Volume 6 Chapter 11 - Population (1/2)

Volume 6 Chapter 11 Population

When the Lampuri Kingdom’s parliament abolished this law, a large stir was triggered in the Lampuri Kingdom and the surrounding kingdoms.

The law was very simple, it forbade anyone from killing cattle or they would be heavily fined.

By abolishing this law, it meant that cattle were no longer protected and as long as someone had a cow, they could slaughter it if they wanted to eat it.

For the people of the Sines Continent that had a low grain yield who depended on cattle to farm, cattle were considered sacred things.

Slaughtering or even eating one was unimaginable.

Perhaps some nobles might have slaughtered some in secret, but no one dared to do it in public because this would cause everyone to denounce them.

But now that the Lampuri Kingdom had abolished this law, it was not something that anyone expected.

There were many people who were worried that once this law was abolished, the cattle in the Lampuri Kingdom would be slaughtered without one being spared.

Facts also proved people’s worries.

Since the news of this law being abolished was spread, in the various newspapers of the Lampuri Kingdom, they kept reporting on people slaughtering their cattle. For a time, the people had a misconception that all the cattle in the Lampuri Kingdom would disappear.

Many people were worried about this.

Without cattle, how would they plant their crops?

But two months later when the fall harvest came, the people found that their worries were unnecessary.

Because during the entire process, it wasn’t that there weren’t any cattle being used, but there were very few.

The reason was very simple. The work of the cattle had been completely replaced by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s agricultural magic machines.

Moreover, whether it was effect or efficiency, they were countless times better than using cattle.

At this time, people finally understood.

Since they were already using the better agricultural magic machines, why would they still need cattle?

Although some people were still confused by the abolishment of this law, no one raised any objections.

In the end, being able to have something as good as beef to eat, who would miss this chance?

If people knew that Xu Yi had pushed the Lampuri Kingdom to abolish this law because of this and had eaten a cow right away, it was hard to imagine what kind of thoughts they would have……

Of course, this was an unimportant part of Xu Yi’s actions. The biggest part was in the Stantine Duchy that he controlled.

In the plan to upgrade the Stantine Duchy’s agricultural industry which he discussed with Viscount Constantine, the core was changing the structure of the Stantine Duchy’s agricultural industry. They would diversify their crops and no longer just plant wheat, rice, and other grains.

Or to be more direct, it was to let the people of the Stantine Duchy eat meat at will.

For this, Xu Yi had promoted several farms that were dedicated to raising livestock in the Stantine Duchy.

In order to smoothly raise these livestock, other than guaranteeing their feed, he also took care of their processing, storage, transportation, and other things…..

These things were put on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so they invented a series of magic machines for this.

Seeing the requirements to develop the Magic Mower and the other magic machines used to grow feed with the elves, Xu Yi gave a nod to show his approval.

“The problem with the elves isn’t big, I can go discuss this with elder Lisanya, but I hope that the parliament can take care of the matters that follow and our Frestech Chamber of Commerce doesn’t need to interfere.” Xu Yi said.

“Understood.”

“As for the Magic Mower and the other magic machines, it will take some time to develop, so replace them with manpower for now. But we will only set up an experimental farm for now, so manpower is enough.”

After saying this, Xu Yi paused to think before asking, “Speaking of manpower……Did the stats for the duchy’s birth rate come out yet?”

Viscount Constantine shook his head with a bitter smile, “It’s hard to get accurate data for this because people are not used to going to the hospitals during births.”

“Add it in the newly announced laws, it must be implemented.” Xu Yi said with a serious look, “Remember, human resources will be the most important thing over the next ten years, so you have to get all the information related to it.”

“Understood.” Viscount Constantine nodded before saying with a smile. “But even without accurate data, it’s still clear based on the rough data that the births in the duchy had increased last year, it even surpassed thirty thousand! That is the highest birth rate in the history of the duchy!”

“Thirty thousand?”

Seeing Viscount Constantine’s excited look, Xu Yi wanted to curl his lips in disdain, but then he remembered that the Stantine Duchy only had a population of less than a million. Being able to give birth to thirty thousand a year, which was a birth rate of thirty in one thousand was already quite high for the Stantine Duchy.