Agricultural revolution

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Friedrich Wilhelm POV

''my king here you have the reports you have requested'' said Charles with a serene tone ''thank you I was waiting for them as soon we will have to pay our taxes to the king'' I said receiving the reports with eagerness.

''my king I must remind you not to stay up too late reviewing your reports, it is bad for your health'' said Charles with a serious voice ''the government does not rest and neither do I, besides hard work is the greatest pleasure in life, there is no better way to go to sleep than knowing you did a good job'' I answered Charles without looking at the reports.

''All right, if you need anything, just call your guards, I'm going to do the surveillance of the city'' Charles said with a defeated tone, as he left my private office.

let's see, recently the harvest had been produced, grains and fresh fruits ready to be processed and sold, I already had reports of how much profit I would make, exploiting my quartermasters, I could already say that we had solidly earned almost four million golden dragons and best of all the harvest season as long as it is summer is permanent, so I can expect this income twice a year, although 30% belongs to the king, but in the future with our seeds I should expect four harvests a year, since our wheat seeds tend to grow in three moons and not in five or six moons like the seeds of the seven kingdoms

not including the fact that years of seed selection on our part has led to our wheat having many more grains than the seven kingdoms counterpart, but for the time being I do not expect to increase the harvest, as it will take at least another 2 years to produce enough seed to completely replace the reach wheat.

The next problem will be that I will have to create an industry to create fertilizers, for the moment I will have to be content with animal excrement because I don't have the capacity to have huge amounts of ammonia, I could extract it from urine, but the work would be too much, and it would not be efficient; however, on the other hand, the phosphate according to my prospectors had found a great deposit of this near where the territories of the Stormlands, Dorne and the Reach converge, the problem is that within my direct dominions there is only 20% of the deposit the great majority is in control of the Tarly, and they do not know that they are literally standing on a gold mine, I will have to negotiate trying to take advantage of the fact that they do not know what the phosphate is for at the moment.

The decrees had already been sent out to inform the peasants that our land lease relationship had ended, it will not be popular, as one way to demonstrate social standing was to have the right to cultivate, but I think people will like the option of receiving coins each month rather than depending on the outcome of a harvest.

The new system would rely heavily on the cantons, on the way to get the ''permission'' to work my land, as they will have to present their file issued by the priest, therefore non-converts to Protestantism will have even more reason to convert because now they will have an economic reason to do so.

According to the information obtained by a quick census carried out by the priests in my direct dominions, there are about seven million people under my government, and I have a little more than five million files issued by my priests, I can notice that the majority of the population professes Protestantism, not bad for only being governing for 8 moons, according to my estimations there should be three million applicants to cultivate my lands at 20 silver stags it would be a little more than a quarter of a million golden dragons per month to maintain such a workforce.

But I must eliminate the faith of the seven from my lands, I will not allow a religion that made calls to rebel against me to continue to profess their faith in my domain, I will take more energetic measures to deal with them, but always indirectly I do not want another conflict with the supreme septon.

well, it only remains to ensure the logistic chain of tools and animals to all the villages, since, we are not only going to plow the fields, we are going to build infrastructure the fields with irrigation canals, to reduce the amount of labor needed to irrigate the fields and to be able to once and for all connect all the villages with decent roads, not only with rose road and ocean road all the reach must be united under my government.

Emil POV

the days in this village are really peaceful, since moons ago the last sign of rebels had gone out, and we were only training in the area and the routine only changed when it was harvest time, all day we were helping to harvest the wheat, and then we had to weigh it and send it to our king as a tax, it was an intense day.

Something relevant that happened during our stay as guards was that Bertram got married at last, he had changed for good luckily, Bertram was very melancholic for not being able to return home, but now he had calmed down and was very happy with his new wife.

We were having lunch in our barracks, chatting like every day.

''Tell me Bertram, do you plan to stay in this village or are you going to go to neu danzing? Since in the future we are all going to retire'' I asked him with interest ''I was planning to stay in this village, besides plowing the land I don't know any other profession that could be useful to earn my bread in the city'' he said with a smile.

''and you Emil, when are you getting married?, you are one of the few who have not been able to get married yet, are you not good with women?'', asked Bertram smiling ''no just that the job as captain is very demanding, and I would like to retire before having a family'', I said lifting my shoulders.

We continued to talk about our ideas about the future until a messenger came in.

''who is the officer in charge of the garrison'' asked the messenger ''that's me, Emil company captain'' I said as I stood up.

I quickly went to talk to the messenger.

''the king has ordered that you must read the decree in front of the people in the same way as was done with the cantons'' said the messenger as he handed me the sealed letter, and left the barracks.

Quickly, I opened it and read it, MMH this is going to get interesting.

''what does the letter say Emil, any new conflicts?'' asked Bertram ''look for yourself''' I said as I handed him the letter

''hahaha very funny, Emil, you know very well I can't read'' he said with a sarcastic tone ''ha, ha, ha just kidding Bertram don't get mad, a new decree from the king calls everyone this could get serious if we don't treat it accordingly'' I said with a smile

When we gathered all the garrison, I explained what was going to happen.

''well the king has sent a new decree, he is going to end the serf contracts with the peasants, they will not be able to lease the land for a share of the crops, this could cause unrest so watch out for troublemakers, the king will start a new system, now he will pay for people to work the fields, but only protestants can apply, I will have to give notice, you watch that this does not explode into a rebellion'' I said looking at everyone

''any questions'' I asked before starting the plan ''if there are rebels how do we deal with them?'' one of my subordinates asked ''non-lethal force, a beating and that's enough we don't want there to be resentment against us'' I said with a serious tone.

After that, we gathered all the people in the square near our church to let them know the new royal decree.

When the great majority of the people gathered, I began to read the king's decree

''by mandate of the king in Prussia and paramount lord of the reach, he terminates all land leases of the small folks with him, the fields are for the exclusive use of the king and can only be worked by those who meet the new requirements of the king, as there is no more land lease relationship from now on will be paid the sum of 20 silver stags every moon to all who want to work the land, the new requirements to be able to deliver the service to the king are that they must deliver their file issued by their local priest to the quartermaster to be identified as workers of the king, any doubt that may entail the new rules should be consulted to their priest or to the local garrison chief'' I said with a serious tone.

While I said the king's command I could see how the faces of the peasants went from fear and despair to one of happiness, but it was not generalized, I could see those who still professed the faith of the 7 with a wrinkled face full of anger, it is not that many of them are barely 20% of the village, and now they will have one more reason to convert to the true faith.

There were no riots, the people took the news in a good way, receiving a payment every moon is seen in a good way, due to our influence, to see how soldiers live good lives for receiving every moon, their payment, is considered by the locals as one of the best qualities a man can have.

I went to sleep, as the next day was going to be the most intense day in several weeks.

When I got up, I put on my armor and went to see the quartermaster officer.

Captain in the night the supplies arrived to start the work on the crops, here is the report'' said the quartermaster officer handing me the report with the supplies ''well let's make the list and check if everything is there'' I said looking at the report

''one thousand shovels''... ''ready captain'''.

''One thousand picks''... ''ready captain''...

''One thousand hoes''... ''ready captain''...

''One thousand pairs of gloves...'' ''ready captain'''...

''One thousand pairs of shoes''... ''ready captain''...

"Fifty heavy ploughs"... "Ready captain"...

''Fifty seed drills''... ''ready captain''...

''One hundred oxen''... ''ready captain''...

''one ton of seeds''... ''ready captain''...

''one thousand head of cattle...'' ''ready captain''...

''one thousand pairs of socks''... ''not ready Captain''...

''these idiots forgot the socks'' I said while scratching my head.

''well almost everything is ready, we have everything ready to begin with the plowing of the fields and the first part of the construction of the irrigation canals'' I said looking at the quartermaster.

After that with my men we moved the materials to the center of the village, for when the new workers arrived, slowly, the people were arriving, when the

slowly, the people were arriving, when they arrived I started to give orders

''Very well, everyone take a pair of gloves, a pick and shovel, we will clean the fields of the roots before plowing them, also take shoes, I apologize for the lack of socks, the geniuses of logistics forgot to put them in the shipment will arrive next week, those who do not have the shoes should measure their feet so that next week they can bring them something of their size'' I said pointing to the supply carts.

Quickly, the workers began to put on their new work equipment, and we moved with the carts to the fields on the outskirts of the village.

We spent almost 3 hours clearing the surrounding fields of roots and rocks, apparently the people were not very serious about maintaining the fields for the crops, now that they had steel tools they were working very quickly on removing roots

''Lend me ears from now on you will not sow the same in the fields continuously from now on the fields will be sown and divided into 4 fields, where you must constantly rotate for each seasonal term, by the king's command it must be complied with, so I want no complaints, You must divide the fields in 4 and sow the following, wheat, turnip, barley and clover, the fields must not stop producing, nothing to let it rest for a year, in the future fertilizers must arrive to enhance the nutrition of the land and solve the problem of wear soil by overuse'' I said with seriousness.

''you must also leave fields ready for when the seeds of the king's cash crops, cotton, arrive, those will arrive with the fertilizers, so now watch and learn, as we are not going to repeat again'' I said while I pointed to the plows to my men.

There were faces of doubt because our system of agriculture is very different from yours, but well, they are comparing an inefficient system with the system we have developed to avoid the great famines in Prussia

when they cleared a lot of fields we started to teach them how to use the new heavy plows, using the oxen for 3 hours, we demonstrated what they had to do to plow the land, and finally, we taught them how to use the seed drill.

Everything was on a small scale, as much of the work would have to be done by them, after today we would only have to supervise that the work was done and punish those who did not work.

We continued with the work for another 4 hours until we cleaned almost 20 fields and returned to rest because this routine would accompany them for life.