"Struggle in the Age of Steam (

Because of tea, Lawrence and the senior priest of the agricultural church had a good deal. And then Lawrence introduced the circular agriculture theory developed by herself and the agricultural school council development team on New Sauer Island, which made the priest nodded again and again, and she even called her students to come and listen together.

As a result, this conversation made everyone forget the time. When Lawrence had just explained the big frame of the circular agriculture theory to the people present, the church bell rang, and the high priest heard the bell. He raised his head and told Lawrence that it was lunch time, and everyone could wait until the meal was over before continuing the discussion.

It is not the same as the tradition of western food in the Old Continent. The Erythian Empire, which inherited the ancient empire civilization, is more popular to exchange some things at the table. In this regard, this country is not like their neighbors in the west of the Old Continent. More like the style of those thousands of miles away from Aurora.

At the table, because everyone was more relaxed, Lawrence and the others also learned a lot of other news. For example, this high priest named Octavia was born in the mountainous area in the middle of the empire. Because of the poverty of that place, she was abandoned by her helpless parents, but fortunately she was adopted by priests passing by the village.

However, there are still a few lucky people like her, and more abandoned babies have not waited until they can save their own people, so they disappeared into the wilderness silently. Many travelers passing by the mountainous area in the middle of the empire can find the remains of these poor children on both sides of the road.

In fact, who is willing to abandon their children as parents? But because the land is too barren, the locals can only make a living on the corn that can grow tenaciously on the hillside, and they can barely eat even at the best time of the year. In this case, many people can be said to be disciples in their homes. This makes them sometimes have to abandon those newborns in order to let others live.

Also because of this background, even though Octavia did not want to find her parents who abandoned her when she grew up, she still hopes to make her hometown richer, so that the tragedy that happened to her will not repeat itself. This is why she was so excited after hearing that Lawrence and the others had brought a new treatment method for tea.

Although previous planting experiments have shown that the local climate and topography are not very suitable for the growth of tea. Just now in Octavia, I took out some samples collected in the church for Lawrence and the others to inspect. After careful inspection, Nora confirmed that no matter how the tea is handled, it cannot be as good as New Sauer Island. Up to the level of those tea leaves.

But these were not a problem in the eyes of the priest Octavia. After tasting the tea with milk and sugar, she realized that the taste of these things was more susceptible to the locals than the green tea from the far east. The welcome, at least can easily capture a large portion of the beverage market share in the New World.

She also admitted that the black tea produced on the island of New Sauer is indeed very top-notch, which can be regarded as the best of the best. Once it is launched, it will definitely be welcomed by everyone. But the area of ​​the hilly area in the center of the small island where tea can be grown is destined to be impossible to produce too high. This kind of natural defect prevents him from monopolizing the future black tea market.

Lawrence also clearly recognized this, so he did not blindly expand the tea planting area, but declared that the entire island will not abandon food planting in the future, and even the future goal is to become a food supplier to the surrounding islands. In this case, the production of tea on New Sauer Island is bound to be limited.

According to Lawrence's idea, he would make the tea on the island a luxury. Because only in this way can we get as many benefits as possible when the tea planting area is limited. And now his identity and close connections with various churches make it possible for him to become a reality.

The priest Octavia clearly saw this, so she thought she could get Lawrence to cooperate with her and the agricultural church behind her. After all, unlike the small island of Lawrence, the hilly area in the middle of the empire is very large, enough to produce this new variety of black tea in large quantities.

But on the other hand, the hydrothermal conditions and topography in the central part of the empire caused the quality of tea produced here to be inferior to the quality of tea on the island of Neusauer. Therefore, it is impossible to compete with the tea produced by Lawrence and the others, but can complement each other to some extent. Under these conditions, cooperation between the two parties can be said to be beneficial but harmless.

For this reason, after the meal, Lawrence first gave these young priests a report on circular agriculture according to the original plan, and after a good wave of prestige, I will see you under the leadership of Octavia. The person in charge of this cathedral: High Priest Varro.

Next is the content of the cooperation after the two sides discussed, because Lawrence and the Agricultural Church had a very good history of cooperation before, and even received the gift of the agricultural goddess. So Lawrence and Mr. Varro quickly discussed a draft on how to cooperate in tea in the future in a more harmonious atmosphere.

According to the provisions of this draft, Lawrence needs to inform the agricultural church of his previous observation reports on the tea trees on the tea mountain, as well as the tea processing methods and principles summarized afterwards, and provide a batch of tea tree seeds for the agricultural church to conduct experiments and small-scale experiments. Planted.

On the other hand, the agricultural church needs to try its best to promote the new beverage of black tea and highlight the taste of black tea in Neuschauer. In addition, in the subsequent research, any findings on tea planting and processing by the agricultural church must be truthfully and promptly informed to Lawrence.

In short, this is a mutually beneficial contract for both parties. The details are left to the professionals of both parties to deal with. According to the agreement between the two parties, Lawrence will send a batch of tea saplings and seeds collected before to New Sauer Island this time in the name of the Earl Sauer and the Sauer Island Agricultural Church~lightnovelpub.net~ Then the church found a few experimental plots in the mountainous areas of the central part of the empire to start experimental planting.

In addition, after the first batch of tea leaves on the island, a part of it will be sent to the agricultural church here. Part of it will be dedicated to the goddess of agriculture as a sacrifice for this year's New Year's Great Sacrifice, while the other part will be used for church supplies to entertain the dignitaries.

After solving the problem about tea, the high priest Varro enthusiastically discussed the issue of circular agriculture with Lawrence. From the discussion that lasted for more than 40 minutes, Lawrence felt that the elder had asked him before. The importance of the concept of circular agriculture.

It is normal to think about it. Agricultural production must change nature. In traditional concepts, such changes are often negative. But on the other hand, the nature of the agricultural church makes it absolutely impossible to break with nature. Therefore, the agricultural church has been very entangled for so many years.

Fortunately, when industry did not develop before, agriculture did not destroy nature that much. So the contradiction is not great. But since modern times, this contradiction has become more and more fierce.

Fortunately, the clergy and staff of the agricultural churches discovered some ways to alleviate the contradictions between people and nature in their daily life and production. Therefore, the fragile balance between the development of agriculture and the protection of nature has been maintained to this day. But this contradiction has always affected the entire church.

Although Lawrence’s theory of circular agriculture and the material cycle of the entire world is very rough, it summarizes the previous efforts of the agricultural church and provides a solid theoretical basis for these efforts. Therefore, these clergy can So much attention to this theory.