Chapter 238 (2/2)
”How many... There are.”
Fiona hesitated, turned a few pages, and then said, ”with the help of the publicity of Datang daily these two days, the residents have popularized the necessity of road construction, so the residents are very supportive of road construction, and your support rate has been further improved.”
”Yes.”
”The publicity of the United harvesting team has made more people know that Ellington is short of people, so the flow of people gathered in Ellington has reached a peak in recent days. According to incomplete statistics, the total population in our Ellington territory has exceeded 10000!”
”Ten thousand people!?”
Donne was surprised: ”so little!?”
”That's not enough!?”
Fiona was also surprised: ”Lord, don't you know what Ellington was like before? There are only two or three thousand people in such a large territory! If your recent policies hadn't led to the gathering of refugees around here, Ellington wouldn't know how long it would take to break through ten thousand people!”
Donne was a little helpless. After getting used to the millions of people in a city on earth, he was a little tangled when he heard that there were only 10000 people in Ellington: ”continue.”
”The better news is that the new thousands of people are happy to work for you in exchange for the right to settle down and the money needed to buy food. Therefore, although our labor force has been in short supply, it can always fill the gap.”
”Good, go on.”
”The total sales volume of the branch of Datang chamber of Commerce in Beiyin mountain city last month has exceeded 150000 gold coins. After deducting various costs, the profit has exceeded 100000 gold coins - but Thomas may encounter some trouble in the next period of time due to the blockade of the business alliance.”
”The blockade of the business alliance has little impact on us. These troubles are basically predictable.”
Donne pondered for a moment and said, ”we don't compete directly with the business alliance. We don't do their goods at all, so they can't compete with us. Tell Thomas that he doesn't have to worry. They can't do business safely.”
”I see.”
Fiona wrote down Donne's instructions and then continued to report: ”the autumn harvest in the harvest month totaled about 1130 tons of grain. According to the previous unit conversion, this is a rare harvest in these years...”
”Wait! How much?”
”1130 tons.”
”How much arable land has been reclaimed in Ellington?”
”About 1500 hectares.”
Donne was shocked: ”1500 hectares, only 1130 tons! The yield of one hectare is less than one ton (about 66 kilograms per mu)!? and it's still wet weight!?”
”Yes.”
Fiona looked at Donne suspiciously: ”this year, because you built water conservancy in time during drought and invented water truck to draw water for irrigation, the growth of crops is very good. In addition, when it is mature, the sun is also very good and there is no rainstorm, so it's normal to have such a bumper harvest? It's just not enough to increase the population...”
”You call this a bumper harvest?”
”... is there anything strange about this?”
”I... OK!”
Donne sighed heavily. He hadn't noticed before. Now he knows that the territory of Mao Ellington is so large, but these people are always hungry!
There are more than 1000 scattered households in each village in Ellington. On average, the farming area of each household is about 1.5 hectares (22 mu). It is reasonable to say that the farming area is not small. However, Donne ignores several important factors.
The unit yield of crops, the density of cultivation, and the use of fertilizer.
Needless to say, people here seem to have inadvertently discovered the benefits of composting, so they are already using it.
As Donne provides metal farm tools for farmers, the unit labor production efficiency of Ellington is higher than that of other places, not to mention, but it is unreasonable that the unit output of crops is so small
The main crop of spring planting and autumn harvest in Ellington is Kadar, that is, the alien wheat in Donne's mouth. It is reasonable to say that the yield should be very high. Unfortunately, the reality gave him a hard slap.
In addition, prandar has no agricultural machinery equipment, so it was planted and harvested manually before, and the relatively small planting density is also one reason.
Don en helped his forehead and felt a little egg pain.
Does he have to act as an agricultural expert temporarily to command these farmers how to farm?
”Let's put this down for the time being!”
Donne took a deep breath. Soon he was going to go to the Emerald Forest with Brian. If he could turn a druid back from the elves, he could use the Druid's life magic to achieve the rapid birth of crops to achieve the purpose of increasing production.
This is also the confidence that he promised Fiona that there would be no problem in food - with egwin's reputation, shouldn't it be difficult to recruit a druid in the elves?
”Well, you know the food problem.”
Fiona turned a page and continued: ”recently, there have been adventurers in Ellington...”