre would not be the peak production from his domain!

Given the limited number of farmland acres in his domain.

He could only continue to enhance the soil fertility of the fields, improve the productivity of crop seeds, and adopt more advanced planting methods...

To thus continuously increase the yield per acre of crops!

To support more population in his territory, he had to keep improving and optimizing the planting methods!

Only with more population could he have more labor force.

With more labor force, he could continually expand the scale of production and manufacturing in the territory.

A larger and faster scale of production could endlessly produce various needed goods in the territory.

Crops from the fields, handcrafted items made from forging, etc.!

Wesley’s words did not cease.

"Despite the one-tenth harvest reward you set, these hired Free People are striving to their utmost in harvesting."

"But the number of laborers is still limited, hence the slow progress in harvesting the fields of Morgan Town."

"Gavin estimates that relying on these 600 Free People, it would be quite difficult to complete all the harvesting before autumn in September."

"It’s even possible not to finish harvesting all the farmland."

"Even if I assign some of the soldiers who do not need to be on patrol to the harvesting team, it would be like a drop in the bucket..."

As Wesley spoke.

Lynn mounted the last few steps, arriving atop the city wall.

He gazed briefly at the Manor Castle on his right.

The last time he came was when he annihilated all the armed soldiers in Frank Manor.

Without losing a single soldier, he took control of the Manor Castle.

Of course.

Also recruited was Janet Frank, the Frank Manor Lord.

After a few looks at the Manor Castle, Lynn shifted his gaze to his left.

From the height of the city wall, he looked far into the distance.

Farther away from the Manor Castle by several miles.

Groups of figures were harvesting in a golden wheat field.

Despite the scorching sun on their backs.

They did not pause or hesitate, continually wielding their sickles to harvest batch after batch of wheat before them.

In front of these groups stood a large expanse of unharvested crops.

Barley, wheat, vegetables, linen, and more.

As Wesley noted.

That unharvested farmland accounted for nearly half of Morgan Town’s fields!

If the harvesting is not completed by the end of August.

Entering the autumn of September, even if harvesting continues.

The crops in the fields will suffer significant damage.

Lynn, his mind set in motion, opened the Weather Forecast interface.

Just as he expected.

The weather in September starts to become variable, with a heavy rain expected at the beginning of the month.