"Okay, I'll make rice, Vargas"
"What's rice, Admiral? You suddenly come here and you don't know what that means."
"Rice is food. Just like planting wheat in a field, let the peasants grow rice and harvest it from fruitful rice ears."
"Finally replacing wheat. But then why don't we just grow up in Vulcania? Why bother trying to make it in these wetlands?"
"I think depending on the type of rice you have, you can do land work, but this time I got it because it looks more like water work. But in order to do that, it's hard if you don't have plenty of water. I'd rather do it in the Balestic Nelson Wetlands than in the Balkans."
"Heh, you're changing. Do you plant it in water?... Are you sure you want to succeed?
"... Actually, you're not sure. I've never made rice."
"Come on, you're serious. Then shouldn't you have even grown wheat without doing that?
"Well, the wheat you're used to would be more certain. Agriculture is sometimes abundant due to the effects of the natural environment, and sometimes it is absent. I'm pretty sure you should be able to make all kinds. It's not a bad idea to try it for a while."
"Um, is that it? Well, you don't know until you try everything. But if you don't know how to do it, you're in trouble."
"That's all right for once. Some of the guards in Atmos in the East had farmers and made rice. Since then, I have been hearing more about rice making and writing about it on paper. We'll see about that."
Make rice.
That's what I decided. I came from Vulcania to Bales with Vulgas.
There is a place called the Nelson Wetlands, which has plenty of water.
If you wanted to make rice within the Kingdom of Fontana, this would be the best place.
Besides, the Nelson Wetlands are among the Arborest neighborhoods and are yet to be developed.
Sometimes if we can develop this place, we can expand where people can live, and it should be worth a try.
In order to make rice, we will make rice fields.
Manage the waterways, put water up in the fields when planting rice, otherwise drain the water.
I think that making this plow would probably also be mud doll protection.
The Nelson Wetlands zone has been troubled for the past few years with Vargas using an iceflame sword to defeat the mud doll, but it has continued to show up as long as the wetlands zone exists.
Hopefully if it can be managed as a field, it will also reduce the incidence of mud dolls in the wetlands.
"In the meantime, I guess I'll even build a field to grow rice. Growing rice actually takes time. Maybe it's a good idea to give some rice cultivation skills to the guys at Sura's in the East."
"What's a plow, Admiral? It's not like a field?
"Eh, the fields are going to have water, so we need to raise them up a little bit and have a waterway to pump water outside of them."
"Hmm. Do we raise ourselves around the field and create an entrance that pumps water from the outside? So, what happens then?
"Yeah, rice is grown separately on the nursery floor once in hand before seeding, and planted so that the seedlings made of it are plugged into watered fields. At that time, it should have been good to plant at equal intervals so as not to be dense"
"Huh? Don't you just sow it? Do you need to plant seedlings?"
"It must be tough, planting. Well, then wait for the harvest, careful not to let the rice stretched up fall and soak in the water. So, when the harvest season comes, I'll prune and dry the rice, and then I'll eat the refined rice. That's more than a big mess."
"... that's tough. I'm going to be distracted before we get started."
"Can I say that, Vargas? Actually, this rice is good for eating, but it's also good for drinking. It's good to have a drink made from rice."
"What, can you make booze? That would be nice. All right, all right. I'll have that plow made soon, Admiral."
"That's the intention. Good luck, Vargas. Well, shall we start by evening the ground in [tidy]? They can't use magic. Let them dig the waterway, and then they can build a dam upstream. We're gonna be busy."
"Come on, if you can drink, I'll help you out as much as I can. I'm looking forward to it."
Vargas has been eating up more liquor than I thought.
but I have no idea when I will be able to drink that liquor.
Or whether rice making will succeed is also subtle.
Should I check to see if there's even a koji or something?
Fair enough.
Let's do it without immediate results.
I guess I'll need enough room to feel like I'm going to appreciate it in a 10-year span.
And then you are.
Maybe you could think about doing something like duck farming instead of pesticides.
It should have eaten pests and stuff and had the effect of stirring up more water and making it easier for rice to absorb nutrients.
I guess I'll ask Billy for this, too.
Consider using bird-shaped servant beasts in water-stained fields.
If it's a servant beast, I'll listen carefully to what this one has to say, so I think it would be quite user-friendly.
Thus, in the Nelson Wetlands, an experimental rice cultivation project was launched as a water treatment and agricultural land development.