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Chapter 145 - 145 107 - A Single Mountain Cannot Hold Two Tigers_1

145: Chapter 107 – A Single Mountain Cannot Hold Two Tigers_1 145: Chapter 107 – A Single Mountain Cannot Hold Two Tigers_1 Sitting amidst the Salam Mountain Range and watching the bustling crowd clearing the land, Master Hudson nodded in satisfaction, echoed promptly by the excited cub on his shoulder.

The completion of the land reclamation project had significantly increased ahead of the spring planting season, with a high probability that the target of clearing twenty thousand acres would be exceeded.

Master Hudson was naturally pleased with his men’s diligence.

However, he couldn’t understand the cub’s excitement as well.

When he asked, it replied that Mr.

Belsden was happy; upon further inquiry, it was because Uncle Bear liked it.

Well, one can never decipher the thoughts of a bear cub, a creature that would be overjoyed by a small trinket for days on end.

It was definitely not one to be analyzed by the logic of a normal person.

People’s limits are not forced upon them.

Ever since Hudson ordered that the farms be divided among the serfs as a proprietary measure, the serfs quickly adapted and divided the tasks among themselves.

Depress one level after another; it seems everyone spontaneously follows suit, with tasks quickly decomposing and filtering down to the grassroots level.

The more the tasks are specified at the grassroots level, the harder it is to slack off.

In the group of ten households for each farm, everyone is familiar with each other.

Who is doing what, everyone has a clear view of each other.

As for the issue of food, everyone is monitoring each other, clearly aware of who is working more and who is working less.

These facts are obvious to all.

Even if they can’t take the lead or win the lord’s reward, they certainly must not be at the bottom and get punished!

The leaders of the legions are afraid of penalties, the chiefs are equally afraid, and the serfs below are even more terrified.

The taste of being hungry for a long period, once experienced, is something no one would like to try a second time.

It seems that only five pounds of food supply will be reduced each month, but in reality, it’s the difference between barely being full and going hungry.

Even if another five pounds were added, everyone could still finish their meals.

In an era of lack of resources, everyone is a “Big Stomach King”.

It seems that the strong consume one and a half pounds of food a day, but in reality, two-thirds of it is coarse grains.

This is not because Hudson is stingy, but this is the life standard of the serfs at that time.

A lord like him who has sufficient supplies is already the conscience of the lord community.

If you want more food, you have to do more work.

For example: the miners and blacksmiths are supplied with one and a half pounds daily, and other supplementary foods are proportionately higher.

Highly skilled craftsmen and soldiers not only receive two pounds each day, but the proportion of staple food has increased from one-third to two-thirds, even with a small supply of wheat.

Compared with the initial food supply, it has increased a lot.

After all, the initial staffing was to give out cooked food which apparently seemed to be in greater amounts, but in reality, the food would expand in the process of cooking.

A pound of rye, along with some vegetables and leaves, can easily produce two pounds of rye bread.

If you add more ingredients, it’s not impossible to make three pounds of rye bread.

Other coarse grains are a bit worse, but they are all used to fill the stomach.

There is nothing to nitpick about.

The difficulty is temporary.

The current shortage of oil and meat is mainly due to the underdevelopment of animal husbandry and agriculture.

Reliance only on hunting for meat supply is a drop in the bucket in front of the population in tens-of-thousands.

The expansion pace of animal husbandry is limited, but the accelerated development of planting is particularly simple.

Hudson plans to use all the newly reclaimed land for the cultivation of soybean, peanuts, flax…

By making oil itself, he estimates that the oil supply in the territory will dramatically improve from next year onwards.

Now, he can just stand aside and watch.

When it comes to the experience of reclaiming wasteland, these serfs at work unquestionably have more experience than Master Hudson.

Farm tools and livestock have been distributed, and as a lord, he has completed his task.

The rest is up to the serfs to complete using their initiative; after all, Hudson only cares about the results in the end.

The more intense the competition, the more productive the output.

The unscrupulous Master Hudson is already preparing to apply this experience more broadly.

For instance: tasks of grain cultivation can also be subdivided among the farms, and then production can be measured; on the mines, a group model can be implemented, and production and scrap rate can be compared directly…..

A series of plans guiding subordinates to compete against each other are forming in Hudson’s mind.

As soon as the plan is perfected, it can be promoted throughout the territory.

“Master, this month’s iron production data is out.

We have produced a total of forty-one sets of plate armours, 1324 broadswords, 1300 iron hammers…

We have followed your instructions and notified the nobles to come and pick up the goods.

We estimate that by the day of God’s descent, we can complete half of the previous orders.

The rest will probably be finished before next spring.

However, several new orders added recently have not been calculated.

According to your will, our production order has always been dictated by the principle of first-come-first-served.

The quantity of new orders added is not many, and they can be completed probably in about half a month.

If everything goes well, from next spring, the pressure from the mining area’s production tasks will slowly lessen.”

The steward’s words made Hudson’s expression serious.

Less production pressure isn’t necessarily a good thing.

Although the surplus miners can be dispatched to clear the land, and the labour force will not be wasted, reclamation is a long-term investment and it is hard to see profits in a short period.