Chapter 19 The Tech Tree Begins with Farming
Early the next morning, Li Fan got up early, first whispered to the members of the hunting team in charge of patrolling not to get too excited, and then continued to start a routine run around the small village. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Shrouded in a thin morning mist, the air still reminiscent of yesterday's festive revelry, thanks to more than a thousand years of recuperation, nature has redemonstrated its ability to heal itself, and stout trees that were previously only seen in botanical gardens or protected areas are everywhere.
Lush forests bring wildlife to the table.
Therefore, no matter what time of year the village is, the people of the hunting party will always be on the lookout for some big guys to come to the village and cause trouble.
Li Fan was enjoying the tranquility of being alone while doing thunderous radio gymnastics.
After feeling that all his body was moving and every pore was spewing hot air outward, he washed his face with cold well water and took the dog to the kitchen.
Li Fan skillfully lit the dry weeds with a lighter, then filled in the flammable small branches, and used a thicker firewood to empty these branches to make the oxygen more unobstructed, and by the way, he blew a few mouthfuls on the lower part of the fire.
These things have been done in the membrane world, after all, if a person stays for a long time, there will be some moths, such as making some barbecue, cooking rice in a big pot and the like.
After lighting the fire, Li Fan added water to the earthen pot, and the dog next to him hurriedly opened the storage space on his chest, revealing a few tubers that were still covered with dirt, which were sweet potatoes, and last night Li Fan asked the dog to leave to let it go to find if there were any wild sweet potatoes nearby.
As luck would have it, Goudan didn't go far to find this tenacious wild sweet potato.
Unlike the sweet potatoes that are grown, these sweet potatoes are small and unattractive because they are not fertilized, but they are enough to make sugar.
He has not forgotten what he said to Xiaohua before, to let the children taste the sugar from "hometown".
Wash the sweet potatoes and put them in the pot, the water only spread to about one-third of the sweet potatoes, Li Fan covered the pot and began to time, thinking about the next development direction of Yangcun by the way.
There is a good saying, the sky is big, the food is the biggest, the soul of the Chinese seems to have carved an incomparably profound imprint on eating, in ancient times, the people would rise up to overthrow the emperor of the dynasty who made them not have enough to eat, but as long as they were not forced to the extreme, even if there was a mouthful of food, these simple and hard-working peasants would be relieved to serve their own acres and three points of land.
What Li Fan urgently needs to solve now is, of course, the problem of eating.
In addition to allowing the villagers to eat enough and work hard, the greater purpose is to let the children grow up and develop healthily.
The light on the dog's head flickered a few times, making a few buzzing machine noises.
Li Fan interrupted his thoughts, when the time came, he opened the pot and kept stirring it with a wooden spoon, stirring the sweet potatoes that were almost boiled evenly, and then took out a square cloth cut from his silk scarf and began to filter impurities, without considering the original use of this luxury item that was placed in the Chanel counter for more than 20,000 yuan.
After a few filters, what was left was some yellowish syrup, Li Fan reduced the fire a little, and continued to stir, so that the water vapor inside evaporated faster, which also made the syrup more mellow.
Oh, yes, a full meal.
If you want to have a full meal, then the best choice is of course wheat, rice, corn, sorghum, potatoes, the world's five major crops, of which rice is the first to be excluded, because this crop needs intensive cultivation and the growth environment is relatively high, and it is not suitable for the current situation.
Soon, wheat, corn and sorghum were also eliminated, because their growth cycle was about 100 days at the earliest, that is, about three months, and what Li Fan wanted was to fill the stomachs of the villagers in Yangcun as soon as possible.
Only by giving them enough food can they have the ability and leisure to move on to the next step.
Then the only thing that can be considered is potatoes.
Li Fan's eyes lit up slightly, potatoes are easy to survive, the living environment requirements are low, the fertilizer is simple, human and animal manure can be fertilized, the key is that potatoes not only have a large yield, but more importantly, as long as the conditions are suitable, the growth cycle is very short, and the nutritional value of potatoes is extremely high, rich in protein, inorganic salts and vitamins.
The most important thing is that there are a few super potatoes that have been genetically grafted by Li Fan in the body storage room of the dog's egg!
Li Fan stopped stirring the syrup, turned his face and said
"Dog, open the seed bank. ”
The dog buzzed and sent out the seeds in his body that had been kept in the vacuum bag.
Li Fan looked at the seeds in the tray, and felt a lot of emotion in his heart, in the first few hundred years of the membrane world, Li Fan always thought that he was still the familiar world after going back, so he studied biology and botany, and improved the five major crops, in a vain attempt to achieve his ambition of dominating the world's food through these super seeds after going out.
But as time went by, Li Fan began to understand the truth of the matter, and this kind of thinking slowly faded, after all, more than a thousand years have passed, and with the speed of scientific and technological development of the earth, maybe by the time Li Fan goes out, human beings will have already moved to Mars!
It's just that I didn't expect that these gadgets that were immature at the beginning became the most important thing to save mankind!
The warm climate and fertile soil here are the best places to grow potatoes, and more importantly, potatoes are not too labor-intensive, and even a few children can easily complete the task of planting potatoes.
In addition, the yield of potatoes is extremely high, and in some developed areas of Europe and the United States in the past, the yield per mu could even reach about 3,000 kilograms! What is this concept? In China's "Treatise on Health Maintenance" at the end of the Han Dynasty, it was said: "Those who grow fields in the field are called good fields with a yield of 10 stones per mu in one acre, and the common name in the world is also 'good' fertile land, which is a high-yield level recognized by the world."
Converted into today's statement, a small mu yields 10 small stones, close to 1,000 catties per mu, which is recognized as a high-yield field in the world!"
And What is the yield of potatoes?
6600 pounds!
Even if it is limited to the level of science and technology, the current potatoes cannot reach the peak yield of the past, but Li Fan's potatoes are not ordinary potatoes, and they can come out of three or four thousand catties to say the least. It is calculated based on the consumption of 0.4 kg of food per person per day. There are a total of 436 people in Yang Village, and they consume about 63,656 kilograms of grain a year, which is about 64 tons, and the yield of potatoes per mu is 31 acres based on 2,000 kilograms.
That is to say, even if there is no other food in Yangcun, it is enough to grow 31 acres of potatoes, of course, this is only data on paper, not in the actual sense, because Li Fan has never farmed land......
However, on paper alone, you can see the impressive yield of potatoes.
Chinese do not take potatoes as a staple food because they are used to eating rice and flour, but they don't know that many college students studying in the United States eat potatoes for three meals a day!
The most important thing is that potatoes do not need to be shelled, even the skin can be eaten, whether it is a staple food or a vegetable, potatoes can be derived from a variety of secondary foods, potato flour, potato vermicelli, potato chips, French fries.... That's a big deal.
But in Li Fan's opinion, where is a small potato in his hand, it is simply saving mankind and shouldering the glorious beans that fill the belly of the people of Yangcun!
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After checking the information, the potatoes said that the yield per mu was more than 10,000 catties, but I didn't dare to write it, for fear that people would say that I was a big leap. in, so I wrote a more authoritative 6600 pounds, I really haven't planted land, although my hometown is ah, and there are dozens of acres of land at home, but I really haven't planted.
Because I didn't know how to go back to my hometown to plant here during the summer vacation, I felt the hardship, and then the second brother-in-law took me to planing the potato, and I went down with a hoe and brought out a "fire tongue chain" ah the famous local poisonous snake... The kind that is basically incurable in the bite, because it was too late to be sent to the hospital for serum.....
Since then, I have been away from farming.....
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