With such a huge demand, the North Town City naturally had to produce at full capacity. Fortunately, Su Lun had been developing agriculture in the Northern Wastelands for the past few years. The entire North Wind Principality had already cultivated more than a million mu of farmland.
Of course, this number was not much compared to the farmland of other countries. It was much lower. According to the population, there were 600,000 people and a million mu of farmland. On average, each person would get less than two mu of farmland. In his previous life, a few mu of farmland would be enough to feed a family. However, this was the Middle Ages, where technology was backward.
Normally, even with a high-yield crop like potatoes, a family would need at least 30 mu of farmland. If all kinds of taxes were taken into account, this number would increase by 50 mu.
After all, potatoes were not expensive. If one wanted to make money, they had to grow wheat and oats. Moreover, the feudal lords only collected a small part of the taxes. Most of the farmers in this world grew potatoes for their own consumption. Most of them grew wheat, barley, oats, and other crops.
The yield of these three crops was not high. The reason why Northern Town could grow so many crops was because of the high yield per mu.
The land in the northern wastelands was already quite fertile. With the addition of the Harvest Altar, the yield of wheat in Northern Town could reach 600 catties per mu.
Although there was a huge difference between the yield of 600 catties per mu and the yield of 1000 catties per mu in his previous life, the wheat in his previous life had undergone professional breeding and the use of various fertilizers to reach 1000 catties per mu. There were no fertilizers in this world.
Under normal circumstances, the yield of farmland in the southern provinces was around 300 catties per mu. In the north, it was around 250 catties per mu. Many barren lands only had 200 catties per mu. The fact that Northern Town's farmland could reach 600 catties per mu was already a miracle in this era.
The main reason for this was the Harvest Altar. Apart from the Harvest Altar, Suhlen also built a fertilizer factory. The manure produced in Northern Town would be collected and transported to the fertilizer factory to be fermented.
After fermentation, it would be sent to the farmland. Although the fertilizer was not as good as the fertilizers, it was better than no fertilizers. With the help of the fertilizer and the Harvest Altar, Northern Town also planted a lot of cash crops in addition to food.
Among them, the planting area of beets was the highest. After all, the demand for white sugar was too high. Moreover, the residue left after the sugar extraction of beets was not useless. These beet residue were also good fodder.
At the same time, the sweet tea dregs were mixed with wheat bran, soybean dregs, and soybean dregs from extracting soybean oil. This was a very good feed. Centaur City currently had a total of several hundred thousand horses, cows, and sheep, so the demand for feed was very high.
The best horses would be used as war horses for Northern Town City, and the second best horses would be sold to other countries. However, even the second best horses were still good war horses. Normally, these war horses would be used by Heavy Cavalry. The second best horses would also be sold as war horses, and these horses would be used as normal war horses. The rest of the horses were used as draft horses or pack horses. North Town City also had horse plowing in addition to cattle plowing.
Some of the other cows were used for plowing, while the rest were slaughtered as beef to supply the Duchy of North Wind. Because of the prosperity of the trade, North Town City consumed a lot of beef every day. Cowhide was also a good material. It could be used to make leather armor or other leather products.
Cow tendons were also collected to make all kinds of bowstrings. It could be said that the value of a cow had been excavated to the limit.
There was no need to talk about sheep. The north was cold, so sheepskin was an important tool for the commoners to resist the cold. Suhlen even wanted to develop a wool textile industry, but Suhlen didn't know anything about wool weaving, so he could only leave it to the gnomes who had experience in weaving.
A large number of cows and sheep enriched the Duchy of North Wind's meat. At the same time, the manure produced by these cows and sheep was sent to the farm fertilizer factory to be fermented. It could be said that North Wind Duchy had formed a good ecological chain.
After a few years of development, North Wind Duchy had become very rich in food. However, in order to continue to expand the sea trade, North Wind Duchy's various grain crops had to continue to expand.
The planting area of beets was actually not enough. During this time, the amount of white sugar had increased several times. A part of it was from North Town City's inventory, while the other part was the real production.
Therefore, when planting beets this year, North Town City once again expanded the planting area of beets. In the next few years, the planting area of beets would continue to expand.
In addition to white sugar, North Town City's production of alcohol and white paper would continue to expand. Alcohol was a little simpler because rum was made from the leftover caramel from the production of white sugar. As the production of white sugar increased, the production of rum would also increase.
As for vodka, this kind of liquor was not very popular in the south, but it was very popular in the north. Now, in addition to these two kinds of alcohol, North Town City had also started to brew iced wine, barley beer, and other drinks. However, the production of these drinks was still low.
Paper was popular among the nobles. In order to produce paper, Suhlen cut down a large number of trees near Mirror Lake City. At the same time, he was preparing to plant bamboo. Because bamboo grew quickly and had a lot of fiber, it was far more suitable for paper than plants.
Suhlen planned to plant a large number of bamboo to use as the raw material for paper. To Su Lun's surprise, he originally thought that the most popular paper should be various kinds of writing paper, but to his great surprise, the sales of writing paper could be said to be very poor.
On the other hand, the sales of toilet paper, which he did not think highly of, continued to rise. It was simply unexpected. For this matter, Suhlen purposely asked the merchants who bought paper. According to them, the preservation time of words written on paper was short, it was easy to damage, and it was not as strong as parchment.
As for Suhlen's claim that the paper was cheap, the same weight of paper could record more words, and it was more beneficial for the spread of knowledge. However, this claim was ridiculed by the merchants. According to the merchants, the nobles did not want more people to have knowledge. It was best for knowledge to be in the hands of people like them.
Therefore, after seeing the advantages of paper, they ignored it. These aristocrats were just like the aristocratic families in ancient China in his previous life. They wanted to monopolize knowledge.
After learning the reason for the unpopularity of writing paper, Su Lun was helpless. On the contrary, the popularity of toilet paper was the opposite. In the past, the nobles who used ropes, sticks, leaves, and other items decisively threw them away after trying toilet paper. Suhlen did not know whether to laugh or cry. Papermaking did not bring about the spread of knowledge. Instead, it started a toilet revolution.
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