lcionline Chapter 289 Spring Plowing
Chapter 289 Spring Plowing
Trees sprouted and, in the blink of an eye, the forest was covered in green. In the planting area near the City of Ten Thousand Beasts, many orcs were waiting for the high priest's command, carrying all sorts of tools.
Today is their spring plowing day. Most of the people standing below are sub-beastmen from the City of Ten Thousand Beasts. This is because their spring plowing day and spring hunting day basically coincide. Wolf Cang had already led the beastmen of the three races to go hunting long ago.
Now only about one hundred male orcs remain in the tribe, while the remaining four or five hundred are sub-orcs and cubs. Of course, all the orcs of the dwarf tribe, whether male or sub-orcs, must remain in the city.
The orcs of the dwarf tribe don't have animal forms, so taking them hunting would only cause trouble. It's better to let them do other work in the tribe.
After the hunting party left the city, Lin Baiyan gathered all the beastmen together and divided them into two groups, taking turns to go out and cultivate the land every day.
Today is the first day, and half of the orcs in the city have gathered in the planting area.
Lin Baiyan led everyone through each step, from pulling weeds and burning the roots to digging soil, cultivating the land, and watering, before letting them start cultivating the land with peace of mind.
"Make sure to remove all the grass roots from the ground, otherwise these plants will compete with our crops for nutrients," Lin Baiyan earnestly instructed everyone.
"High Priest, rest assured, we will be very careful."
"That's right, the Silver Fox Clan beastmen are the most meticulous!"
Lin Baiyan smiled and began to wander around the planting area, giving everyone pointers.
Elephant Ray was also promoted to the top position in the planting area because he had been there for a long time. Elephant Ray's animal form is an elephant. He has a gentle and honest temperament, and everyone goes to him for help with any planting difficulties they encounter.
Lin Baiyan took out his notebook and used two-thirds of the seeds from his Qiankun bag to cultivate. The main crops were sorghum, corn, soybeans, and wheat.
He and Maoyu Huzhen had previously calculated that these seeds could plant about 3,000 acres of land.
Don't be fooled by the seemingly large number; when divided among everyone, it's only about three acres of land, and that doesn't include all crops, but also some supplementary vegetables and grains.
Lin Baiyan had considered taking out all the seeds at once, after all, these were high-quality seeds that the Beast God had obtained from Shennong. He and Lang Cang were about to leave the City of Ten Thousand Beasts, so they had to leave enough food for their people to live on.
However, after much deliberation, he decided to keep some of the seeds. This was their first time engaging in large-scale farming, and if any natural disaster were to occur, all the seeds would be wasted. It was better to be prepared.
The spring planting season lasted for about half a month. Lin Baiyan stood on the small hill, looking at the neatly cultivated plain, and felt quite excited. The seeds had been planted, and they were just waiting for them to blossom and bear fruit.
Not only here, Lin Baiyan has great ambitions. He has reserved at least 30,000 hectares of planting land for the City of Ten Thousand Beasts. If possible, this land will be filled with crops for the City of Ten Thousand Beasts.
Given time, the City of Ten Thousand Beasts might be able to support tens of thousands of beastmen.
Of course, it's too early to say these things now.
After spring plowing, the roads in the City of Ten Thousand Beasts should be paved with stone slabs. They have not built any roads in the city. Lin Baiyan had been thinking about whether to pour cement directly or to pave a layer of blue bricks.
However, both of these methods consume a lot of their raw materials, are time-consuming and labor-intensive, and are very uneconomical.
After much deliberation, Lin Baiyan decided to use bluestone slabs instead of blue bricks.
The orcs laid out the polished stone slabs one by one on the main road of Wanshou City, and then poured lime mortar into the gaps between the slabs to let it solidify.
The resulting roads are time-saving, aesthetically pleasing, and, more importantly, easy to repair. If a crack appears, simply pour cement mortar over it to fill the gap.
The stone slab laying project was carried out in the same way as before, with two groups of people taking turns to work, since there were countless basic jobs waiting for everyone to do in the city.
As dusk fell, Lin Baiyan sat in the mobile room, his pen constantly scribbling and drawing; he was writing down the laws of the City of Ten Thousand Beasts.
As mentioned before, the operation of a city cannot be separated from a powerful and solemn court. Only when everyone understands the bottom line of their actions can the degree of crime be reduced.
There are also some detailed provisions in criminal law. Criminal law, like a vast galaxy, encompasses everything.
Not only these, but also laws such as the Law on the Protection of Minors and the Marriage Law, etc., cannot be perfected and completed by Lin Baiyan alone in a short period of time.
Therefore, he could only add things up little by little, and then seek the opinions of the elders in order to formulate a law that conformed to the survival rules of the beast world.
"High Priest! High Priest!" A commotion arose outside. Lin Baiyan put down his charcoal pencil and twisted his wrist. "Cat Feather, what's going on outside?"
Cat Feather came in when she heard the noise, her expression not looking too good. "Several cubs in the cub cave have developed a fever."
Lin Baiyan stood up abruptly. "What happened? Why did you suddenly develop a fever?"
As he spoke, he strode out, and as soon as he lifted the curtain, he saw Hu Can looking anxious.
Hu Can's face lit up with joy when he saw him, "High Priest!"
"Lead the way, I'll go take a look."
Lin Baiyan followed Hu Can into the cub cave and saw the little wolf Mu lying listlessly on its bed, no longer as lively and active as before.
The little tiger cub next to me had its head resting on its paws, its eyes squinting as if it were in great discomfort.
Lin Baiyan strode forward, touched the little tiger cub's burning paws, and then pressed his forehead against Langmu's little head. "So hot."
Hu Can's voice was tinged with tears, "Every year around this time, the little tiger cubs would fall ill, and then a few of them would not be able to withstand it and would return to the embrace of the Beast God."
"They've been perfectly healthy this year, so I thought they wouldn't get sick. But who knew they'd start having fevers one after another after coming back from their outing yesterday?"
Now it's not just the tiger cubs; all the cubs from all three clans are sick.
Hearing him say that, Lin Baiyan made a preliminary judgment that it was probably seasonal flu. Flu during the change of seasons is most likely to affect cubs, and the medical conditions on the Beastman Continent are not good, which is why they could not be saved.
You should know that a high fever can kill a person!
Lin Baiyan checked each of the sick cubs one by one, then beckoned to Maoyu, asking him to fetch the fever-reducing and heat-clearing herbs he had previously stored away.