Chapter 517 [0511] Another Winter Is Coming
At Karya's request, Lux, Ino and Sona began to think about "unexpected" things.
This kind of hypothetical reasoning would be meaningless to a large extent, but in Karya's view, this kind of reasoning and thinking itself is its meaning - in fact, even if Karya's education can be regarded as quick success, but in the face of the ever-changing situation in Fosbyro, these three girls will still clearly feel their immaturity, and this is also the best way Karya can think of as a supplement.
If he can follow, Karya believes that Ino will not have any problems along the way, but unfortunately, in Fosbyro, Karya still has many tasks that he can't get away from.
Whether it is the construction of the artificial river after winter, the courses of Fosbyro's magic improvement class, or the off-site guidance of some professional groups, these all require Karya to stay in Fosbyro. In this case, he can't get away anyway and follow Ino across the ocean to travel around most of Runeland.
For Kalja, who always makes plans before taking action, letting Ino go on her own this time may be the most risky move since he met Lux. In order to reduce the risk as much as possible, after finishing the hypothetical reasoning, in addition to some necessary work, Kalja has been providing one-on-one tutoring to Ino.
During this period, regardless of whether Ino could remember it or not, Kalja stuffed a lot of his knowledge into her brain.
At the same time, Fosbyro was also preparing for Ino's departure.
Ino, who represented Fosbyro, obviously should not travel alone, so Lux had to prepare a delegation for her. This delegation needed to be responsible for guarding, documents, records, guides, intelligence and other tasks to help Ino complete this trip.
For this reason, Shyvana also flew to Freljord and brought back several intelligence personnel who already had a lot of experience in several places such as Frost Harbor and Frost Tide Harbor.
In order to adapt to a more complex environment, this delegation was also stuffed with several different types of mages and some shapeshifters with Vastaya blood, who would help the team collect information in different environments.
In addition, Lux also found Fiona and asked her if she was willing to serve as the guard of this "special delegation".
Fiona, who was eager to see more types of swordsmanship, readily accepted this. She would select five highly skilled people from Fosbyro's private army as the guards of the delegation, follow Ino and set off to join this great journey.
Half a month passed in a flash, and a team of 30 envoys was assembled in Fosbyro City.
In the delegation, Ino was the envoy and leader, responsible for the overall travel and diplomatic affairs, and under her were members with different divisions of labor - three people responsible for document records, six responsible for team guards, eleven elemental mages, three Vastaya shapeshifters, four experienced intelligence personnel, and a space caster and a time caster as joint guides.
In order to support Ino's mission, Lux mobilized all the elites of Fosbyro. Except for some people who were unable to leave (such as Fuquelin's team), she selected the best from all directions and finally joined Ino to gather 30 people.
After a period of running-in, the team finally set off in the early autumn when it was a bit cool. After a brief farewell, they left Fosbyro.
Not many people knew that they were leaving, but when they set off, Lux and Sona stood on the top of the city in person, and did not return to their posts until their figures disappeared.
"Ino will have a smooth journey, right?"
"Of course, there is a wind elemental mage in the team, so it will definitely go smoothly."
"Don't be clever at this time, my dear teacher Kalya."
"This is not a clever statement, but an objective fact - well, the fragile time is over, now, return to your post, you can't rest now, Lux!"
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The delegation team led by Ino seemed to leave calmly. Except for a few core figures, most people didn't know what this team's trip meant.
For Fosbyro now, most people are more concerned about the wintering preparations this autumn.
Because it is located in the frozen land zone in the north, Fosbyro has almost no large-scale agriculture - frozen soil planting is not a simple matter. In the places around Fosbyro, many areas that look like they can become fertile fields may be planted this year, and they will become hot melt lakes after the ice and snow melt next spring.
This is undoubtedly a critical problem for the planting industry. If you want to plant on a large scale, you have to start over almost every year. The workload is so huge that it is simply unacceptable.
In addition, the winter in Fosbyro is long and cold. Even the winter wheat that can be planted in Misilver City cannot survive the winter in Fosbyro. It will be frozen to death. Planting here can only be done once a year.
The superposition of geographical and climatic factors has led to the fact that even as a part of Demacia, a major agricultural country, almost no one in Fosbyro is willing to engage in planting. At most, in the spring, they will sow some seeds in places they can see, and harvest as much as they can in the fall.
It's not that the people of Fosbyro are unwilling to farm, it's really that the conditions don't allow it!
Since they cannot farm, the people of Fosbyro can only stockpile supplies through other means if they want to survive the winter. After all, the winter climate in Fosbyro is cold, and traditional hunting and gathering are almost impossible.
In terms of winter food, pickles naturally have their own unique advantages.
Fosbyro is not short of salt, there are many kinds of spices, and the output of meat is also sufficient, so the people of Fosbyro are very good at pickling meat and bacon. Many parts that are difficult to eat directly will become delicious delicacies on the winter table of the people of Fosbyro after secondary processing.
And this year, with the arrival of Lord Laxana, some people who call themselves "diving hunters" came to Fosbyro from Freljord in the north.
Although Ino and Walrus Grandma have reached a cooperation, this year these members of the Walrus Tusk still cannot directly enter the city of Fosbyro-in the northwest of Fosbyro near the sea, the Law Guard built a new port for them and named it New Port frankly.
The first group of members of the Walrus Tusk tribe who migrated here also had the name "Newport People".
The Fosbyro people were wary of the Freljord people, but fortunately, although the members of the Walrus Tusk were also Freljord people, they were a very small number of Freljord producers. Although there were cultural differences between the two sides, they at least got along well.
I don't know where the news that "the sea fish caught by the Newport people are very nutritious" came from. Many Fosbyro people are willing to try these sea fish they have never tried before.
Through the primitive trade method of barter, the sea fish caught in Newport gradually appeared on the Fosbyro people's dining table. The fat sea fish are rich in fat, which is the supreme delicacy for the Fosbyro people. After trying it, many Fosbyro people like these gifts from the deep sea.
Similarly, the Newport people are also very interested in many things produced by Fosbyro, such as cheap wine, tobacco that has never been seen before, various spices, and easy-to-use daily necessities... These are all things that the Newport people like very much.
After the barter exchange between the two sides reached a certain scale, the Guardians opened up a special area in Newport as a market for trading.
After several months of adaptation, the people of Newport finally gradually accepted the currency of Demacia and believed that these metal pieces could buy the daily necessities and food and drinks they needed, which also meant that they really began to integrate into the order of Fosbyro.
With the addition of these people from Newport, the list of pickled items for the winter purchase of the people of Fosbyro quickly added a pickled fish option.
Compared with pickled meat, pickled fish has a higher fat content, which is more helpful for wintering and resisting the cold. It is said that people from Newport can also fish in winter. Maybe in winter, Fosbyro can eat fresh fish.
Of course, whether it is pickled fish or fresh fish, these are supplementary side dishes. For the people of Fosbyro, the most important thing to fill their stomachs during the winter is the staple food.
As mentioned earlier, Fosbyro cannot carry out large-scale planting, so Fosbyro's main food depends on trade. In fact, after Fosbyro's summer trade every year, there will be an autumn trade organized by caravans, mainly to purchase a large amount of food from places a little further south.
The price of food in Demacia has always been cheap, and it is even more so when the new food is harvested in autumn. Fosbyro people have never been picky about food, and they don't care about new or old food. They can be called scavengers in the north, so they can often buy enough food for the winter at a relatively low price.
And this winter, because of Lord Laxana, the scale of autumn trade is far greater than in the past. In addition to the wheat that Fosbyro people usually eat, oats also flowed out from the collective canteen and gradually became popular among the people.
It is interesting to say that although the people of Fosbyro are relatively poor, before Lux arrived, cheap oats rarely appeared on their tables. The reason for this phenomenon is that Fosbyro's trade is not developed and lacks contact with several major oat producing areas; on the other hand, it is because of the lack of ways to eat oats.
In addition to adding water to cook porridge, the people of Fosbyro have hardly found a second way to eat oats, which makes oats always in the "marginal area" in Fosbyro.
However, because the Avarosans need a lot of oats in the Freljord trade, a large amount of oats flowed into Fosbyro. Most of these oats were packed northward, and a small part was sent to the collective canteen, becoming an important member of the three meals a day of the Guardians and Fosbyro's private army.
The life of eating oats one meal and oats the next caused many complaints, so Lux even held a meeting to improve the quality of the collective canteen. After that, the proportion of oats in the collective canteen decreased, and it began to appear together with dairy products, forming the classic combination of oats and milk.
The dairy production in Fosbyro is not high, but Bozaka in the south is the most important livestock production area in Demacia. In the past, the people of Fosbyro did not have much spare money to buy expensive and difficult to transport fresh milk. At most, they bought some cheese and cheese as a daily adjustment.
But with the arrival of Lord Laxana, the situation began to change. Lord Bozaca, who had previously been completely indifferent to Fosbyro, took the initiative to establish a relatively fixed trade relationship with Fosbyro, and opened a fresh milk channel for transporting fresh milk according to Lord Laxana's request.
Compared with other dairy products, the price of fresh milk is relatively cheap in the pastoral area.
After the establishment of the fresh milk channel, there were special people among the law guards who were responsible for heating and freezing the fresh milk, and then packing the milk jellies and transporting them to Fosbyro within three days.
Although the milk that had gone through the heating, quick freezing, and reheating process no longer had the taste of fresh milk, it still tasted great when combined with oats - it was at this time that the training of clerks was officially launched, and the combination of oats and milk also entered thousands of households in Fosbyro along with the clerks.
After the Guardians made a promise that "the fresh milk channel will not be cut off in winter", many people in Fosbyro also added cheap oats to their winter supplies.
Then, when they looked back at their winter supplies, they were surprised to find that the items on them were more than a little richer than last year.
For most people in Fosbyro, having enough food and a smooth winter is the greatest comfort throughout the year, and if there is room for choice in food in the most difficult winter, it is a completely happy life.
In this way, when the people of Fosbyro were preparing their winter supplies this year, they felt for the first time the changes that Lord Laxana and the Guardians had brought to Fosbyro.
This change is not big, but it is always moving in a better direction, and it is also moving in a direction that benefits everyone. Compared with the past, this winter, the people of Fosbyro have more choices on their tables, more fats and proteins, the income of herbalists and miners has increased, and the price of fur in the market has also decreased...
From the perspective of the people of Fosbyro, this is happiness.
Finally, when the breath of Anivia finally blew from the north, the clerk knocked on the doors of every household in Fosbyro, and Lux was about to stand on the podium again to give her first year-end summary.
Kalya's small class·Demacia's animal husbandry:
In fact, Demacia's animal husbandry is very developed-because the price of grain is low enough, sometimes breeders will directly feed grain, and the growth of livestock has always been good.