Looking at the large expanse of newly cultivated land where the vines had just been planted, Austin’s heart was filled with a sense of satisfaction. From nothing to sothing, overcoming nurous difficulties to accumulate this foundation.
Soon, this foundation will usher in a new era.
If the planting can succeed, it will basically solve the food problem for the beastn. Only then can the population under the Blue Young Dragon’s command rapidly expand to form a formidable force.
Initially, the beastn didn’t understand why Austin was cultivating this land. They only obeyed because of the unparalleled prestige of the Blue Young Dragon. Later, when the Blue Young Dragon said that completing this task would solve the beastn’s food problem, the enthusiasm of the beastn was imdiately ignited. However, they still found what the Blue Young Dragon was doing quite inexplicable.
Until now, seeing all the work Austin had done, planting the vines in the furrows, the smarter beastn had already guessed what Austin intended to do.
The Kawa Great Forest is not completely closed off. At the turn of the cold winter, large numbers of beastn always surge out of the forest borders to breach the Iron Wall Defense Line set by the humans and raid human food supplies.
The beastn have so understanding of how humans manage to survive without hunting in the forests, and that’s because humans know how to farm.
As Austin would say, farming allows humans to sustain a large portion of their population with limited land.
The beastn of the Kawa Great Forest had tried planting in the past, too.
However, their planting thods were very crude. For example, they would directly cast rice seeds onto the grasslands, leading to the seeds being completely devoured by birds and rats, or perhaps barely sprouting only to have all the nutrients sapped by the lush grass, leaving just a couple of scrawny stalks to mature and bear fruit, eventually yielding less than the original seeds.
The sa went for other crops. The beastn had no concept of land preparation, nor did they consider the environnt, indiscriminately scattering seeds in the wild. As a result, the yields never matched the effort, and naturally, the beastn of the Kawa Great Forest lost the inclination to farm.
Of course, in this vast and endless Kawa Great Forest, anything can happen. There may be exceptions where so tribes accidentally discover suitable land for planting appropriate crops, obtaining considerable harvests annually, but such lucky instances are extrely rare. Compared to the countless tribes in the Kawa Great Forest, the fortunate ones are one in a million.
Without related farming knowledge and given the simple-minded nature of the beastn, developing agriculture naturally yielded no results.
Therefore, seeing what Austin was doing and realizing his goal, the beastn, though surprised, were also filled with imnse expectation.
Even the simple-minded beastn could see the difference between Austin’s farming thod and the bold techniques used by other beastman tribes.
Perhaps, His Highness Blue Dragon could succeed.
No, His Highness Austin is bound to succeed!
The various experiences over ti, coupled with political brainwashing, had led all the beastn to develop absolute trust in Austin.
Subsequently, the developnt of events did not disappoint the beastn’s expectations.
After the planting was completed, the heavens were kind enough to bring several showers. In the ensuing two days, sprouts erged from the buried vines, as spots of tender green dotted the yellow earth, giving the fields an exceptionally vibrant and lively look.
This surprised the Blue Young Dragon, as compared to his past life, where it was impossible for planted vines to sprout so quickly in just two days. But perhaps due to a different world or species, the results differed.
In any case, by the third day after the vines were planted, the shoots had indeed erged.
This growth opened a promising Chapter for Austin’s farming endeavor.
For the ti being, there was basically no need for managent until the new vines were substantial enough to climb up the branches.
Next, Austin didn’t let the beastn idly wait but sought another plain to continue clearing the land.
Austin chose not to clear the previous plain further, considering that excessive tree felling in such a rain-abundant world could easily lead to soil erosion.
Therefore, to avoid complications, Austin decided to start clearing another piece of land about twenty ters away from the original field.
Even though the first field hadn’t yielded crops yet, the sight of sprouting vines had all the participating beastn filled with passion, diving eagerly into the next clearing task.
With the experience from the first field, the beastn’s work efficiency significantly improved.
They coordinated seamlessly, cutting down and dragging away trees, pulling up weeds from the ground and burning them on the remaining stumps, with ash left for the base of the ridges as fertilizer.
Then they used wooden spades to turn over the hard soil, leveling the ground, making ridges, and planting anew.
The clearing of the second piece of land no longer required Austin’s direct supervision. Except for occasionally checking the progress and offering guidance, the work was mostly left to the beastn to organize. With the first round of planting experience, the work wouldn’t falter.
As so beastn busily worked on the second field, Austin led another group to traverse the Blue Dragon’s territory within a ten-mile radius.
Apart from the unexplored Spider Cave, the Blue Young Dragon didn’t discover any other places where extraordinary magical beasts gathered.
Of course, Austin’s main goal wasn’t to find another place like the Spider Cave but to locate the growth areas of wild rice.
Although the first plant chosen for cultivation was the kudzu root, it didn’t an Austin wouldn’t plant other grains.
Previously, due to various reasons, the Blue Young Dragon had abandoned the idea of planting wild rice in the first field, but he hadn’t entirely given up on cultivating it as a crop.
After all, if agricultural planting succeeds in the future, grains will yield much more than kudzu root.
For security and compatibility with the growth habits of rice, Austin decided to directly sow these grain plants in areas where rice naturally grew.
After three days of exploration, under the guidance of the beastn, Austin discovered more than a dozen low wetlands with wild rice growing.
The Blue Young Dragon decided to select the three ponds nearest to Dragon Nest Village as experintal fields.
Of course, compared to the multiple steps like seedling cultivation from the past life, Austin’s planting technique was much simpler and more straightforward.
He instructed the beastn to clear all the weeds from the ponds, turn over the muddy soil once, and then directly cast the wild rice seeds.
In the future, during large-scale wild rice planting, the thod of seedling cultivation might be employed, but for now, it was rely an experintal field, also serving to record the growth patterns of wild rice.
By the ti the first cultivated field matures enough to plant these wild rice, at least a year would have passed.
They directly sowed the seeds, burying them in the mud, ensuring they wouldn’t be taken by birds, thus completing the wild rice experintal fields. All that remained was to wait for the future growth and harvest.
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