Chapter 217 Growth of Agricultural Plants
Next, Mo Mo said one by one, asking them to complete the rectification within a week.
The restaurant should be cleaned in time, leftovers should be disposed of in time, and the carpenter should make bamboo curtains to block insects from flying into the kitchen and dining room.
Let the engineering team build several vegetable washing sinks, sinks, and a layer of wooden planks in the kitchen, weave bamboo baskets for vegetables, raise the chimney of the stove, and so on.
"Okay, the meeting is over, clean up immediately!" Mo Mo waved his hand, asking them to rectify immediately.
"Where do you buy salt?How much is a pound?" Mo Mo walked into the kitchen, saw the table salt in the wooden box, a little yellowed, and asked Shi Huo, the kitchen supervisor who followed him.
For a long time, Mo Mo had eaten in the other world very rarely, let alone seriously inspected it in the kitchen.
"Young master, is this official salt, or high-quality salt, such a small wooden box will cost 40 copper coins. Shi Huo replied respectfully.
"So expensive!"
Mo Mo calculated, this is 20 yuan a pound of salt.
"It's okay, the average 10 copper coins a box, this price is acceptable, after all, a person can't eat much in a month, and a box can't be used up. ”
"Well, let's use refined salt for cooking in the future. ”
Mo Mo nodded, he has many ways to make money, 40 copper coins a pound of refined salt, if the wholesale price is up to 30 copper coins, in addition to transportation costs and labor costs, he can't make any money, it would be good to earn 10 copper coins a pound of salt.
If a person eats 5 catties of salt a year, 1 million people are estimated to eat 2,500 tons of salt a year, and a million people can earn 5,000 gold coins a year by doing a salt business for one million people.
But a million people don't use 2,500 tons of iron a year, and Mo Mo can earn at least 15,000 gold coins by selling 2,500 tons of steel.
If you sell watches, that is, sell 500 watches, it is enough to earn 5,000 gold coins, and Mo Mo has too many ways to make money.
What's more, the salt business has been monopolized by the government, and if you want to make private salt, even if you sell it cheaply, it is difficult to achieve thousands of tons.
It is very convenient to dry sea salt and boil well salt, but Mo Mo's main concern is the problem of selling roads, and there is too much labor.
There are too many substances that poison the human body in sea salt, and they are mostly used in industrial production. On the earth, in 2008, the salt used by the earth was still well salt and mineral salt, accounting for more than 50%.
He was engaged in steel, and the money he sold was still incidental, and the main thing was to develop industry.
Without steel, basic industries cannot develop, and the development of military forces is also hindered.
Without salt, it would be difficult for some chemical industries to develop, and there is no industry that uses salt (sodium chloride) in large quantities.
After Mo Mo finished the sanitation time, it was getting late, and he returned to Earth.
The next morning, he went to the Caigu planting base to inspect again.
Cross the crystal clear stream, stand on the riverside, and look at the green.
In addition to planting herbs, fruits and vegetables, there are 20 people in the agriculture department of Qinglong Group, and in addition to planting herbs, fruits and vegetables, new plants include peppers, potatoes, sweet potatoes, rice, peanuts, cotton, and fruits and vegetables that Mo Mo took from the earth.
There are 300 acres of cultivated planting land, and under normal circumstances, a person cannot grow more than 10 acres of plants, and he can manage a few acres of land.
However, Mo Mo does not require them to work carefully, such as cotton, sweet potatoes, peppers and other easy-to-grow, extensive plants, there is no need to manage more at all, plus there is automatic irrigation, full-time responsibility, calculated, a management of more than ten acres of land is not a problem, but a little tired.
Moreover, there are a lot of people in Caigu in their spare time, like the hundreds of children, who can also help a little during the ripening and harvesting period of the plants.
"Young master, you're here!" The migrant worker who was harvesting sweet potatoes saw Mo Mo and quickly got up to say hello.
"Well, how many days has this sweet potato been grown?" Mo Mo looked at the sweet potato dug out of the black soil, and it was estimated that it was not more than a pound.
"101 days, young master, this yield is too high, it is estimated that the yield per mu is not less than 1,000 catties! We plant wheat, and the yield per mu is only 2 or 300 catties. ”
Mo Mo dug up a few stubbles of sweet potatoes, let the system estimate them, and then said: "The land is fertile, and now it is estimated that the yield per mu is two or three thousand catties." It's only May, and it's sunny on rainy days, so it's better to leave 20 days to harvest again, and then it's not a problem to yield four or five thousand catties per mu. ”
"Wow, that's a lot. We planted forty acres, and I counted it...... There are 200,000 catties, and there are more than 500 people in Caigu, and each person can get a few hundred catties!" "The migrant workers originally thought that the production capacity per mu was 1,000 catties, but the young master said that the yield per mu was 4,000 catties, so there was no problem.
They only started harvesting today, and they haven't weighed it yet, and the yield of 1,000 catties per mu is just an estimate, so it seems that they are too conservative.
They also dug up some sweet potatoes these days and went back to cook them, and they felt that the taste was not bad, but they couldn't fill their stomachs, but it was better than famine.
If each person gets a few hundred catties of sweet potatoes, the problem of food and clothing can be fundamentally solved.
In the past few months, they have planted according to the breeding methods and cultivation techniques given by the young master, and they can't imagine that this sweet potato has no pests and diseases, is drought tolerant, easy to grow, and does not need to be taken care of.
Not only the fruit can be eaten, but also the potato leaves. Dozens of acres of potato leaves, the raised livestock simply can't eat them.
This sweet potato is amazing!
"Young master, I'll go and tell them, don't dig first, and then dig after a while. ”
Mo Mo smiled and waved his hand, and the migrant worker happily ran to inform the other colleagues.
The soil here is rich in organic matter, loose, aerated and drained, and is very suitable for growing sweet potatoes.
If the soil is clay and heavy, the root skin color is not good and rough, the growth of sweet potatoes is hindered, the potato shape is not neat, and the yield is low.
When planting sweet potatoes, he explained to the workers that the choice of soil for each plant is very important.
Next, Mo Mo went to other plant areas to inspect.
There are also a lot of peppers, there is an acre of land, and there are more than a dozen varieties.
Peppers have a short growth cycle, less than a hundred days, but they have a long flowering period, and many of them are not picked in strings.
Mo Mo beckoned a migrant worker and instructed, "These peppers are already red and ripe, and they are ready to be picked." If you can't finish eating, you can dry it and store it. ”
"Young master, some time ago, those chefs took some chili peppers to accompany the meat stir-fry, and the fried meat was spicy and fragrant, it was really delicious. The chef said that this is a sacred object, it should be very precious, and no one dares to pick it up again, waiting for the young master to decide. "The migrant workers think back to the fried meat they ate some time ago, and now they think about it, and they still have an endless aftertaste.
If the young master agrees, then they will be blessed in the future.
Although the chili pepper is too hot and spicy, they like the spicy taste, and the meat fried with the chili no longer has a fishy smell.
"Haha, this is not a divine thing, you can eat whatever you want, just a variety of points. However, it is not allowed to be taken out and sold. The things grown in this colored grain are not allowed to be sold, let alone passed on to outsiders. ”
There are no chili peppers in the Tianling Continent, Mo Mo doesn't want the earth plants to spread out, if the Qinglong Group opens any restaurant in the future, this chili pepper will become an exclusive secret recipe.
"Thank you, young master, thank you, young master!"
"We must take it to heart. ”
The migrant workers, who had been given permission to use chili peppers at will, were ecstatic.
For them, eating is a pleasure in itself.
"Well, after this pepper is picked, the roots do not need to be cut down, and the fruit will also grow the next year. Mo Mo explained, and then went to other planting bases to inspect.
Every time Mo Mo went to a planting field and saw the migrant workers who had arrived with him, they came to report to him. As they spoke, they could not hide the joy in their hearts.
Mo Mo helped the employees solve the problem of food and clothing and solve the needs of survival, and the migrant workers will naturally be grateful to him.