The Masai Union, which I visited after a long ti, was almost like it had never been before.
I had the sa thought when I visited last ti, but now it had completely changed into a city, except for the castle walls.
There was a market, and on the streets, vendors and even priests hired locally were walking by...
This place, too, had beco a great country with a different culture.
“Count Rothschild, why are you thinking so much?”
“I think the Masai Union has developed a lot compared to before. Just looking at it makes feel full.”
Malik, the chieftain of the Masai Union (soon to be promoted to king), snickered at my face.
“It’s not even your business, so why are you so happy?”
“Aren’t you and the chieftain friends?”
“Friend, so you’re a friend without any flaws except for your excessive love of money. You’re a friend as precious as family, or maybe even more precious than family.” “Isn’t it too much to say that you are more precious than your family?”
“It’s all thanks to you that our dying tribe has been revived like this. Of course, I’m a little upset that you made us worship Deus instead of our ancestors. Other than that, I have no complaints.”
If I hadn’t chosen the Botswana tribe, not only Malik but also the tribesn would have been sold into slavery or t a miserable end.
I’m glad that you know that.
Ultimately, everything was done for my benefit, but if you have the bad thought that you can live well on your own without ...
I might have had to help Nador to correct his wrong thoughts.
“I’m glad that I got to see you after so many years, or before I die.”
“You should live a long life.”
“I’m already over 70 years old. And my body doesn’t even accept alcohol these days. I guess it’s ti to die. “I wanted to be a king before I die.”
“Aren’t you already a king, even if the na is different?”
“That’s true. I should at least make a crown after you leave.”
“That’s a wise idea.”
Malik poured a drink and said.
“Anyway, what brings you here this ti?”
“I brought a crop that will help the Masai Alliance. It can quickly harvest about six tis the amount of food that wheat can produce.”
“...... Six tis? Does that make sense?”
I also rember grabbing the back of my neck when I first saw the yield per unit area of potatoes.
Based on farming in Korea, you can harvest four tons of wheat per hectare, but you can harvest a whopping 23 tons of potatoes planted in the spring.
I thought that was magic.
If you add the blessings of corn, sweet potatoes, and peanuts to that, the population could probably triple in 100 years?
It’s understandable that the gentleman would be surprised.
Not being surprised is actually a ntal illness.
“Have you seen lying?”
“If soone else said that, I would have hit them on the head with a plate. I told them to stop talking nonsense.”
“Just try it. And there are other crops besides this. Peanuts, corn, potatoes, and sweet potatoes. These four crops are amazing.”
“Does it taste amazing?”
“They taste much worse than wheat. Instead, you can harvest a huge amount.”
Potatoes that taste good when you dip them in salt, sweet potatoes that taste great when you eat them with kimchi, corn that tastes slightly sweet when you steam it and chew it, etc.
Those crops were only available in the 20th century.
Even the peasants complained that potatoes in the Middle Ages were so tasteless that they were like “what on earth do you eat?” The sweet potatoes were sweet enough, but they were probably less sweet than the roasted chestnuts I’m eating now.
And when I tried them, they were really tasteless.
‘But the yield per unit area is crazy, right? It’s even really easy to grow, right?’
“Try it.”
After so ti, the New World crops that had been cooked were placed in front of us.
“You can eat the potatoes with salt, and the rest as is.”
“Then let’s try it.”
Malik started eating the crops, including the potatoes and sweet potatoes.
He seed a little reluctant because I said they wouldn’t taste good, but...
He soon started eating them normally.
“They’re not tasty, but they’re edible. Of all the ones here, I think the sweet potatoes and peanuts are the best. The corn is edible, but I guess I’ll have to roast this one over charcoal. It doesn’t really suit my taste when I eat it stead.” “Sweet potatoes and corn will grow the best in the Masai Union.”
“Is that so? Then instead of the wheat you’re growing now, you should grow corn and sweet potatoes...”
No, please don’t do that. If you do that, all your farming will fail.
In the 1950s, Kim Il-sung was possessed by the immortal great man he respected the most, Mao Zedong, the Chinese massacrer, and spouted out nonsense that all fields should be planted very densely with corn.
As a result, the North Korean people enjoyed a worse living standard than during the Japanese colonial period, or rather, during the worst of the Japanese colonial periods, 1943-1945.
Of course, according to North Korean logic, because of communism and the leader’s warm love, even if they starved, they were full, and even if they didn’t eat, their faces were covered in oil...
Rather than believing that, I’d rather believe that the Earth is flat.
If we follow suit, the Masai Union will fail due to a food shortage.
“Corn is a crop that must be left idle for at least 2-3 years once planted. And the Masai Union is not in a bad food situation right now, so there is no need to plant only crops like sweet potatoes. Plant moderately. If you cover all the fields with sweet potatoes, corn, and potatoes, you will not be able to handle it later.”
“If that is what you say, then we should do it.”
“It is enough to completely cover the fields with sweet potatoes and potatoes even after the wheat has been plowed away when there are signs of a bad harvest.”
The crops that we commonly refer to as relief crops have the characteristic of being able to grow quickly and relatively easily compared to rice.
As I said, if the crops fail, you need to be able to plant and eat them quickly.
Are you thinking of eating such relief crops as your staple food?
If you do that, you might end up like Ireland, the country of potatoes.
“Let’s do that. But why are you giving us these crops without any compensation? If I were you, I would sell it for a huge sum of money, and I would never give it to anyone else.”
If you are reading this translation anywhere other than Novelight or SilkRoadTL, it has been stolen.
You have to eat well and live well to buy more weapons from us.
Then more gold will co to , and if I sell the gold and gather refugees from the war-ravaged Kingdom of Lyon or the Holy Empire and put them in the East Indica Company.
Now I plan to mobilize them and diligently develop the New World.
If I tell you all about it, our Uncle Malik might suspect ...
“The Chieftain and I are quite different in age, but I consider the Chieftain my most trusted friend and colleague. Although I don’t live here, my subordinates and people have taken root in Soros.”
“That’s right.”
“Luxuries, like gold and silver, are good for people to live with. However, you won’t die without them. On the other hand, if you run out of food and water, you will definitely die. “My people living in Soros, my friends who have been with until now, the chieftain and his tribesn, and the people of the Union are very precious to .”
Malik was quite moved by my words, and his eyes began to redden.
If it were , most people would believe it, but the majesty of the Tuscan Empire and other nobles wouldn’t be so moved by such an obvious comnt...
I guess I’m weak to emotions because I’ve lived in a nomadic tribal state.
Well, it’s better for to be mistaken like that, so let’s just let them be mistaken.
“And this is another gift I’m giving you. I can give you crops like potatoes for free, but I can’t give you this for free from now on.”
“Can’t we just give it to each other?”
Malik and I are very close.
We’re not close on a personal level, but our economic interests match.
I’ve beco incredibly wealthy thanks ~Nоvеl𝕚ght~ to Malik.
‘You can give it to for free.’
“There is a condition.”
Malik was surprised to hear say this.
“You give things for free. The sun must rise in the west.”
“This cloak and cloth were dyed by with a dye called cochineal that cos from a faraway foreign land. Not only in the Tuscan Empire, but also in the one you see here, there is no other clothing dyed with this dye.”
“Oh, really?”
“Wear this, and if anyone asks where you got it, just tell them that a foreign rchant gave it to you.”
“I will.”
Then I handed Malik a gold-wrapped bear pipe.
“This is called tobacco. You put a leaf in it, burn it, and inhale the smoke.”
“What a strange thing.”
Malik took a quick puff and smiled.
“I don’t care about my worries.
“It feels like everything is disappearing.”
“We will also provide this at a very cheap price. Take a puff of cigarette and a sip of rum and you will feel like you own the world.”
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