Leaving aside for a moment the pleasant experience of the two guys, Jack and Mir.
By the time it was dark, the entire estate was out in force, gathered together on the tanning ground to watch the weeds that had piled up.
How to describe it? The entire grassy hill was about ten feet tall, over three meters high, and the diameter of the base was about fifty feet. It looked as if it were a giant sitting on the ground, and a hulk at that, filled with all kinds of plants. Weeds, roots, wildflowers ... these make up a huge green painting, for the serfs who have not seen much, this has been an eye opener.
In fact, for the well-off Howard's butler, this green mountain was the only thing he had ever seen in his life, and it was enough for him to brag about it in front of the other low-ranking nobles for a long time.
By the time Edward arrived, there was still a trace of shock left on Butler Howard's face. Obviously, this argument that there is strength in numbers was something he had only truly realized today.
Edward looked at the green mountain in front of him, then at the crowd of people looking around, and without batting an eye threw a torch at it.
The torch went in a parabolic direction into a mountain that never returned. In a flash, the torch infected a green mass of grass, turning it into a warm red color, and then, as if in a race, the red pigment traveled the entire green mountain, thus making it red. Boom! The entire grassy mountain turned into an erupting volcano, very imposing.
"Oh! God! On ... emperor!" At this point, even Howard's butler, who had already maintained restraint, still opened his mouth, desperately gulped, and kept calling out to old man God.
The serfs on the sidelines were purely in a state of seeing God, their eyes were flashing red from the firelight, but they didn't move their feet for a second, while the children hid behind the adults and covered their eyes.
Edward watched with amusement how the whole volcano went from burning to extinguishing, as if he had watched an eye candy show, and his whole being felt that his soul had been uplifted.
"Hello! My dear Mr. Butler, the show is over, it's time to wake up!" Edward tapped Howard's butler on the shoulder and said in a flirtatious tone.
"Yes! Yes! Your Majesty, your noble demeanor is really worth learning from!" Butler Howard had just returned to normal, he couldn't even speak very well, but he still didn't forget to kiss Edward's ass!
As a matter of fact, Edward just likes courtiers like Howard, who not only kisses ass, but also takes care of business. As for the straight courtiers like Wei Zheng who could make Li Shimin explode with anger during the Tang Dynasty, Edward still respected him as far away, and he still wanted to live for a few more years!
Waiting for about ten or so minutes burning grass ash has been completely extinguished, the presence of the serfs as a spectator has also been slowed down, as for those who are not psychologically capable, Edward is also lazy to pay attention to them.
"Hey! Gentlemen, the time has come when you are needed!" Edward pointed to the grassy ash that turned gray after burning and addressed the serfs.
"All you have to do is pack them up and dig a hole to use as a container!"
"Why don't you work quickly, what are you waiting for?" Old Jack reacted instantly, commanding the many serfs, cursing from time to time.
Edward was satisfied with Old Jack's performance and nodded at him, and at once Old Jack's face instantly flushed as if he had taken a stimulant, and he cursed even more vigorously!
Howard didn't react much to Old Jack stealing his job, and followed Edward, slightly bent over, as he accompanied him back to the villa.
The next day, Edward himself directed the serfs to clear the land!
That's right! It is the clearing of the land, and the whole Windsor estate occupies about twenty thousand acres of land, and in addition to a number of fields already under cultivation, as well as the mountains and rivers, there are nearly eight thousand acres of wilderness which can be made into arable land.
And why hasn't Howard opened it up?
The first reason was because of the backwardness of the means of production. It is no exaggeration to say that throughout the eleventh and twelfth centuries, the serfs of Europe could only use their own hands to plow the land. By the fifteenth century, this time the serfs could only use wooden plows, wooden hoes to plow the land, and to use them to open up the land, then you should be prepared for the wheat fields to be under harvested.
Basically, a man could only clear an acre of land per month, and new land at that time would not yield much without five or six years of nurturing! There was no peace and quiet in the troubled Middle Ages for you to clear land.
By the time of the Tudor crown, after the Wars of the Roses and the Reformation, there was perfectly adequate land, and it was only the population explosion of the late Henry VIII period and the growth of the enclosure movement that prompted peasants to open up land for farming.
The second point is the scarcity of population, to be precise, the scarcity of adult labor force, which leads to the lack of sufficient labor force to open up the land on a large scale.
And with a small labor force and rudimentary means of production, how do you expect them to clear the land.
Another thing is that the demand for population is low, and it is not yet time for a great explosion of population, and the gentlemen have not the slightest desire to open up the country.
So Edward puts out a big trick - the curved plow.
Compared with the previous plows, the curved plow is a masterpiece of ancient Chinese farming technology.
So Edward guided the carpenters among the serfs to change the light yoke into a curved yoke and a short yoke, and to install a freely rotating plow disk in the head of the yoke, which not only made the plow frame lighter but also made it easy to turn the head and turn the corner, and operated flexibly, saving manpower and animal power.
Secondly, the plow evaluation and the plow construction are added again. Pushing the plow evaluation, the plow arrow can be made to go downward, and the plowshare will be deep when it enters into the soil. If you raise the plow evaluation, so that the plow arrow upward, the plowshare into the soil will be shallow.
If the plough evaluation, plough arrows and plough construction are used organically, they can be adapted to the different requirements of deep ploughing or shallow ploughing, and can make the adjustment of ploughing depth standardized, so as to facilitate precise ploughing and fine cultivation.
The plow wall not only breaks up the soil, but also pushes the tilled soil to one side, reducing the resistance of the plow's advance.
In England, where the land is wet and sticky, it is most suitable for this kind of curved plow, after all, it was invented in the ancient Jiangnan water towns, which is very similar to the land in England.
In just one day, the entire property had five pairs of crank plows, and it is believed that the entire property will have another 5,000 acres of land this summer!
Tired from the day, Edward had just slumped back in his seat to read when Lucy suddenly ran over to the Flying Fish Guards to ask for an audience.
Edward looked at the guy in front of him with great suspicion, he was wearing an old sack coat with slits in the cuffs, and his whole body looked even weaker than Edward's.
It's guys that are actually thirteen years old.
It was only when he saw Edward that he half-kneeled directly and presented a letter with a seal on it.
Edward took one look at this this seal and knew it was from Guy in London.
"Lucy! You prepare a tasty dinner for this industrious fellow and treat him!" Edward was not at liberty to open and read the envelope in front of the crowd, and excused himself to let Lucy leave with the fellow who had delivered the letter.