Reclamation and cultivation
Although it is summer now, it is not too late to plant.
They don't have seeds, but Ye Mumu sent potatoes, corn... they can all be planted.
Pumpkin, watermelon, cucumber, winter melon... they kept all the seeds.
There are people in the kitchen who specialize in removing seeds just to keep the seeds.
Zhan Chengyin posted a notice: the whole city will reclaim land and start planting food on a large scale.
If you don't have seeds, you can apply to the military camp.
There are special people in the military camp to help measure the land, what vegetables and fruits to plant, and how many seeds are needed.
After the notice was posted, the people in the city were all excited.
They can finally farm and be self-sufficient. The merchants in the city don't have good farmland, but they all have front and back yards and can farm.
After the notice came out, the military camp was full of people waiting to get seeds.
Everyone was excitedly discussing what crops to plant.
Potatoes, corn, watermelons, winter melons...
Potatoes were not available in this era, and even watermelons were not so sweet.
But they all wanted to plant.
Some time ago, when they got porridge, everyone could get a piece of watermelon, and almost every household left watermelon seeds. Those who get seeds planted watermelons first.
Drinking water could not be taken, so they used bamboo poles to lead water from the river to the land to be sown.
Reclamation and cultivation.
Zhenguan has mountains and plains, and the whole city went out to reclaim wasteland.
Everyone worked hard.
Even if the weather was hot, it could not extinguish the excitement of the people.
The current Zhenguan is no longer as dead as before.
Everything is thriving and the future is full of hope.
The people even think that even if the three parties of Chu, Qi and the barbarians join forces to attack Zhenguan.
The general will definitely defend it.
The three parties will definitely lose.
The general is a god in the eyes of the people. He defended Zhenguan in the past and was almost broken several times.
No matter how hard it was, he defended it.
Now, there is food and water, new equipment and weapons, new clothes and shoes for the soldiers...
Even stealing horses from the enemy camp has gained experience.
What else can't the Zhan family army do?
Therefore, the people of the whole city trust the Zhan family army inexplicably!
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The next day, Ye Mumu knew that the whole town of Zhenguan was reclaiming wasteland.
She drove to the farmer's market. She bought plowing tools, large water pipes, various non-GMO seeds, fertilizers..
[Author's note:Non-GMO stands for "non-genetically modified organism" and refers to products that are not made using genetic engineering or ingredients from GMOs. ]
She bought grain seeds, wheat, rice, corn...
various vegetable and fruit seeds.
Communicated with the store owner and made sure they were non-GMO.
She booked several seed stores and bought out all the non-GMO seeds.
After buying the seeds, she drove the car to a corner and sent them over.
She then went to the farm tool store. She continued to buy plowing tools, which were numerous and large in size.
She placed an order and paid first, and asked the store owner to deliver them to the warehouse at the foot of Xianyuan Villa.
The warehouse keeper, Brother Sun, would help her receive the goods.
She had her eyes on two tractors and a plowing machine.
Especially tractors, which can be equipped with plows and truck beds.
But it is difficult for her to get diesel.
There is a way, let Master Huang drive to refuel with diesel. His truck costs 2,000 yuan to refuel once.
Drive to a deserted place and pump out the oil.
Continue to go to the gas station to refuel with diesel.
Repeat this process and you can save a lot of oil.
Although it is cumbersome, Master Huang will face punishment if he is caught.
However, tractors and plows are needed in the town.
The dried land is difficult to plow with cows and horses.
Machines are necessary.
Finally, she couldn't bear it anymore and placed an order for two tractors and a plow.
Let the store deliver to Brother Sun's warehouse.
Then, she called Master Huang and asked how many liters of oil his truck could fill up.
Master Huang said 1,100 liters, which is about two thousand yuan.
Big trucks consume a lot of oil.
Ye Mumu said, "You go fill up a truck with oil, fill it up for two thousand yuan, come back and pump it into the oil barrel, and I'll give you three thousand."
Master Huang made a net profit of one thousand, he was very happy and quickly agreed.
Ask Ye Mumu how much oil she wants.
Ye Mumu said, "Two thousand liters is enough, don't add more, I'm afraid you will be caught."
"Okay, I'll go to two different gas stations to fill them up."
"What about the oil barrel money?"
"I'll reimburse you!"
Master Huang happily drove the empty truck to refuel.
Ye Mumu finally bought out the fertilizer store's fertilizer.
She was afraid that the ancients would not use uric acid, so she bought natural fertilizers.
For example: bone meal, chicken manure fertilizer, sheep manure fertilizer...compound fertilizers with nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium elements, she asked for several bags!
After filling a large car, she drove to a secluded place in the countryside and delivered all the fertilizers.
She returned to the warehouse at the foot of the mountain.
Three cars were delivered.
Two tractors and a large plow truck cost tens of thousands.
The tractor's cargo box and the plow harrow were all there.
Because she did not bargain, the store owner carefully sent maintenance tools and engine oil.
When Ye Mumu came back, Brother Sun was just about to go home for lunch.
He greeted Ye Mumu and said that the things were all in the large warehouse, and he rode his electric donkey home.
He came to see the warehouse after 1:30 PM.
After Brother Sun left, Ye Mumu delivered all three cars.
The store owner left some diesel in the car, which was still usable, but it would not be used for long.
Ye Mumu passed a note to Zhan Chengyin.
"Today, I bought two tractors and a large plowing machine. Send me the tablet and I will download the video to teach you how to operate it!"
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Zhan Chengyin was sorting out the seeds sent by Ye Mumu.
She sent too many seeds!
There were all kinds of seeds.
Vegetables, fruits and grains... everything. There were many categories and huge numbers.
Especially grain seeds, there were hundreds of rice varieties sent alone.
Ye Mumu left him a note, asking him what to plant for high yield.
For example, for rice, hybrid rice seeds should be planted.
One acre of land produces 800 kilograms, and the high yield is more than 1,000 kilograms.
She didn't know whether the land in Zhenguan was fertile and how much it could produce.
But planting hybrid rice was right.
When the soldiers saw the note she wrote.
Rice is at least 800 kilograms per acre.
Oh my God!
This number is too huge.
You know, the staple food of the people of Daqi, corn, produces only 200 kilograms per acre per year.
This is still under the condition of good weather and high yield.
One mu of rice yields 800 jin, which is four times that of corn.
If the grain is promoted throughout Daqi,
will anyone in Daqi still be hungry?
Everyone in the people can eat their fill, there will be no more famine, and no one will starve to death.
The seeds that Ye Mumu sent today have epoch-making significance for them.
Even Chen Kui and Chen Wu held the hybrid rice seeds tightly and refused to let go.
"General, this is not an ordinary seed, it is the lifeblood of the people of Daqi!"
"We must find a way to grow hybrid rice."
"One mu of rice yields 800 jin, what's the concept?... After one season of planting, all the people of Daqi can be fed, and there will be some left over! No one in the world will be hungry anymore." "
This seed came just in time, it is more precious than all the supplies!"
"General, mark out a piece of land and find someone to plant and take care of it. We can't let this seed have any loss. This is more important than destroying tens of thousands of barbarian soldiers!"