The Farming Overlord Starts by Panning for Gold

Let's change it. There is no need to write about a city with tens of millions of people. It doesn't feel like it has a sense of immersion. Especially in Western Fantasy, tens of millions can be considered a big country.

And before there was modern urban planning, even if you really forced a million people into an urban area of ​​tens of square kilometers, only tens of thousands of people would die in a short period of time. This time would not exceed 5 years. The reasons include but are not limited to famine and plague. I will give you a simple calculation, based on the minimum standard of maintaining life (being unable to perform any physical labor, just to avoid starvation, scurvy and other diseases caused by lack of necessary vitamins, which cannot be avoided). A city with a population of one million for one day. At least 1,000 tons of food and more than 2,000 tons of water are needed. The waste generated is at least 300 tons. The wastewater exceeds one thousand tons. This is the day. Based on typical feudal era productivity and intensive Eastern agriculture (Oriental agriculture can achieve a seed-to-production ratio of more than 1:10, while Western agriculture is generally lower than 1:4). Take potatoes as an example. Without industrialization and modern breeding, the annual yield per mu would be only about a thousand catties (at the cost of being unable to grow the land for a few years before the land declines). Based on the above data, excluding transportation and other losses, 700,000 acres of land are needed for planting to keep people in such a city from starving to death. At the same time, the labor required for planting these 700,000 acres of land comes from nothing. Calculating storage losses, the energy required for labor to farm, plus natural and man-made disasters, to maintain such a town, at least 2 million acres of land must be used to grow crops with very high yields (at the same time, such crops must not cause much damage to the soil). A novel is a novel, but the problem is that you also have to understand basic logic. So what is the concept of the author saying that it takes 4 hours to run across a slum? In other words, most of the people in this place are just waiting to die. No matter how cheap or cheap the food is, you don't have any income, so you use your head to eat and drink the northwest wind? You didn't assume that bread is cheap and filling. How did you get the bread? Conjured by wizards and magicians? Even if you set 100,000 people, there won't be any problem. It is necessary to use the population of modern Chinese cities to design a city that is mainly from the era of slavery. Novel is a novel, but the problem is that you also have to understand basic logic.

I feel that the protagonist can refine the harvest of gold panning. For example, when panning for gold, keep a mechanical scale by your side so that you can count the harvest in real time; and then downplay the risks. Although it feels good to make a fortune secretly, you should not be too afraid of being discovered by your peers... This is my suggestion. Also, can the little slave girl have more of a role? I really like Amy.

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This issue has already been discussed, and I will also make changes in the previous chapters to prevent subsequent readers from continuing to be troubled by this issue and close the loop on the logic in the previous chapters. Now let me introduce the concept of [Bread Tree] that I talked about when I met Count Horsman in Hall. The huge bread tree uses magic potions and knights to plant and harvest it repeatedly to provide a large amount of food. This is one of the sources of food. The residents of the slums get paid by working in the four pillar industries of Mann City to buy bread (these bread may come from the territories of other nobles). The Horsman family obtains a large amount of gold coins through foreign trade every year, and also diligently reclaims wasteland to plant breadbaskets. These will be shown one by one in subsequent chapters. This is the second source of food. As for the issues of disease and population density, I suggest that book friends and readers should not bring it into our beautiful life now, but should understand the meaning of the word "rule", especially look at rule from the "aristocratic perspective". I won't say much about this aspect. You can also understand this through the current situation of knights killing a large number of poor people indiscriminately under the big banyan tree. One of the most important questions. This is a fantasy world, and the worldview should be brand new, rather than the inherent concepts that all book friends are familiar with. This novel worldview represents rich imagination, and the thinking brought about by this imagination about systems, governance, ideas, creation, population, and basic logic. The veil of wizards and magicians has just been unveiled and is slowly being laid out. Please don't be impatient. My thinking about the underlying logic is not bad, and I always pay attention to this issue. Of course, for readers' better acceptance, I will continue to improve the previous chapters. Of course, I believe that this reader has not read the latest chapter. Thank you for reading and paying attention.

Let's give a unified reply to the population issue. Unexpectedly, the population issue has become the focus of everyone's attention. First of all, the content in the book has been changed. I changed the population of tens of millions to millions. Secondly, you can take a look at the living environment in the book. The slums in the book are not the current urban villages. The slums in the book are pigeon houses with two square meters per person, and dense residential areas. It takes the protagonist two hours to quickly run from half the distance of the outer city (Area 51) to the inner city, which means it takes four hours to cross the entire slum area. How much area does it cover by running quickly in four hours? In this area, dense pigeon house housing accommodates a larger population. Let's talk about the problem of the poor. Many book friends said that so many poor people can eat all the leaves. However, in the setting of the book, bread is a very filling food, which is very filling and cheap. That's all.

The book is good, but the quantifiers are a bit outrageous

Haha, it's so interesting. Both the protagonist and supporting characters of this book are very distinctive.

Should there be multiple female protagonists or single female protagonist? Can the author tell me in advance? Although I like Amy very much.