God of Technology: Creating the Internet in Another World-Chapter 377: Quite a Few Angles to Work With

Growing pasture grass was absolutely critical.

The Pastoral Pope naturally knew this.

But his thinking had only gone as far as maybe using lots of druid potions to grow pasture grass. After all, the Golden Merchant Guild had already driven down the price of druid potions.

A few copper coins, and the pasture grass you grew could feed quite a few sheep. The profit margin wouldn’t drop by much.

But he hadn’t expected that the Magic Conductor experts would pay so much attention to this too.

Though his thinking had become somewhat rigid, he still noticed something was off.

"I wonder, what are the main benefits and approaches to using Magic Conductors to grow pasture grass?"

Hearing the Pastoral Pope’s question, the Magic Conductor experts didn’t waste words. They said directly, "Actually, we’ve been researching large-scale cattle farming for a while now."

"But compared to sheep, our plan for cattle is much simpler. We just divide them into beef cattle and dairy cattle—different cattle, different targeted approaches."

"Of course, that’s not the point. The point is, we discovered that the biggest difference between raising cattle and raising other animals is that you can use large amounts of pasture grass and hay as feed to lower costs."

"Under Viscount Roster’s leadership, we’ve developed a new pasture grass planting management model. I figure it can be applied to sheep too..."

After his lengthy explanation, the Pastoral Pope gradually went from confused to shocked.

This planting, as the name suggested, was like planting grain—you planted pasture grass so that the growth efficiency of pasture grass in a fixed area far exceeded that in a natural environment.

Obviously, this wasn’t hard to understand.

But these Magic Conductor experts from Roster territory were really something. They’d actually come up with an even better artificial intervention plan that could ensure almost an entire area grew just one type of pasture grass. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢

Through their observations, cattle had different preferences for different grasses, and eating different grasses led to different growth rates.

If they could plant fixed pasture grass that met their raising objectives in a certain area, just that alone would already speed up the raising process considerably.

Next, Magic Conductors could monitor the soil’s moisture and nutrient conditions. If moisture was insufficient, they could automatically spray some water to ensure rapid pasture grass growth.

If nutrients were insufficient, an alarm would sound, and then mixing a bit of druid potion into the sprayed water would solve it.

Monitoring and problem-solving in one—directly maxing out pasture grass growth efficiency.

Mechanized sowing, precise irrigation—and then came the most amazing part. Roster Viscount’s territory even had a magical Magic Conductor where you just had to drive it over and it would harvest all the pasture grass in front, bundle it up, and place it by the roadside.

In other words, even if the planted area was huge, you didn’t need to worry about harvesting the pasture grass.

Two people—one driving the pasture grass harvester, one driving the tractor to haul back the bundled grass. If they worked fast, they could harvest ten acres in one day.

Two people for ten acres!

Back when they prepared for winter’s arrival, they’d harvest pasture grass and dry it as hay—they’d harvest too.

Normally, one skilled worker could harvest about half an acre to one acre per day.

The harvesting efficiency increased directly by five to ten times. Simply... terrifying!

Compared to those areas with fertile soil, these people who mainly lived off the grasslands—who didn’t know there were few people and lots of land here?

What limited their production was mainly not having enough people.

Now it was great. Planting pasture grass increased the pasture grass output in a fixed unit area.

Professional harvesting machines increased their harvesting efficiency and reduced the manpower needed.

Combining the two—what level would the effect reach?

Nobody understood the grasslands better than the Pastoral Pope.

Normally, one acre of meadow grassland naturally grew about 1 to 1.5 tons of pasture grass per year. Ordinary grassland was 0.6 to 1 ton, desert grassland was 0.3 tons, alpine grassland was 0.5 tons.

One person’s daily limit was just that much—sometimes only half that.

But what about specifically planting one type?

Could one acre produce 2 tons?

Two people could cooperatively harvest ten acres per day. Counting that as five acres per person, didn’t that mean one person could produce 10 tons per day?

Originally, it was at most 0.7 tons.

With the same manpower, ten-plus times the pasture grass...

As the Pastoral Pope listened, his breathing started getting rapid.

Large-scale farming reduced the need for manpower to look after sheep, and then large-scale pasture grass planting increased the pasture grass output. All at once, the two core problems troubling them were solved.

Wanting to expand the farming scale naturally became easy peasy.

As for collecting wool, collecting sheep’s milk, and so on—those were all minor details for later. Just being able to confirm the flock could increase was already an incredibly good thing.

The more the Pastoral Pope listened, the more excited he got. "Excellent. From my experience, these also fit the situation with flocks. You’re all welcome to try freely. Do you need me to directly designate an area for you?"

"Nothing else matters—when it comes to grasslands, the Church of Shepherding has as much as you want."

While the Pastoral Pope was chatting happily with these experts, on the other side, Viscount Roster had finally contacted Wild Mage, who’d entered an experimental state.

After he laid out his three methods for storing food, Wild Mage’s side couldn’t help but pause. "Viscount Roster, there’s something I don’t know if I should say or not."

Without waiting for Viscount Roster to respond, Wild Mage sent over another message. "Actually, we already made the freezing Magic Conductors for home use and for large-scale warehouse use dozens of days ago."

"After testing, the factory’s already producing them."

"In our territory, about half the families have already started using them."

"As for freezing warehouses, they’re currently under construction too, but there shouldn’t be a problem. There are dedicated people handling large-scale temperature isolation issues."

Looking at Wild Mage’s lengthy message, Viscount Roster couldn’t help but freeze.

His territory had already manufactured them, and they’d already started large-scale production. Many people in the territory had already started using them, and it wouldn’t be long before they started selling them.

He was the territory’s lord, the big boss and major shareholder of the Roster Territory Group Company. Such an important matter, and he actually didn’t know about it!

Just as he was about to ask something, he saw Wild Mage send another message:

"The only thing we didn’t think of in this area is transportation on the road, because current transportation doesn’t really allow for this kind of behavior."

"To isolate temperature, we’d inevitably need to use more runes—energy storage runes, ice runes, temperature isolation runes, and so on. This would directly affect the vehicle’s size and range, and it needs time to solve the problems."

For some reason, when Viscount Roster saw this "bad news," he actually felt a sense of relief.

At least he wouldn’t end up being a total Monday morning quarterback.

It was just that if the starting point and endpoint were solved but the road wasn’t, it would still have some impact. Kind of frustrating.