At first, Karen did not know the rules of Elsen City. When he got up early in the morning, he found a corner and was ready to do it. However, he did not expect that the guard outside the house would dissuade him and take him to a building called "toilet". Not only was there an independent place for excretion, but there were also three pieces of toilet paper provided when he entered the door to solve the cleaning problem.
This was something that Karen had never thought about before. One had to know that in this day and age, wiping one's ass was basically just a random piece of grass or a rock. The nobles might use special ropes or wooden sticks, but "paper" was a lost invention after the High Elves.
The monopoly of knowledge was largely due to the problem of paper. Nowadays, most of the "parchment" used by the nobles was made of real "sheepskin." One could imagine how expensive it was to record words or deliver letters.
Roddy had long realized the importance of "paper", but it was not something that could be made in a short time. The High Elves did solve the problem of making paper, but there was no paper factory in Elsen City. Therefore, he could only let the Elsen Magic Research Department try to make paper according to his idea. Fortunately, the Mages were very smart, and the wood they cut in advance came in handy. After the first issue of "Karen's Age" was published in the form of 1,500 parchments, the second issue had been replaced by paper with a log color, and the number had increased to 5,000. At the same time, the mass production of paper had led to a production line, and the sales route had begun to spread to other parts of the country. It would not be long before Roddy, who had the manufacturing formula in his hand, could make a lot of money again.
Karen did not know the story behind the paper. The toilet paper he had just used was made of low-quality materials. To save resources, Roddy put the rough paper, which had been simply processed, in the "toilet" to improve the quality of the citizens. Obviously, it was a very good experience for most people to be able to wipe their butts clean. The cleaning team, which was supposed to be patrolling, did not encounter anyone who urinated or defecated anywhere in the past few days.
Although the topic of "excretion" was indecent, this alone made Karen realize that Elsen was a different city.
After using the toilet, he felt refreshed. However, he had only taken a few steps when he noticed that there was actually a carriage that specialized in handling feces parked next to the toilet. The "excrement bucket" developed by the mages prevented the stench of excrement from being exposed to the air. After the carriage finished the excrement extraction, it quickly drove out of the city. Karen looked at it in amazement, but after that, he did not think too much about it and strolled along the street.
After strolling leisurely for a day, Karen unknowingly arrived outside the city in the afternoon. The nearby villages were not built along the river as he remembered. Instead, they were planted with crops on both sides of the road. As a declining noble, Karen actually understood farming. He looked carefully and realized that there was not a single piece of land that was fallow.
"No rest? Are you planning to give up after plowing? "
In the traditional way of thinking, if the land was not fallow, the crops would only get worse year by year. As Karen thought so, he curiously walked to the front of a field. When he squatted down to observe, he was surprised to find that whether it was the vegetables, wheat, or oats, they were all much thicker and fuller than he remembered …
Most importantly, they were planted in the form of furrows in an unusually neat manner. This way of farming was something that Karen had never seen before.
"This … this is because the land is too good?"
Karen paid attention to the crops mainly because he had personally calculated the harvest data of his subjects. He even went down to the fields to observe the growth of the crops. After all, he was not a great noble. If the harvest was bad, his life would be really difficult.
As far as he knew, it was a well-known fact that the land in the northwest of the Kingdom of Karen was relatively barren. Therefore, in previous years, a batch of crops had to be purchased from the southeast for the winter. But now, the crops were growing well. Was it because they were planted in neat vertical rows?
The traditional farming method of the Kingdom of Karen was very backward. The farmers just "scattered" the seeds they sowed. When they dropped 20 to 30 kilograms of grain in an acre of land, it would grow in a disorderly manner and then mix with the weeds in the field. Even if they wanted to remove the weeds, there was no place for them to step on. Not only did they harvest little grain all year round, but the nutrients in the field were also basically used up. Next year, when they were plowing, they had to leave the field empty and rest for a year.
But what about now? Karen found that the crops were neatly separated by the concave and protruding fields. Many farmers walked through the fields and pulled out the weeds without stepping on their own crops. A gentle breeze blew. The ventilation and heat conduction between the fields were very good.
"This kind of farming method might really work …"
Karen was deep in thought and was about to turn around and leave. Suddenly, he saw a carriage coming from not far away. He fixed his eyes on it and confirmed that it was the model used to drain feces from the "toilet". Karen thought that it would just find a random place to dump its excrement, but he did not expect that in just a few minutes, similar carriages would gather in groups of twos and threes outside the village. Then, they began to dump their excrement into several large pits.
If it was just a simple burying, Karen would not be surprised. But he saw at least a dozen farmers running over to help. While helping to dump the feces, they excitedly threw many other things into the pit, such as weeds pulled out from the field, stalks left over from harvesting oats, and some grayish-white soil that Karen could not name. Then, he was stunned to see a tall arcane puppet walking out from the house next to him. Then, under the command of a mage wearing a magic robe, it stuck a stick on its arm into the pit and stirred it. After a few minutes, the farmers began to cover the pit with a pile of messy things, and then walked away while talking and laughing.
Karen did not think that there was anything to be happy about when a pile of stinky feces was piled together. Out of curiosity, he stretched out his hand to stop a farmer who had just participated in filling the pit and asked, "Uh … Uncle, what were you doing just now?"
The farmer who had just finished filling the pit naturally did not smell good. Karen could not help but take a step back from the smell.
This society was very strict. No matter how poor Karen was, he was still wearing the clothes of the nobles. The farmer did not dare to lie and immediately replied, "Sir, we were just drying the manure."
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