Harmonie and Happiness
Country is recovering from a recent war.
Uneasy, though necessary trading and trade agreements do occur and are established, though their is a degree of self sufficiency.
The Halles: High food production (enough to provide for themselves and 3 other territories), Standing army (though it's not too big, but well trained), Navy, and what will be the knowledge to make steel of moderate and superior quality. (if not the best steel in history, but this will be limited to a few weapons.)
Hmm, this could outline much of what Connor can offer to increase these aspects even more. Gonna turn halle into a must have ally by increasing food quality and production even higher.
Around the time period theme the roleplay is set up, farmers would have been using either 3 step farming method, where normally out of a single plot of earth, 2 crops could be grown and harvested through out the year, one period to grow and harvest say, wheat, and another period for something else, such as barley, and what not, and then the 3rd period nothing is planted to allow the soil to rest and regain nutrients so your not over farming the soil and killing the nutrients. This can be advanced to a four step farming method, where the normal two crops can be planted, but in the time between the two major crops, crops such as turnip can be planted witch have minimal impact on the soil by using nutrients not normally consumed and restoring nutrients that other crops use, the same can be done with clovers which restore a great deal of nutrients to the soil. In this way, the soil's nutrients can be restored without giving it a chance to rest, thus raising the efficiency of farming. The clovers and turnips can then be used as feed for livestock, to cut down on food sources used for them, and keep them fed, while feeding people, thus enabling more livestock to be spared for winter salughter. Thus increasing crop yields and yeild from livestock and the connected resources from livestock, as I've mentioned before, such as wool from sheep, milk from cows, etc.
This can be further enhanced with the compost method, making compost and spreading into the soil to enrich soil with nutrients and seaweed can enhance this effect. Further, if a farm were to take on more crops, then crop rotation can be used, where crops are rotated between plots of soil, to restore nutrients to the soil, and at the same time, minimizing the population of pests as well.
This solves many issues of resources and renewing them for the benefit of the local farmers ad using the relatively same amount of labor to increase yields. Plus the more temperament land of the halles is better suited for growing corn, though they can still grow potato as well. Potato can effectively be planted and harvested 3 times a year, which produces a lot, if done right, and since it's an undeground crop, it's safe from the issues above ground crops suffer from, and has a menagerie of uses. Corn is a wonderful crop, where it's application can be used from human food, to feeding livestock in bulk, a full cart of corn can be dried and ground into cornmeal, which is then useful for baking as a replacement to wheat in some cases, and it has a slightly sweet flavor, and even in the drying and grinding process of corn into cornmeal, two bottles of corn oil can be extracted from a full cart of corn.
All in all, when connor get's a serious foothold into altering how the farmers of the halle territory go about agriculture, he's gonna revolutionize.
twisted After all, when taking over the world, the best place to start is either food or pride.
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